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Egypt Protests: Timeline

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First Posted: 11/22/11 09:48 AM ET Updated: 11/22/11 11:41 AM ET

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Protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square entered a fourth day on Tuesday, as thousands of demonstrators prepared to hold a "March of the Millions." Protesters in Tahrir are demanding the resignation of Egypt's military rulers, and in particular of field marshall Hussein Tantawi. "The people want the downfall of the field marshall," thousands shouted in unison over the past three days.

HuffPost looks back at the events leading up to this week's protests, starting in February, when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in the Egyptian capital's Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of then-President Hosni Mubarak.

January 17, 2011
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A general view shows a deserted street in front of Egypt's parliament building in downtown Cairo where a man set himself alight on January 17, 2011, in an apparent copycat replay of the self-immolation of a Tunisian graduate which sparked a popular revolt, the official MENA agency said. (Getty)


One month after Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, Egyptian Ahmed Hashem el-Sayed followed suit in Alexandria.
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Protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square entered a fourth day on Tuesday, as thousands of demonstrators prepared to hold a "March of the Millions." Protesters in Tahrir are demanding the resignation of Egypt...
Protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square entered a fourth day on Tuesday, as thousands of demonstrators prepared to hold a "March of the Millions." Protesters in Tahrir are demanding the resignation of Egypt...
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11:00 PM on 11/22/2011
This army is not going to handover, now or in future until they have killed the sons of the soil to their entire satisfaction.

Israel would not like it more than they to do it to erase map of Egypt from the surface of the earth. Otherwise the military rulers would have handed over the power to a Care Taker government.

Why ask for referendum? It is because of the fact to stay by force through the barrel of guns as advised by Mossad the intelligence organization of Israel working within Egypt even now.
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04:53 PM on 11/22/2011
Remarkable fact that I recognized today that many protestors are using gloves with silver linen to improve their phone's 3G/mobile connectivity on the square in order to stay connected with family and friends, lucrative business model for the Dutch based company http://mujjo.com that sells thousands of its initially meant for touchscreen gloves...
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