politics | Mubarak may be planning exile to Tel Aviv, fresh protests erupt in Yemen (Reply)

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Fresh protests erupt in Yemen

Dozens of activists calling for the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, have clashed with government supporters in Sanaa, the country's capital.

Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators, who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on Saturday chanting "Ali, leave leave" and "Tunisia left, Egypt after it and Yemen in the coming future".

The chants were referring to the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia early this month and to continuing demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt.

No casualties have been reported in the Yemen clashes.

Tawakel Karman, a female activist who has led several protests in Sanaa during the past week, said that a member of the security forces in civilian clothes tried to attack her with a dagger and a shoe but was stopped by other protesters.
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In addition, the Yemen Post says that Yemen March in Solidarity with Egypt Protests

Tens of activists, journalists and MPs marched in Yemen's capital Sana'a on Saturday in solidarity with the Egyptian people holding massive protests demanding Egypt's President Mubarak to leave office.

The protestors gathered early today at the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and wanted to reach the Egyptian embassy in Jamal Street, but police prevented them.MORE

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Al Jazeera Magazine says that Sources in Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv claim that they are preparing for his arrival since Saudi Arabia said no.

Al Jazeera English's Live blog says that Mubarak's sons Gamal and Aala, have arrived in London, that a military guy named Suleiman was appt. Vice President, there was looting in the Cairo Museum, with speculation that its government thugs in plain clothes that residents holding hands outside to protect it and police, protestors still keep trying to break into the Ministry of the Interior, and are overall unimpressed with the new gov't. And basically, the army is standing by, trying to stop looters in affluent districts, and trying not to hurt protestors when they (the army) try to enforce curfew in some places. Also, ruling party headquarters around the country continue to be set ablaze the latest one is in Luxor. Naturally, the death toll continues to rise.

Graphics showing how much of the Egyptian Internet was cut off

Could a US government crack down take America off the internet?
Do we have to ask?

All the scenarios for shutting down the American internet involve some degree of collusion between the government and private companies who provide internet access to millions of people in the U.S. But could the government really make AT&T shut off your network and phone? Wouldn't that be illegal?

For now, as long as the president doesn't declare martial law, it would be. There are a number of laws that protect internet service providers government control. But that could change very soon. Several bills have been working their way through Congress that would give President Obama "kill switch" control over the internet during a "national cyber-emergency."
CNET's Declan McCullagh has been following the bills, first proposed by Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator Susan Collins. This week, he reported that the bill has been revised and is picking up steam:
The revised version includes new language saying that the federal government's designation of vital Internet or other computer systems "shall not be subject to judicial review." Another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include "provider of information technology," and a third authorized the submission of "classified" reports on security vulnerabilities.
The idea of creating what some critics have called an Internet "kill switch" that the president could flip in an emergency is not exactly new.
A draft Senate proposal that CNET obtained in August 2009 authorized the White House to "declare a cybersecurity emergency," and another from Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would have explicitly given the government the power to "order the disconnection" of certain networks or Web sites. House Democrats have taken a similar approach in their own proposals.
Such a bill would allow the President to order shutdown of the American internet without any checks from the Judiciary.
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