This is the "Day of departure" long awaited by the demonstrators. Friday, February 4, the opposition to President Hosni Mubarak called for a general mobilization after prayers, in the early afternoon to collect a million people in the country. And 11th day of a revolt that has killed at least 300 dead and thousands injured according to the UN, this bet might be won, says envoy World in Cairo, Benjamin Barthe.
Listen! By the end of the prayer, the protesters started chanting "Irhal, irhal" ("Get out, emanates") to the address of Mr. Mubarak, who said Tuesday he would not seek a sixth term in the presidential of September after nearly three decades in power. But the protest movement calling for his immediate departure.
To reach the place where thousands of people still spent the night despite night curfew, the protesters had to cross a checkpoint of the army, which reaffirmed that it would not open fire on protesters , then a half-dozen other dams civilians. Star Arab world's diplomatic and very popular in his country, the president of the Arab League Amr Moussa has gone on instead to help the "appeasement".
In the morning he had not ruled out coming to the estate of Hosni Mubarak. The defense minister, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who visited the square, the first visit by a senior official of the regime since the beginning of the dispute. "The man told you he would not run again," he told the crowd about Mr.
Mubarak. According to Al-Arabiya and the BBC, however minor clashes have held up Talaat Harb, 300 meters north of Tahrir Square, between antigovernment protesters and supporters of the President, the cause of violent clashes last two days. According to the BBC correspondent in Alexandria, the situation "is very tense.
Many soldiers and tanks at key points of the city. There are armed police and plainclothes police near the central square. In north-eastern Egypt, an anti-tank rocket was fired at the headquarters of State Security in El-Arish, near the border with the Gaza Strip. Several police stations had already been shot like last week in this area. 
Listen! By the end of the prayer, the protesters started chanting "Irhal, irhal" ("Get out, emanates") to the address of Mr. Mubarak, who said Tuesday he would not seek a sixth term in the presidential of September after nearly three decades in power. But the protest movement calling for his immediate departure.
To reach the place where thousands of people still spent the night despite night curfew, the protesters had to cross a checkpoint of the army, which reaffirmed that it would not open fire on protesters , then a half-dozen other dams civilians. Star Arab world's diplomatic and very popular in his country, the president of the Arab League Amr Moussa has gone on instead to help the "appeasement".
In the morning he had not ruled out coming to the estate of Hosni Mubarak. The defense minister, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who visited the square, the first visit by a senior official of the regime since the beginning of the dispute. "The man told you he would not run again," he told the crowd about Mr.
Mubarak. According to Al-Arabiya and the BBC, however minor clashes have held up Talaat Harb, 300 meters north of Tahrir Square, between antigovernment protesters and supporters of the President, the cause of violent clashes last two days. According to the BBC correspondent in Alexandria, the situation "is very tense.
Many soldiers and tanks at key points of the city. There are armed police and plainclothes police near the central square. In north-eastern Egypt, an anti-tank rocket was fired at the headquarters of State Security in El-Arish, near the border with the Gaza Strip. Several police stations had already been shot like last week in this area.
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