'An Istanbuli Minute'
Opponents and supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fought in central Cairo ..... Mubarak supporters were members of the hated police forces in plain clothes. Some rode into the crowd on horses and camels and in horse-drawn carriages, wielding whips and sticks. People fought each other with fists, sticks and stones while troops surrounding the square made no attempt to intervene. Reuters correspondents saw dozens of injured. Many people fled in panic. The fighting broke out as international pressure grew on Mubarak to quit and his closest ally, the United States, told him bluntly "What is clear is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now,"
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