The crowd gathered in central Cairo has challenged the Army's call to desist from the protest and has intensified the outcry against the dictator Hosni Mubarak to leave power and clear the path to democracy. Liberation Square, the epicenter of the revolt, is this noon a pressure cooker full of popular frustration.
The television network Al Jazeera is estimated that around two million people crammed the room to express their weariness and demand the end of an era. In parallel, the Agence France Presse, citing sources close to the Egyptian government and the Al Arabiya report that the Egyptian president and his family have abandoned in the last hours in Cairo.
Al Arabiya added that the presidential entourage traveling to the resort town of Sharm el Sheik on the Sinai Peninsula. After the disappointing message from the military, still without abandoning its neutrality calculated after two weeks of crisis, the imam of the mosque in Tahrir has used the prayer sermon on Friday to claim the protesters to remain "firm" and persevering in their demands and encouraged participants to "celebrate the triumph of dignity." The square has burst into shouts of "out, out." The Army has remained faithful to the ambiguity in his message to the Egyptian people waited impatiently to the disappointment that has led Hosni Mubarak's decision to cling to power.
In a statement released shortly before noon, the Superior Council of the Armed Forces, headed by Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantaui, has demanded an end to the protests, now entering their Week 18 th, to restore normalcy in the Arab country. The military has pledged to lift emergency rule, one of the key opposition demands, if protesters off the streets and go home.
"The state of emergency be lifted as soon as they finish the current circumstances," reads the statement. The generals also have said they support the "legislative changes" necessary to ensure the holding of "free and fair presidential elections" but without specifying a date. Finally, have claimed the need to "restore normal orderly to protect the interests and prosperity of our great nation." The military hopes the protesters yesterday by announcing that they supported the "legitimate claims" of the Egyptian people, but their role remains undefined.
Support, or at least understand, the demands of the opposition but at the same time keep up a regime that seems to collapse by the day. Today had the opportunity to hasten its end if clearly betting on a real and immediate transition to democracy. This has not happened. Have preferred to prolong the agony of Mubarak with vague promises of change but without taking steps to materialize.
The message is a jug of cold water on hopes of the Egyptian people, whose answer is still unknown. The challenge issued last night by Hosni Mubarak to his people, announcing that he would continue as president until September but transferred some power to the new strongman, Omar Suleiman vice president, drew the ire of the protesters, who almost took for granted his resignation and opening a new stage in the Arab country.
The people's response to expected strong today as the mass marches called for this Friday are now taking a new turn and its consequences are impresivibles. "Mubarak, do not want to" Thousands of people have returned to spend the night where the emblem of the revolt to demonstrate that not give up in their struggle against the regime.
From early protesters have been taking positions at different points in the Egyptian capital. In addition to the crowd gathered at the Place de la Liberation, two new sources of resistance from the public have been installed in Cairo: the presidential palace and the building that houses the state television and radio.
"Down, down Mubarak" is the slogan chanted by several hundred people at the gates of the palace, guarded by soldiers attending the protest without intervening. A poster calling for the resignation of Arafat has been posted on the fences that block the entrance to the building. "No matter how amendments to the Constitution, we love you" and "letting go mean," are among the slogans chanted by the audience.
A similar protest is taking place outside the headquarters of the radio and television, where the army has set up a security cordon around the building with tanks. In other places like Alexandria and Suez, the situation is complicated by the hour. In Alexandria, the second largest city, thousands of people demonstrated outside the Qaid Ibrahim mosque, whose imam during prayer commended the participants for helping to "put an end to a corrupt regime that acts as agent for others" and asked them not to leave a "revolution that is repeating the whole planet." Al Arabiya, quoting witnesses reported that at Suez protesters have taken control of some government buildings.
The announcement of Arafat was insufficient not only to Egyptians but also for the opposition leader El Baradei, who said on his Twitter account: "Egypt is going to explode" -, several European leaders and even the administration of Barack Obama, after meeting his security team asked Mubarak democracy "unequivocal." A key day Meanwhile, the opposition have called for a mass demonstration today, after recent events promises to be even more massive than the previous.
His spokesmen, not leaders, pledged to maintain the peaceful attitude they have shown so far. But popular frustration fears outbreaks of violence. They hope to gather again to hundreds of thousands of people, as they did last Friday, marking the Day of the Farewell "dictator", or Tuesday, when overflowed the square and thousands marched towards parliament.
The forecast also , is to join them Egyptians across the country, something the regime has sought to avoid shorting the railroad. A paralyzed the country which is added a string of strikes by workers in the textile, telecommunications, and metallurgical demanding improvements wages and working conditions. 
The television network Al Jazeera is estimated that around two million people crammed the room to express their weariness and demand the end of an era. In parallel, the Agence France Presse, citing sources close to the Egyptian government and the Al Arabiya report that the Egyptian president and his family have abandoned in the last hours in Cairo.
Al Arabiya added that the presidential entourage traveling to the resort town of Sharm el Sheik on the Sinai Peninsula. After the disappointing message from the military, still without abandoning its neutrality calculated after two weeks of crisis, the imam of the mosque in Tahrir has used the prayer sermon on Friday to claim the protesters to remain "firm" and persevering in their demands and encouraged participants to "celebrate the triumph of dignity." The square has burst into shouts of "out, out." The Army has remained faithful to the ambiguity in his message to the Egyptian people waited impatiently to the disappointment that has led Hosni Mubarak's decision to cling to power.
In a statement released shortly before noon, the Superior Council of the Armed Forces, headed by Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantaui, has demanded an end to the protests, now entering their Week 18 th, to restore normalcy in the Arab country. The military has pledged to lift emergency rule, one of the key opposition demands, if protesters off the streets and go home.
"The state of emergency be lifted as soon as they finish the current circumstances," reads the statement. The generals also have said they support the "legislative changes" necessary to ensure the holding of "free and fair presidential elections" but without specifying a date. Finally, have claimed the need to "restore normal orderly to protect the interests and prosperity of our great nation." The military hopes the protesters yesterday by announcing that they supported the "legitimate claims" of the Egyptian people, but their role remains undefined.
Support, or at least understand, the demands of the opposition but at the same time keep up a regime that seems to collapse by the day. Today had the opportunity to hasten its end if clearly betting on a real and immediate transition to democracy. This has not happened. Have preferred to prolong the agony of Mubarak with vague promises of change but without taking steps to materialize.
The message is a jug of cold water on hopes of the Egyptian people, whose answer is still unknown. The challenge issued last night by Hosni Mubarak to his people, announcing that he would continue as president until September but transferred some power to the new strongman, Omar Suleiman vice president, drew the ire of the protesters, who almost took for granted his resignation and opening a new stage in the Arab country.
The people's response to expected strong today as the mass marches called for this Friday are now taking a new turn and its consequences are impresivibles. "Mubarak, do not want to" Thousands of people have returned to spend the night where the emblem of the revolt to demonstrate that not give up in their struggle against the regime.
From early protesters have been taking positions at different points in the Egyptian capital. In addition to the crowd gathered at the Place de la Liberation, two new sources of resistance from the public have been installed in Cairo: the presidential palace and the building that houses the state television and radio.
"Down, down Mubarak" is the slogan chanted by several hundred people at the gates of the palace, guarded by soldiers attending the protest without intervening. A poster calling for the resignation of Arafat has been posted on the fences that block the entrance to the building. "No matter how amendments to the Constitution, we love you" and "letting go mean," are among the slogans chanted by the audience.
A similar protest is taking place outside the headquarters of the radio and television, where the army has set up a security cordon around the building with tanks. In other places like Alexandria and Suez, the situation is complicated by the hour. In Alexandria, the second largest city, thousands of people demonstrated outside the Qaid Ibrahim mosque, whose imam during prayer commended the participants for helping to "put an end to a corrupt regime that acts as agent for others" and asked them not to leave a "revolution that is repeating the whole planet." Al Arabiya, quoting witnesses reported that at Suez protesters have taken control of some government buildings.
The announcement of Arafat was insufficient not only to Egyptians but also for the opposition leader El Baradei, who said on his Twitter account: "Egypt is going to explode" -, several European leaders and even the administration of Barack Obama, after meeting his security team asked Mubarak democracy "unequivocal." A key day Meanwhile, the opposition have called for a mass demonstration today, after recent events promises to be even more massive than the previous.
His spokesmen, not leaders, pledged to maintain the peaceful attitude they have shown so far. But popular frustration fears outbreaks of violence. They hope to gather again to hundreds of thousands of people, as they did last Friday, marking the Day of the Farewell "dictator", or Tuesday, when overflowed the square and thousands marched towards parliament.
The forecast also , is to join them Egyptians across the country, something the regime has sought to avoid shorting the railroad. A paralyzed the country which is added a string of strikes by workers in the textile, telecommunications, and metallurgical demanding improvements wages and working conditions.
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