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Anthony Shadid, a newspaper correspondent whose dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria.
Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.
Mr. Shadid, 43, had been reporting inside Syria for a week, gathering information on the Free Syrian Army and other armed elements of the resistance to the government of President Bashar Assad.
The Syrian government, which tightly controls foreign journalists’ activities in the country, had not been informed of his assignment by The Times.
The exact circumstances of Mr. Shadid’s death and his precise location inside Syria when it happened were not immediately clear.
But Hicks said that Mr. Shadid, who had asthma and had carried medication with him, began to show symptoms as both were preparing to leave Syria on Thursday, and the symptoms escalated into what became a fatal attack.
Hicks said he administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation for 30 minutes but was unable to revive Mr. Shadid.
Hicks telephoned his editors at The Times, and a few hours later he was able to take Mr. Shadid’s body into Turkey.
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1. It would be ruinous for Egypt’s economy
Writing at MSNBC.com, Wilson Rothman points out that while the government can afford to keep the Internet down over the weekend, Monday morning will be a whole other story.
“It’s currently the weekend in Egypt, which means the government’s decision to block all Internet traffic in response to protests may seem to many of the nation’s 84 million inhabitants as more of an inconvenience than cataclysm,” Rothman wrote, adding, “Not only would it impact government holdings, but it’s sure to hit those investors, businesses and middle-class citizens who may support the status quo of the Mubarak administration.”
2. It breeds further resentment
With Mubarak promising strides toward democracy, keeping the Internet restricted after so many Egyptians had already tasted its freedoms will not convince many citizens that their leader is serious. As Twitter’s company spokesperson put it today, ‘We believe that the open exchange of info & views benefits societies & helps govts better connect w/ their people.”
3. U.S. pressure
As President Barack Obama outlined today, the precarious support for the Mubarak government offered by the United States is posited on Egypt’s curtailing the use of force against the demonstrators and restoring access to the Internet. “I also call upon the Egyptian government to reverse the actions that they’ve taken to interfere with access to the Internet,” Obama said from the White House, “with cell phone service and to social networks that do so much to connect people in the 21st century.” Should Egypt persist with its Internet ban, what little American acquiescence remains toward Mubarak would likely evaporate.