Page 15 - Christopher Dicky News Today

Say were not foreign conspirators, were not spies working for israel, for the u.s. cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation thats been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president biden called him today, theyre the ones that the u.s. is dealing with...

Watson and christopher dicky. ivan, what was it about that interview which helped the turnout today into the biggest turnout we have seen in this entire protest? >> reporter: im not sure strictly that interview alone pushed these record numbers in. i think there was also a lot of people who felt perhaps more safe after several days of relative calm to just go, they were driven by curiously, but theres no question that that interview was a powerful motivator, as well. and that when he stepped up ...

Liberation square by that television interview. i just want to play you a small portion of it. just for background, he was held since the 28th of january, freed yesterday. hes the administrator of the facebook page and credited with sparking the first protest on the 25th. heres what he said on egypts dream tv. >> translator: the thing that tortured me the most when i was in detention is people would find out that i was the admin of the page. i didnt want people to find out that i was the admin b...

Smear campaign in state media to say were not foreign conspirators, were not spies working for israel, for the u.s. cia, for iran, we are egyptian people who are just fighting for our rights, i think that was an important message to dispel a lot of this misinformation thats been out there. >> christopher, it does seem like vice president suleiman is the one who the u.s. is basically at this point kind of pinning their hopes on and the ones that vice president biden called him today, theyre the o...

There have been and were crushed in the 1990s. there was a serious attempt to overthrow the government by the number two in al qaeda. i think there were times when the egyptian people were interested in seeing any measures used to suppress those threats. but in fact, those dangers have not existed in any serious levels for some time and most importantly, this law has been used against political opposition of any sort for a very long time and what you just heard from ivan is a description of peop...

their lives. and yet they are still coming. in fact, more people came to the square today, more than ever before. people who have never been there before im told. today they decided enough is enough. imagine that courage. theyve seen the violence. theyve seen the blood spilled, the maimed and wounded. theyve seen peacef fuful demonstratored attacked. yet they still came demanding freedom and change. well talk to one of the protestors in a moment. i want to show you this video we got ta...

in fact, more people came to the square today, more than ever before. people who have never been there before im told. today they decided enough is enough. imagine that courage. theyve seen the violence. theyve seen the blood spilled, the maimed and wounded. theyve seen peaceful demonstratored attacked. yet they still came demanding freedom and change. well talk to one of the protestors in a moment. i want to show you this video we got taken last wednesday just outside liberation squar...

good evening, everyone. we continue to devote the broadcast to egypt. despite the predictions of many that the protests would shrink in size or simply go away, today the exact opposite happened. take a look at this. the largest protest yet filled liberation square. and for the first time, spilled out of the square. and look, i know youve seen pictures like this before. maybe you think its starting to look the same. but this is not the same. each day is different. and each day the peopl...

>> and if that happens, christopher, what then? >> well, what then? i think probably we will have a lot of international uproar. i think that there will be some unrest in the rest of the city. but i think that probably president mubarak will be able to hold on for a while. the question is what will be the state of the country that he holds on to? you have a situation where, in order to set this up, the government has been essentially tacitly, if not actively, supporting people who have wreaked i...

Military will do to stop them. and im joined via skype, christopher dicky, middle east editor for "the daily beast" and a long-time reporter in this region. also joined by our ivan watson who joins me from another undisclosed location. ivan, what is the latest youve been able to ascertain about whats happening in the square? >> reporter: kind of still status quo. some minor clashes between the pro-mubarak forces and the opposition forces. theyre dug in more than ever. still hearing the voices on...