Analyst Reva Bhalla outlines the issues at stake in the protests that have embroiled Lebanon and Egypt.In other words, a wholesale MidEast mess.A security crackdown in Egypt, after fury over poverty and inequality, led to the biggest anti-government rallies in decades against the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian police have moved in on groups of protesters in Cairo and Suez on Wednesday, enforcing a ban on demonstrations enacted following mass rallies a day earlier.
Hundreds of people had gathered at the headquarters of the journalists' syndicate, before police moved in, firing tear gas to break up the rally.3 people have been killed as thousands took to the streets of Egypt in its biggest anti-government protests in years. The largest rallies gathered in Cairo, where demonstrators chanted slogans against President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule. The unrest is inspired by the recent uprising in Tunisia and fueled by growing discontent at Egypt's grinding poverty and unemployment.Tunisian police on Wednesday fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in the capital who are pressuring the interim government to get rid of allies of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The clashes broke out in front of the prime minister's office as the caretaker government prepared to announce adjustments to its line-up. Acrid clouds of tear gas engulfed hundreds of protesters, and some demonstrators responded by throwing stones at police.
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