concerning February 2

As mentioned, I’ve been asked to write a review of a forthcoming book of tweets from the Egyptian Revolution. It’s a moving collection, as you might expect, and reawakens much of the drama of those days.

I’m currently reading the entries for February 2-3, which for me represent the low point of regime behavior: the famous orientalist horse/camel attack on Tahrir, followed by the night of snipers firing on the crowd.

The previously posted story about Gamal Mubarak blames him directly for having the thugs hired (I can now report the different blame I heard, which was that Fathy Sorour was directly responsible, but I never received any independent confirmation of that).

In any case, if it can be proven that Gamal and his cronies did bankroll the thugs, then I think they will be facing a very stiff sentence, and there may be calls here and there for hanging, given the bloodbath that was unleashed on completely peaceful protestors.

But it also must be said, despite the generally positive feeling here about the Army, that the Army’s behavior on February 2 was disgraceful. Their neutrality was clearly faked, as they let thugs right through the cordon with bricks, molotov cocktails, whips, and other weapons.