Thousands in Egypt ignore curfew

Thousands in Egypt ignore curfew
In Cairo, Egypt - Thousands of Egyptians - the roads around the country the seventh straight day - mid-afternoon, the government has defied a curfew on Monday, despite the mass of products and pro-active military presence spread throughout a restless nation.

In Alexandria, pulled off an armored vehicle as warning shots around 2,000 to 3,000 people gathered. But the actions were seen as an apparent attempt to intimidate protesters near a hotel.

curfew imposed by the government began to fifteen (08:00 ET), but the daily limit is largely ignored by protesters in recent days.

Several thousand people gathered Monday to Cairo, Tahrir Square, a focal point of demonstrations. Some of them said they had spent the night and the smell of smoke from a fire stayed on the air.

Helicopters hovered general in the Egyptian capital, as a group carried placards and chanted: ". The Egyptian people want the government to fall"

But the police had planned to start operation and resume their functions in all of Egypt on Monday, a state Nile TV reported.

The militants in Cairo and Alexandria, said they were organizing "million man marches in cities on Tuesday, a week after anti-government demonstrations began.

The events were inspired by the insurgency Tunisia after years of social, political and economic, complaints build the population. The lack of opportunities, corruption and poverty in a coalition effort to hunt longtime President Hosni Mubarak in power.

Although it is difficult to define the sound of people killed during the violence, Human Rights Watch team has confirmed 80 deaths in two hospitals in Cairo, Alexandria, 36 deaths and 13 deaths in Heba Morayef Suez, a research group in Cairo.

Unrest has paralyzed daily life in Egypt, and the closing of the grocery store and many identified the transport of foodstuffs.

The Egyptian stock market and banks were also closed Monday, and the rating agency Moody's downgraded the debt rating for the country because of the crisis.

Cairo was the long queues in front of bakeries and supermarkets, ATMs and gas stations were closed, and had a bit 'of police presence. Together with the neighborhood, the sanitation workers were seen collecting the waste.

In Alexandria, people have been queuing for long outside bakeries and supermarkets. Nile TV set up a hotline for citizens to call and report the shortage of bread in the country. A private company has seen sanitation garbage collection there.

Shops and businesses were looted and police stations were abandoned stripped of their arsenals. Men with makeshift weapons patrolled the neighborhoods, the creation of checkpoints to fill the void left when the police stopped patrolling the streets.

Al-Jazeera, Qatar-based news network, said six of its journalists were arrested in Cairo on Monday have been published previously, but their camera equipment confiscated.

The unrest has forced the evacuation of foreigners. More than 200 Americans have left the State Department.

Suez Canal authorities have said they do not change operations and the army is under control. However, shipping companies provide delays.

Although it is thought that the grooming his son Gamal, to succeed him, the plan has been difficult to demands for democracy.

Mubarak appoints chief information reliable and powerful, Omar Suleiman, as his running mate on Saturday, the first time the authoritarian regime took such a position.

The President has instructed his cabinet reshuffled the government being formed by Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq recently appointed to restore security in the country and the Egyptians' belief in their economies. Mubarak was sworn in Monday as Mahmoud Wagdy Minister of the Interior news. He replaces Habib el-Adly, who was criticized by the demonstrators.

Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel laureate and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is one of the opposition figures whose names several areas where protesters can speak of the future leaders of Egypt. Other names are Amr Moussa, Arab League chief.