READ MORE: Egypt's Turmoil: The Army's OK with the Protesters, for Now - Yahoo! News: "Indeed the emergence of military authority on Cairo's streets and, more importantly, the disappearance of interior ministry forces was greeted by many as a breath of fresh air. Crucially, it was also viewed as a stepping stone toward a larger goal. 'The difference between now and 1952 [the year of the military overthrow of Egypt's king],' Lotfi adds, 'is that in 1952 they thought the Army could rule. Now they want democracy.'
That much was clear as tens of thousands of protesters continued to defy a nationwide curfew on Saturday night, continuing their chants in Tahrir and marching over the city's Nile bridges. Most say the revolution is far from over. 'We will continue this until we achieve victory,' says Khaled Tantawy, a member of the band Muslim Brotherhood, who had returned to Tahrir Square for the fifth day in a row despite a cracked rib suffered in a police beating. 'This big process is to get [President Hosni] Mubarak to leave."
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