THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: CAIRO: Hours after riots forced the Tunisian president, Zine el Abidine ben Ali, to flee his country, hundreds of Egyptians poured into the streets of Cairo with a warning to their own authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak.
''Ben Ali, tell Mubarak a plane is waiting for him too,'' they chanted. ''We are next. Listen to the Tunisians; it's your turn, Egyptians.''
The slogans were a burst of elation in a country where people have protested for years but have never ignited a mass movement to threaten Mubarak's nearly 30-year-old police state. Dissidents were finally daring to contemplate the possibility that public anger really could bring dramatic change. >>> Jeffrey Fleishman | Monday, January 17, 2011
