Egypt's Mubarak steps down

the CNN Wire Staff | February 11, 2011

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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- [Update 8:48 p.m. in Cairo, 1:48 p.m. ET]
CNN iReporters are sending descriptions, images and video from Egypt. It looks like a combination of New Year's Eve in Times Square and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
In Alexandria, iReporter Fady captured video of celebratory fireworks being shot off.
In Cairo, iReporter Omar Sulton sent in video of people celebrating near the presidential palace.
[Update 8:45 p.m. in Cairo, 1:45 p.m. ET] Hamas, the anti-Israeli Palestinian movement that controls the Gaza territory bordering Egypt, urged the new leadership in Cairo "to lift the siege of Gaza and to open the Rafah crossing and assure the free movement between Egypt and Palestine and to start the development (and) construction process of Gaza."
[Update 8:33 p.m. in Cairo, 1:33 p.m. ET] A statement issued by Egypt's military council affirmed that the military will not abolish civil authority but will only control the country during the transition period between civilian governments.
The military statement also expressed appreciation for former President Hosni Mubarak's service to the country, and saluted "martyrs" of Egypt's revolution.


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