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Whew: Fayza promises the gasoline shortages will be over in a few hours egyptindependent.com/news/fuel-cris… about 6 hours ago via web
Am trying to take a photo that captures the clusterfuck that is this fuel queue #cairo twitter.com/glcarlstrom/st… about 7 hours ago via Seesmic
At least 20 cars queued up on Brazil Street in Zamalek waiting to buy gas from one of the rare stations that has any. 26th of July a mess about 7 hours ago via Seesmic
So apparently the Shafiq HQ fire was "instigated" by the natural alliance of... Wael Abbas and Safwat Hegazy. egyptindependent.com/news/witnesses… #oyvey about 8 hours ago via web
AMAY asks, what happened to the Salafi vote? egyptindependent.com/news/where-did… about 8 hours ago via web
@arabist He also said such lawlessness never happened under Mubarak, which doesn't quite jive with my recollection of those years, but hey about 11 hours ago via web in reply to arabist
And with my cabbie interview finished, I can now spend the rest of my time in Egypt hanging out in the Marriott lobby about 11 hours ago via web
My pro-Shafiq cabbie points to minibus driving the wrong way. "Shafiq would catch him! We have laws. He will stop this." #welcometoegypt about 11 hours ago via web
arabist To celebrate the end of the Emergency Law I am hosting a looting and arson campaign tonight in Heliopolis. Who's in? about 19 hours ago via YoruFukurou Retweeted by glcarlstrom and 19 others
Hilarious: Morsi files lawsuit against Tawfiq Okasha, wants him banned "from appearing on any television channel." bit.ly/KeAan3 about 19 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @Sarahcarr: State of emergency ends today. I expect Mubarak's warning to come true and for Egypt to turn into Shariastan around noon. about 19 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @erinmcunningham: Sinai Bedouins Kidnap 2 American Tourists in Egypt - ABC News abcn.ws/KLlJDy via @tomgara about 19 hours ago via TweetDeck
@tomgara Yeah, very true about 19 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to tomgara
@elijahzarwan ... thus conveniently laying all the blame on parliament if it gets renewed about 20 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to elijahzarwan
Wondering what @Channel4News means by "the [Houla] killers had written Shia slogans on their foreheads." Details? bit.ly/KWxuUO about 20 hours ago via TweetDeck
Ahram asks experts what SCAF's role will be after the election; universal answer is "deep state" bit.ly/JvwWpo about 21 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @Ssirgany: El-Beheiry to replace Farouk Sultan at helm of Egypt constitutional court bit.ly/LIxV5P about 21 hours ago via TweetDeck
SCAF says, in public at least, that it has "no stance" on whether to extend the emergency law: bit.ly/JvvtiR about 21 hours ago via TweetDeck
Off to Cairo in the morning. 1:51 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
DaliaEzzat_ Ghozlan (speaker for MB) denies reports about coordination with Baradei + possibility of AMAF/Sabahy for VP position onaeg.com/?p=136610 AR 10:25 AM May 30th via Twitter for BlackBerry® Retweeted by glcarlstrom and 4 others

Name Gregg Carlstrom
Location Doha, Qatar
Bio Al-Jazeera reporter based in Doha, part-time blogger; opinions my own, of course. gregg [dot] carlstrom [at] aljazeera [dot] net