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Many people are wondering why the USA has sent warships to the Suez Canal. The official line from the American government is that the warships are there as a preparation in case an evacuation of Americans are necessary, yet many people are wondering if the USA is actually contemplating military intervention in Egypt and neighboring countries.

Google and Twitter are making it possible for protesters in Egypt to communicate via Twitter, now that Egypt's last working Internet service provider has gone down in the wake of ongoing protests, Al Arabiya reports. The special service created by Google, Twitter and the Google-acquired service SayNow allows people in Egypt to telephone one of three international telephone numbers and leave a voice mail message, according to The Daily Caller website. The voice mail then publishes the message to Twitter via the hashtag #egypt. You can find links to the dictated tweets at twitter.com/speak2tweet.

Even as millions of Egyptians turn out to protest the government of Hosni Mubarak, separate bread riots have broken out in the past few days. Three people, including a shopowner, have died in bread riots, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Fax machines, ham radio and dial-up modems are helping to avoid the net block imposed on Egypt. Dial-up modems are one of the most popular routes for Egyptians to get back online. Long lists of international numbers that connect to dial-up modems are circulating in Egypt thanks to net activists We Re-Build, Telecomix and others.

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Mubarak dissolves the acting government. Military supports government (Mubarak)

Cairo demonstrators have burned and ransacked President Mubarak's HQ.  Darkness has fallen but the riots continue, countless fires are raging, and whole districts of Cairo are ruled by the angry mob.

This recap of the protests contains key observations by former IAEA director, Nobel laureate and Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei. After a peaceful march he led was met with water cannon, concussion grenades and tear gas, ElBaradei said he thought the opportunity for peaceful change is over. "It's now the people versus the thugs."

Egyptian president orders army to take charge after protests and clashes which included overrun police stations, seized weapons and torched security force vehicles and torched government buildings.

Egyptian state TV explains that President Hosni Mubarak imposed the curfew in his role as head of military in response to "riots, lawlessness, looting, destruction, attack and burning of public and private property including attacks on banks and hotels."