Tweets from the Egyptian front lines

In keep­ing with my last posts here are some tweets from those try­ing to cre­ate change in Egypt:

The Big Pharaoh

Its police and MB mili­tias vs the rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies now. Just as dur­ing Mubarak days, police always assisted the régime’s thugs.

— The Big Pharaoh (@TheBigPharaoh) Decem­ber 6, 2012

Sand­mon­key:

All of the MB media and many salafi sheikhs are claim­ing that the clashes and demos are all chris­tians opposed to Sharia. Despicable.

— السيد مانكي (@Sandmonkey) Decem­ber 6, 2012

Rasha Abdulla

BREAK­ING: #Egypt’s head of Tele­vi­sion Sec­tor resigns in protest of the way the coun­try is being run.

— Rasha Abdulla (@RashaAbdulla) Decem­ber 6, 2012

Zeino­bia

The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood pro­test­ers are ter­ri­fy­ing the peo­ple of Heliopo­lis they go to cafes tell them to turn off news channels

— Zeino­bia (@Zeinobia) Decem­ber 6, 2012

Seif Moussa:

@sand­mon­key are u there? All news web­sites are down on the inter­net and the providers said this will be for two hours. Why do u think??

— Seif Moussa (@Seifo1978) Decem­ber 5, 2012

Marie-​France Lakah

Tes­ti­mony of a field Hos­pi­tal doc­tor yes­ter­day. RT share ! @karimse­drak #Morsy#Egypt #ita­hedeya #الاتحادية twit​ter​.com/​m​f​l​a​k​a​h​/​s​tatus…

— Marie-​France Lakah (@mflakah) Decem­ber 6, 2012

Cairowire:

RT @sarah­ngb Islamist chan­nel Al Nas are ask­ing peo­ple to go out to the streets & bla­tantly incit­ing vio­lence against anti-​Morsi protestors.

— نشرة القاهرة‎ (@cairowire) Decem­ber 5, 2012

Ahmed Ezzat

The MB buses keep arriv­ing with peo­ple and weapons, one caught! SUP­pORT !!!!!!! twit​ter​.com/​A​_​_​E​z​z​a​t​/​statu…

— Ahmed Ezzat (@A__Ezzat) Decem­ber 5, 2012

and one tweet from a per­son named Melinda Carter who asks a great question:

Why are you not cov­er­ing what is going on in #Egypt? The #MB are attack­ing pro­tes­tors! @cnni @cnnbrk @bbc­world @bbcbreak­ing @break­ingnews

— Melinda Carter (@MelindaACarter) Decem­ber 5, 2012

I’d love an answer and the peo­ple in Egypt risk­ing their lives fight­ing the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood would too.

BTW here is a handy dandy map of some of yesterday’s marches