Sunday, February 6, 2011

'Rejected' ... or is it?

"Opponents of Hosni's embattled regime have dismissed as insufficient an offer to include them in political reform plans, and have renewed their demands that he step down.... Omar Suleiman agreed to sit down on Sunday with the groups, which included the banned Muslim Brotherhood, was in itself a landmark concession, but the talks produced no breakthrough in the two-week-old standoff. As night fell, central Cairo's now iconic Tahrir Square was still filled with thousands of anti-regime protesters, adamant that the start of dialogue will not divert them from their campaign to unseat Egypt's strongman.
After two weeks of mass street protests and more than 300 deaths - and with global pressure mounting on Suleiman to negotiate a peaceful transition to more democratic rule - the government met its most powerful foes... But Suleiman refused another key demand of the opposition, saying he would not assume Mubarak's powers and rule in his stead during the transition.
Not all of the opposition movements involved in the 13-day-old uprising against Mubarak's rule were present at the talks, with former UN nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei notably not invited.... Mahmud Ezzat, the Brotherhood's number two leader, told AFP by telephone that the group had not pulled out of the talks because it felt it had made progress, but warned that street protests would continue....Asked whether he believed Mubarak would step down, Ezzat said: "That hinges on popular pressure, and we support the popular pressure. It must continue."....

1 comment:

Atlanta Roofing said...

This administration is handling this uprising like it handled the one in Iran. That is, to say very little beyond espousing platitudes about freedom, while otherwise standing to the side, mouths slightly agape, making a "duh" sound in unison.Obama has embraced CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in the USA. His marxist friends are no doubt assisting them in going viral in our institutions causing great damage.Obama is doing everything he can to achieve this.