Link to the Show / Show NotesFurther good ongoing analysis can be heard on the Democracy Now podcast where Robert Fisk is interviewed who is on the ground in Cairo.
During the course of the interview he says that he discovered the tanks deployed on the streets belonged not to the Egyptian army but to the US army as part of the MFR or Mobile Force Reserve which has units deployed all around the Middle East and their purpose is for them to be used during emergencies. In this instance it seems they lent them to the Egyptian army
You can listen to the interview here. Start just before 34 minutes. The Fisk interview itself begins at 43 mins 20 secs.
But it is well worth listening to the entire podcast.

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