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[ yelling in foreign language ] >> i got shoved out of the way there. this is just a completely surreal experience. okay, i'm being told, walk, walk, don't stay. >> some very hairy moments. ivan watson, who is in the square right now, also found himself the target of protestors. take a look. >> reporter: i'm holed up in a building in the middle of tahrir square behind the barricades in opposition controlled territory. this is where we've been working throughout days and nights of peaceful protests. i'm watching right in front of me right now four men carried a wounded unconscious man in the di...

Onslaught. they've held their ground, they've been digging in, setting 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 ripped apart the barriers in the streets here and the aluminum siding that was on construction site here and they've been using those as shields and 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 ent...

>> and how are they defending? i know they've had these metal barricades set up, but what kind of weapons to the anti-mubarak protestors have? because they've been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, checking i.d.s, bodily searching them. 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 lot of the roads here that you and i were walking ...

>> you were out there in the crowd today. you got roughed up in the crowd, as did we. and we'll show you some of the most dramatic video coming up a little bit later on. but i think one of the most disturbing things from my perspective is watching the egyptian troops standing by, these are troops that had controlled access to the square for days now. they had been searching anti-mubarak demonstrators. as they went into the square over the last several days. i didn't see any troops patting down pro-mubarak demonstrators and they clearly had weapons with them and they started launching molotov c...

Remain contained in that epicenter area or spill over into other sections of the capital? you were mentioning the military not intervening and stepping in when there was clear danger directed against ordinary people. but it's not just the fact they're not intervening but the military presence is tiny considering the level of danger and the thousands and thousands of people. you have one or two tanks here, one or two tanks there. but ben was talking about how when you have 100 protestors, you might have thousands of riot police to control them. it is also a numbers game. >> arwa damon, you're j...