EXPATRIATE EGYPTIANS FORSEE WORSE TROUBLE

Shrouk Abdelgaffar said she has a 'sickening' feeling Mubarak has the support of the Egyptian army.

OTTAWA, Canada - Around the world, expatriate Egyptians were tuned in to radio, television, and streaming webcasts awaiting President Hosni Mubarak’s words and confidently expecting a resignation. For many who had fled repression and corruption in the country, the overwhelming response was disappointment.

• The CBC’s Dave Seglins sat with a group of Egyptian-Canadians who watched Thursday's events unfold live on television at a restaurant in suburban Mississauga, Ontario.
• Businessman Emad Barsoum, who left Egypt and involvement in politics there back in 2001 over what he calls corruption and abuses, shook his head and laughed at Mubarak's remarks.
• "Huh! He’s still the president! How come? Eighteen million don’t want him, and still he insists."
• Fellow expat and political reformer Mohamed Fetaih said the world got a glimpse Thursday of a tyrant, who is out of touch.
• "He doesn’t listen … he doesn’t want to understand, he doesn’t get the message." Fetaih forecast more demonstrations in Cairo tomorrow.
  
  In Ottawa, a group of Egyptian-Canadians gathered at a house to watch Mubarak's speech. While they waited for it to start, they spoke by phone and by Skype with protesters in Tahrir Square. Everyone in the room was disappointed, and they were fearful about violence in the coming hours.
  Source: CBC
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