Thousands of supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak met in the main square in Cairo, throwing rocks, bottles and firebombs in uncontrolled chaotic scenes as soldiers looked on without intervening. Government supporters came galloping on horses and camels, but were dragged down and beaten until they bled.
In front of the battle, by the famous Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square edge, pro-government rebels occupied the neighboring roofs to throw bricks and firebombs at the crowd, what a tree in the gardens of the museum was involved in flames. On the approaches to the square, the two sides were crouched behind abandoned truck and threw chunks of concrete and bottles.
Some government supporters wielding machetes. Within the square, dozens of men and women of the anti-Mubarak side broke the sidewalk with bars and shipped the pieces in canvas bags of those who fought on the front. The Health Minister said he was reported dead a person in civilian clothes could be a cop and he fell off a bridge and nearly 600 injured.
Bloodied protesters were being treated in makeshift clinics and mosques were reported dead and hundreds injured. Some wept and prayed in the plaza where 10 thousand protesters had gathered in the morning and just the day before a cheering crowd of a quarter of a million had demanded the resignation of Mubarak peacefully.
Others begged the soldiers to protect them, but they refused. The military did not intervene beyond a shot in the air and there were no uniformed police in sight. Many protesters accused the regime of paying the assailants, a tactic used in the past by security forces and military to allow it.
''After the revolution, they want to send people to ruin it,''said Ahmed Abdullah, a lawyer for 47 years in the square. ''Why do you want us to kill each other in view of the world?''Another man shouted through a bullhorn:''Hosni opened the door for these thugs to attack us.'' At night, state television broadcast an order without specifying its origin in''all the protesters to leave immediately''Tahrir Square.
From the other side, the prestigious opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called on the military in a statement that''intervene forcefully to stop this slaughter.'' The insurrection, which has lasted nine days, took a new and dangerous aspect: it was the first significant violence between the two sides.
Alexandria began hours after Mubarak, who exercised power for almost 30 years, said on national television that he rejected the claims of his immediate resignation. Defiantly insisted that fulfill the remaining seven months of his term. The speech marked a turning point in the situation continues to deteriorate.
A military spokesman called on television on Wednesday to disperse protesters for life in Egypt could return to normal. It was a remarkable change in the attitude of the army, which until yesterday had allowed them to grow the demonstrations. For the first time, government supporters began mobilizing to demand an end to the protest movement.
Some 20,000 pro-government demonstrators held a rally generally peaceful across the Nile Tahrir, which claimed that Mubarak had made enough concessions and to cease the demonstrations after his promise to not seek re-election in September, the appointment of a new government and a vice president for the first time. 
In front of the battle, by the famous Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square edge, pro-government rebels occupied the neighboring roofs to throw bricks and firebombs at the crowd, what a tree in the gardens of the museum was involved in flames. On the approaches to the square, the two sides were crouched behind abandoned truck and threw chunks of concrete and bottles.
Some government supporters wielding machetes. Within the square, dozens of men and women of the anti-Mubarak side broke the sidewalk with bars and shipped the pieces in canvas bags of those who fought on the front. The Health Minister said he was reported dead a person in civilian clothes could be a cop and he fell off a bridge and nearly 600 injured.
Bloodied protesters were being treated in makeshift clinics and mosques were reported dead and hundreds injured. Some wept and prayed in the plaza where 10 thousand protesters had gathered in the morning and just the day before a cheering crowd of a quarter of a million had demanded the resignation of Mubarak peacefully.
Others begged the soldiers to protect them, but they refused. The military did not intervene beyond a shot in the air and there were no uniformed police in sight. Many protesters accused the regime of paying the assailants, a tactic used in the past by security forces and military to allow it.
''After the revolution, they want to send people to ruin it,''said Ahmed Abdullah, a lawyer for 47 years in the square. ''Why do you want us to kill each other in view of the world?''Another man shouted through a bullhorn:''Hosni opened the door for these thugs to attack us.'' At night, state television broadcast an order without specifying its origin in''all the protesters to leave immediately''Tahrir Square.
From the other side, the prestigious opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called on the military in a statement that''intervene forcefully to stop this slaughter.'' The insurrection, which has lasted nine days, took a new and dangerous aspect: it was the first significant violence between the two sides.
Alexandria began hours after Mubarak, who exercised power for almost 30 years, said on national television that he rejected the claims of his immediate resignation. Defiantly insisted that fulfill the remaining seven months of his term. The speech marked a turning point in the situation continues to deteriorate.
A military spokesman called on television on Wednesday to disperse protesters for life in Egypt could return to normal. It was a remarkable change in the attitude of the army, which until yesterday had allowed them to grow the demonstrations. For the first time, government supporters began mobilizing to demand an end to the protest movement.
Some 20,000 pro-government demonstrators held a rally generally peaceful across the Nile Tahrir, which claimed that Mubarak had made enough concessions and to cease the demonstrations after his promise to not seek re-election in September, the appointment of a new government and a vice president for the first time.
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