".. Talk of concessions & simultaneously break their back .."

"...The perpetrators of the latest arrests, however, are Egyptian army soldiers, ... "If the military is going to continue to arrest activists and arrest journalists, that does point to a pattern of a crackdown," said Heba Morayef, Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch. "It's a worrying sign of things to come ... because the military is going to play a big role going forward."...
That night, however, the prisoners heard the voices of three people who sounded like they were being abused. Oddly, one of the voices appeared to be a recording, according to the center's former director, Ahmed Seif al Islam, who suggested that it was a form of psychological torture by the military....."We don't really know how the military deals with internal policing," said Morayef of Human Rights Watch. "The targeting of activists is very reminiscent of the state security approach."
Their captivity yielded some insights into the military's position on the political crisis, Islam said. The officer who interrogated him acknowledged that Mubarak was "finished," but that the uprising "must stop because the army will not accept this kind of end for one of its leaders."..."