of course, i knew these were security forces. i m not a hero. i slept for 12 days. the heroes were in the streets. the heroes are the ones who went to the demonstrations. the heroes are the ones who sacrificed their lives. the heroes are the ones that were beaten. and the heroes are the ones that were arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. that was a marketing executive for google speaking on egyptian tv. he was released today after being held for nearly two weeks. the situation in cairo is calmer tonight, but what comes next? joining me now is nic robertson and fareed zakaria. knick, it was pretty dangerous for most journalist, what was it
sudden four people were surrounding me. they were kidnapping me. i m not a hero. i slept for 12 days. the heroes were in the streets. the heroes are the ones who went to the demonstrations. the heroes of the ones who sacrificed their lives. they were the ones beaten. the heroes were the ones arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. that was a marketing executive for google speaking on esqulipgs tv. he was released today after being held for nearly two weeks. the situation in kiro is calmer tonight, but what comes next? joining me is nick and fareed zakaria. nick, it was pretty dangerous there. what was it really like?
was my colleague at work and he was coming to visit egypt and after i finished visiting him i left the place. i was going to get a taxi so i went one way and i was walking down a straight road and i found all of a sudden four people surrounding me. they were kidnapping me and i yelled help me, but of course i knew these were security forces. his jailing was a rallying point online for many of the protesters but he says the attention and the credit should go elsewhere. translator: i m not a hero, i slept for 12 days, the heroes were in the streets, the heroes are the ones who went to the demonstrations, the heros are the ones that sacrificed their lives, the heros are the ones that were beat on and arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. he says he was not a hero though he was the administrator of one of the websites that helped organize the protests. as he sent that tweet, the ominous tweet, of course the
i wasn t a hero. our ivan watson talked with some of the people that he described as heroes. here s what ivan s look at what life is like for some of the protesters. reporter: morning for the men of the barricade in tahrir square. cold, battle-scarred, and filthy, they fought and bled to protect the symbol of egyptian defiance. it was raining? it was cold here last night. yes. yes, yes, yes, yes. and we will stand tired and we will continue forever until that system remuffed. reporter: abdul suffered head wounds during wednesday s furious battle between opposition demonstrators and president mubarak supporters. how did you feel fighting other egyptians? fighting other egyptians? reporter: yeah. they are not egyptians, they are criminals. reporter: he says he s fighting for his country s
people in the square of being foreign agents, basically of being mercenaries on behalf of foreign forces. and ben, i want to play for our viewers some of that interview, and then have you comment about what the people are telling you about it. let s just play that. translator: i m not a hero, i slept for 12 days, the heroes are in the streets. the heroes are the ones that went to the demonstrations. the heroes are the ones that sacrificed their lives. the heroes are the ones that were beaten. and the heroes are the ones that were arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. ben, what kind of reaction is that getting? incredible reaction, it s really earthshaking the sort of jolt it sent through egyptians. a lot of egyptians that were sitting on the sidelines sort of undecided about how to act, i m hearing a lot of people who have not been to tahrir plan to go to tahrir tomorrow. many of the staff of cairo