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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 loudspeaker here -- >> how many wounded do you see out there? >> 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. ivan stay with us. ben, you have lived here, you know this place. what did you see ...

Ivan watson, who is live in the square, has been seeing newly wounded people being brought back from what is essentially the front line of this pitched battle by the museum. ivan, are you still seeing the wounded? >> reporter: i haven't seen an ambulance come through in a while. many of the people who are circulating here are bandaged, are wearing bloody bandages and slings. and perhaps one of the strangest things is that some of them have made these makeshift helmets out of pieces of cardboard that they've tied to their heads, i guess in an e. to try to protect themselves during the running s...

And water? are they able to get more protestors into the square to support them or are they hemmed in on all sides? >> reporter: i believe they're hemmed in on all sides. i'm limited, because we've been holed up in a building here, really, since about -- more than 12 hours now, not feeling safe to go out, having barely gotten into this slightly safer place in the square. but i don't think there's any room for reinforcements to come in to support these people. they are surrounded and unable to leave. >> and certainly the pro-mubarak people in the morning will have no problem getting reinforceme...

That has been some of the tenner of the announcements made. at other times they've told the men here to wake up and to rush to one end or the other end of the square to defend it. >> ben, i want to bring you in, because i heard somebody who was a supporter of the pro mubarak supporters saying on cnn that he felt the people in the square were hamas supporters, were hardline elements. >> no, i wouldn't say that. there's a certain percentage probably around 10% who you could characterize as members or supporters of the muslim brotherhood. but by and large, i'm impressed what a middle class crowd ...

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 protestors. 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 and hopefully the violence will subside a little bit. it doesn't seem ...