Fear of anarchy and looting lingers in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt - The fear of anarchy and looting was in Egypt on Sunday, with many streets of the capital of the country was left without security after police stopped patrolling.
"It seems that every square and every little street in Cairo has been largely accepted by the community ... people parade through the streets, walking with baseball bats and knives," said Ahmed Rehab of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Cairo. "We have not slept all night."
The tanks and troops continued to guard the streets in the morning of Sunday, but it is unclear how widespread protests against the government would be that President Hosni Mubarak clings to power.
About 150 people gathered in Alexandria in the morning, and crowds are expected to grow as the day went on.
Tanks surrounded the Cairo Tahrir Square, where hundreds of protesters had gathered.
Mobile and mobile Internet service seems to be back, but the word of a possible crackdown on communications was born on Sunday.
Ministry of Information of Egypt said Sunday it was withdrawing licenses Al Jazeera and withdraw approval from the network staff, the official media.
"The closure of our agency that the Egyptian government to censorship and crackdown on the Egyptian people," Al Jazeera network in a statement.
Arabic channel network was off the air in Egypt on Sunday afternoon, but Al Jazeera English was still in the air.
As the threat of further unrest loomed, Turkey has sent two planes to Egypt on Sunday to begin the evacuation of citizens, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said a turkish Selcuk.
The U.S. embassy in Cairo said it would help American citizens who wish to leave Egypt with flights from the capital city Monday, said embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton.
What Mubarak has tried to redeem its 30-year rule, the world's attention fell on the center of Cairo, where the army has been deployed to replace the police as violent clashes with protesters.
The powerful Egyptian army, deployed in the streets for the first time since the mid-1980s is much more respected than the police and many protesters took their presence. But the 450,000 strong armed forces remain loyal to Mubarak, the key to its future.
Nile State TV reported that the army issued a stern warning to the public on Saturday: "Stop the looting, chaos and the Egypt of the things that are detrimental to protect the nation, protect Egypt, protect you .."
About 1000 prisoners escaped from prison Demu Fayoum southwest of Cairo, a Nile state TV reported early Sunday.
Residents in the program by calling Nile TV complained that security. Anchors ensuring callers said, the army was to protect the streets.
"These criminals are the things on fire. ... It caught fire in front of the hospital," said a caller posing as a doctor in a suburb of Cairo.
An anchor said: "This could be screened by co-workers or employees who are out there." Still another said to remain calm.
After days of silence, the embattled Mubarak has acted quickly on Saturday. He shot the whole 'wardrobe, then pressed the two new leaders to stand by his side.
Mubarak has appointed his trusted and powerful intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, his deputy, for the first time an authoritarian regime has seen the e-mail. Suleiman, the army has a value and merit to crush Islamic guerrillas in 1990, where he received a Western ear, the intelligence officials thirst for knowledge and information of vital importance for regional terrorist groups.
Mubarak also called Ahmed Shafik, Minister of Civil Aviation in the cabinet just passed down to form a new government, declared a state Nile TV. Shafik is a former Air Force officer strong military ties.