Interesting that the Egyptian Army and Reuters are friends on Facebook. Though I suppose the Army must have a page on FB for recruitment purposes. Are they really using FB as an official information sharing portal about news like this?

Looks like a recruitment tool: https://www.facebook.com/Egyptian.Armed.Forces

Official page? http://www.mmc.gov.eg

(compare that to http://www.army.mil which looks like a news site)

Possible that because of the instability recently Eqyptian authorities think Facebook is more capable of serving web pages than their own sites? Why is an Army spokesperson talking about an event handled by the coast guard?

The ISP, Link Dot Net, does not have any English information about the event on their web page: http://www.link.net/English/Linkcorp/News+and+Events/

Apparently last week another Egyptian ISP had an issue as well: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/67894/Egypt/Pol...

Nothing on their webpage: http://www.tedata.net/eg/en/About-Us/News-And-Events

Also discovered that a lot of Egyptian websites have not had any updates to their news pages since late 2012.