ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Newsmax
29January2011 12:32pmEST
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: With the gradual disappearance of Egyptian police forces in Cairo, the country is – for the moment – falling to thugs and burglars, a Newsmax source in Cairo 
says.
“There is absolutely no security in this country right now,” said Ahmed, who has been able to speak to Newsmax via landline since the Egyptian government has shut down most Internet and cell phone communications. “The police have completely disappeared and with no security, there are a lot of thugs, burglars. That is what is making the people afraid; we’re closing our houses. But we just don’t know what is going to happen.”
Newsmax is withholding Ahmed’s full name to avoid any chance of reprisals from his speaking to the media.
With as many as 50,000 reported to have taken to the streets again on Saturday, Ahmed said he drove to downtown Cairo and felt that things were “fine” despite what he said were efforts by strongman Hosni Mubarak’s propaganda machine to discredit the largely peaceful protesters by reporting events that didn’t happen – like the Egyptian museum had been attacked.
“That simply isn’t true, it did not happen. They make this big propaganda for themselves,” Ahmed said. (read full report)
