Anti-government protesters take part in Friday prayers next to an effigy of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”. The sign reads, “We want to put the murderous president on trial.”
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CAIRO, EGYPT – FEBRUARY 04: Anti-government protesters stand on a broken down bus in Tahrir Square on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Anti-government protesters have called today ‘The day of departure’. Thousands have again gathered in Tahrir Square calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
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Egyptian anti-government protesters gather at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 4, 2011 during ‘departure day’ demonstrations to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit after he said he would like to step down but fears chaos would result.
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Egyptian anti-government protesters gather at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 4, 2011 during ‘departure day’ demonstrations to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit after he said he would like to step down but fears chaos would result.
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Opposition supporters rally after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
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An opposition supporter waves his shoe, a sign of disrespect, shortly after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
Women walk past an opposition supporter holding a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak painted with the Star of David before Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
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Anti-government protesters shout anti-Mubarak slogans after Friday prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”. The sign reads, “Leave”.
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CAIRO, EGYPT – FEBRUARY 04: Anti-government demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Anti-government protesters have called today ‘The day of departure’. Thousands have again gathered in Tahrir Square calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
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CAIRO, EGYPT – FEBRUARY 04: Anti-government demonstrators are watched by army soldiers from behind barbed wire as they line up to get into Tahrir Square on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Anti-government protesters have called today ‘The day of departure’. Thousands have again gathered in Tahrir Square calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
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Opposition supporters gesture as they wave the national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
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Opposition supporters attend Friday prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
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Opposition supporters detain a suspected pro-Mubarak supporter after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, but there was no word of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet.
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Anti-government protestors gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Protesters demanding President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster packed Cairo’s central square by the tens of thousands Friday, waving Egyptian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering, appearing undaunted and determined after their camp withstood two days of street battles with regime supporters trying to dislodge them.
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An effigy of Egyptian President Mubarak hangs over opposition supporters during Friday Prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011.
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Egypt protesters throng square after violence
CAIRO – Protesters demanding President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster packed Cairo’s central square by the tens of thousands Friday, waving Egyptian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering, appearing undaunted and determined after their camp withstood two days of street battles with regime supporters trying to dislodge them.Thousands including families with children flowed over bridges across the Nile into Tahrir Square, a sign that they were not intimidated after the protesters fended off everything thrown at them by pro-Mubarak attackers — storms of hurled concrete, metal rebar and firebombs, fighters on horses and camels and automatic gunfire barrages. The protesters passed through a series of beefed-up checkpoints by the military and the protesters themselves guarding the square.
The crowd was the biggest since Tuesday, when a quarter-million turned out. A man sitting in a wheelchair was lifted — wheelchair and all — over the heads of the crowd and he pumped his arms in the air. Thousands prostrated in noon prayers and immediately after uttering the prayer’s concluding “God’s peace and blessings be upon you,” they began chanting their message to Mubarak: “Leave! Leave! Leave!”
Egyptian Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi visited the square Friday morning and talked to protesters, the most prominent government official to do so in more than 10 days of unprecedented demonstrations demanding an end of Mubarak’s nearly 30 year rule. Soldiers checked IDs to ensure those entering were not police in civilian clothes or ruling party members and performed body searches at the square’s entrances, a sign that Egypt’s most powerful institution was sanctioning the demonstration — though Tantawi tried to convince those he spoke to end it.
Protesters labeled the rally the “day of leaving,” a reference to their demand Mubarak go on Friday. Some held up signs reading, “Now!”AP
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Opposition supporters perform Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
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Anti-government protesters take part in Friday prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the “Day of Departure”.
Egyptians turn out for ‘final push’
Chants urging Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to leave office are reverberating across Cairo’s Tahrir Square.Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered at the square, the focal point of protests in Egypt, for what they have termed the “Day of Departure” for the man who has been the country’s leader for the last 30 years.
As the country entered its eleventh day of unrest, mass demonstrations commenced after Friday prayers.
Thousands also gathered in the city of Alexandria, holding up placards and chanting “He must go!” an Al Jazeera correspondent there reported.
Protesters there have said they will march to the city’s main train station and stage a sit-in until Mubarak resigns. Our correspondent described the protesters there as an “ocean of people”, saying they were peaceful and had “literally taken over the area that is by the library, the universities and the commercial centre”.
Three thousand people also joined demonstrations in Giza..english.aljazeera.net
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