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Fear of anarchy and looting lingers in Egypt

Cairo, Egypt

The fear of anarchy and banditry remained in Egypt on Sunday, and many of the streets of the nation's capital was left without a safety when the police stopped patrolling.

"It seems that all the great square, and every little way of Cairo, in principle, the community ... people are walking the streets to bring baseball bats and knives," said Ahmed Rehab Council of American Islamic Relations in Cairo . "We have not received any sleep all night."

The tanks and troops continued to guard the streets in the morning of Sunday, but it is unclear how widespread protests against the government would be that President Hosni Mubarak clings to power.

About 150 people gathered in Alexandria in the morning, and crowds are expected to grow as the day went on.

Tanks surrounded the Cairo Tahrir Square, where hundreds of protesters had gathered.

mobile phone and mobile Internet service seems to have returned, but the word of a possible new offensive in the media came on Sunday.

Egypt's Information Ministry announced Sunday that it has withdrawn the license of Al Jazeera, and to withdraw the accreditation of a network of collaborators, the state media.

"Closing our office, the Egyptian government is open to censure and silence the votes of the people of Egypt," Al Jazeera, the network said in a statement.

Arabic-language channel of the network was off the air in Egypt on Sunday afternoon, but Al Jazeera English was still in the air.

As the threat of further unrest tinted, Turkey has sent two planes to Egypt on Sunday to start evacuating its citizens, "said the spokesman of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Selcuk Una.

The U.S. embassy in Cairo said it would help American citizens who wish to leave Egypt with flights from the capital city Monday, said embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton.

As Mubarak was trying to redeem his rule of 30 years, world attention has been dropped in the center of Cairo, where the army was to replace the police brutality that took the protesters.

Strong Egyptian army, and the use of roads for the first time since 1980, half is much more respected than the police and many protesters took their presence. But are the 450 000 men of the armed forces remain loyal to Mubarak is the key to the future of the nation.

Nile State TV reported that the army issued a stern warning to the public on Saturday: "Stop the looting, chaos and the Egypt of the things that are detrimental to protect the nation, protect Egypt, protect you .."

However, shops and businesses looted and abandoned police dragged from their arsenals.

About 1000 prisoners escaped from prison Demu Fayoum southwest of Cairo, a Nile state TV reported early Sunday.

Residents are calling for a program on Nile TV complaining about the lack of security. Anchors responded by calling reassuring that the army is to protect the streets.

"These criminals are the things on fire. ... It caught fire in front of the hospital," said a caller posing as a doctor in a suburb of Cairo.

One presenter said: "This could be a security check of their peers or workers who are there." Another anchor told to keep calm.

After days of silence, Mubarak quickly negotiated embattled Saturday. He fired his entire cabinet and then struck two new leaders to stand by his side.

Mubarak appoints chief information reliable and powerful, Omar Suleiman, as his deputy, the first time the authoritarian regime has seen such a post. Suleiman is respected by the military, and is credited with crushing an Islamic insurgency in the 1990s when he served in the ear by Western intelligence agents eager to important information about the regional terrorist groups.

Mubarak also called Ahmed Shafik, Minister of Civil Aviation, the Government has just gone down to form a new, state Nile TV reported. Shafik is a former Air Force officer on a military fort.

But the Egyptians fed up with what they see as empty promises of reform Mubarak was hardly appeased. In a fifth day of protests swept most populous country in the Arab world, has had people on the streets Saturday, chanting "Down with Mubarak" and images of the late authoritarian leader.

anti-government demonstrators have been protesting since Tuesday. The protests come weeks after similar unrest caused a revolution in Tunisia, forcing then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.

Egypt and Tunisia have experienced a dramatic increase in the cost of living in recent years, and accusations of corruption within the ruling elite.

Tunisia-inspired protests have also taken place in Algeria, Yemen and Jordan.

The demonstrations across the country Saturday was boisterous but largely peaceful. An exception was isolated near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, where police fired tear gas as hard and burning protesters roared toward building - sort of Alamo, and the police station, which was so visible and powerful symbol of Government authorities.

At least one person was killed, said Ali Ragab Al Rahman Dr. Ebadi clinic, doctor's office at the ministry, while another doctor said that injured at least five people were killed.

Clashes injured at least 60 people, said Ali.

It was the ambiguity of the human toll of the protests so far.

Several staff members died in prison as prisoners Demu escape - at least one, after being shot by the prisoners - Nile TV reported on Sunday, but did not say how many died.

At least 31 people died in the city of Alexandria, hospital officials told CNN.

Previously, the state Nile TV reported earlier 38 people died. It is not clear Alexandria has died a part of this fee.

The Egyptian crisis reverberated around the world, with activists in cities like New York, Toronto and protests held in Geneva on Saturday to support Egypt's Mubarak and demanded his resignation.

The international outcry following a brutal crackdown on Friday, as thousands of riot police and plainclothes clashed violently with protesters, firing water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas by the power and impunity.

Undeterred, people running, screaming, throwing stones and walls flanked by security as they tried to clear a path to the center of Cairo.

Mubarak, 82, who has not been seen in public for some time, led the nation in a televised speech last week. He said he has asked his government to resign, but he intended to remain in power.

"These protests rose to express their legitimate demand for greater democracy, the need to increase the social safety net, and improve the standard of living, poverty and rampant corruption," said Mubarak.

The aging president has ruled Egypt with an iron fist for three decades, and it was believed he was grooming his son Gamal to succeed him - a plan now complicated by the demands of democracy.

"I understand the legitimate needs of these people and I am truly understand the depth of their concerns and burdens, and I'm part of them has ever, and I try every day," he said. "But regardless of what problems we face, do not justify violence or illegality."