On Wednesday dozens of mental health doctors in the general secretary of mental health in Cairo Egypt protested in front of Abasia hospital against transferring Dr. Basma El Aziz manager of media at the secretary to investigation, after she issued a statement that rejected transferring political activists and those with opposing opinion to mental health hospital.

This comes after transferring Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabel to a mental hospital, he was sentenced of 3 years in person over charges of insulting the military on a tweet. Maikel was sentenced by an Egyptian Military court and he was on hunger strike since then.

Maikel is one of more than 10,000 Egyptians tried by military court since Mubarak’s ouster, according to human rights groups.

One of the tactics used by tyrant regimes is to accuse its opponents, journalists and others of being mentally ill. In many cases mental doctors work as undercover agents for secret police to pass whatever they like or they would be subject to blackmail.

This story reminds us of some suspicious people who wrongly accused ArabCrunch founder Gaith Saqer of being mentally ill after the site last year revealed parts of governments plots against the site and free media.

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Jordanian youth movement has launched online petition 7erakjo.org rejecting the proposed Jordanian constitutional amendments and in demand for a comprehensive reform.

The activists are demanding to amend Jordan’s constitution in ways that would bring a completely elected parliament as right now half the parliament is appointed by the king, bring a parliamentary elected government, right now it is appointed by the king, and to bring guarantees for public freedom.

In about 2 hours of  its launch the petition got 142 people signed-up, the movement page on facebook said that the website has been under intrusion attempts from “suspicious parties” but the site is back to work now. This campaign coincide with the start of the Jordan parliament to discuss and approve these “patches”,” according to the movement.

Twitter finally has enabled right to left writing, which is great news for languages such as Arabic Hebrew and Farsi.

Before this feature when writing in Arabic in Twitter, the tweeted message used to mixx words togather, in many times changing the meaning of the tweet. This case gets worse when adding an english word.

Now, this problem is solved and Arabic tweets can be read correctly.

It is worth mentioning that Google+ had right to left support since day one of its launch.

Folks at Yahoo are raising the white banner and surrendering their social networking site in the Arab world “As7ab”.

In an email sent to Yahoo Maktoob’s Arabic social network Asa7b members, Yahoo is saying that they will shut down the service as of 18/9/2011 and deleting everything, the email urges members to download their voice and video clips and their photos. It also asks them to look at other Yahoo services: Maktoob Blogs, Maktoob Forums, Yahoo! groups and Yahoo! Puls.

This is no surprise, Facebook has taken over the world by storm and is estimated to have 30 million members from the Arab world according to facebook ad creator ( this number excludes Syria and Sudan as advertisers can not target them on facebook due to U.S government sanctions on these 2 countries.) and Google Plus is growing on momentum with an estimated 20 million members from around the world. Though numbers about Arab members are not yet available I see many common Arab tweeps on google plus and the platform is offered in Arabic from day 1.

Why is As7ab closing? I bet its low traction as the sites says 600,000 members who most likely are active on facebook not As7ab. And why As7ab has not become at the size of facebook? It is lack of social innovation. As7ab was developed by Maktoob before Yahoo acquired the company in 2009. It was something that cross between Facebook and myspace of that time. As members can customize their profile with HTML and is meant to find new friends, rather than connect with real friends with privacy as facebook model is built upon.

Google+ on the other hand is built around studying social behavior and how people interconnect. As people have multiple friends groups. Google+ make it easy to share stuff with those groups without exposing too much to other groups of friends when needed, and share with-everyone when a user things it is appropriate.

Google+ has proven that the battle for social networking dominance is not yet done. The winner is not the one who propose state-of-the-art technology but the one who can use technology to mimic real life social behavior.

Saudi based National Net Ventures or (N2V) is one of the largest Internet holding companies in the Arab world, it invests “venture funds” in Arab Internet and mobile startups and owns and develops its own ventures. The Company owns a number of popular websites including: HawaaWorld an Arab women destination site, N2V Development House a software and web out sourcing company, SNSEO social media and SEO company, and Net Advantage: the first specialized Internet media house in the Arab world.

While N2V’s investment program breaks into, Seed program: which uses a startup accelerator model, offering capital, mentorship and office space for 3 to 6 month, this program is aimed at startups that did not launch their products yet. Early startups: focus on web and mobile ventures, and specifically, consumer web, the program invests cash on startups that already launched and are operational. Joint Startups a program to work with international companies to develop join venture to penetrate the Arab market and N2VLabs: is N2V’s own produced startups with the leadership of their Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.

All these programs have been launched relativity recently by N2V, the company is expanding massively and hiring top talent in the Arab world. Among them is Nagi Salloum ex-marketing manager for Google MENA was recruited N2V head of marketing.

Under Nagi direction the company marketing efforts are directed at making N2V one of the most recognized Internet brands in the Arab world, or Google of the Arab world as Nagi puts it: “we at N2V are focused on disrupting digital Arabia” To do so, the company has been sponsoring tech and entreprunership events across the Arab world.

And most recently N2V aimed at its facebook page, the page 1 month ago had around 75 fans in then N2V launched a logo contest last month, which changed everything.

The facebook contest asks participants to submit a design of N2V logo made from any physical material ( photoshop made logos are not accepted) to win iPhones, iPods and Samsung Galaxy tab and Galaxy S II.

The winners are determined by calculating the most voted photos, so this step has increased the viral growth of the app, as participants rush to ask their friends to vote for their logo. And in order to participate, you have to like N2V page on facebook page first. Other viral elements of the app are voting and commenting on photos which shows up on the users facebook stream, which in turn would bring more users.

N2V did spend on facebook ads to promote the contest but as Nagi says “We consciously decided to have very limited ad spending, and instead design a very viral Facebook photo contest app to grow our fan base by. This proved a right strategy and eventually helped us reach thousands of new users very quickly.”

He also said “We launched the N2V page and competition 21 June, 2011 in order to build awareness of N2V brand, and connecting with users in a fun and engaging way. ”

The contests has been an instant success in less than a month the contests generated over 100,000 fans for N2V facebook page (now it is 109,272 fans), over 2300 photos submitted and 40,000 votes.

Several companies connected N2V and started using the app “including big brands such as LIVE MENA, and we are finalizing discussions now with several other local and global companies. We are also excited to release a site just for this application to allow companies and users from around the world to use it.” said Nagi.

Nagi attributes the contests success to “very close attention to every detail when designing the application, from user experience, user behavior, 24 hours moderation and monitoring, promptly answering user queries.”
The contests ends on 30 July 2011, you can view submited logos and submit your own here.

What can brands, marketers and entrepreneurs learn from this success: do not just start a facebook fan page and promote it with FB ads, innovate and bring new ideas to drive engagement and fans.”We like to believe that we created one of the most intuitive and engaging photo voting application, with such high quality that easily competes with similar global apps.” concludes Nagi.

Scapehouse is a new social media site that might a little bet late to the Google+ game. the startup comes with a new vision for online discussion,

On facebook people share stuff with their friends only, on Twitter the game is different, people share with their followers who do not have to be their friends.

Scapehouse brings both: users can share stuff with their friends only or with friends and followers, something that is close to the idea of Google+ main feature: circles. The site brings full news feed page, where users activities of commenting or liking an update is visible.

Unlike Twitter, updating a post is not limited to 140 characters, and users can comment on each update in a chronicle order and can like or dislike it. Resharing an update is also available on Scapehouse and can be shared with friends only or with both friends and followers, with the option to add comment of the shared content.

Abdullah Khan cofounder of site who is the from Karachi Pakistan and currently lives in UAE told AC that they have been working on the site 6 months now and have launched in beta around 2 months ago, before Google+. ( the other cofounder is Ali Razzouk : From Aleppo Syria, Living in Dubai UAE.)

Now that Google+ has gained 10 million users in 2 weeks since its launch, Scapehouse has a challenging time to compete, But it was a nice idea nevertheless. Would you use it?

The “Israeli” army is banning its soldiers from using social media and networking sites such as Twitter and facebook for what it calls fears on national security leaks.

In justifying the move the Israeli army noted that soldiers post secret photos of bases and compounds and would post future battle plans on social media sites which can be used by liberation movements in the region to counter them.

We are not sure if securing military bases and battle plans is the only reason behind this ban, or if it is also to keep Israeli human right violations against Palestinian civilians behind closed doors as a number of facebook leaks ( one here) another one here ) by “Israeli” soldiers reveal miss treatment and human rights violations of palestinian prisoners.

“Israeli’ army has also established a social media task force which hired social media experts to spread propaganda and halt anything that does not portray “Israel” in a good way or reveal its wrong doings from spreading across social media sites. According to Aljazeera who picked up the story from an Israeli research center Another force was established to mine the internet and trace logs of soldiers activities in social media sites and chat rooms to make sure they did not connect the media .

If you work with the “Israeli” army shoot us an email with what and you friends share inside detention compounds and bases, we will post them.

It’s arguably proven that the internet had played the most important role as a tool that led to the successful revolution in Egypt, eMarketing Egypt made a study to explore how Egyptians dealt with the internet during the revolution.

Ossama El-Badawy, the Online Competitive Intelligence Manager, stated that it is obvious that the internet in Egypt witnessed a dramatic growth after the revolution; the following figures just give a quick view for the current interment status in Egypt:
- 23+ million Internet users,
- 7.7+ million Facebook users,
- And 100%+ Twitter users growth during recent months

The survey was dedicated to explore in details the way Egyptians dealt with the internet during the revolution, the main findings can be listed as below:
-  28% of internet users purely relied on the Internet to stay tuned with the revolution news and updates
- This percentage goes up to 63% among those who participated in the demonstrations
- The Internet had solely shaped the views of 17% of users regarding the recent events
-  As expected, Facebook had been the prime tool used to tie up with events and news as mentioned be 71% of users
- Finally, 45% of users will increase their reliance on the Internet to tie up with coming news and events

I hope more Arab tyrants are toppled soon.

3 years old Jordan based Arabic microblogging platform Watwet has closed down, in a massage posted on the site the site admins says that they are pulling the plug on WATWET and All your information on WATWET will be deleted permanently. However they are offering microblogging service to organizations.

Why did WatWet fail and close? I wrote a detailed analysis back in July 2009 saying that WatWet has a very hard chance to match with Twitter even though it had more members at the time.
In short cloning international site into Arabic is a bad idea for startups. However it works in some markets like group buying where GoNabit copied groupon and ended being sold to LivingSocial as they had the local advantage that LivingSocial did not have.

Saying that cloning international startups is bad idea for Arab entrepreneurs, the question is why local social networks in markets such as Russia and China are doing better than facebook while no single Arabic social network has made it?

Last year a young American girl started the shameful page “draw Mohammad Day” competition on Facebook, that event brought backlash against Facebook in Pakistan as the site was ordered blocked to reopen later.
And Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation against the CEO of facebook Mark Zuckerberg, which might lead  to Mark being sentenced the death Penalty.

TGDaily reports that the blasphemy case in Pakistan which has been hanging over Mark’s head since last summer appears to have quietly been dropped.

Though, a Pakistani court has essentially ordered the government to police Facebook for ‘objectionable’ content, meaning there’s a high chance the site will be shut down in the country.

Facebook has been playing a biased side against Muslims by shutting the Third Palestinian Intifada Page and We Are All Osama Page while keeping pages that mocks the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH.)

#Mark Pic via his FB page.

In response to act of closing the pages of the Palestinian uprising or the third Palestinian Intifada from Facebook under the request of the Israel media minister, activists organized a boycotting day yesterday via facebook events app. The call came from a page called the Arab National Army and other pages and has achieved 256,931 participants.

The organizers say the boycotting is a first step before using AdBlock to deprive Facebook from money it makes from Muslim users, as long as facebook continues its double standard practice.

why to boycotting facebook for one day ? the organizers posted the following statement:

We consider this attitude as conspired to commit war crimes against our nation , and against the issue of people struggling For their freedom and enjoyment of the right to self-determination and establish their independent state like the peoples of the earth .
we want them to know that we are majority of Muslims users who Love Face book & use it daily , but we are against this new direction of facebook on supporting such issues ,, we want it to be neutral space wide enough for every one or otherwise we will quite to find another respectable reasonable neutral network.

Between 2009 and 2010 Twitter users from the Arab world were estimated to be around 15,000 to 40,000 but these figures were not official and not very accurate. But after the revolution on Tunisia and Egypt, as Twitter has been used as a tool to fuel the revolution,Twitter become a house hold name in the Arab world just like Facebook. An infographic about Digital Marketing Trends in the Middle East from socialbakers and IQPC estimated the number of Twitter users in the Arab region to be around 5.5 Million users, that is 136.5 % growth rate! The infographic goes to reveal that 40% of them are from UAE.
Other interesting figures from the report is that there is 15 million Facebook users, that number however might not be accurate as in Q1 2010 our sources inside Facebook estimated the number around 16-18 million users.
The complete inforgraghic is below, we have another two reservations, e-marketing budgets from the Arab world does not include banners ads spending as it focus on email marketing, smart phone apps, SMS marketing, social media marketing and google adwords. Another one it does not mention the source of the numbers for Twitter users!
Ari Kesisoglu – Regional Manager, Middle East North Africa said that online ad spending in the MENA region is between 110 to 130 Million, thus the report should include banner ad spending to offer a complete picture. USD annually.

Here us the infographics:

It seems the message sent by Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada has resonated at the ears of Mark as today Facebook removed citing that it violated its terms as it called for violence. The page managed to get 313,343 members (likes).

The truth is that we have been following the page and did not find any calls to violence and that the page admin affirmed several times that his page does not call for violence and said that if Facebook removes the page all Muslims will boycott Facebook forever, as the “true face of Facebook will uncover.”

A statement from Facebook to CNN said “The page… began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used a term that has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence,” ,…. “However, after the publicity of the page, more comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence. Eventually, the administrators also participated in these calls. After administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated our policies, we removed the page.”

Again We do not believe Facebook claims and here is the google cashe of the page and you will see if you know Arabic there are no calls for violence  as for comments since when the page admin is responsible to monitor comments specially if the page has 313,343 members with thousand of comments on each update?

On the other hand if calls to violence in any Facebook page means that Facebook will impose it ban, Barack Obams’ page should be deleted because in his latest speech he called for violence against on his facebook page the army of the dictator Gaddafi, not saying that Gaddafi is a good man, but this is call to violence.

After thanking Facebook for restoring free palestine page in the last post we at ArabCrunch condemn Facebook decision it is very clear a racists one, and have no bases unless Facebook restores the page and deletes Barack Obama’s Page because he called for violence using on it.

Wondering why the CIA attacked MillatFacebook? Now you know why.

We reported on March 21 that Facebook has deleted free palestine page, back then we connected Facebook asked them for explanation and urged them to bring the page back.

Few days ago Facebook reported the page, it originally said that all the page admins’ accounts were deactivated in different periods for different reasons. however we checked with one admin who dismissed that his account was deactivated but said another admin account was disabled for no reason.

What ever was the exsuce for Facebook to take down the page, now that it is back we would like at ArabCrunch to thank Facebook for resorting the page and not in falling into Israeli pressure to close the Third intifada page because free speech should be respected online as well as offline.

Free Palestine page has now 234,003 members.

Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada. The page has so far 319,270 members.

Yuli said that the page includes calls for violence, though by looking at the page we did not find any, the page admin also affirmed that his page does not call for violence and said that if Facebook removes the page all Muslims will boycott Facebook forever, as the “true face of Facebook will uncover.”

The page called for massive demonstrations on April 15th in occupied Palestine, neighboring Arab countries and across the world, demanding the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem from Israeli occupation.

It seems that Facebook will not close the page. It closed last week free palestine page citing that the accounts of all admins of the page have been deactivated for different reasons thus caused the closer of the page.

We connected free palestine page admin and said his account was not deactivated but another admin account was deactivated for no reason to later activate again, we are still waiting for Facebook to bring the page back.

(Via Alquds Al Arabia.)

Update: end of the post.

Facebook has deleted Free Palestine page which was calling for Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The fan page managed in few days to collect more than 216,000 members. This is the second time that Facebook deletes this page according to the page admin.

Look at Google cash here.

It is worth mentioning that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish. This moves shows contradiction from Facebook, while they talk free speech as an excuse to keep the pages that insults the prophet of Islam they delete any page that expose the Israeli crimes against humanity in Palestine. Where is free speech?

Facebook is angering its Muslim population who make now a big portion of its members.

We at ArabCrunch condemns this move by Facebook and call it a racist one, unless they bring the page back and provide a good explanation why this page was deleted.

We will contact Facebook for explanation and hope they will bring this page back.

Update:

Facebook replied to us by saying that the page became unpublished since all the admins got deactivated or disabled for different reasons and at different occasions. and that It’ll be published again if one of them reactivates his account or pushes back to facebook.

Update 2:

We connectd the page admin and said his account was not deactivated but another admin account was deactivated for no reason to later activate again, we are still waiting for Facebook to bring the page back.

“What do you wish for?” Hany Rashwan, a 20-year-old Egyptian studying Computer Science at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, recently launched Kolena.org to allow users in post-revolution Egypt to discuss their answers to this question. Rashwan envisions Kolena, a word that means “all of us” in Arabic, as “Egypt’s online interactive Town Hall Meeting…a place for people to go to submit and vote on ideas for change.”

The importance of social media in the recent Egyptian Revolution has been a subject of debate, yet Rashwan’s project looks to position online activism at the center of Egypt’s ongoing reform process. After its first week, Kolena has attracted over forty reform proposals, distributed across categories such as Foreign Affairs, Religious Affairs, Justice, and Economic Development.

Kolena users have the ability to submit ideas for reform via their Facebook profiles, as well as respond to the ideas of others by voting them up or down in terms of importance. “Better Public Schools” currently ranks at the top of its composite list.

One challenge faced by social networks such as Twitter and Facebook is the difficult task of organizing user-generated information. Individuals have trouble rallying around specific reform projects in such an environment, however Kolena’s ranking system has the potential to foster organized and democratic political action. The site’s staff also filters posts in order to address spam and duplicates.

Until now, users on Kolena have focused on goals such as “Better Public Schools” rather than the tangible steps necessary to achieve them. This initial dialogue is an important part of any reform process and it will be interesting to see if the site evolves to directly impact political discourse in Egypt in the future. For now, Kolena.org is an idea-gatherer rather than an idea-generator. Will the Arab world take advantage of this new platform?

Rashwan was reached via email and expressed interest in expanding his site to other Arab countries.

As the Libyan revolution rage, renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya was off the Internet. But it went back as Rensys post says ” Two-thirds of Libyan routes came back to life at 6:01 UTC (8:01 local time), and the remainder were restored nine minutes later. At the moment, spot checks of Libyan domains and traceroutes into affected networks indicate that connectivity has been restored, and Libya is back on the Internet.”

Looking at Google’s Transparency Report we see traffic is picking up.

However according to Aljazeera Facebook, Twitter and aljazeera’s site are still blocked in the country.

Shutting down the Internet is one techniques the regime is using in emulation of what the Egyptian regime did before it fell. The blockade is done to stop the news about the unrest in the country and stop people from organizing and coordinating protests across the country.

Libya days of anger has raged and according to Aljazeera (Arabic link), around 42 people died in Libya and several cities in country including Benghazi has fallen into the hands of demonstrators.

The Arab world is going into an exciting time of anti dictatorship and corruption revolutions, they succeed so far in toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.

#image via Aljazeera.

As anti government demonstrations rage in Libya, according to Aljazeera news channel Libyan authorities have blocked Facebook and Twitter in the capital Tripoli.

Calls to Libyans for a day of anger against the regime has been spreading throughout Facebook, Aljazeera also reported that its Arabic site Aljazeera.net has been blocked all over the country.

Same technique was used before by the Egyptian regime of Husni Mubarak, before it met the dust. Libya borders both Egypt and Tunisia who’s regimes were changed by popular revolutions. ArabCrunch could not verify Aljazeera’s news report.

The U.S government suffers from “Dissociative identity disorder,” or multi-persona disorder. Publicly they talk about democracy, human rights, liberty and the right of nations to rule themselves and decide their future . Yet in practice the consecutive US administrations “Democrats or Republican” have been the historical backers of brutal dictatorship and police states in the Muslim world and non-Muslim world, alike.

From Tunisia to Egypt, the U.S governments has backed both regimes, in a recent Wikileaks leaked U.S diplomatic cables that provide a glimpses of the relationship of both oppressive: the FBI has been providing training to Egypt’s state security ‘torturers’ the state security and investigative service (SSIS).

Historically U.S governments have been supporting the state of “Israel” for decades in monetary funding that are being used to build new settlements on land that has been confiscated from the indigenous inhabitants of the land, and in advanced weapons used to kill Palestinians.
Yet in another evidence that the U.S government “under Bush or Obama “call for democracy is baseless the U.S government did not acknowledge the outcome of the last free parliamentary elections in west bank and Gaza!

In Iraq the government of the United States of America killed 2 million Muslims and Christian Iraqis in the name of freeing them ( according to International human right organizations) . And yet after the Iraqi resistance taught them the real lesson of freedom, they started withdrawing ( not finished withdrawing there are still thousands of US troops in Iraq) their troops and yet another deception, they handed the occupation to 100,000 or so of international mercenary forces and to a poppet Iraqi government and army.

So to conceal all their crimes against Muslims and Arabs and to help them win the propaganda war or what they call the “battle of hearts and minds.” Officials of the U.S states dep. are joining Twitter to “engage” “ it is to deceive” the world specially Muslims.

The latest U.S state dep., engagement (deception) effort with Muslims and Arabs is via launching an official Arabic account @USAbilAraby which its first tweet says:

“U.S state dep. acknowledge the role social media plays in the Arab world and we would like to be part of your discussion”

and that discussion to them are now in the forms of Tweets to deceive the Arab public opinion about what the U.S government is doing, as the account was tweeting about the need of change in Egypt praising the Egyptian revolution and so forth….

Oh Ya we believe you!

Political propaganda has entered a new chapter today, it is now Propaganda 2.0. courtesy of Hillary Clinton – Secretary of hypocrisy and miss-leading the public .

Hosni Mubarak is gone, yes gone and we are happy about it, the dictator is gone, The Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is ousted and just handed power to the army.

This is the 3d week  of the blessed Egyptian revolution, it all started on Facebook with Khaled Saed page ( the young man who was killed while being beaten up by Egyptian police) with Twitter coordinating demonstration locations and spreading the news all over the world and Skype for background coordinations.

The fallen regime responded by blocking down Twitter, facebook and other sites, and then shut down the internet all together, to later come down to earth and meet the populations demands

More updates soon…

Syrian authorities have unblocked Facebook and YouTube, a good news for syrian online population who have been using the 2 sites via different ways such as proxy servers or VPS.

This news has been confirmed by several users in Syria and by one of the popular sites in Syria (Syria news) who said that the unblocking comes after a call on Facebook from certain opposition parties for a day of anger against Syrian president Bashar Al Asad and counter calls to support him. Syria news says the later had more support among Syrian youth.

As theIinternet access remains blocked in Egypt a group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow worked together in launching speak-to-tweet service— giving the  ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.

Anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to @speak2tweet.

Google said in a blog post “We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.”

SayNow was acquired by Google  last week.

As Egypt is going under massive demonstrations, Wikileaks the number one leaks sites has started posting US State dep. cables about Egypt.

The cables include:

• Torture and police brutality in Egypt are endemic and widespread
• Thousands of Egyptian military officers trained by US.
• “The Egyptian ‘people blame America’ now for their plight under Mubarak.”
• Military will ensure transfer of power…”
• Strong cooperation between the FBI and Egypt’s State Security Investigative
• Service (SSIS)

Here is a link to the full Cairo Cable Index

In a bid to stop the revolution from spreading  Egyptian authorities shut down the internet all together along with cell phone services according to Aljazeera Arabic channel.

Today is Friday and 100s of thousands are expected to join demonstrations after the Muslim pray of friday.

#image via RNN.