An Egyptian soldier prepares to shoot rounds in the air to disperse angry protestors who attacked a civilian thinking he was a plainclothes policeman, on January 31, 2011 in Cairos Tahrir square during the biggest anti-government protests in three decades in a bid to topple President Hosni Mubarak's creaking regime. 
A soldier controls the traffic next to a tank, on a bridge over the River Nile in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 31, 2011. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.  M1A's
A helicopter flies overhead as an Egyptian demonstrator holds-up the national flag during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 31, 2011, on the seventh day of angry revolt against President Hosni Mubarak. 
Egyptian army soldiers take position in front of the Giza pyramids in Cairo on January 31, 2011 as Egyptian protesters called for an indefinite strike in Egypt upping the stakes in their bid to topple President Hosni Mubarak's regime. 
A view of protestors gathered in Tahrir, or Liberation Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak. 
Egyptian women demonstrate in Cairo for the people who died in the last days during violent demonstrations on January 31, 2011 as anti-government protesters called for an indefinite strike in Egypt upping the stakes in their bid to topple President Hosni Mubarak's regime. 
An Egyptian army captain identified as Ihab Fathi rests after fainting from exhaustion while being carried by demonstrators in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on January 31, 2011, on the seventh day of mass protests calling for the removal of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak 
A cleric, left, and an unidentified demonstrator lead a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 31, 2011. 
Anti-government protesters offer their evening prayers, in front of an Egyptian army tank securing the area, during a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. 
An Egyptian army soldier joins a crowd of Muslim demonstrators during a prayer at the Tahrir square in central Cairo January 30, 201 on the sixth day of mass protests across the country calling for the resignation of long term President, Hosni Mubarak A member of the Egyptian special forces stands guard on the main floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 75 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director for the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under military guard. 
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director for the Supreme Council of Antiquities, right, talks on the phone as a member of the Egyptian special forces stands guard inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 75 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday. Dr. Hawass, said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under military guard. 
A member of the Egyptian special forces stands guard in front of a locked gate housing the permanent collection of King Tutankhamun in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 75 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director for the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under military guard. 
Egyptian special forces secure the main floor inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum on Saturday Jan. 29, 2011, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging some artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said Saturday, while reporting that the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection is secure from thieves and under military guard.
Egyptians pray in front of an Abrams tank during a protest in Tahrir Square in the capital Cairo, on January 30, 2011, on the sixth day of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's regime. 
Anti-government protesters carry posters in English reading "USA, why you support dictator", center, referring to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and in arabic reading "Down Omar Suleiman, Israel's man", referring to the recently-named Egyptian Vice-President, left, at the demonstration in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. 
An Egyptian air force fighter plane flies low over thousands of anti-government protesters gathered at Tahrir square in Cairo January 30, 2011. Egyptian air force fighter planes buzzed low over Cairo on Sunday, helicopters hovered above and extra troop trucks appeared in a central square where protesters were demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's rule. 
Looters stand outside Abu Zaabel prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo after a mass breakout by convicts amid a nationwide revolt on January 30, 2011. 
GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo taken early Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, and made available Monday, Jan. 31, parts of unidentified mummies are seen damaged on the floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Early Saturday morning, looters entered from the glass dome on the roof of the museum with ropes with the intention to loot antiquities. Civilian and army soldiers surrounded the museum and detained several looters. According the Egyptian army and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, no items were stolen, but several were damaged. |
