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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/thousands-take-to-streets-in-cairo.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Egyptian soldiers search anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-thousands-take-to-streets-in-cairo.jpg" alt="Egyptian soldiers search anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Tens of thousands have packed central Cairo on what they dubbed &#8220;the day of departure&#8221; in their campaign to remove President Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>Protesters waved flags and sung the national anthem, emboldened in their campaign after they repelled pro-regime attackers in two days of bloody street fights.</p>
<p>The US was pressing Egypt for a swift start toward greater democracy, including a proposal for Mr Mubarak to step down immediately.</p>
<p>Thousands including families with children flowed over bridges across the Nile into Tahrir Square.</p>
<p>Protesters in the square held up signs reading &#8220;Now!&#8221;, massing around 100,000 in the largest gathering since the quarter-million who rallied on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Thousands prostrated themselves in the noon prayers, then immediately after uttering the prayer&#8217;s concluding &#8220;God&#8217;s peace and blessings be upon you,&#8221; they began chanting their message to Mr Mubarak: &#8220;Leave! Leave! Leave!&#8221;</p>
<p>Those joining in passed through a series of beefed-up checkpoints by the military and the protesters themselves guarding the square.</p>
<p>In the afternoon, a group of Mubarak supporters gathered in a square several blocks away and tried to move on Tahrir, banging with sticks on metal fences to raise an intimidating clamour. But protesters throwing rocks pushed them back.</p>
<p>The 82-year-old president insists he will serve out the remaining seven months of his term to ensure a stable process.</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now,&#8221; Mr Mubarak said he told US President Barack Obama. He warned in an interview with ABC News that chaos would ensue.</p>
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