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It is 1:00 in the afternoon on friday, overlooking hong kongs victoria harbor. welcome to our world report. im pauline chiou. friday is shaping up to be a pivotal day for egypts fragile government. activists are calling on all egyptians to demonstrate in what theyre calling a day of departure to demand hosni mubaraks immediate resignation. theyll march to the presidents palace, but many fear promubarak forces will turn out too. and repeat the intense violence that sparked up on wednesday. in the...

Horrific massacre in lux or in 97 where a group of militants went hunting tourists from -- in the luxor ruins motoring more than 50 of them, these are kind of activities really destroyed the group of these militant groups in egypt. there was a lot of repression by the government but the population turned against these groups so al qaeda and its ally groups in egypt, they dont have any legitimacy at all. al qaeda opportunistically will im sure in the next week or so release a tape. we may hear fr...

Of a real people in egypt to have been suffering for so long without those basic rights, the world has changed and we have to be i think here in the united states both the administration and the congress have to continue to be constructive. i think the president has by pushing but not trying to dictate to the egyptian people. >> i want to bring in my colleague john king now. john, theres a report in tonights "the new york times" that the white house has a new plan to encourage president mubarak ...

Is willing to do it and if mubarak is willing to give him that blessing, yes, i just dont know that mubarak is going to leave. this may be an american plan. it has to be an egyptian plan for it to work. these are are -- look, mubarak is not saddam hussein and egypt is not iraq. you know, so we have to find some way. theres an old saying in that part of the world, the arab world is a tent supported in two poles. saudi arabia is one and egypt is the other. you lose the pole in egypt, that whole wo...

Somebody like ayman al zawahiri, the nuer two in al qaeda, has written a book, an entire book criticizing the muslim brotherhood for mostly on the very simple reason that the muslim brotherhood engages in democratic politics which people in al qaeda thinks is against islam so in fact there is a great deal of hostility between al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood and these groups have very little in common other than they both think that, you know, they both have a certain view of islam, al qaeda ...

Its important to remember that as we watch what happens over the next several hours. >> anderson, thank you very much for this report. please stay safe there. we know its incredibly dangerous. youre doing an extraordinary job for us. we appreciate it. thank you. >> earlier today egyptian vice president omar suleiman flatly denied the government had any connection with the violent pro-mubarak actions in tahrir square. a short time ago i spoke with senator bob casey, chairman of the subcommittee t...

Reporters from "the new york times" that wrote that report, piers, and they do have some new information, but the basic thrust is something weve been reporting since tuesday afternoon. i went back to look at the transcripts -- were all tired weve been working long hours -- to see that i wasnt losing my mind but had this conversation with anderson on the program tuesday night that the administration and senator casey in your interview made an important point. they cant dictate, of course. this is...

>> is all hell about to break out in egypt? arm thugged attacking journalists. >> i was about to get in my taxi. i realized there were a line of thugs with clubs with nails embedded in them. >> whats behind this extraordinary menacing crackdown? >> i have a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that means there may be something they dont want us to cover coming up. >> tonight we cannot reveal where anderson cooper and our cnn colleagues are reporting from, but we vow to bring you their stori...

As hes a very capable person, i dont think hes the kind of person who could be the leader of this transition. probably the best thing that could happen here, and this is -- theres no rule book or guide book for this, but if theres representation by the military, representation by civilian authorities and especially representation by the pro-democracy forces working so hard to bring about this change, if you have a coalition of folks to come together and begin this process right now, and, of cour...

Normal politics and certainly, you know, some militants have been muslim brotherhood -- brothers initially and have gone on to terrorist groups, but somebody like ayman al zawahiri, the number two in al qaeda, has written a book, an entire book criticizing the muslim brotherhood for mostly on the very simple reason that the muslim brotherhood engages in democratic politics which people in al qaeda thinks is against islam so in fact there is a great deal of hostility between al qaeda and the musl...