Friday
Feb112011
Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: One More Push
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 5:49 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
2115 GMT: Clashes between opposition members in Algeria, celebrating the fall of Egypt's President Mubarak, and police who surrounded the headquarters of Rally for Constitutional Democracy, have left an "unknown number" arrested and injured.
2110 GMT: In a phone call with a former Israeli government minister yesterday, former President Mubarak called the US policy in Middle East misguided and said that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. He warned that the Middle East would fall to extremism and fundamentalist Islamism with his departure.