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How will mubarak react to what he's seeing right now, if he sees what is happening right now. or if he sees tahrir square when the sun comes up, and sees tahrir square that is damaged, where there have been fires. fires very close to the egyptian museum. if you ask the protesters, this breakdown of law and order, mobs running through the streets, fires in the center of the city, this is exactly what president mubarak wanted. it is exactly why he sent in goon squads to provoke what had been peaceful demonstrations earlier in the day. so that a martial law could be impolesed, so that there could...

The fight got ugly. and now president mubarak, who does consider himself like the father of the nation, wants to come in and punish both of the children for fighting. and not ask how exactly it began. and to convince this country that it is important for him as a paternal leader to come in and put this down. and i think it shouldn't be lost, when you are looking at images of chaos and confusion, and they are images of chaos and confusion, that it also might be a strategy. the same thing i saw happen in iran. there were demonstrators calling for ahmadinejad to accept that he had lost the electi...

In tunisia. >> where it will go, this image is 1 that is designed not just too frightened egyptians but to send a message across the region. if people rise up against their governments, it will descend into chaos. what is so troubling, this was clearly started or provoked today by an organized group that started a fight and came in charging on horses to start a fight. will that escalate and more deeply among 80 people? if you are going to call these people the goon squads, they have families and friends and neighbors. the people that got her today, 6, 700, some of the protest groups are saying...

I'll give you an example of how they can use these goon squads and how i've seen them detract them. many are members of mubarak's political party. i was covering a local election and i went out and these are people who get paid in food, get paid in a small amount of money to stuff the ballots in ballot boxes. they get paid to scare other candidates. they are hired muscle. everyone in egypt knows how the government has used them for a very long time. and the demonstrators believe firmly, and even nondemonstrators believe that these irregulars that the army has used to carry out unpleasant missi...

Corners of tahrir square. that was where they were primarily attacked yesterday. so they are getting ready for battle. protesters were unprepared when the, to use the language the hurricanes goon squads came in and attacked them the other day. now they set up barricades, they set up these metal shields and ready for battle. 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 attacked. government may w...