Breaking: Rumors on Twitter suggest Mubarak gone

[katty]

more:
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/breaking-rumors-on-tweeter-suggest-mubarak-gone

Today, my Twitter page is buzzing, especially around hash tags #Mubarak, #jan25 and #Egypt. Ten minutes ago, my eye caught a tweet from the UK Guardian's Ranj Alaaldin, which said that 'President Mubarak has apparently tendered his resignation according to a source.'

Ranj Alaaldin is is a Middle East political and security risk analyst based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He visits the Middle East regularly and as part of his recent work on Iraq has visited the country on a number of fact-finding missions. Foreign Policy magazine recently listed him among its 100 best Twitter users in international affairs. He maintains a blog here.

About nine minutes later, another tweet from Dimitri indicating that a Greek defense website, Defencenet.gr, reported that Mubarak had left Egypt.



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[yellowcanine]

1. Way old news. This came out yesterday. It was apparently bogus.

[ret5hd]

2. The pro-mubarak riot was staged to give him a chance to slip out.

[Bragi]

3. He doesn't need "a chance to slip out"

He just gets in a helicopter and travels 20 nautical miles to Saudi territory. I'm sure he will be able to hear the cheering on his way out.