West support for Mubarak ‘catastrophic’

IF the West continues to support Hosni Mubarak as president of Egypt, the result will be catastrophic for the whole of the Middle East, an expert in Egyptian politics warns.

Young people are increasing their action across the nation of close, with some going on hunger strike and demonstrations continuing in every region, including those that traditionally supported Mubarak.

Tarek Mahmoud, who for five years was bureau chief of MENA, the Egyptian state news agency in Brussels and regularly accompanied Mubarak, has been caught in the protests in his native Cairo. He has seen people killed and argued with security forces not to arrest journalists.