Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Evacuating Egypt

Why would you want to leave now? 

 "U.S. Begins Evacuation Flights From Chaotic Cairo Airport

CAIRO — The State Department began a voluntary evacuation of hundreds of American citizens from Egypt on specially chartered flights to what it called “safe havens” on Monday, and governments around the world scrambled to put together evacuation plans for their citizens.

Chaos reigned at Cairo International Airport, as a sea of tourists and Egyptians scrambled to get on an outbound commercial flight on Monday....

Tempers boiled over at times....  

Yeah, those angry Arabs (sigh). 

Was it because of the perverted pat-downs or the cancer-causing scanners?

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Related:

"Fleeing a week of violent protests....   

Not really, unless you count pro-government violence.

The demonstrations that erupted last week stunned business owners, college administrators, and others."

Therefore it must be a true people's uprising. 

Also see: Local Egyptians say trust is lacking 

Mine is lacking in my morning newspaper.