A military show of strength has been staged in Cairo as ten of thousands of protesters gathered on the sixth day of anti-government protests.
The Tahrir Square, which was the main gathering point of protesters, was continuously under the surveillance of two air force jets and a helicopter, BBC reported. A few tanks came into the Square, but was blocked by the demonstrators.
There was a significant military presence in the Egyptian capital to guard banks, government buildings and ministry headquarters.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for an 'orderly transition' of power in Egypt to democracy without a power vaccum, reported Fox News.
"We see a dialogue opening that reflects the full diversity of Egyptian civil society that has the concrete steps for democratic and economic reform that Mubarak himself said that he was going to pursue," she said on Fox News Sunday.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who is considered as the main opposition figure, said that President Hosni Mubarak must leave office today.
"It is loud and clear from everybody in Egypt that Mubarak has to leave today," he told CNN. "He needs to leave today... to be followed by a smooth transition [to] a national unity government to be followed by all the measures set in place for a free and fair election," he told Reuters.
ElBaradei also plans to join the protesters on Sunday in Tahrir Square to head the situation.
Previously, the the Egyptian government had ordered al-Jazeera TV channel, which was giving a blanket coverage of the protests, to shut down its broadcasting operations in the country.
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