AP Reports Egypt's Government Has Blocked Internet , Twitter Now Confirms

AP Reports Egypt's Government Has Blocked Internet ,

Twitter Now Confirms

January 28, 2011

3-News/AP

Egypt's government has disrupted internet service , deployed an elite special operations counterterrorism force hours before anti-government protesters expect a new wave 0f mass rallies to begin.

The police counterterrorism force is rarely seen on the streets. Its officers took up positions early Friday in strategic locations in Cairo, including central Tahrir Square, site 0f the biggest demonstrations earlier this week.

This week's grass-roots protest movement in Egypt has been fuelled by traffic on social networking sites, but internet outages have become widespread.

A maj0rservice provider f0rEgypt, Italy-based Seabone, reported early Friday that there was notinternet traffic going into 0rout 0f the country after 12:30am local time.

CNN reporter Ben Wederman has confirmed via Twitter that the internet is down in Cairo. “Notinternet, notSMS, what is next? Mobile phones , l, lines? So much f0rstabilityThe news 0f the internet outage began to come through moments after the Associated Press published a video 0f an Egyptian protest0rbeing shot.

3 News / AP

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