Egyptian protesters refuse generals' offer for transition

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Source: The Guardian

Egypt's ruling military struggled to quell growing protests over its slow progress in transferring power to a civilian government, as tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square rejected its offer of concessions.

The country's military rulers on Tuesday afternoon suggested a deadline of July next year for a transfer of power – after a crisis meeting lasting five hours.

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, later told the nation in a televised address that presidential elections would be held before 30 June, but did not specifically mention a date for the transfer of power.

In his brief address, he sought to cast the military as the nation's foremost patriots and angrily denounced what he called attempts to taint its reputation.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/22/egypt-protesters-refuse-generals-offer

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1. I'm predicting they kill him.

"Nation's foremost patriots"... yeah right. I think that title belongs to the protestors.

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2. If you are looking for the living definition of brave, you just found it.

:woohoo: That's a lot of brave people.