Photo Gallery Egypt Contemplates Transition
Day 12 of the Egyptian crisis. Thousands of anti-Mubarak protestors gathered in Cairo on Saturday morning.
An injured protestor on Tahrir Square on Saturday. President Hosnai Mubarak has still shown no sign of quitting after days of protests.
Protestors in the square on Saturday. Mubarak has said he won't contest the presidential elections in September, but the opposition movement want him to go now.
"No to Mubarak" is written in Arabic on a national flag attached to this woman's back. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the military and Vice President Omar Suleiman are searching for a way to allow Mubarak make a dignified exit.
Vice President Omar Suleiman. There have been media reports that he may have been subject to an assassination attempt on Friday.
Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, former chief of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. He told SPIEGEL in an interview that he wants to speak with the army leadership soon.
A demonstrator prays on Saturday morning in Tahrir Square.
The square was the site of fierce clashes between demonstrators and Mubarak loyalists earlier in the week.
Thousands of people spent the night on the square.
The demonstrators are forming human chains to check those arriving at the square for weapons.
They have set up barricades on the square.
Some of the anti-government demonstrators sought shelter overnight in a bus.
The demonstrators getting ready for Day 12 of the popular revolt.
Some gathered around open fires.
There were rumors that the army was abandoning positions at Tahrir Square. The military had formed a buffer zone between the opponents and supporters of the regime.
