Hosni Mubarak Doesn’t Resign, Cairo’s Tahrir Square Erupts with Anger
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he has transferred many powers to his newly minted vice president Omar Suleiman, but he enraged crowds gathered in Tahrir Square hoping to hear the embattled president say he was stepping down.
The crowd of hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Tahrir Square hoping to hear Mubarak say he was stepping down went silent as Mubarak took to the camera. But towards the end of the speech, when it became evident that the president wasn’t resigning, the crowd erupted into a roar and began angrily chanting, “Leave now, leave now, leave now.”