Fighter jets deployed to push Egypt curfew

Cairo, Egypt - The warplanes flew over the crowd of tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo on Sunday in Tahrir Square, just minutes before the start of the curfew imposed by the state.

In a statement broadcast on state television, General Mohammed Tantawi, Minister of Defence rejected the Egyptian government, urged the public to observe the curfew hours from 4 to 8 pm (9:00 to 1:00 ET this).

Demonstrations throughout the day were generally peaceful, and sometimes felt like a music festival, with people cheering, chatting and posing for photos with members of the armed forces in their tanks. The army has been deployed to replace the police that the demonstrators suddenly crashed.

Some residents have taken over the police in areas surrounding the events - offering to clean the garbage, for example. The medical staff has made its way through the crowd, see if anyone needed help.

Increase number of strong for the sixth straight day, the demonstrators continued to send a message to the world. They have made two basic demands: that the system, which has been in Egypt for many years before trial, and that the Constitution has been amended.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak - who fired the entire government on Saturday and trying to retain its rule of 30 years - a visit to the military action, a state Nile TV reported. Mubarak is the continuation of the security situation and to show support for the military, the report said.

Than 450,000 strong armed forces - are deployed in the streets for the first time since the mid-1980s - will remain loyal to Mubarak, a key issue for the future of the nation.

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Sunday called on Mubarak to leave "tonight and save the country."

"This is a country that is falling apart," ElBaradei told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

Egypt is in a transition period and a national unity government is needed to bridge the gap and hold "free and fair" elections, "said ElBaradei.

In other parts of the Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt, the fear of anarchy and looting lingered Sunday. Many of the nation's capital was left free after the police stopped patrolling.

Shops and businesses were looted and abandoned police posts were torn from their arsenals.

A major concern of many Egyptians because of the chaos - that the prisoners could escape - has proved to be true. State TV Nile TV said some inmates broke out in the prison of Abu Zaabal in Cairo, but it is not immediately clear how many. At the prison, Al Ataa Badrashin, urban Giza, some inmates broke out, too. About 1000 prisoners escaped from prison Demu Fayoum southwest of Cairo, Nile TV reported early Sunday.

"These criminals are the things on fire. ... It caught fire in front of the hospital," said Nile TV on a call, posing as a doctor in a suburb of Cairo.

"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."

mobile phone and mobile Internet service seems to have returned, but the word of a possible new offensive in the media came on Sunday.

Egypt's Information Ministry announced it would revoke the license of Al Jazeera and withdrawal of approval of the staff of the network, the official media.

"The closure of our office by the Egyptian government attempts to censor and silence the voice of the Egyptian people," Al Jazeera said in a statement.

Arabic-language channel of the 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.

U.S. embassy in Cairo said it would help American citizens who want to leave Egypt, flights from the capital on Monday, the embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton said.

Mubarak appoints chief information reliable and powerful, Omar Suleiman, as his deputy, the first time the authoritarian regime has seen such a post. Suleiman is respected by the military, and is credited with crushing an Islamic insurgency in the 1990s when he served in the ear by Western intelligence agents eager to important information about the regional terrorist groups.

Suleiman met Sunday with the army chief and interior minister, the network of ESCs Egyptian television reported.

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.