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Graeme Bannerman, former US State Department Policy Planning Staff Middle East analyst said:
"Popular opinion in the Middle East runs so against American policies that any change in any (regional) government....that becomes more popular will have an anti-American and certainly less friendly direction towards the US which will be a serious political problem for us."
A circulated flyer said:
"Without beating around the bush or postponing or playing us for fools and without more false promises, we, the people of Egypt, demand all of our long forgotten rights to be granted and this time there is no turning back....we have learned our lesson....we have finally broken free of all fears."
On January 25, Egypt's "day of wrath," copies circulated, containing specific political and economic demands, including:
-- salary and pension increases;
-- financial aid for unemployed workers;
-- canceling the law of emergency, empowering authorities to arrest people without warrants;
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