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International media. it's just the fact that the regime had been, you know, misleading all the egyptians and telling them the wrong messages. you guys are heroes, as well. you are part of the revolution. you should be proud of yourself. >> well, we just want to say the whole world was watching what was happening on the streets of cairo in part because of us, in part because of other television satellite networks, in part because of you and what millions of egyptians were doing on facebook, on twitter and all sorts of other social network sides. anderson, hala, do you have a final thought you w...

Been spilled. and the people here really realizing that they've achieved something that was unthinkable before all of this began. demonstrations that were initiated over the internet, facebook, and twitter, have resulted in the downfall of one of the middle east's strongest dictators, hosni mubarak, in power in egypt for 30 years. and people are running around laughing, dancing, hugging one another, shouting anti-mubarak chants. they're also calling him a thief. that's one of the many things we're hearing here. people also saying they do want to still be able to hold him accountable. they say ...

Dictator has been in power for 30 years, is stepping aside, forced out by a revolution. anderson? >> hala, we had for a moment walil on the phone, he has been commenting and putting posts on facebook. he's the google executive who is on leave from google, who was held captive for 14 or so days, and his release earlier this week and his appearance on television and in the crowds, at liberation square, really helped reignite and reinforce this protest movement, a protest movement which many people had written off last weekend, going into early next -- or early this week. but the huge numbers tha...

The 25th, tuesday, when the first demonstrations broke out in cairo that really heralded the beginning of the end for president hosni mubarak, who's been in power, as you said, since october, 1980. let's listen to the crowd. >> what a reaction from this crowd. >> reporter: so, what they are chanting is -- jim, they're chant iing free egypt, and

I'm joined also by wolf blitzer, who is with us. i mean, wolf, we've seen a lot of dictators fall over the years. this is an extraordinary development that is going to have repercussions that we cannot predict throughout the middle east, in the arab world. >> it's absolutely true, anderson, because first tunisia and that was really only a month and a half or so ago, a dictator removed in a matter of days because people demanded it, and egypt 18 days it took basically, a dictator removed in a huge country like egypt. so, i think that one of the key questions for the region right now is which co...