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04 February 2011
Krisis Mesir: Update Dari Website Utusan Malaysia
Mesir terus bergolak
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Tentera Mesir menempatkan kereta-kereta kebal di sebuah jejambat dekat Dataran Tahrir, Kaherah sebagai penampan bagi memisahkan antara kumpulan penunjuk perasaan antikerajaan (atas) dengan kumpulan pro-Mubarak (bawah), semalam. – AP |
KAHERAH 3 Feb. – Keadaan di Mesir semakin meruncing dengan lima orang dilaporkan terbunuh, apabila penyokong Presiden Mesir, Hosni Mubarak melepaskan tembakan ke arah penunjuk perasaan antikerajaan di Dataran Tahrir awal hari ini.
Tunjuk perasaan aman di negara ini sejak beberapa hari lalu bertukar ganas, sejak semalam apabila kira-kira 3,000 penyokong Mubarak yang dipercayai terdiri daripada polis berpakaian biasa menggempur penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan di Dataran Tahrir dan di beberapa bandar lain di Mesir.
Jumlah penyokong Mubarak ada yang menyatakan hampir 20,000 orang menaiki kuda dan unta bertindak memukul penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan dengan kayu dan besi dan sebahagian lagi melempar bom api ke arah penunjuk perasaan dari atas bangunan di Dataran Tahrir menyebabkan dua terkorban dan ramai yang lain cedera.
Angka korban terbaru hari ini akibat pertempuran yang menggegarkan tengah Kaherah dalam tempoh 24 jam lalu kini meningkat kepada tujuh orang dan sekurang-kurangnya 305 orang terbunuh sejak protes tercetus 25 Januari lalu dengan hampir 4,000 lagi cedera. Kejadian dilaporkan berlaku awal pagi apabila penyokong Mubarak dipercayai melepaskan tembakan ke arah penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan bagi menimbulkan ketakutan di kalangan penunjuk perasaan.
“Kesemua mereka terbunuh akibat tembakan termasuk seorang yang ditembak di kepala,” kata Dr. Mohammed Ismail di sebuah klinik sementara di Dataran Abdulmenem Riad, bersebelahan Dataran Tahrir.
Seorang lagi pakar perubatan yang merawat mereka yang cedera dalam pertempuran, Dr. Amr Bahaa sebelum itu melaporkan beliau menerima ramai penunjuk perasaan yang terkena tembakan.
“Kebanyakan mangsa tiba dalam tempoh tiga jam lalu, ramai dengan luka terkena tembakan,” katanya awal pagi ini, dengan menganggarkan jumlah yang cedera sejak semalam melebihi 1,000 orang.
Saksi berkata, ramai penunjuk perasaan yang cedera akibat tembakan dari Jambatan Oktober, di mana penyokong Presiden Hosni Mubarak berhimpun.
Menteri Kesihatan, Ahmed Hosni Farid berkata, tiga orang terbunuh dan 639 lagi cedera dalam pertempuran antara penunjuk perasaan yang menyokong dan menentang Mubarak di tengah Kaherah.
Pertempuran itu meletus apabila penyokong Mubarak menggempur Dataran Tahrir petang semalam dipercayai dalam usaha untuk menamatkan protes yang menuntut peletakan jawatan Presiden itu.
Bunyi tembakan kedengaran dari semasa ke semasa mulai sekitar 4 pagi ini (10 pagi waktu Malaysia) dan berlarutan selama dua jam, manakala beberapa kereta kebal tentera yang ditempatkan di dataran tersebut kelihatan beralih dari kedudukan masing-masing tanpa meninggalkan kawasan itu.
“Pertempuran bermula pada 4 pagi. Anggota polis berpakaian awam melepaskan tembakan dari Jambatan Oktober,” kata seorang saksi di hospital Kasr El-Aini di mana banyak ambulans tiba. – Agensi
Mesir cuba redakan tunjuk perasaan
04/02/2011 3:38am
KAHERAH 4 Feb. – Kerajaan Mesir semalam mengumumkan beberapa langkah untuk meredakan pergolakan di negara ini ketika penyokong pro-Mubarak dan anti kerajaan bertempur untuk menguasai Dataran Tahrir dan menolak tawaran berunding.
Pertempuran antara dua kumpulan itu dilaporkan berlarutan untuk hari yang kedua semalam, dengan seorang rakyat asing dipukul sehingga mati di Dataran Tahrir dan sebuah gudang membeli-belah dibakar di Kaherah.
Naib Presiden Omar Suleiman dalam ucapan panjangnya di televisyen negara menggesa penunjuk perasaan meninggalkan Dataran Tahrir dan menyifatkan tuntutan mereka yang mahukan Presiden Hosni Mubarak berundur sebagai ‘mengundang huru-hara’ dan menyatakan permintaan mereka telah ditunaikan.
Beliau juga menawarkan untuk berunding dengan kumpulan penentang terutamanya pergerakan Ikhwan Muslimin.
Suleiman dalam pada itu turut menolak sebarang campur tangan pihak asing berhubung hal ehwal dalaman Mesir dengan menganggapnya sebagai ‘tidak boleh diterima’.
Menurut Kementerian Kesihatan, lima orang terbunuh dan 836 lagi cedera, sementara AFP meletakkan angka korban seramai sembilan orang, termasuk rakyat itu, sejak pertempuran dua kumpulan itu tercetus kelmarin. – AFP
Tentera bina zon penampan
KAHERAH 3 Feb. - Tentera Mesir memisahkan penyokong dan penentang Presiden Hosni Mubarak di tengah ibu negara ini hari ini, dengan mengerahkan askar infantri bagi mewujudkan zon penampan dalam usaha menghentikan keganasan antara kedua-dua kumpulan.
Itulah kali pertama tentera dilihat bertindak tegas menghentikan keganasan yang setakat ini telah meragut tujuh nyawa dan mencederakan 836 lagi dalam tempoh 24 jam lalu.
Wartawan di Dataran Tahrir berkata, dua kem bertentangan itu dipisahkan dengan jarak kira-kira 80 meter.
Satu delegasi pegawai tinggi tentera diketuai oleh Jeneral Hassan al-Rouwainy memeriksa dataran itu dan bercakap dengan penganjur protes anti-Mubarak.
Mereka segera dikerumuni penunjuk perasaan yang meminta tentera melindungi mereka sambil melaungkan slogan: "Rakyat dan tentera berganding bahu" dan "Kami tidak akan berganjak".
Selepas kira-kira 15 minit, delegasi itu kembali ke satu kedudukan tentera dekat Muzium Mesir di pinggir dataran tersebut.
Sekurang-kurangnya 60 askar ditempatkan di zon penampan, berdiri dalam barisan menghadapi kedua-dua kem. - Reuters
Kerajaan cetus keganasan - White House
WASHINGTON 3 Feb. - White House semalam membangkitkan kemungkinan kerajaan Mesir mencetuskan keganasan yang sedang memuncak di Kaherah semalam apabila puak yang menyokong Presiden Hosni Mubarak melakukan pertempuran.
Jurucakap White House, Robert Gibbs juga mengulangi gesaan Presiden Barack Obama supaya peralihan kuasa yang teratur dimulakan 'sekarang'.
"Sudah tentulah jika keganasan itu dicetuskan oleh kerajaan, ia perlu dihentikan segera," kata Gibbs.
Pentadbiran Obama turut menghubungi ketua tentera Mesir, untuk menekankan keperluan ketenteraman dipulihkan di Kaherah sambil memuji peranan utama yang boleh dimainkan oleh tentera dalam menyelesaikan krisis itu.
Gibbs tidak menggesa Mubarak meletakkan jawatan dengan segera tetapi katanya, peralihan kuasa mesti bermula serta-merta.
Ketika ditanya sama ada White House boleh menerima Mubarak meneruskan perkhidmatannya sehingga September ini, Gibbs berkata, beliau enggan membincangkan butir perbualan Obama dengan Presiden Mesir itu.
Namun, Senator John McCain yang menemui Obama di White House berkata, sudah tiba masanya untuk Mubarak berundur.
"Situasi yang semakin buruk di Mesir mendorong saya membuat kesimpulan Presiden Mubarak perlu berundur dan melepaskan kuasa," kata McCain, anggota kanan Parti Republikan dalam Jawatankuasa Perkhidmatan Bersenjata di Senat, dalam satu kenyataan. - Reuters
Sumber : Utusan Malaysia
Krisis Mesir : Perpindahan pelajar lancar
KUALA LUMPUR 3 Feb. – Usaha membawa keluar rakyat Malaysia dari Mesir berjalan lancar dengan 545 pelajar diterbangkan ke Jeddah dengan pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) dan AirAsia bermula 2 petang ini waktu Kaherah atau 8 malam waktu Malaysia.
Timbalan Menteri Luar, A. Kohilan Pillay berkata, kumpulan pertama terdiri daripada 345 pelajar diterbangkan menggunakan pesawat MAS pukul 2 petang ini waktu Kaherah manakala selebihnya menerusi pesawat AirAsia 30 minit selepas itu.
Menurutnya, pelajar perempuan tahun pertama dan yang tidak sihat diberi keutamaan untuk dibawa keluar dari Mesir seberapa segera.
“Kita ambil pelajar-pelajar tersebut dari rumah-rumah negeri di sekitar Mesir termasuk yang menuntut di madrasah di samping melengkapkan sijil kecemasan kepada yang kehilangan pasport,” katanya ketika dihubungi di Kaherah, hari ini.
Kohilan berkata, setakat ini seramai 11,700 pelajar telah berdaftar dengan Kedutaan Malaysia di Kaherah sementara 5,000 lagi tidak berdaftar
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Dalam pada itu, katanya, pihak kerajaan akan berusaha sedaya upaya untuk membawa keluar kesemua rakyat Malaysia dari Mesir secepat mungkin mengikut giliran dan keadaan.
Kohilan memberitahu, beliau menerima ratusan khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) meminta kerajaan mempercepatkan proses tersebut
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Beliau menjelaskan, kesemua pelajar yang dipindahkan ke Jeddah itu akan tinggal di beberapa buah asrama milik Tabung Haji dalam tempoh dua minggu hingga sebulan.
“Sekiranya keadaan kembali aman, pelajar-pelajar tersebut akan kembali ke Mesir untuk meneruskan pengajian masing-masing,” ujarnya.
Mengenai pergolakan politik di Kaherah, Kohilan memberitahu, keadaan semakin pulih yang mana penduduk boleh bergerak bebas dari satu tempat ke satu tempat manakala pasar mula dibuka seperti biasa.
Beliau menjelaskan, rusuhan hanya berlaku di sesetengah kawasan dan bukan di seluruh negara itu, manakala, sistem telekomunikasi sudah boleh digunakan termasuk penggunaan Internet.
Di KOTA KINABALU, Menteri Luar, Datuk Seri Anifah Aman berkata, kerajaan memilih Jeddah sebagai lokasi penempatan sementara kerana ia merupakan negara jiran Mesir yang paling dekat dan selamat.
Menurut beliau, kerajaan bukannya tidak mahu membawa mereka pulang terus ke Malaysia, tetapi jumlah terlibat terlalu ramai iaitu kira-kira 11,379 pelajar yang mendaftar di Mesir.
“Kerajaan tidak mahu membuang masa untuk pulang ke Malaysia yang mengambil masa selama lapan hingga sembilan jam perjalanan.
“Kita berusaha memastikan semua rakyat Malaysia dapat dikeluarkan terlebih dahulu dan berada di tempat yang selamat,” katanya pada sidang akhbar hari ini
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Ditanya mengenai kapal Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) KD Bunga Mas 5 yang sedang dalam perjalanan menyelamatkan rakyat Malaysia di Mesir, Anifah berkata, kapal tersebut ketika ini terpaksa menukar destinasi.
Katanya, kapal tersebut ketika ini sedang melalui Teluk Eden dan dijangka berlabuh di Pelabuhan Ain Sukhna, Mesir pada Sabtu ini.
Beliau memberitahu, KD Bunga Mas 5 mempunyai kapasiti mengangkut kira-kira 500 pelajar dan rakyat Malaysia di Mesir untuk satu perjalanan.
Mengenai tempoh misi menyelamat semua rakyat Malaysia di Mesir akan selesai, Anifah berkata, berdasarkan jumlah rakyat yang direkodkan oleh kedutaan negara di Mesir iaitu seramai 11,379 orang, ia mungkin mengambil masa selama empat hari setengah.
Sumber: Utusan Malaysia
Krisis Mesir: Penjelasan Operasi Piramid
Pesawat TUDM, MAS, AirAsia bersama kapal TLDM mula misi dengan kerjasama Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan semalam melancarkan Operasi Piramid bagi membawa keluar lebih 11,000 rakyat, terutama pelajar dari negara bergolak Mesir ke Jeddah, Arab Saudi dengan menghantar pesawat Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) dan kapal Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) serta pesawat dan kapal syarikat swasta ke negara itu.
Operasi diketuai Panglima TUDM, Tan Sri Rodzali Daud, membabitkan tiga pesawat C130 Hercules TUDM, sebuah pesawat Boeing 747 MAS dan Airbus A320, A330 dan A340 milik AirAsia, kapal KD Bunga Mas 5 TLDM yang berada di Teluk Aden, berhampiran perairan Somalia serta kapal dagang Malaysia International Shipping Cooperation Berhad (MISC), dijangka membawa keluar rakyat Malaysia dalam tempoh empat hingga lima hari, mulai jam 6 pagi ini waktu Mesir (kira-kira jam 12 tengah malam tadi waktu Malaysia).
C130 Hercules akan berulang alik mengangkut mereka ke Jeddah dan ditempatkan di asrama Tabung Haji di sana sebelum pesawat komersial menerbangkan mereka pulang ke negara ini.
Pesawat pertama AirAsia berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) pada jam 2.30 petang semalam, diikuti C130 Hercules masing-masing pada jam 3 petang semalam dan 9.30 serta 10.30 malam tadi. MAS dijadualkan terbang jam 9.30 pagi ini dan dijangka tiba di Kaherah lapan jam selepas itu.
Operasi yang membabitkan kerjasama Kerajaan Malaysia dengan Indonesia itu membolehkan sesetengah rakyat Malaysia dan Indonesia di Kaherah, Iskandariah dan Mansourah menaiki pesawat MAS, AirAsia, TUDM dan Garuda yang dimiliki Kerajaan Indonesia dan sebaliknya.
Menteri Luar, Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, berkata operasi dilancarkan berikutan keselamatan di Kaherah sudah sampai pada tahap merah atau berbahaya dan kerajaan tidak mahu menunggu lebih lama untuk membawa keluar rakyat Malaysia.
Beliau berkata, perjalanan mereka dari tempat penginapan di Kaherah, Iskandariah, Mansourah dan beberapa tempat lain ke lapangan terbang serta pelabuhan, diuruskan 20 pegawai Kedutaan Malaysia dengan diselenggara Timbalan Menteri Luar, Senator Kohilan Pillay.
“Kita sudah meminta Kerajaan Mesir memberi jaminan keselamatan sepanjang perjalanan ke lapangan terbang dan pelabuhan,” katanya pada sidang media di Kota Kinabalu semalam.
Mengenai rungutan orang ramai, terutama waris pelajar yang mendakwa kerajaan lambat bertindak, beliau berkata, kesukaran sistem perhubungan menerusi internet di Mesir menimbulkan pelbagai kerumitan kepada Wisma Putra untuk berhubung dengan Kedutaan Besar Malaysia di sana.
“Saya sendiri tidak ke Mesir kerana jika ke negara itu, sukar untuk saya berhubung, apatah lagi dengan kedutaan negara lain kerana dalam keadaan begini, kita amat memerlukan kerjasama kedutaan negara lain. Bagaimanapun, Wisma Putra memberi jaminan keselamatan rakyat Malaysia walaupun ada beberapa kejadian penginapan mereka cuba dicerobohi,” katanya.
Sehubungan itu, beliau meminta ibu bapa tidak ke Mesir semata-mata untuk membawa anak mereka keluar kerana ada ibu bapa yang sudah berbuat demikian, tetapi terkandas di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kaherah.
Mengenai kesesakan talian Kedutaan Malaysia di Mesir dan bilik operasi Kementerian Luar di Putrajaya, Anifah berkata, ibu bapa harus bersabar kerana talian itu digunakan ribuan pengguna.
Sementara itu, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, berkata kapal dagang MISC yang berada di beberapa pelabuhan negara Teluk diminta membantu bagi mempercepatkan operasi.
“Kapal ini bersama KD Bunga Mas 5 akan bergerak secara konvoi ke Jeddah secepat mungkin. Pegawai kedutaan Malaysia di Mesir sedang menguruskan visa sementara bagi membolehkan pelajar kita ke Arab Saudi sebelum dibawa pulang ke Malaysia menaiki pesawat komersial.
“Seboleh mungkin kita akan bawa keluar semua pelajar Malaysia dan kerajaan meminta semua pihak termasuk NGO turut membantu, termasuk menggunakan kepakaran masing-masing,” katanya.
Ahmad Zahid berkata Operasi Piramid membabitkan masing-masing 30 orang daripada Kementerian Pertahanan dan pejabat kedutaan Malaysia di Mesir dan 20 daripada Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN), Kementerian Luar serta Jabatan Penuntut Malaysia.
Sumber: Berita Harian
Krisis Mesir: Update Dari Website Akhbar
10 jam terkandas di lapangan terbang
03/02/2011 11:50pm
KAHERAH 3 Feb. – Sekumpulan kira-kira 600 pelajar Malaysia di sini yang sepatutnya berlepas ke Jeddah, Arab Saudi kini masih terkandas di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kaherah ekoran masalah penerbangan.
Wakil Utusan Malaysia yang berada di lapangan terbang berkenaan mendapati sebahagian para pelajar tersebut sudah menunggu kira-kira 10 jam di lapangan terbang itu.
Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom yang turut berada di lapangan terbang tersebut memberi jaminan para pelajar berkenaan akan dibawa keluar dari Mesir menuju ke Jeddah dalam tempoh tiga jam lagi kerana pelepasan dari kerajaan Arab Saudi baru sahaja diterima.
Sumber: Utusan Malaysia
Kumpulan pertama pelajar Malaysia berlepas ke JeddahDaripada Nazmi Yaakub
2011/02/03 23:48:46 PM
KAHERAH: Seramai 345 pelajar dari kumpulan pertama pelajar Malaysia di Mesir berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kaherah ke Jeddah, Arab Saudi, kira-kira jam 3.30 petang tadi waktu tempatan dengan pesawat Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS).
Seramai 200 pelajar yang lain pula dijadualkan berlepas ke Jeddah dengan pesawat Air Asia kemudian.
Sumber: Berita Harian
03 February 2011
Krisis Mesir: Penerbangan ke KLIA ditukar ke Jeddah: Shahlan
2011/02/03
KUALA LUMPUR: Penerbangan membawa keluar pelajar dan rakyat Malaysia dari Kaherah terus ke Kuala Lumpur berikutan pergolakan di Mesir terpaksa dipinda kepada hanya penerbangan ke Jeddah, Arab Saudi, kata Setiausaha Politik Perdana Menteri, Datuk Shahlan Ismail.
Beliau berkata, pesawat pertama membawa rakyat Malaysia dari Kaherah yang pada mulanya dijadualkan tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) pada 5 pagi esok itu, sebaliknya akan mendarat di Jeddah.
Shahlan berkata perubahan program pemindahan itu bertujuan membolehkan lebih ramai warga Malaysia dibawa keluar dalam tempoh lebih segera.
Pesawat sedia ada perlu dimanfaatkan sebaik-baiknya agar membuat lebih banyak penerbangan ulang-alik Kaherah-Jeddah.
"Semua pesawat yang ada daripada Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS), AirAsia dan Tentera Udara DiRaja Malaysia (TUDM) akan beroperasi tanpa henti berulang-alik antara Jeddah dan Kaherah.
"Kita mahu seramai mungkin rakyat kita berjaya dibawa keluar dari Mesir kerana keadaan semakin terdesak," katanya.
Shahlan sebelum ini dilaporkan berkata penerbangan pertama membawa 309 orang termasuk pelajar serta mereka yang uzur dan wanita mengandung akan berlepas dari Kaherah, pada 1 tengah hari ini waktu tempatan (7 malam waktu Malaysia) dan dijadualkan tiba di KLIA pada 5 pagi esok.
Shahlan juga memaklumkan terdapat dua penerbangan yang membawa rakyat Malaysia ke Jeddah hari ini dari Kaherah manakala esok 12 penerbangan membabitkan enam pesawat.
Katanya, selain pesawat, kapal milik Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia (TLDM), KD Bunga Mas 5, juga akan menyertai operasi pada Sabtu membawa keluar baki warga Malaysia ke Jeddah.
Shahlan turut merayu kepada semua rakyat Malaysia dan pelajar yang berada di Mesir supaya sedar bawa mereka semuanya terperangkap dan hanya boleh keluar melalui langkah yang dirancang kerajaan.
"Jadi, tak perlu menimbulkan sebarang provokasi di waktu ini kerana ia hanya akan mengakibatkan kekecohan yang tidak diingini dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia yang memerlukan bantuan.
"Kerajaan berjanji akan membawa semua pelajar dan rakyat keluar tidak kira dari negeri mana asalkan anda rakyat Malaysia, diharapkan semua bersabar," katanya.
Shahlan kini berada di Kaherah untuk memantau keadaan di negara yang bergolak itu atas arahan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Beliau yang menyertai delegasi Malaysia diketuai Timbalan Menteri Luar, Senator Kohilan Pillay, itu sentiasa memantau keadaan. - BERNAMA
Sumber: Berita Harian
Krisis Mesir: Update Dari Website Akhbar
BERNAMA - Penerbangan Kaherah-KLIA Ditukar Kepada Penerbangan Ulang Alik Kaherah-Jeddah
Kumpulan pertama rakyat Malaysia dijangka tiba di Jeddah malam iniOleh Veena Rusli
2011/02/03
Kumpulan pertama rakyat Malaysia dijangka tiba di Jeddah malam ini
KOTA KINABALU: Kumpulan pertama kira-kira 600 rakyat Malaysia yang dibawa keluar dari Mesir hari ini dijangka tiba di Jeddah malam ini waktu tempatan, susulan langkah kerajaan memindahkan mereka berikutan keadaan yang semakin meruncing di Kaherah.
Menteri Luar, Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, berkata pada masa sama, tiga pesawat C-130 dijadual mendarat di Jeddah pada jam 4.45 petang, 5.55 petang dan 7.28 malam ini waktu tempatan.
"Tiga pesawat berkenaan akan melakukan penerbangan ulang-alik antara Jeddah-Kaherah-Iskandariah mulai jam 6 pagi waktu tempatan esok kerana perlu direhatkan selama 24 jam terlebih dulu.
"Operasi membawa rakyat kita keluar secara berperingkat dari Kaherah ke Jeddah hari ini dibuat menggunakan pesawat Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) dan Air Asia sebelum ditambah dengan C-130 esok.
"Di Jeddah, rakyat Malaysia ditempatkan di bangunan milik Tabung Haji dan kita sediakan keperluan asas terutama makanan dan bekalan perubatan," katanya pada sidang media di sini, hari ini.
Beliau berkata, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, turut berada di Kaherah bagi menyelaraskan operasi penempatan sementara rakyat Malaysia di Jeddah.
Mengulas rasionalisasi pemindahan ke Jeddah, beliau berkata, ia bagi menjimatkan masa penerbangan kerana keutamaan kerajaan ialah memastikan setiap rakyat Malaysia diselamatkan sebelum dibawa pulang ke tanah air.
"Jika pesawat terus terbang dari Kaherah ke Kuala Lumpur, ia akan mengambil masa sedangkan kita perlu membawa keluar rakyat dalam jumlah yang besar.
"Dalam situasi genting seperti ini, kita perlu berlaku adil kepada semua dan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, mengarahkan supaya kita mengekalkan perancangan membawa mereka ke Jeddah," katanya.
Selain itu, katanya, faktor kebenaran menggunakan ruang udara dan mendarat juga perlu diambil kira berikutan banyak negara mengambil langkah mengeluarkan rakyat masing-masing pada masa hampir serentak.
"Ada yang mempersoalkan kononnya kerajaan lambat bertindak sedangkan kita ada prosedur tertentu kerana ini membabitkan aspek keselamatan dalam skop yang luas.
"Kita juga perlu merencana perjalanan dengan teliti berikutan arahan perintah berkurung yang dilaksanakan kerajaan Mesir di semua bandaraya utama negara itu," katanya.
Anifah berkata, kapal KD Bunga Mas 5 juga sudah bergerak dan kini dilapor berada di pelabuhan Ain Shukna sebelum dijadual tiba ke Mesir pada 5 Februari ini bagi membantu urusan membawa keluar rakyat Malaysia.
Beliau menjelaskan, urusan mengeluarkan kira-kira 11,000 warga Malaysia dari Mesir dijangka dapat diselesaikan dalam lima hari.
"Sebaik semuanya disahkan sudah selamat, kita akan uruskan pula untuk membawa mereka kembali ke tanah air," katanya sambil menambah kementerian turut berkongsi maklumat dengan pelbagai agensi bagi mendapat perkembangan terkini krisis di Mesir.
Tiada kes rompak, rogol babitkan pelajar Malaysia: DutaDaripada Nazmi Yaakub
2011/02/03
KAHERAH: Kedutaan Besar Malaysia mengesahkan tiada kes rompakan atau rogol membabitkan pelajar Malaysia di Mesir sepanjang kekacauan yang melanda negara itu.
Duta Besar Malaysia ke ini, Datuk Dr Mohd Fakhrudin Abdul Mukti, berkata semua pelajar Malaysia di Mesir selamat kerana segala langkah keselamatan yang perlu sudah diambil.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui Berita Harian di sini sebentar tadi.
Sumber: Berita Harian
Warga Malaysia di UAE tawar penginapan kepada pelajar dari Mesir
03/02/2011 4:40pm
DUBAI 3 Feb. - Rakyat Malaysia yang menetap di Emiriyah Arab Bersatu (UAE) telah membuka kediaman mereka untuk pelajar Malaysia yang cuba meninggalkan Mesir ekoran tindakan rakyatnya mengadakan demonstrasi jalanan bagi mendesak Presiden, Hosni Mubarak meletak jawatan.
Sukarelawan kini menawarkan kemudahan penginapan kepada pelajar berkenaan sementara menunggu ibu bapa atau penjaga mereka mendapatkan tiket penerbangan untuk pulang ke Malaysia menerusi beberapa lapangan terbang di negara Teluk ini.
"Maklum balas di kalangan penduduk Malaysia di sini amat menggalakkan... bukan sahaja mereka yang tinggal di Dubai tetapi juga wilayah lain seperti Sharjah, Abu Dhabi dan Ras Al Khaimah,” kata Presiden Persatuan Malaysia di UAE (My-UAE), Rusli Leman, ketika dihubungi. - Bernama
Sumber: Utusan Malaysia
Krisis Mesir: Pesawat pertama bawa rakyat Malaysia dari Mesir tiba di KLIA awal pagi esok
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03/02/2011 12:05pm
KUALA LUMPUR 3 Feb. - Pesawat pertama dalam misi membawa keluar rakyat Malaysia dari Mesir dijangka tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) pada pukul 5 pagi esok.
Setiausaha Politik Perdana Menteri, Datuk Shahlan Ismail berkata, penerbangan pertama membawa 309 orang termasuk pelajar serta mereka yang uzur dan wanita mengandung itu akan berlepas dari Kaherah, pada 1 tengah hari ini waktu tempatan (7 malam waktu Malaysia).
Beliau berkata, satu lagi penerbangan akan turut berlepas pada waktu yang sama dan akan membawa 345 orang pelajar Malaysia namun pesawat itu akan mendarat di Jeddah sebelum berpatah balik ke Kaherah untuk menyambung misi.
Shahlan kini berada di Kaherah untuk memantau keadaan di negara yang bergolak itu atas arahan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Beliau berkata, esok kerjasama antara Tentera Udara DiRaja Malaysia (TUDM), Air Asia dan Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad (MAS) akan melakukan 12 kali penerbangan membawa pelajar dan rakyat Malaysia keluar dari Kaherah.
"Tiga pesawat iaitu dua Air Asia dan satu pesawat MAS akan terbang terus ke KLIA. Bagaimanapun tiga pesawat Charlie C-130 milik TUDM akan melakukan penerbangan ulang alik dari Kaherah ke Jeddah di Arab Saudi,” katanya ketika dihubungi Bernama hari ini.
Shahlan berkata, operasi membawa keluar melalui jalan udara melibatkan pemindahan kira-kira 1,000 orang rakyat Malaysia.
Beliau berkata Sabtu ini pula, sebuah kapal Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia (TLDM) KD Bunga Mas 5 akan membawa keluar kira-kira 500 orang pelajar dan rakyat Malaysia dan dijangka terus belayar ke Pelabuhan Klang.
Shahlan berkata, keseluruhan operasi melibatkan 5,000 orang rakyat Malaysia yang terperangkap di Mesir.
Katanya, kerajaan melalui Kementerian Luar dan Majlis Keselamatan Negara sedang melakukan yang terbaik untuk membawa keluar semua 11,000 rakyat Malaysia di Mesir.
"Kita gerakkan pelajar dari semua bandar seperti Kaherah, Iskandariah, Mansoura, Tartar dan Zagazig serta semua bandar-bandar kecil yang lain jadi ia memerlukan perancangan yang teliti.
"Kita berharap semuanya akan berjalan lancar dan operasi pemindahan seterusnya akan dirancang sebaik selesai perancangan pertama misi membawa pulang,” katanya. - Bernama
Sumber: Utusan Malaysia
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UPDATE !!!
Egypt Crisis: Update from news..
Published: Thursday February 3, 2011 MYT 10:58:00 AM
Updated: Thursday February 3, 2011 MYT 11:49:47 AM
Heavy gunfire rings out in Cairo protest square (Updated)
CAIRO (AP): Bursts of heavy gunfire rained into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Thursday, killing at least three anti-government demonstrators among crowds still trying to hold the site after an assault by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a protest organizer.
Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots rattled into the square starting at around 4 a.m., and was continuing more than an hour later.
Protest organizer Mustafa el-Naggar said he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance. He said the gunfire came from at least three locations off in the distance and that the Egyptian military, which has ringed the square with tank squads for days to try to keep some order, did not intervene.
Footage from AP Television News showed two bodies being dragged from the scene. The health minister did not answer a phone call seeking confirmation of the deaths.
Throughout Wednesday, Mubarak supporters charged into the square on horses and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters trying to topple Egypt's leader of 30 years. Three people died in that earlier violence and 600 were injured.
The protesters accused Mubarak's regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented nine-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.
Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for what happened.
The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration.
"If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt's upheaval: the first significant violence between government supporters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Mubarak rejected the calls for him to give up power or leave the country, stubbornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.
His words were a blow to the protesters. They also suggest that authorities want to turn back the clock to the tight state control enforced before the protests began.
Mubarak's supporters turned up on the streets Wednesday in significant numbers for the first time. Some were hostile to journalists and foreigners. Two Associated Press correspondents and several other journalists were roughed up in Cairo. State TV had reported that foreigners were caught distributing anti-Mubarak leaflets, apparently trying to depict the movement as foreign-fueled.
After midnight, 10 hours after the clashes began, the two sides were locked in a standoff at a street corner, with the anti-Mubarak protesters hunkered behind a line of metal sheets hurling firebombs back and forth with government backers on the rooftop above. The rain of bottles of flaming gasoline set nearby cars and wreckage on the sidewalk ablaze.
The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already running high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.
Soldiers surrounding Tahrir Square fired occasional shots in the air throughout the day but did not appear to otherwise intervene in the fierce clashes and no uniformed police were seen. Most of the troops took shelter behind or inside the armored vehicles and tanks stationed at the entrances to the square.
"Why don't you protect us?" some protesters shouted at the soldiers, who replied they did not have orders to do so and told people to go home.
"The army is neglectful. They let them in," said Emad Nafa, a 52-year-old among the protesters, who for days had showered the military with affection for its neutral stance.
Some of the worst street battles raged near the Egyptian Museum at the edge of the square. Pro-government rioters blanketed the rooftops of nearby buildings and hurled bricks and firebombs onto the crowd below - in the process setting a tree ablaze inside the museum grounds. Plainclothes police at the building entrances prevented anti-Mubarak protesters from storming up to stop them.
The two sides pummeled each other with chunks of concrete and bottles at each of the six entrances to the sprawling plaza, where 10,000 anti-Mubarak protesters tried to fend off more than 3,000 attackers who besieged them. Some on the pro-government side waved machetes, while the square's defenders filled the air with a ringing battlefield din by banging metal fences with sticks.
In one almost medieval scene, a small contingent of pro-Mubarak forces on horseback and camels rushed into the anti-government crowds, trampling several people and swinging whips and sticks. Protesters dragged some riders from their mounts, throwing them to the ground and beating their faces bloody. The horses and camels appeared to be ones used to give tourists rides around Cairo.
Dozens of men and women pried up pieces of the pavement with bars and ferried the piles of ammunition in canvas sheets to their allies at the front. Others directed fighters to streets needing reinforcements.
The protesters used a subway station as a makeshift prison for the attackers they managed to catch. They tied the hands and legs of their prisoners and locked them inside. People grabbed one man who was bleeding from the head, hit him with their sandals and threw him behind a closed gate.
Some protesters wept and prayed in the square where only a day before they had held a joyous, peaceful rally of a quarter-million, the largest demonstration so far.
Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Sameh Farid said three people died and at least 611 were injured in Tahir Square. One of those killed fell from a bridge near the square; Farid said the man was in civilian clothes but may have been a member of the security forces.
Farid did not say how the other two victims, both young men, were killed. It was not clear whether they were government supporters or anti-Mubarak demonstrators.
After years of tight state control, protesters emboldened by the uprising in Tunisia took to the streets on Jan. 25 and mounted a once-unimaginable series of demonstrations across this nation of 80 million. For the past few days, protesters who camped out in Tahrir Square reveled in a new freedom - publicly expressing their hatred for the Mubarak regime.
"After our revolution, they want to send people here to ruin it for us," said Ahmed Abdullah, a 47-year-old lawyer in the square.
Another man shrieked through a loudspeaker: "Hosni has opened the door for these thugs to attack us."
The pressure for demonstrators to clear the square mounted throughout the day, beginning early when a military spokesman appeared on state TV and asked them to disperse so life in Egypt could get back to normal.
It was a change in attitude by the army, which for the past few days had allowed protests to swell with no interference and even made a statement saying they had a legitimate right to demonstrate peacefully.
Then the regime began to rally its supporters in significant numbers for the first time, demanding an end to the protest movement. Some 20,000 Mubarak supporters held an angry but mostly peaceful rally across the Nile River from Tahrir, responding to calls on state TV.
They said Mubarak's concessions were enough. He has promised not to run for re-election in September, named a new government and appointed a vice president for the first time, widely considered his designated successor.
They waved Egyptian flags, their faces painted with the black-white-and-red national colors, and carried a large printed banner with Mubarak's face as police officers surrounded the area and directed traffic. They cheered as a military helicopter swooped overhead.
They were bitter at the jeers hurled at Mubarak.
"I feel humiliated," said Mohammed Hussein, a 31-year-old factory worker. "He is the symbol of our country. When he is insulted, I am insulted."
Sayyed Ramadan, a clothing vendor said: "Eight days with no security, safety, food or drink. I earn my living day by day. The president didn't do anything. It is shame that we call him a dog."
Emad Fathi, 35, works as a delivery boy but since the demonstrations, he has not gone to work.
"I came here to tell these people to leave," he said. "The mosques were calling on people to go and support Mubarak," he said.
The anti-Mubarak movement has vowed to intensify protests to force him out by Friday.
State TV said Vice President Omar Suleiman called "on the youth to heed the armed forces' call and return home to restore order." From the other side, senior anti-Mubarak figure Mohamed ElBaradei demanded the military "intervene immediately and decisively to stop this massacre."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Suleiman to condemn the violence and urge Egypt's government to hold those responsible for it accountable, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.
Protesters had maintained a round-the-clock, peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square since Friday night, when the military was first deployed and police largely vanished from the streets.
After celebrating their biggest success yet in Tuesday's demonstration, the crowd thinned out overnight. By morning a few thousand protesters remained. Mubarak supporters began to gather at the edges of the square a little after noon, and protesters formed a human chain to keep them out.
In the early afternoon, around 3,000 pro-government demonstrators broke through and surged among the protesters, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
They tore down banners denouncing the president, fistfights broke out, and protesters grabbed Mubarak posters from the hands of the supporters and ripped them to pieces.
From there, it escalated into outright street battles as hundreds poured in to join each side.
The battle lines at each of the entrances surged back and forth for hours. Each side's fighters stretched across the width of the four-lane divided boulevard, hiding behind abandoned trucks and holding sheets of corrugated metal as shields from the hail of stones.
At the heart of the square, young men with microphones sought to keep up morale. "Stand fast, reinforcements are on the way," said one. "Youth of Egypt, be brave." Groups of bearded men lined up to recite Muslim prayers before taking their turn in the line of fire.
Bloodied young men staggered or were carried into makeshift clinics set up in mosques and alleyways by the anti-government side.
Women and men stood ready with water, medical cotton and bandages as each wave returned. Scores of wounded were carried to a makeshift clinic at a mosque near the square and on other side streets, staffed by doctors in white coats. One man with blood coming out of his eye stumbled into a side-street clinic.
As night fell, some protesters went to get food, a sign they plan to dig in for a long siege. Hundreds more people from the impoverished district of Shubra showed up later as reinforcements.
Wednesday's events suggest the regime aims to put an end of the unrest to let Mubarak shape the transition as he chooses over the next months. Mubarak has offered negotiations with protest leaders over democratic reforms, but they have refused any talks until he steps down.
As if to show the public the crisis was ending, the government began to reinstate Internet service after days of an unprecedented cutoff. State TV announced the easing of a nighttime curfew, which now runs from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. instead of 3 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Published: Thursday February 3, 2011 MYT 6:36:00 AMUpdated: Thursday February 3, 2011 MYT 11:31:44 AM
White House challenges Mubarak to show who he is
WASHINGTON (AP): Confronted by scenes of bloody chaos in Cairo, the White House on Wednesday challenged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to show the world "exactly who he is" by quickly leading a peaceful transition to democracy. That outcome seemed ever more elusive.
An Egyptian official complained that the U.S. was pressing for Mubarak's swift departure even as President Barack Obama publicly urges an orderly transition. "There is a clear contradiction between an orderly process of transition and the insistence that this process be rushed," said the official, who was speaking for his government but said the government would not allow his name to be associated with the statement.
"Now means now," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, and he declared anew that continued aid to Egypt would be influenced by the Egyptian government's response to the crisis.
While the U.S. has not directly called for Mubarak to resign - the protesters' chief demand - Gibbs was echoing Obama's public call one night earlier for an immediate and orderly transition to democracy in Egypt.
Instead the images on TV were of a brutal clash between protesters and Mubarak supporters.
"If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately," Gibbs said, while declining to speculate whether the Egyptian government was in fact behind the violence.
Protesters contended plainclothes police were among the pro-Mubarak groups.
The White House said it had had no indication that such violence was in the offing when Obama and Mubarak had spoken frankly Tuesday night. The Egyptian president announced on television that he would not seek re-election in September, but protesters want him out now.
With Mubarak's grip on his country in doubt, Obama's team is evaluating scenarios of what may come next. But the conflict underscores the limits of the American president's power to shape the outcome.
Obama has spelled out what Egypt's transition to free elections should look like, but he has refused to say whether Mubarak should be in charge all the while.
Obama has spoken to Mubarak and telephoned fellow world leaders to try to bolster stability in the region, but he cannot stop violence in the streets of Cairo. To the degree Obama has spelled out consequences of inaction to Mubarak, the White House will not say much publicly.
Obama also is trying to find a balance between responding appropriately to events without being sucked up in hour-by-hour reaction. Gibbs said history was being made, and "this is not all going to be wrapped up in a matter of hours. It's going to take some time."
Thousands of supporters and opponents of Mubarak battled in Cairo's main square on Wednesday, throwing stones, bottles and firebombs as soldiers stood by without intervening. The fighting started when several thousand Mubarak supporters, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, attacked anti-government protesters.
The White House said Obama found the images deplorable.
The unrest in Egypt was sparked by an uprising in Tunisia and is reverberating throughout the region. King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday sacked his government and named a new prime minister, bowing to public pressure. The United States expressed hope Wednesday that pro-Western governments in Jordan and Yemen could stave off revolutions.
Gibbs said Obama had received no indication from Mubarak Tuesday night about what was going to unfold on Wednesday in Cairo.
Gibbs did not directly answer when asked whether Obama viewed Mubarak as a dictator, saying the Egyptian president had a chance to show who he was. Mubarak has been an important ally to the U.S. during his 30-year reign, ensuring passage through the Suez Canal and maintaining peace with Israel. But for many Egyptian people, these have been years of corrosive poverty, repression and corruption.
Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, one of several Middle East experts who met with Obama and his advisers on Monday, said the president and his team realize this is not the last quake in the region.
"There's a sense that the team in the White House has that they can't just be Egypt focused, that everything they say and do here has got to begin to become a frame for what sorts of principles we stand for," Clemons said. "And that just being for democracy, freedom and freedom of assembly is vapid, that there has to be a deeper commitment to some structural changes. I don't think anybody really knows what that means yet."
Gibbs said the U.S. expects that whatever government comes into power will respect the treaties entered into by previous Egyptian governments - a clear reference to Egypt's peace agreement with Israel, which has provided an important measure of stability for the region.
American officials are keen to promote an ordered transition that safeguards Egypt's status as a powerful American ally in the Middle East, instrumental in promoting Arab-Israeli peace, countering Iran's growing influence and fighting terrorism.
Across the Arabian peninsula in Yemen, which al-Qaida has turned into a main battleground in the war on terror, President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged not to seek another term in an attempt to head off his country's version of the unrest that has spread through the Arab world since Tunisian protesters overthrew their president last month.
U.S. officials said they were pleased with Saleh's agreement to include opposition elements in a reform process after over three decades dominating the political landscape in his country. Saleh is seen as an increasingly important partner of the United States, allowing American drone strikes on al-Qaida targets and stepping up counterterrorism cooperation.
Administration officials are hopeful that Saleh's move toward reconciliation with Yemen's opposition can provide momentum for significant democratic reforms. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the U.S. would encourage all parties to engage in a national dialogue to help the impoverished, violence-wracked country in its transition.
The United States also was keeping a close watch on developments in Jordan, a similarly key ally and the only Arab country in addition to Egypt to have concluded a peace agreement with Israel.
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