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Up barricades and are determined to fight. many of these men who are going to the front lines are already walking wounded with bandages on their heads, some of them with slings and carrying makeshift weapons, clubs. they've ripped apart the barriers in the streets here, and the aluminum siding that walls off a construction site here. and they've been using those as shields to build barricades to fortify themselves. with a man speaking over a loud speaker, giving battlefield directions telling the crowd where to go, where to defend the entry points into the square. it's truly a remarkable drama...

People who were just sort of cold and overexposed from sleeping in the square. but, of course, today it was right back into the blood and gore. i mean, it was a real mess there, and they were trying to deal with it, but those doctors are completely volunteers. there's no facilities actually there. it's their skills at work. >> to our viewers, obviously some of those images are disturbing. but we think it's important for you to see the reality of the situation here. this is no game. this is life and death for too many people here. i'm joined by a young american who is living in cairo, a man nam...

And sexually molest them. basically to teach these people a lesson not to do that again. don't protest against the government again. >> i'm told right now an ambulance has entered the square. ivan, i don't know if you can see that ambulance, but our viewers are seeing it in live pictures. can you talk us through what's happening right now in the square? >> reporter: yeah, this is one of two ambulances that are side by side that we're seeing from our vantage point. ambulances have been rotating through here pretty much non-stop throughout the night, carrying away the wounded, and i would just a...

Out towards the bridge that goes over the nile from liberation square, and as we were walking down that street, which is tahrir street, there was a lot of -- i mean, there was a cloud of rocks from the other side of the checkpoint that had been there the past few days, from the pro-mubarak, anti-government protesters. so we realized that we couldn't go that way and looked for another route. >> are you going to try to get out of cairo now? >> not yet. not yet. i'm going to stay for a little bit longer and see if i can't help them. and hopefully the violence will subside a little bit. it doesn't...

Molotov cocktails to one another or do we have any idea why they would come with such fire power, really? >> reporter: well, i can only imagine they would come because they want to create violence. they want to make a statement. they want to attack the anti-mubarak protesters who have been peaceful now for eight or nine days. we are seeing now one molotov cocktail after another being fired. so obviously someone or a group of people have brought a large amount of incendiary devices. this is now one after the other, and i can tell you people in the crowd, inside the square, the anti-mubarak prot...