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Khalil Hamra / AP
Protesters help a wounded man during clashes with security forces near the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 3, 2012.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
A youth throws a stone at security forces, not pictured, during clashes near the Interior Ministry on Feb. 3, 2012.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Riot police throw stones at protesters during clashes near the Interior Ministry on Feb. 3, 2012.
Khalil Hamra / AP
A protester covers his face with a scarf on Feb. 3, 2012.
Reuters reports:
Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, pushing their protest against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst soccer disaster.
One person died in Cairo from a shotgun pellet wound and two were killed in the city of Suez as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station, witnesses and the ambulance authority said.
The demonstrations erupted following the deaths at a soccer stadium in Port Said. Most of those killed were crushed to death in a stampede but protesters hold the military-led authorities responsible. Continue reading.
Follow NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin on Twitter for updates from Cairo.
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Khalil Hamra / AP
A protester, right, holds gas canisters as another holds an office drawer used as an improvised shield during clashes on Feb. 3, 2012.
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Time for President Quatro to deliver another Arab Spring speech and maybe call for a kinetic action, no-fly zone, and lead from behind. Really worked the last time in Libya.
"Come into my parlor" say the Arab-League (spiders) to the fly of Democracy...
More like the Muslim Brotherhood.... If we really had anything to do with this, and I tend to believe we had very little real involvement, we just rolled out the red carpet for the extremists to take over.
It is truly a tragedy that the general population is powerless to stop this thugs from taking over at the risk of their lives. More breeding grounds for terrorism have been seeded, and the Useless Nations is doing nothing to stop it. We can't be the World Police. It's time that the rest of the lame ducks in the international community get involved. Where the hell are all of the human rights activists from Europe, Canada, and the good ole US of A???? Sipping lattes in the cafe talking about thinking about maybe doing something....
Amen, Dr. Bob.... This is what the Blunderer-In-Chief calls success???
I would love to hear his reaction if WE went to Washington and did the same over the way we are being lied to and raped by the federal government. I would bet the National Guard would be called out and we would be the ones on the receiving end of those tear gas canisters.
It is nice to go to a sporting event here and not get trampled to death after. Nice to be able to travel all around the country no questions asked(oh no! I might have to take off my shoes for 2 seconds). How were you, notaliberal, personaly "raped" by the federal governemnt? Yeah there are many problems in this country, but I would rather have the problems we have then the problems in Egypt, Syria,Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Croatia, Rwanda, Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico.......see what I'm getting at?
You see the deficit lately??? And no, you can't blame Bush for all of it, although I know that's not far behind... A dozen other wrongs don't make this one right... WE are the ones footing the bill for our own governments wild spending and international diplomatic blunders, or did you miss that???
How much you want to bet we are STILL going to send billions to Egypt, AFTER the MB takes over?? YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!!!!!!!!!
Did you read what I said? I made no political stance in my comment. I am tired of people complaining about the federal government. I did notice the roads that I get to drive on, tax dollars hard at work. I did notice that people don't come into my house and rob me, tax dollars hard at work. If I have a medical emergency I get EMTs to come to my house in about 1 minute, taxes. Yeah I'm footing the bill for all of that, and I like it. So maybe $5 of my federal taxes I paid last year went to help people that don't have the luxury of roads, police and fire departments...GOOD! WE HAVE IT MADE HERE.
I would rather have President Obama dictating foreign policy than the hawks under President Bush. That being said, I sincerely hope that the moderates in the Egytian community are in the majority or we will witness the rise of another fanatical religious group taking over a country. I sincerely hope the good people of Egypt survive this change.
Also, we should be more concerned about what's going on between Israel and Iran. Either could start a confrontation that would ultimately kill us all.