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Today is the 9th day of the  UPRISING IN EGYPT. 

But - to cut a long story short - it seems that today the "ruling" regime wants to smash the uprising by inciting a kind of CIVIL WAR!

1PM(local time in Egypt): "There is a massive fight of some kind of going on right in front of me. I'm assuming that it's pro and anti Mubarak supporters," an eyewitness reported  from Tahrir Square. The security services are just sitting on their tanks watching, he says. "You can't help feeling that it has all been heavily coordinated," he says. "It's an extraordinary turnaround."

2PM(local time in Egypt): "Hundreds of well organized armed (with iron rods, rocks and knifes) pro-Mubarak forces, supported by riot police, are attacking the unarmed anti-gov't protesters", al-Jazeera reports. CNN, at the same time: "The army stays on the sidlines, just watching the battles."

Already in the morning the army ordered the anti-gov't protesters to stop the demonstrations and to go home immediately...

Related reports from the "front Line":
☞ Clashes break out in Tahrir Square (al-Jazeera, 2.02)
☞ Egypt protests - live updates (Guardian, 2.02)