Page 4 - Inside The Square News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Again, i'm joined here by ben wedeman and ivan watson is in the square. i'm also joined by john king. as you watched this today, what was in your mind? >> it's so difficult to watch this, because i think this was predicted. we talked about it before. we witnessed civil disobedience basically, but that's not a game mubarak understands. he understands a fight, a cruel fight. that's what he really wants. i think this man now is going -- sullying his honor as he goes out. but i also don't think maybe he has a couple of arrows in his quiver. one is to present this revolt against him as an american ...

Soon. pro mubarak force also be able to regroup, replenish their supplies, their weaponry, and their numbers if the egyptian military chooses to allow them to move toward the square. we have -- do you have any sense, ben, what may happen in the hours ahead? >> it's not at all clear, anderson. this whole situation is completely new to everybody. let's not forget this only began on the 25th of january, and we've seen this country just go from white to black in so little time, that it's really difficult to understand where this is going. >> we just got a report that four were killed in new clashe...

A prisoner who is being attacked by the mob of opposition activists and beaten as he's taken away to some kind of holding area that the opposition militants have set up. he's being beaten with sticks at one end of the square, and we've seen that repeatedly throughout the day. there's a loud speaker here -- >> how many wounded do you see -- >> reporter: we've heard them saying "jihad, jihad, prepare for your martyrdom soon." i think these people are ready to fight to the death here to protect this area. >> i want to bring in ben wedeman. ben, you have lived here, you know this place. what did y...

>> no, no! >> those images shot by our remarkable photo journalist, mary rogers. ben, how quickly did those triage areas pop up? >> they popped up after the first day of clashes on the 25th of january. and they basically continued. it continues. it's not even a real hospital or a clinic. and for a while it was treating people who were just sort of had colds and were overexposed from sleeping in the square. but, of course, today it was

>> and how are they defending? i mean, i know they've had these metal barricades set up. but what kinds of weapons to the anti-mubarak protesters have? because they've been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, but they've been checking i.d.s, bodily searching them through multiple layers. we've all been searched. what kind of weapons did they have? >> sticks. you know, pieces of metal. they've been digging up the street and they had a whole system where teens would carry buckets of stones to use at the front lines in the battles where they really dug up a ...