HEAVY artillery fire in Cairo right now.

[LucySky]

Not sure yet if from the military or not.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[nebenaube]

1. APC mounted .50...

Don't exaggerate!

[deaniac21]

2. There is no mention of artillery.....

[LucySky]

6. You could hear several rounds fired at time of OP.

Journalists indicated "high caliber gunfire a short distance from the square".

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. That does not mean it is artillery

Even small mortar rounds would decimate the people in the square

[LucySky]

9. See my post above.

It sounded like artillery, it was surmised to be artillery, but it was fired some distance from the square, not into the square.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Since most people have no idea what artillery sound like, you should have been more skeptical

Media thrives on hyperbole

[LucySky]

13. Tee hee. You're right. Silly old me.

I have never heard artillery in my life, ever. Shucks, tee hee. *blushes*.

[trumad]

14. If most people don't know what artillery sounds like,,,,

then they're fucking idiots.

[GiveMeFreedom]

3. Heavy

Shit in Cairo right now. Egyptians demand US toilet paper.

[JVS]

4. Protests turn into Verdun, film at 11

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Well at least Poppy Bush and his friends are selling some...

ProJoes.

[justiceischeap]

7. Tahrir Square right now

[WilliamPitt]

10. Artillery?

They're shelling the square? Are you sure?

[LucySky]

11. They are not shelling the square.

The artillery was heard "some distance from the square". The people in the square appear to be OK.

[deaniac21]

15. There was no artillery.