The US Embassy is in the lower left corner of the map. Tahrir Square is the big rectangular space just below the Egyptian Museum.
Mursi has not done very much to insure the embassy's safety. He has made vague statements and has not condemned the attack on the embassy. He has not apologized for his government's failure to protect the embassy.
His brothers in MB have called for a million people to assemble in Tahrir Square tomorrow to protest the film. The embassy is vulnerable to those numbers. The procedure for destruction of classified papers and evacuation of the premises should be underway NOW.
The longer this crisis continues the more the whole thing smells like an attampt to cause difficulty for BHO in the American election. Now, who would want to do that? pl
