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Egypt is not run by the mubarak family but a military dictatorship. since the coup of 1952 all of egypt's presidents have comed from the armed forces. military leaders enjoy huge privileges and a fat budget in the current setup. and they will work very hard to preserve that position. in fact, right now what appears to be happening is a consolidation of military power. civilians and business leaders in the cabinet have been fired and new cabinet is 50% military. the governors of egypt's provinces are 80% military. the military leadership has economic reforms because the reforms threaten the ind...

And so it is complete standoff. and i hope somebody will send the message to president mubarak for the sake of the country, for his own dignity to defuse this crisis, he better step down and everybody is ready to give him the dignified out he is entitled to as former president of egypt. he needs to go. you need to engage the civilians. it should not be just the military. people are not believing that and any feeling people will get that there is an effort of the peaceful revolution, it will turn violent. >> you are saying under no circumstances unless mubarak resigns will you negotiate with th...

Fareed, about the ability to establish new parties really, so huge parts of the problem is people, the young people in particular don't have any sense of credibility. that these people mean what they say. >> isn't another tactic of the regime to try to divide the opposition? and is it not succeeding, the watch party has already engaged in negotiations with suleiman and muslim brotherhood says they will talk with them. are you getting isolated? is the opposition fracturing? >> i'm not -- i don't think i am isolated. i'm one of many parties that -- particularly the people that are camping in the...

Government. i personally felt that what is happening in egypt now and the consequences of the events of the last few days will probably need a new direction. the prime minister has his own views about what he would like to do. he has a right to choose new faces and has a right maybe to change some of the policies. and that was the reason why i presented to him my apology and he gracefully accepted that. but even after that discussion we had a lot of discussion about how to help him to set up the succession. but i was very clear that what we are going to face in the next few weeks is going to b...

The barry okayeds. the army is supposed to be neutral here. you frequently tell me the army and people are one hand. this a common catch phrase in egypt. the demonstrators say yes, but the army takes orders from president mubarak and do not trust him if he tries to open the way here, it will end our bubble or enclaf here. amid talk of dialogue and opening up the media and remove s censorship here. i just heard word that a correspondent for al jazeera ra english has been detained by military intelligence, one of dozens detained in recent days here. >> fascinating reporting, thank you so much. b...