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I'm not down playing my role, this is the truth. it's not me, it's the people in tahrir square, who saw their friends and family dying beside them. those are the real heroes. >> wael, this is wolf blitzer. first tunisia, now egypt. what's next? >> ask facebook. >> ask what? >> facebook. >> you're giving facebook a lot of credit for this? >> yeah, for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one day and thank him. this revolution started online. this revolution started on facebook. i always said if you want to liberate a society, give them the internet. if you want a free society, give them the int...

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 dominant political force here, really don't have the political strength as people see it at the moment to become a dominant force. they've got political organization, some of the opposition groups don't have but in a true democracy and other groups would have a chance to build a power base, build a support. all these young people that signed up to facebook to come out here on january the 25th, they're not all muslim brotherhood. these are all young people who are doing this out of the aspiration to have this revolution that we've now witnessed here in the last few hours, so the notion that...