Freed young leader energizes Egyptian protests

A young Google executive who helped ignite Egypt's rebellion eager a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands Tuesday with his first look in their midst after being free from 12 days in clandestine custody. "We won't give up," he promises at one of the major protest yet in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Once a out of sight Internet campaigner, 30-year-old Wael Ghonim has come out as an inspiring voice for a interest group that has taken pride in being a leaderless "people's uprising." Now, the different activists behind it with Ghonim are functioning to coalesce into council to push their demands for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

By means of protests refreshed, Vice President Omar Suleiman issued a sharply worded warning, saying of the protest in Tahrir, "We can't stand this for a long time, and there must be an end to this crisis as soon as likely," in a sign of growing annoyance with 16 days of mass demonstration.

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Egypt chaos: Dozens of reporters beaten, arrested

Threatening gangs backing President Hosni Mubarak attacked the media and human rights activists Thursday in an ugly twist in Egypt's crisis as government opponents pressed supporters out of Cairo's main square in a second day of road battles. Organizers called for activists trying to topple the regime to fill every four-sided figure in the huge assets on Friday.

The new vice president widely careful the first successor Mubarak has ever designated fueled anti-foreign feeling by going on state TV and blaming outsiders for fomenting strife. The government has accuse media outlets of being concerned to protesters who want the president to relinquish now rather than hand out out his term, as he has vowed to do.

The Obama administration, for now, was in talks with top Egyptian officials in relation to the prospect of Mubarak directly away resigning and the formation of an intervening government that could organize the country for free and fair elections later this year, U.S. officials said Thursday. The talks were first account by The New York Times.

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Egyptian reform leader calls for Mubarak to resign

Egypt's most famous democratic system advocate took up a bullhorn Sunday and called for President Hosni Mubarak to leave, speaking to thousands of protester who defied a blackout for a third night. Fighter jets streaked low in the clouds and police return to the capital's streets high-profile displays of right over a circumstances spiraling out of organize.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei's outer shell in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square underscore the jockeying for control of the mass protest movement that erupt outwardly out of nowhere in the past week to shake the Arab world's the majority crowded nation.

Now in their sixth day, the protests have come to be centered in the square, where demonstrators have camped since Friday. Up to 10,000 protesters gather there Sunday, and even after the 4 p.m. curfew, they number in the thousands, counting families with young children, address Mubarak with their chants of "Leave, leave, leave."

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AMID MASSIVE PROTESTS, EGYPT LEADER FIRES CABINET

Facing a popular uprising, Egypt's president ablaze his Cabinet early Saturday after protesters engulfed his country in chaos battling police with stones and firebombs, ablaze down the ruling party head office and defying a night curfew enforced by the army.

In a nationally televise address at midnight, President Hosni Mubarak made vague promise of social reform but did not propose to step down himself. He also defended his security forces outraging protesters calling for an end to his nearly 30-year regime.

"We want Mubarak to go and instead he is dig in further," protester Kamal Mohammad said. "He thinks it is calming down the circumstances but he is just angering people more."

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