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Friday, February 04, 2011

The Egypt Saga… Updated

                    Al Jazeera Live

         

   Some of the latest tweets form those on the ground at Tahrir Square.

  UPDATE  12:00pm EST

(All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)

6:53pm Al Jazeera's reporter says that pro-democracy protesters have set up several layers of barricades between themselves and the Mubarak-loyalists.

They are apparently using a code, which involves banging on the metal barricades, when they notice trouble heading their way - others then gather and form a human cordon behind the barricade.

6:32pm Amir Hamzawy, of the Carnegie Middle East Centre, says he met prime minister Ahmed Shafiand and vice president Omar Suleiman. Hamzawy tells Al Jazeera that Mubarak is likely to stay till September as an honory president and based on his conversations with youth, this might be acceptable to protesters.

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