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Today, the people have spoken, an unforgettable day as the old order is overthrown in Egypt.

The President's gone.

So what happens now to his army of secret policemen, thugs and

torturers? We find out how the international community was sidelined in this very

Egyptian revolution and travel to the deserts of Oman to see if they too look

likely to embrace the change that's sweeping through the Arab world.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo spent the night celebrating the departure of Mr.

Barbaric.

This morning the crowds in Tachria Square have been thinning out, with many people returning

to work. The army has kept its tanks and armored cars on the streets,

especially outside important buildings. The news that he was standing down was greeted with

a massive outburst of joy and riotous celebration by hundreds

of thousands of people in the square. Hugh Sykes was there and not long after the historic

announcement sent us this dispatch.

Early on Friday evening Cairo time, people who'd spent most of the day in Tahria Square were pouring out into the side streets and the bridge over the river Nile on their way home.

Men and women, young and old, family. over the river Nile on their way home.

Men and women, young and old, families, children on their father's shoulders waving

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