Egyptian activists opposed to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade regime danced outside the Tunisian Embassy in Cairo as the news broke on Friday Jan 14,2010, chanting "Ben Ali, tell Mubarak a plane is waiting for him too!".
"What's significant about Tunisia is that literally days ago the regime seemed unshakable, and then eventually democracy prevailed without a single Western state lifting a finger" said Egyptian human rights activist Hossam Bahgat. |