Medical sources reported that the death toll from clashes between antigovernment protesters and pro-Mubarak, continued throughout the night, and ten deaths. The Egyptian Health Minister, Samih Ahmed Farid, quoted by the broadcaster al-Jazeera had spoken of five dead and over 800 injured including 86 still hospitalized.
The anti-government protesters have taken control of this morning in downtown Tahrir Square in Cairo after a night of violent and prolonged clashes with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. During the night, shots fired at the demonstrators, from the bridge on October 6, close to Tahrir Square, have caused the death of four persons, 5 according to other sources.
Military Army blasts exploded in the air to scare off the gunmen who fired on cars traveling at high speed on the bridge. The soldiers then fired back warning shots in an attempt to quell the clashes continued throughout the night by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. The army has carried out this morning an unknown number of arrests, is still not clear if they were stopped by supporters or opponents of Mubarak.
Yesterday (Read the report), Vice-President Omar Suleiman, after the violent day in Cairo, has once again launched an appeal for the protesters to leave the square, an indispensable condition - he said - to start the political transition. The American pressing on the Egyptian government became stronger, with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for an immediate start of the transition, and Republican Sen.
John McCain called on Mubarak to resign. At the dawn of the tenth day of protest, supporters of the opposing sides have resumed throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, the tension is sky high. Mohamed El Baradei, the Egyptian opposition leader tries to allay Western concerns, that the post-Mubarak Egypt could become a threat to Israel and the United States.
"The idea that, once that Egypt becomes a democracy, will become hostile to the United States and Israel. These ideas are fictions, "said the former head of the IAEA, in an interview with CBS. El Baradei, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work at the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, returned to Cairo shortly after the first protests.
In excerpts of the interview granted all'anchorwoman Katie Couric, the diplomat-criticized at home for the truth by being too foreign and not knowing the reality of Egyptian-has once again rejected the offer of dialogue of the vice-president Omar Suleiman, stressing the fact that Mubarak should leave office.
"Never start a dialogue with Mubarak in power because it would give the regime a legitimacy that instead, in my opinion, lost." Mubarak, however, remains in the saddle, although he promised not to run again for president. "I do not think - summed El Baradei - that he understands what it means democracy.
I do not think he understands that if they really must go. " (ER) 
The anti-government protesters have taken control of this morning in downtown Tahrir Square in Cairo after a night of violent and prolonged clashes with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. During the night, shots fired at the demonstrators, from the bridge on October 6, close to Tahrir Square, have caused the death of four persons, 5 according to other sources.
Military Army blasts exploded in the air to scare off the gunmen who fired on cars traveling at high speed on the bridge. The soldiers then fired back warning shots in an attempt to quell the clashes continued throughout the night by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. The army has carried out this morning an unknown number of arrests, is still not clear if they were stopped by supporters or opponents of Mubarak.
Yesterday (Read the report), Vice-President Omar Suleiman, after the violent day in Cairo, has once again launched an appeal for the protesters to leave the square, an indispensable condition - he said - to start the political transition. The American pressing on the Egyptian government became stronger, with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for an immediate start of the transition, and Republican Sen.
John McCain called on Mubarak to resign. At the dawn of the tenth day of protest, supporters of the opposing sides have resumed throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, the tension is sky high. Mohamed El Baradei, the Egyptian opposition leader tries to allay Western concerns, that the post-Mubarak Egypt could become a threat to Israel and the United States.
"The idea that, once that Egypt becomes a democracy, will become hostile to the United States and Israel. These ideas are fictions, "said the former head of the IAEA, in an interview with CBS. El Baradei, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work at the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, returned to Cairo shortly after the first protests.
In excerpts of the interview granted all'anchorwoman Katie Couric, the diplomat-criticized at home for the truth by being too foreign and not knowing the reality of Egyptian-has once again rejected the offer of dialogue of the vice-president Omar Suleiman, stressing the fact that Mubarak should leave office.
"Never start a dialogue with Mubarak in power because it would give the regime a legitimacy that instead, in my opinion, lost." Mubarak, however, remains in the saddle, although he promised not to run again for president. "I do not think - summed El Baradei - that he understands what it means democracy.
I do not think he understands that if they really must go. " (ER)
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