must be a fake i.d. viewers can make of that what they will. i can tell you, for the soldiers who are present here, from what i have witnessed, there has been virtually no involvement by soldiers on the ground at least at stopping people from getting to the staging ground. had they wanted to, they could have choked off the area, limited access, and checked people for weapons. clearly people are getting monthly to have cocktails in because we are seeing a number of them on the ground. they are trying to establish a no-man's-land. >> please stand by. we are going to bring in ivan watson from another vantage point there in tahrir square. ivan, if you hear me clearly, what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, right now, we are actually trapped inside the square on opposition-controlled territory, and what you're looking at is a battle that has