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Since the israeli government has very good connection with authorities here over in israel as well as in the united states. so, the thing is, we're not -- what we are not agreeing upon is that appointing almost an imam to be the vice president is because it's not because it's for the people, the egyptian people, because he hasn't heard what we asked from the beginning from the very beginning, last year, telling him to step down and let us choose who to be in charge. >> you clearly want to have a free and clear and honest democratic elections. all right, ahmed ramez, our best wishes that things...

Refute those claims? >> no, they have disappeared. they have disappeared. not a single policeman in the street, any government official, no one. no one. no one is out there. >> who's in charge right now, ahmed, of cairo, of your country? >> basically, the people of this country, besides along with the force, the military around the streets, yes. if we detain anyone or if we caught anyone, we have to just submit them to the military. yeah, but -- >> ahmed, how -- where do you see this going and how long do you think this kind of chaos can last? how long can you stand outside your home and guard...

Curfew, you know, in a heavy-handed or violent manner. >> yeah. well, it can't be forgotten that members of the military are also citizens of egypt as well. so, probably a lot of struggling internally as well on that. john ray, thank you very much for calling in. i know we'll speak with you again from itn. many residents in cairo have set up self-style checkpoints and barricades at the street corners and intersections in neighborhoods to protect their homes from looters. on the phone is a man standing guard to protect his home ahmed, i'm sorry that you're in this situation. tell me what's happ...

That are trying to break in and try to rob or to just to intervene our neighborhoods. >> ahmed, do you have guns? do you have knives? what do you have to protect yourself? >> okay, okay. well, basically, we have baseball bats, we have mini sticks as well. a few people around the area as well have shotguns and, yeah, basically shotguns. but the thing is that we have distributed the shotguns around the area so each and every street has at least two shotguns. >> that's pretty unnerving, i'm sure, that it's come to this. tell me, have you seen anybody in your neighborhoods? have you been effective...

Side. we are pretty much -- the area here -- or all over the city of cairo is kind of stable as the people are standing there, but the thing is also, we won't stop demonstrating, we won't stop protesting unless the regime itself is -- just has to leave, has to leave. >> can i ask you, ahmed, is there anything that hosni mubarak can do sort of leaving as president that will -- >> no, no, no. >> -- that will help people accept it? >> no, no, he won't leave. he won't leave. he needs to defeat the military and he won't get that. he has a very good reputation here in egypt, but the thing is, he app...