ElBaradei expresses some worry

Ironically, I read this just minutes after feeling better after reading elsewhere about the army setting a six-month limit on their rule. But what ElBaradei says below to Fareed Zakaria is also true.

Today 5:32 PM ElBaradei: Protests May Resume By Friday

Mohamed ElBaradei, a leader of Egypt’s opposition movement, spoke to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, and said that he believes protesters will return to the streets if the army fails to provide a clear roadmap for the transition of power:

ZAKARIA: Now, what next? A lot of people worry, Mohamed, that you have an opposition that is divided, that the regime will play to that, and at the end of the day, you will not really get what you want.

ELBARADEI: Fareed, I have frankly started to get worried, and people are becoming to be — to be apprehensive. Because we thought that the army would (audio gap) and lay out the roadmap for the transitional period. So far they have done nothing of that. They had been talking to each other. They haven’t talked to the people. And as you can see, people are still in the streets.
And I was told today that by Friday, if we do not see, you know, if we don’t see a roadmap, that people will go back to the streets.

I understand that the army might need some time, but they need to lay out what they are up to. We need clearly a transitional period. We need heavy participation by the civilian with the army. It could not be just the army running the show. We need a government of national unity, which (inaudible) Mubarak government, and nobody knows whether the current constitution is still on or off. For a lawyer, of course it’s off, because with the army in power, they are — the constitution could not be on. The parliament (inaudible) that it’s still in (ph) and on (ph). So there is a lot of — lack of clarity, Fareed, and I hope they will come soon and try it (inaudible) to the people what is going on.

We haven’t even seen one of them on television. It’s just simply periodical statements by spokesmen for the army, very short and terse statem