Hundreds of thousands of protesters were on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Cairo to participate in the "march of the million" called on the eighth day of a popular revolt that demands for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. There were also tens of thousands gathered in Alexandria. Given the success of the call, the opposition said "no negotiations" until Mubarak, 82, in power since 1981, tendered his resignation, thus closing the door to dialogue proposed yesterday by Vice President Omar Suleiman.
Demonstrators converged in Cairo to Tahrir Square (Liberation Square), the epicenter of the rebellion. In the crowd there were whole families, with children playing war while their parents chanted slogans of the day: "Mubarak is gone, we stay!". Bystanders applauded as I passed a dummy representing the president hanging with a Star of David on his tie and wads of dollars in their pockets.
The military closed the entrances to the capital and other cities where marches were called, and prevented the passage of vehicles. But the army-one of the pillars, along with the police, the Egyptian authoritarian regime made it clear on Monday that it considered "legitimate" demands of the people and announced that he would not use force against demonstrators.
The march of Alexandria, who in the early hours of the evening brought together some 50 thousand people, was convened in response to the decision of the authorities to disrupt rail traffic since Monday. A committee of opposition forces said they rejected any negotiation with the power while Mubarak remained in power.
Opposition unites disparate political ideologies, from the secular opposition to the Islamists, through a cloud of netizens who sparked the movement. The former diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei, which is emerging as one of the leaders of that coalition, urged Mubarak to leave power "by Friday", told Al Arabiya television.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the most influential opposition group in the country, they called the demonstrations continue until the regime collapses. The head of the Arab League and former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa was in favor of "change through dialogue." The death toll from clashes with security forces could get to 300, well above the 125 handled so far, according to unconfirmed information from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.
The organizers of the marches also called a general strike in a country that is already frozen anyway, no trains, banks and the stock closed gas stations with reservations often exhausted and empty ATMs. Egypt, the most populous Arab country (80 million), is an ally of the West and administers the Suez Canal, oil supply essential to the industrialized countries.
It is also one of the two Arab countries (the other being Jordan) signed a peace treaty with Israel. For all that, the outcome of the crisis generated by global anxiety. United States ordered the departure of nonessential personnel from its embassy in Cairo. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urged Mubarak to respond "without hesitation" to the "will to change." And France said that "the bloodshed must stop." The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the specter of an Iranian style regime in the event that, under the chaos, "an organized Islamic movement to take over the state." Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, said the Egyptian rebellion "will play a role in the creation of an Islamic Middle East." The authorities tried in vain to block the contacts of the organizers of the marches with the population.
On Monday, ceased operations last ISP. A barrel of oil is trading for the first time in two years above $ 100 a barrel. 
Demonstrators converged in Cairo to Tahrir Square (Liberation Square), the epicenter of the rebellion. In the crowd there were whole families, with children playing war while their parents chanted slogans of the day: "Mubarak is gone, we stay!". Bystanders applauded as I passed a dummy representing the president hanging with a Star of David on his tie and wads of dollars in their pockets.
The military closed the entrances to the capital and other cities where marches were called, and prevented the passage of vehicles. But the army-one of the pillars, along with the police, the Egyptian authoritarian regime made it clear on Monday that it considered "legitimate" demands of the people and announced that he would not use force against demonstrators.
The march of Alexandria, who in the early hours of the evening brought together some 50 thousand people, was convened in response to the decision of the authorities to disrupt rail traffic since Monday. A committee of opposition forces said they rejected any negotiation with the power while Mubarak remained in power.
Opposition unites disparate political ideologies, from the secular opposition to the Islamists, through a cloud of netizens who sparked the movement. The former diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei, which is emerging as one of the leaders of that coalition, urged Mubarak to leave power "by Friday", told Al Arabiya television.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the most influential opposition group in the country, they called the demonstrations continue until the regime collapses. The head of the Arab League and former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa was in favor of "change through dialogue." The death toll from clashes with security forces could get to 300, well above the 125 handled so far, according to unconfirmed information from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.
The organizers of the marches also called a general strike in a country that is already frozen anyway, no trains, banks and the stock closed gas stations with reservations often exhausted and empty ATMs. Egypt, the most populous Arab country (80 million), is an ally of the West and administers the Suez Canal, oil supply essential to the industrialized countries.
It is also one of the two Arab countries (the other being Jordan) signed a peace treaty with Israel. For all that, the outcome of the crisis generated by global anxiety. United States ordered the departure of nonessential personnel from its embassy in Cairo. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urged Mubarak to respond "without hesitation" to the "will to change." And France said that "the bloodshed must stop." The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the specter of an Iranian style regime in the event that, under the chaos, "an organized Islamic movement to take over the state." Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, said the Egyptian rebellion "will play a role in the creation of an Islamic Middle East." The authorities tried in vain to block the contacts of the organizers of the marches with the population.
On Monday, ceased operations last ISP. A barrel of oil is trading for the first time in two years above $ 100 a barrel.
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