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Will Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resign?
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Settled on 02/11/2011 16:36 Settled by
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"The people want the fall of the regime," the protesters chanted as they marched over broken glass. "Down, Down Mubarak!"
The momentum that swept thousands of Egyptians into the streets on Tuesday to protest, hit a wall on Wednesday: "No provocative movements or protest gatherings or organizing marches or demonstrations will be allowed."
While police allowed thousands to march through Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities on Jan. 25, on the 26th they reverted to the tactics more typically associated with Mubarak's heavy-handed state: cordoning off demonstrators against walls; and setting swarms of knife- and stick-wielding plainclothes thugs against others. The Associated Press reported that 860 people had been arrested since Tuesday, and four protesters and two policemen had been killed.
"They're trying to play the same old cards — by threatening the West and the United States that when this regime leaves power, the Muslim Brotherhood will take over. This is absolutely not true," says Shadi Taha, a member of the liberal Tomorrow Party, whose leader Ayman Nour — a darling of the Bush administration — was on the street on Tuesday. "What we witnessed yesterday was that more than 90% of those people who took to the streets... it was probably their first time to demonstrate. We used to call them the silent majority — the majority that is not involved in politics, who have never been involved in politics, and who definitely are not involved in the Muslim Brotherhood."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2044558,00.html#ixzz1CDFdvaL9
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