ElBaradei stokes Cairo crowds

Published: 31/01/2011 at 01:54 AM
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Top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told thousands gathered at the epicentre of anti-regime protests in Cairo Sunday that they were "beginning a new era,'' amid chants for President Hosni Mubarak to stand down.

ElBaradei hailed "a new Egypt in which every Egyptian lives in freedom and dignity,'' his words however inaudible to most of the vast crowd gathered on Tahrir square that he addressed through a megaphone.

"We are on the right path, our strength is in our numbers,'' the Nobel peace laureate said. "I ask you to be patient, change is coming.''

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Discussion 1 : 31/01/2011 at 11:30 AM1
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ElBaradei is working directly for the US. He's sitting right on the International Crisis Group, lined with top US policy makers. He was busy since Feb. 2010 setting up his "National Front for Change" to effect this very unrest. Its what you would call a staged "color revolution."

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/Mohamed%20ElBaradei.aspx
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