Cairo - Cairo violence continues. And the feeling is that, at least with stones, the anti-Mubarak protesters are stronger. We continue to fight in the Egyptian capital. The east side of Piazza Tharia is a battlefield. Supporters of Saddam and the criminals hired to confront the ruling party do not give up.
But those who go on the front lines are less visible to the other side. La Piazza is able to repel the assaults coming from the bridge all morning. Then, shouting "Allah akbar" (God is greatest ", ed), part of the offensive. The military armored vehicles moving, the stone-throwing cover the sky.
Fly some Molotov cocktails. The square moves quickly, the regime's supporters back off and the big bridge on October 6 was stormed and conquered. The means forming the fire police barricades are moved ever forward. But the fighting never stops. From over the bridge you see men with leather jackets and radios in hand.
It is the police without uniform issuing orders to supporters of Saddam. Some young people manage to catch one and was immediately kicked and punched. The crowd, enraged, took him to the headquarters in Piazza Thar. The documents are seized and a knife. ESTABLISHED other criminals are captured in the battle.
Although these documents are withdrawn and locked in a room behind the mosque. The entries in the square, also said that some of them have confessed to being hired by the National Party to fight. The day is also difficult to print. The hunt for the reporter, among the supporters of Mubarak, is everywhere.
It was clear already from yesterday, when the followers of Saddam, while filming the fighting in the streets, I was kicked and pulled to avoid the camera. Saved by some guys that I have opened the door of a building on the square, I spent over an hour in the lobby, with two other gentlemen, before you can exit.
In the afternoon, the phones start ringing insistently. Among colleagues trying to figure out who's at the Hilton. The squadrons are laying siege to the pro-regime media research. A colleague who is inside, I can reach by phone, tells me that the hotel has taken over security cameras and video cameras to avoid problems.
Below are several people yelling. It's hard to go unnoticed in Cairo. Walking out of the square is risky. In the streets that approach the revenue is full of thugs. Pulled foreigners for no reason. Journalists and not. Are holding sticks and knives. Journalists who arrived at the scene of the fighting say they were attacked just off the taxi near the bridge of lions, the other side.
There is talk of other journalists arrested by the secret police in the adjacent streets. From the roof of a hotel partly the fault of a firearm. The snipers began firing on the crowd. On the phone a colleague tells me that there is a stranger among the victims. Beaten to death of the militia loyal to the president.
The number of Egyptians did not hurt matters. The army, with tanks firing machine guns into the air. Try to bring the situation back to normal, but failed. Other hotels are attacked at dusk of the dark. Where I find myself with other colleagues, a few hundred meters from Piazza Thar, the reception has armored the entry door with metal panels.
We have been asked for our security, to keep the lights off and not come close to the window. From the square below you can hear the cries of the fans of Saddam and some shot. The beds were moved against the door. The media are being targeted. Andrea Bernardi 
But those who go on the front lines are less visible to the other side. La Piazza is able to repel the assaults coming from the bridge all morning. Then, shouting "Allah akbar" (God is greatest ", ed), part of the offensive. The military armored vehicles moving, the stone-throwing cover the sky.
Fly some Molotov cocktails. The square moves quickly, the regime's supporters back off and the big bridge on October 6 was stormed and conquered. The means forming the fire police barricades are moved ever forward. But the fighting never stops. From over the bridge you see men with leather jackets and radios in hand.
It is the police without uniform issuing orders to supporters of Saddam. Some young people manage to catch one and was immediately kicked and punched. The crowd, enraged, took him to the headquarters in Piazza Thar. The documents are seized and a knife. ESTABLISHED other criminals are captured in the battle.
Although these documents are withdrawn and locked in a room behind the mosque. The entries in the square, also said that some of them have confessed to being hired by the National Party to fight. The day is also difficult to print. The hunt for the reporter, among the supporters of Mubarak, is everywhere.
It was clear already from yesterday, when the followers of Saddam, while filming the fighting in the streets, I was kicked and pulled to avoid the camera. Saved by some guys that I have opened the door of a building on the square, I spent over an hour in the lobby, with two other gentlemen, before you can exit.
In the afternoon, the phones start ringing insistently. Among colleagues trying to figure out who's at the Hilton. The squadrons are laying siege to the pro-regime media research. A colleague who is inside, I can reach by phone, tells me that the hotel has taken over security cameras and video cameras to avoid problems.
Below are several people yelling. It's hard to go unnoticed in Cairo. Walking out of the square is risky. In the streets that approach the revenue is full of thugs. Pulled foreigners for no reason. Journalists and not. Are holding sticks and knives. Journalists who arrived at the scene of the fighting say they were attacked just off the taxi near the bridge of lions, the other side.
There is talk of other journalists arrested by the secret police in the adjacent streets. From the roof of a hotel partly the fault of a firearm. The snipers began firing on the crowd. On the phone a colleague tells me that there is a stranger among the victims. Beaten to death of the militia loyal to the president.
The number of Egyptians did not hurt matters. The army, with tanks firing machine guns into the air. Try to bring the situation back to normal, but failed. Other hotels are attacked at dusk of the dark. Where I find myself with other colleagues, a few hundred meters from Piazza Thar, the reception has armored the entry door with metal panels.
We have been asked for our security, to keep the lights off and not come close to the window. From the square below you can hear the cries of the fans of Saddam and some shot. The beds were moved against the door. The media are being targeted. Andrea Bernardi
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