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Friday 11 February 2011

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(11 Feb,2011) Demonstrations that began with quiet determination on the internet more than three weeks ago erupted into riotous jubilation Friday evening, moments after it was announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was stepping aside.
Protesters swarmed army tanks that had been deployed to keep order, banged drums, blew whistles and frantically waved Egyptian flags in celebration. They danced in circles and chanted. Processions of cars made their way down Cairo streets, drivers honking horns and waving flags.
Fireworks erupted outside the presidential palace. Some men and women dropped to their knees and began to pray.
"Freedom!" crowds chanted outside the white carved walls of the presidential palace.

"God is great!" they shouted in Tahrir Square.
"Congratulations Egypt the criminal has left the palace," said one of the movement's key activists, Wael Ghonim, in a Twitter post.
"They convinced us for 30 years that Egypt had died, that there was no more Egypt," he said in an interview with CNN, referring to the nearly 30 years of autocratic rule under Mubarak. "We were all looking for Egypt and thank God we found her today."

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