Mubarak speech surprises U.S.
Update 5:29 p.m. ET: The White House reporters' pool traveling on Air Force One with President Barack Obama passes along that Obama watched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's speech during the flight back to Washington and was to convene a meeting with his national security advisers once he had returned to the White House.
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U.S. sources closely involved in the government's handling of the Egyptian crisis told NBC News that they were "taken by surprise" by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's announcement and that it appears "Mubarak is going nowhere."
The officials told NBCs Jim Miklaszewski that they were especially concerned about Mubarak's apparent declaration that he would "federalize the streets." They said, however, that their reaction was based on an initial translation of Mubarak's remarks.
"We have assurances, both private and public, that the military would not fire on the people," one of the officials stressed.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/10/6026801-mubarak-speech-surprises-us-The Obama regime is a bigger failure than Blacken's education was. Same goes for the CIA and their "reliable intel" that Mubarak was stepping down.
Like Blacken, Obama and his cronies are asleep at the wheel.
