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Egypt is not run by the mubarak family but a military dictatorship. since the coup of 1952 all of egypts presidents have comed from the armed forces. military leaders enjoy huge privileges and a fat budget in the current setup. and they will work very hard to preserve that position. in fact, right now what appears to be happening is a consolidation of military power. civilians and business leaders in the cabinet have been fired and new cabinet is 50% military. the governors of egypts provinces a...

And so it is complete standoff. and i hope somebody will send the message to president mubarak for the sake of the country, for his own dignity to defuse this crisis, he better step down and everybody is ready to give him the dignified out he is entitled to as former president of egypt. he needs to go. you need to engage the civilians. it should not be just the military. people are not believing that and any feeling people will get that there is an effort of the peaceful revolution, it will turn...

Fareed, about the ability to establish new parties really, so huge parts of the problem is people, the young people in particular dont have any sense of credibility. that these people mean what they say. >> isnt another tactic of the regime to try to divide the opposition? and is it not succeeding, the watch party has already engaged in negotiations with suleiman and muslim brotherhood says they will talk with them. are you getting isolated? is the opposition fracturing? >> im not -- i dont thin...

Government. i personally felt that what is happening in egypt now and the consequences of the events of the last few days will probably need a new direction. the prime minister has his own views about what he would like to do. he has a right to choose new faces and has a right maybe to change some of the policies. and that was the reason why i presented to him my apology and he gracefully accepted that. but even after that discussion we had a lot of discussion about how to help him to set up the...

The barry okayeds. the army is supposed to be neutral here. you frequently tell me the army and people are one hand. this a common catch phrase in egypt. the demonstrators say yes, but the army takes orders from president mubarak and do not trust him if he tries to open the way here, it will end our bubble or enclaf here. amid talk of dialogue and opening up the media and remove s censorship here. i just heard word that a correspondent for al jazeera ra english has been detained by military inte...

Chaos and alternative is just jumping into the unknown. and i believe that he has the will to do that. that is a lot of people that has changed in the past few days. so many faces that have been removed. we have some promising faces but we still, of course, have a lot of resistance and still have people who assume that things will go back to normal but they will not. egypt is a great country. it has a great young population. it has a great future and i think it is time now to let the future happ...

Continuing the stand-off. i think the people are very clear that mubarak has to retire, in dignity but he has to go. theres a huge question of credibility. people have no credibility, if he doesnt leave, the regime would retrench and then come back with vengeance. and you hear different voices. very clear he should go. frank wisner came with this statement saying that mubarak must stay which created a lot of confusion, lot of disappointment, i should say to you here in egypt. people who are very...

Of iran and its replacement with an islamic republic. this fear comes from all over the political spectrum. if you listen to the more than conservative voices you think they are become to become the center of a knew cal fate. there is some danger events could spill out of control and nasty forces could come to power and seize control of the state. but egypt has many elements within the state and within its society that will check the role of islamic forces. the muslim brotherhood, the leading is...

The system not allowing them enough -- we have made so many political changes in opening everybody. everybody knows the facebook have been one of many important factors that made this happen. but facebook was an outcome of the political reform. egypts have never restricted internet and opened up freedom of speech. i think we need to trust now in the young people of egypt and need to trust in the positive spirit that have been created. >> you said a few days ago that these events have taken egypt...

To be. it is positive for the rest of the world to support egypt in making the democratic transition, but i think it is not in the right of president obama or the american government or any other government to dictate on egypt what to do. >> if mubarak leaves, the military stays, the regime stays in power, the ones who oppose the reform stays in power. does anything change? >> well, i personally believe that the best scenario for egypt is for president mubarak to stay and finish his term. i thin...