Retreating Police fire tear gas at protesters in middle of the nile

protesters clashing with retreating police in middle of a of the nile bridge in Cairo while tear gas is fired

As darkness fell Friday, thousands of angry Egyptians defied a government curfew and stinging police tear gas to march on the streets demanding change.

The United States appealed for restraint, but Friday evening the sounds of what seemed to be gunfire rang out near a Cairo police station on which protesters had converged.

The government cracked down throughout the day with thousands of riot and plain-clothes police and the force of the army in armored personnel carriers equipped with gun turrets. Undeterred, people ran, screamed, hurled rocks and accosted walls of security as they tried to make their way to central Cairo.

Embattled President Hosni Mubarak imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. State-run Nile TV said the curfew was in response to the "hooliganism and lawlessness" of the protesters.

Vans packed with riot police circled Cairo neighborhoods before the start of weekly prayers in the afternoon. Later in the day, Egyptian soldiers moved onto the streets, the first time the army has been deployed to quell unrest since 1985.

But protesters, fed up with economic woes and a lack of freedoms, defied all warnings to demand an end to Mubarak's authoritarian 30-year-rule.

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[MortenLowpaz]

GO GO GO! WIN YOUR WELL EARNED FREEDOM!

WE SUPPORT YOU 100%

Greetings from Norway

[ccNumalink]

A great and very symbolic scene. People's voice is unbeatable.

Vox Populi vox Dei.

[bamiale]

GO EGYPT

From Italy

[elkingg569]

the police, he heard shots fired from the pistol and rifle as livingHear the fireworks

[elkingg569]

I thank every person who supported the Egyptian people, the good compassionate indeed if the people wanted life should and must respond to the extent I am proud I am Egyptian and I call an alien to come to Egypt for tourism and support the Egyptians because they are 30 years old see tyranny and injustice, corruption, and repression is now Egypt's Revolution of the world studied the Egyptian what he saw as corruption In this section was not afraid of

[amrjosef]

LONG LIVE THE ARAB REVOLUTION , Down with Ghaddafi and the Saud family in the peninsula

[omarskiomarski]

They were not only heroes; they were knights who overcame their very ego and rode the horse of Don Quixote. They fought the power of darkness and Tyranny with unbelievable courage. Thanks to them 30 years of injustice are history, they never happened. Crossing the bridge was not less than crossing Suez Canal; they both were transcendent to freedom.

[bergweg]

Lukashenko watch out

[OrCkHaNtheGrEaT]

I apologise for the cowardice of my prime minister. The Turkish Nation is with you by heart and faith.

[dumfree254]

The rumble on the Nile. Sounds symbolic. Also sounds like a possible pay per view.

"Yes Folks, after thousands of years nothing has changed. TSN is live today in Egypt as the people fight the cops. (drumroll), yes it is the Rumble on the Nile".

Live feed with instant replays & hyped up commentary.

The tank that ran over that guy comes with a engine built by...................

[akspider84]

Kneel Before The People of Egypt

[bgt511]

the police rage quit