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artappraiser — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:37:49 +0000

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Egyptian military using 'more dangerous' teargas on Tahrir Square protesters
By Peter Beaumont and John Domokos, Guardian.co.uk, Nov. 23, 2011

Doctors report seizures and convulsions as witnesses claim different crowd control teargas being used

Egyptian security forces are believed to be using a powerful incapacitating gas against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square following multiple cases of unconsciousness and epileptic-like convulsions among those exposed.

The Guardian has collected video footage as well as witness accounts from doctors and victims who have offered strong evidence that at least two other crowd control gases have been used on demonstrators in addition to CS gas.

Suspicion has fallen on two other agents: CN gas, which was the crowd control gas used by the US before CS was brought into use; and CR gas. [....]

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artappraiser — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:38:42 +0000

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Tahrir: what next?
By Issandr El Amrani, Arabist.net, Nov. 22, 2011

Excerpt:

....I went down to the area where the fighting is taking place today and I have an uncomfortable take on it: it's that the fighting is being sustained by the protestors, not by the police, who right now appear satisfied with holding the line to prevent the protests from reaching the Interior Ministry at Lazoughly Street. They may be violent, but they are not on the offensive, even if many protestors think they are preventing them from returning to the square. They are paying for the excessive force they used over the weekend.

More than that, there is this ambience of martyrdom. Everyone is excited and wants to participate, to get their chance to be a hero. People are angry — and they have a right to be. But right now it's an open-ended process, and the crowds want the satisfaction of achieving what did they in January: to see the man in their sights fall....

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