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 university say they re going to tahrir tomorrow. this has really reinvigorated the anti-mubarak movement. they have a figure who has come out and spoken, emotionally and convincingly about his convictions, his belief that what he s doing is for the good of egypt. because anderson, what we ve heard so far from the government media is just really a pack of scandalous allegations against the protesters that they are agents of israel, hamas, hezbollah and the united states. a rather bizarre combination of supporters, you have to admit.
and then have you comment about what the people are telling you about it. let s just tell you about it. 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 faced their lives, beaten 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 university say they re going to tahrir tomorrow. this has really reinvigorated the anti-mubarak movement. they have a figure who has come out and spoken, emotionally and
were arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. reporter: and that interview, as i said, absolutely emotional. he broke out into tears several times. he actually had to leave the room at the end because he was crying so heavily. and it seems like something that really has mesmerized people here. if you look behind me, you see that tahrir square is much fuller than we ve seen it the past couple of days. stow does appear as so it does appear as though that television interview and the man s story might have pulled more people and re-energized this movement that s going on here in egypt. all right, frederic pletkin from cairo. we have information on five set of brothers deploying to afghanistan together. we have more live from dallas this morning with the story. ed, good morning. reporter: good morning to
the heroes were 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 who were beaten and the heroes are the ones arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. translator: i want to say to every mother and father that lost their child, i m sorry, but this is not our fault. i swear to got this is not our fault. it s the fault of everyone who is holding on to power greedily. i would not let it go. i want to leave. some have suggested ghonim might be the leader the protest movement has been looking for. ben wedeman went looking for that leader today. he was digging into what the protesters want from a leader and the government. ben, what s going on in the square, do you think ghonim could emerge as the leader the
he was my colleague at work, and he was coming to visit egypt. 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. the thing that tortured me the most about i was in detention was that people would find out that i was the admin of the page that was calling for protests. i didn t want people to find out that i was the admin because i am not the hero. i was writing with a keyboard on the internet, and my life was never exposed to any danger. i m not a hero. i slept for 12 days. the heroes were 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 who were arrested and exposed to dangers. i wasn t a hero. we ll have mor