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Kuwait backs Egypt government, people
Published Date: January 31, 2011
KUWAIT/CAIRO: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has expressed Kuwait's support for the "Egyptian government and people" in a telephone call to Egypt's embattled president, KUNA news agency reported yesterday. Sheikh Sabah telephoned President Hosni Mubarak late Saturday night and told him that "Kuwait stands with the government and people of Egypt," KUNA said.
The Amir also said he was confident Egyptian "brothers will overcome this delicate stage so the country can enjoy security and stability". "The state of Kuwait condemns acts of violence, arson and destruction and frightening of peaceful citizens," HH the Amir told Mubarak.
Separately, the Kuwaiti Directorate General of the Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced that Kuwait International Airport had received 3,025 citizens and residents coming back from Egypt till Saturday. Kuwait International Airport's Operation Manager Essam Al-Zamel told KUNA yesterday that this figure was expected to jump to 3,900 by the end of the day.
Al-Zamel named the airlines that carried those passengers as Kuwait Airways (1,500 passengers), Wataniya Airways (155), Jazeera Airways (367), EgyptAir (359) and Air Arabia (100). He added that a number of planes had already left for Egypt to bring all those trying to leave.
Meanwhile, top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told a sea of angry protesters in Cairo yesterday that they were beginning a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against embattled President Hosni Mubarak. Nobel peace laureate ElBaradei, mandated by Egyptian opposition groups including the banned Muslim Brotherhood to negotiate with Mubarak's regime, hailed "a new Egypt in which every Egyptian lives in freedom and dignity".
We are on the right path, our strength is in our numbers," ElBaradei said in his first address to the protest epicentre on Cairo's Tahrir square. "I ask you to be patient, change is coming." "We will sacrifice our soul and our blood for the nation," the angry crowd shouted. "The people want to topple the president.
In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an "orderly transition" in Egypt but stopped short of demanding he step down. Asked if Mubarak had taken sufficient steps to defuse Egypt's worst crisis in decades by appointing a vice president and naming a new premier, Clinton told ABC: "Of course not.
That is the beginning, the bare beginning of what needs to happen, which is a process that leads to the kind of concrete steps to achieve democratic and economic reform that we've been urging." The Obama administration, she added, has not discussed cutting off aid to Egypt, a key Arab ally. US military aid to Egypt amounts to $1.3 billion a year, and the total American aid bill to the country averages close to $2 billion annually.
Six days of nationwide protests against Mubarak's three-decade rule have shaken Egypt and left at least 125 people dead as the veteran leader clings to power. Mubarak has struggled to placate a nation angry at this three decades of autocratic rule with token gestures such as sacking the government. Parliament speaker Fathi Surour yesterday made another concession, saying the results of last year's fraud-tainted parliamentary elections would be revised.
Mubarak yesterday met with army brass seen as holding the key to his future as warplanes in an apparent show of force flew over the downtown Cairo protest. A number of foreign governments said they would evacuate their nationals, while the United States authorised the departure of embassy families. State television said the embattled Mubarak yesterday visited Egypt's central military command where he met with his newly appointed vice president, Omar Suleiman, the military intelligence chief; as well as wit
h outgoing defence minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and chief of staff Sami Anan.
Mubarak, a former air force chief, appeared to be seeking the army support as he faces down the revolt which those driving it say will continue until he steps down. The United States, a key ally of Egypt, called yesterday on Mubarak to do more to defuse the crisis but stopped short of saying he should quit. As he was meeting the army chiefs, two Egyptian fighter jets flew repeat low-altitude sorties over Cairo, deafening the protest-hit city.
Mubarak, go to Saudi Arabia," the crowd shouted, encouraging the leader in power for 30 years to follow deposed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile. A banner in English read: "USA, why do you support the tyrant and not the people." A group of women shouted: "1, 2, where's the people's money?
Egypt also moved yesterday to shut down Al Jazeera's coverage of mass protests against Mubarak's regime, but the pan-Arab broadcaster vowed that it would not be silenced. Outgoing information minister Anas Al-Fikki has "ordered the closure of all activities by Al Jazeera in the Arab republic of Egypt and the annulment of its licences," Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. The press cards of all Al Jazeera staff in Egypt were also being withdrawn, it added.
Egyptian satellite operator Nilesat meanwhile halted its relays of Al Jazeera programming, although the Qatar-based television channel could still be viewed in Cairo via Arabsat. On Twitter, an Al Jazeera correspondent, Dan Nolan, wrote: "Aljazeera Cairo bureau has been shut down. Just visited by plain clothes govt security, TV uplink is now closed." In a statement, Al Jazeera expressed "utter disappointment with the blockage of its signal on Nilesat and sees this as a further attempt to hinder and obstruc
t the carriage of its reporting coming out of Egypt.
Earlier, Al Jazeera said the shutdown of its Egyptian operations - on day six of unprecedented and often violent street protests - was aimed at "censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people". "Al Jazeera sees this as an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists," it said. "Al Jazeera assures its audiences in Egypt and across the world that it will continue its in-depth and comprehensive reporting on the events unfolding in Egypt," it said. I
t added: "In this time of deep turmoil and unrest in Egyptian society, it is imperative that voices from all sides be heard.
The closing of our bureau by the Egyptian government is aimed at censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people. The Al Jazeera Network is appalled at this latest attack by the Egyptian regime to strike at its freedom to report independently on the unprecedented events in Egypt," it added.
The National Coalition for Change, which groups several opposition movements including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, yesterday charged ElBaradei with negotiating with Mubarak's embattled regime. With fears of insecurity rising and a death toll of at least 125, thousands of convicts broke out prisons across Egypt overnight after they overwhelmed guards or after prison personnel fled their posts.
With rampant pillaging in more than five days of deadly protests, many Egyptians believe that the police have deliberately released prisoners in order to spread chaos and emphasise the need for the security forces. "The government wants the people to think that Mubarak is the only option faced with the chaos," said young demonstrator Sameh Kamal. Groups of club-carrying vigilantes have deployed on Cairo's streets to protect from looters amid growing insecurity as the Arab world's most populous nation faced an uncertain future.
Youths handed over to the army those they suspected of looting, with the police who had been fighting running battles with stone-throwing protesters in the first days of the demonstrations hardly visible. Many petrol stations are now running out of fuel, motorists said, and many bank cash machines have either been looted or are no longer working. Egyptian banks and the stock exchange have been ordered closed yesterday.
Embattled Mubarak on Saturday named Suleiman as his first-ever vice president and also a new premier, Ahmed Shafiq, but protesters dismissed the moves as too little, too late. Both men are stalwarts of Egypt's all-powerful military establishment. Suleiman, 75, has spearheaded years of Egyptian efforts to clinch an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and tried so far in vain to mediate an inter-Palestinian reconciliation. Shafiq, 69, is respected by the Egyptian elite, even among the opposition, and has often been mooted as a potential successor to Mubarak. - Agencies
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