EGYPT: Hosni Mubarak’s speech enrages protesters

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Protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square waved shoes in dismay at President Hosni Mubarak’s speech to the nation in which he appeared to refuse their demands to step down.

Prostesters chanted on CNN, ‘illegitimate,’ ‘down, down with Hosni Mubarak,’ and ‘leave, leave.’

Thomas Gorguissian, a correspondent for the Egyptian opposition newspaper Al Wafd, told Al Jazeera that protests planned for Friday ‘are now likely to be much, much larger.’

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