Vice President Biden called him today -- and they're the ones that the U.S. is dealing with, he still is, in public statements, he's blaming these protesters for belittling Egypt. He's blaming foreign media for being in some sort of conspiracy to manufacture this crisis.What do you make of that?CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, "NEWSWEEK": Well, I think it's an Discount Tiffany Bracelets tactic here.This is a government that, for 30 years, and in fact the regime goes back much longer than that, has been used to lying to its people and getting away with it. It seemed to be a relatively passive political culture. And it's really only in the last decade or so that Egypt was connected to the rest of the world in a way that it really had other voices on satellite television, on the Internet or elsewhere to contradict what the government would say.
This is a government that is completely out of step with its population, half of which is under 24 years old. And it's continuing to address Egypt as if it's addressing the Egypt of 1981, not Discount Tiffany Cuff Links Egypt of today. And I think that's really reflected in these kinds of remarks.COOPER: Ivan, are there any real moves that you have seen for transparency? Because they're talking about, well, we're going to make constitutional changes and we're going to set up a committee, oh, and we're going to investigate the killings that have Discount Tiffany Earrings place. And yet there's still no, as far as I have seen, any actual transparency going on.WATSON: That's right.Every day, you hear talk, you hear signals coming from the government. But that's why we have been focusing on issues like detentions.
Just last Thursday is when the military police were involved, as well as hundreds of pro-Mubarak supporters who have often been described as thugs, were involved in a raid on a prominent Egyptian human rights center that resulted in at least 30 human rights activists detained.They were taken away in flex cuffs and in blindfolds. We're using those moments that we Discount Tiffany Key Rings find to pinpoint how sincere the government really is. Is it possible that some of the security forces here, they're working out of inertia? I'm not quite sure.We spoke to one man who said that he had been detained shortly after the first days of the protest, along with some 500 people just carted off in vans and taken out to a center outside of Cairo for two nights.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)WAEL GHONIM, GOOGLE EXECUTIVE (through translator): The thing that tortured me the most when I was in detention was that people would find out I was the admin of the page. I did not want people to find out I was the admin, because I'm not the hero. I was writing with a keyboard on the Internet. And my life was Discount Paloma Picasso sale exposed to any danger.I want to say to every mother and every father that lost his child, I'm sorry. But it is not our fault. I swear to God this is not our fault. It's the fault of everyone who was holding on to power greedily and would not leave.(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Lots to talk about tonight.Joining us from Cairo, CNN's Ivan Watson, and Christopher Dickey, Mideast editor for "Newsweek" and contributor to The Daily Beast.Ivan, what do you Discount Return To Tiffany was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the biggest turnout we have seen in this entire protest?IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm not sure, Anderson, that strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in.I think there was also a lot of people who -- who felt perhaps more safe after several Discount Tiffany 1837 of relative calm to just go or they were driven by curiosity. But there's no question that that interview was a powerful motivator as well and that when Mr. Ghonim stepped up on the makeshift stage there, it was -- he was treated as a hero of the Egyptian revolution.
But what was very powerful was to hear a young man get up there on Egyptian television and after many of the lies and exaggerations in what has clearly been a smear campaign in state media, to say, we're Discount Tiffany Bangles foreign conspirators, we're not spies working for Israel, for the U.S. CIA, for Iran, we are Egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, I think that was an important -- important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation that's been out there.Christopher, it does seem like even though Vice President Suleiman is the one who the U.S. is basically at this point kind of pinning all their hopes on and they're the ones --
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