the issue of the moment in Egypt

1830: Egypt’s secret police, known as the State Security Investigation Police, was feared and hated. Dismantling the organisation has been one of the key demands of the protest movement that ousted Mr Mubarak after 18 days of street demonstrations.

1833: But tensions remain high in Egypt, as suggested by these two tweets from Sandmonkey, a blogger in Cairo: “The army is shooting in the air at the protesters and Elsayedah people are throwing molotov at them from other side. Thugs came running at us, we started running away from bulletfire.#jan25 #amndawla”