I just received a message from a friend in Cairo......
Gail,
...Things here are surreal. I live overlooking the Torah prison with 10,000 inmates. Some prisoners overpowered the guards and took their weapons but they could not get out of the prison. Paratroopers with heavy calibre fire power were sent to support the guards and a pitched battle raged for several days. Abour 30 cons escaped. Four were caught at the vigilante barriers just below my apartment.
Tanks and armoured personnel carriers are on the steets. Looting and fire fights are commonplace. People are panic buying food. Banks are closed and ATMs are out of cash or vandalised so people are running out of money. We are breaking curfew to socialise and not let this thing get to us. So, two evenings this week I was playing music with friends and on a third, we played cards and drank a few glasses of wine.
I believe that we will have a lot more problems before things get better. Hope that all is well with you.
Peter.
...Things here are surreal. I live overlooking the Torah prison with 10,000 inmates. Some prisoners overpowered the guards and took their weapons but they could not get out of the prison. Paratroopers with heavy calibre fire power were sent to support the guards and a pitched battle raged for several days. Abour 30 cons escaped. Four were caught at the vigilante barriers just below my apartment.
Tanks and armoured personnel carriers are on the steets. Looting and fire fights are commonplace. People are panic buying food. Banks are closed and ATMs are out of cash or vandalised so people are running out of money. We are breaking curfew to socialise and not let this thing get to us. So, two evenings this week I was playing music with friends and on a third, we played cards and drank a few glasses of wine.
I believe that we will have a lot more problems before things get better. Hope that all is well with you.
Peter.
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