THE GUARDIAN: • Extraordinary scenes in central Cairo
• Violent battles in cities across the country
• Foreign journalists deliberately targetedEgypt's pro-democracy revolution descended into violence and bloodshed as President Hosni Mubarak's regime launched a co-ordinated bid to wrest back control of city streets, crush the popular uprising, and reassert its authority.
There were extraordinary scenes in the centre of Cairo as anti-government demonstrators fought running battles with organised cohorts of Mubarak supporters, exchanging blows with iron bars, sticks and rocks.
At one point pro-Mubarak forces rode camels and horses into central Tahrir Square, scattering opponents. At least three people were killed and up to 1,500 injured according to medical sources.
Clashes continued into the early hours even though the pro-Mubarak supporters had been pushed back to the edge of the square. Gunshots and explosions – possibly from gas canisters – echoed around the area. A palm tree and a building caught alight while fires were burning outside the historic Egyptian museum as petrol bombs were hurled back and forth between the two opposing factions. >>> Peter Beaumont, Jack Shenker in Cairo, Harriet Sherwood in Alexandria, Simon Tisdall | Wednesday, February 02, 2011
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Blutiger Machtkampf im Zentrum von Kairo: Steinwurf-Salven, Selbstjustiz und Hass: Am Tag nach dem eindrucksvollen "Marsch der Millionen" tobten in Kairo bürgerkriegsähnliche Kämpfe zwischen Mubarak-Gegnern und seinen urplötzlich mobilisierten Anhängern. Ein Protokoll der Stunden, die den Traum einer friedlichen Revolution zunichte machten. >>> Aus Kairo berichtet Matthias Gebauer | Mittwoch, 02. Februar 2011
