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Deal in a different country. same deal, different country, same idea. the protesters in egypt, in cairo were chased and beaten in one of the most surreal sites of the revolution. people do not generally ride around on camels in a city of seven million people. one of the ways they attacked opposition forces in cairo was been riding horses and camels into the crowd to terrify, trample and beat people. >> reporter: egypt ordered crackdown against anti-government demonstrators but not with troops, tanks or uniformed police. instead it sent in goon squads. it was immediately clear these were not de...

Opposition and council of wisemen and has -- i believe has declared today a variety of very important, very meaningful steps that built confidence and that accepts the road for the future. >> ambassador, it is widely believed that the mubarak regime was responsible for unleashing goon squads this week in the streets to attack protesters and journalists alike. at this point, do you concede that the effort backfired, that it did not stop the movement against mubarak? >> the government has denied its involvement in acts of violence and promised the full and wide investigation that will be transpa...

Opposition and council of wisemen and has -- i believe has declared today a variety of very important, very meaningful steps that built confidence and that accepts the road for the future. >> ambassador, it is widely believed that the mubarak regime was responsible for unleashing goon squads this week in the streets to attack protesters and journalists alike. at this point, do you concede that the effort backfired, that it did not stop the movement against mubarak? >> the government has denied its involvement in acts of violence and promised the full and wide investigation that will be transpa...

Government and positive as well for them to step back and not unleash the goon squads like it had been and i think that's a positive development, but it's really going to test the staying power of the protesters and that's going to-- the challenge they face is when they continue to mobilize in large numbers and demand change, but i think the president has adopted a strategy of trying to wait out the opposition and pull back some of the violent confrontation. >> i guess out of dodge, but part of what emerges, you know, the democratically elected way. a month where anti-u.s., maybe once influenc...

That was where they were primarily attacked yesterday. so they are getting ready for battle. protesters were unprepared when, to use their language, the hugs, the goon squad came in and attacked them the other day. now they've set up barricades. they've set up the phalanx of metal shields and they're ready for battle. they have set up an infirmary. they set up an infirmary. they are using revolutionary justice, having arrested and interrogated more than hundred people and that interrogation center in the subway below at that rare square. they turned this into a military camp and expect to be a...