Ever since the revolution began there's been a protest on a semi weekly basis every Friday, as Friday is considered the weekend in Muslim countries and the day off for most people working in government firms as well as some private sector firms.
And these Fridays have been forming some sort of pressure on the Supreme council of Armed Forces, or as everyone else calls it, SCAF, which is the ruling authority in Egypt ever since Mubarak was toppled, the former president.
Normally the protest would begin after the Friday morning prayer, where Muslims pray the midday prayer and after the prayer they march towards the square, or if they've been praying in the "Omar Makram" mosque which is located in the square, they'd prepare for the day straight away.
Tahrir square usually is where people go to protest in Cairo, the Capital, but every city has its own square where people go to protest and express their opinions, for example Suez has its own "Arbe'en square" where the Arbe'en police station is located.
We will be talking about Tahrir because that's what I have been experiencing recently, a normal Tahrir protest is sort of like a scene from a Monty Python film, stages every where and people standing with microphones trying to attract people towards them, preaching their thoughts to the crowds, also you will see political banners hung almost about every where, where people are trying to advertise for their political party, whether a party with a religious flavour to it, trying to attract those simple minded religiously faithful Egyptians, such as the Noor party, which means the light, and they are the Salafi party, and the Freedom and Justice party, which is the Muslim Brotherhood's party.

The reason I had this very long and boring introduction, is that I wanted you to get the sense of what Tahrir is all about, and what usually took place that the media don't talk about, because it's too obvious, but still it'd be like the elephant in the living room if we don't mention it.

After the protest is finished, people gather their numbers, and then if they're satisfied with the day, and they've sent out their message properly to the ruling authority, they leave, and if not, they have a sit-in, till their demands are met, as a major twenty days sit-in has taken place in June, leading to the Mubarak trial, so, that's how they put pressure on the ruling authority, that's how SCAF responds to the demands.
Sometimes the security forces, the Central Security Forces, or the men in black, or the riot police, let's refer to them as CSF, they march in the square, and beat up people, arrest a couple, and clear the square, that happened in the ninth of March, and it was bloody, as well as the ninth of April, and also after the huge sit-in in June and many times, and they get away with it every time, once they disperse the crowds, they occupy the garden in the round about, in the middle of the square, to make sure no one is going to sit in, just like when a dog urinates on something to claim that it's his.

Now, reality, Friday, the Eighteenth, people, had a lovely protest, religious powers, stages, preachers, Islamic atmosphere, a show of power by the Islamic current one might say, The demand was asking SCAF to hand over the authority to a civilian power, by a maximum date of the April 2012. People started leaving at around five in the afternoon, and they were out at around eight, around that time, some called for a sit-in, but not everyone stayed.

In the square, those who were injured during the revolution were sitting in, regardless what their demands are, whether compensation for their losses, or free treatment on the country's expense, what ever it is, they were around two hundred, Saturday morning, the Nineteenth, CSF alongside the military police, marched into the square, beating people, dragging them by the hair, attacking them, insulting them, and there's been videos and pictures of what they've been doing to men and woman, boys and girls, and that was nasty, the most famous one, is a video of this first lieutenant, graduated 2009 from police academy, and he was targeting people's eyes on the Twenty Ninth of November, and in the video, he keeps shooting them in the eyes, in the first minute, someone says to him, oh, the kid's shot in the eye, Good job boss. Now his picture is all over the internet and they're looking forward to basically make him blind, people are trying to locate him.

From those who everyone knows are Ahmed Harara, who has lost his right eye in the twenty fifth of January, and his left eye on that day... As well as Malik, a photographer from an Egyptian Newspaper called "El Masry El youm" he lost his eye on Saturday...

So, what incited this, no one knows for sure, is it the harsh dispersing they did? Is it the violence? Is it the live ammo they used, or is it that protesters have just found an opponent again?

No one really knows, but ever since it started since Saturday it has not stopped, it's been ongoing, never ending, the crowds are increasing, all of that is because, according to what people are saying "Blood's been shed." "People have died.", and so, there's no turning back, now it's 3:30 am, the very early hours of the twenty third of November, I am over looking the square, it's just never ending, and the violence is concentrated on a certain circle, around the Interior Ministry building there are many streets leading to it, the one I am over looking and that's one of the very active ones, is Mohammed Mahmoud street, where this video was captured, as well as El Sheikh Rehan Street, Mansour Street, and many others, and in that big circle, the people are fighting with security forces in a never ending battle.

Injuries around the square are mostly Suffocation from the gas, many claim that this time they're using a different gas, Sarine Gas or C R gas, which is different than the normal C S gas used for dispersing crowds, O T has held a canister and he described it as silver with 2 red lines on it, says long range nerve gas, shelf life 3 month, Prod: 9/94, exp: 12/94..

And injuries from the rubber bullets, bird shots and few live ammo shots, many fields hospitals have been founded around the square, and the strategy protesters use to transfer the injured from the front lines to the field hospitals is that, they have organised a path from the front lines, all the way to the square, and from the square the ambulances can pick where to go, also motorcycles are used very efficiently as ambulances.

Now it's 3:30 am, the square is still chaotic, no one around here will get any sleep because of the sirens of the Ambulances running around the square, carrying people to the field hospitals, Egyptians have been donating blood, blankets, money to buy supplies, the square doesn't have any majority controlling it, wait, actually it does, it is controlled by Egyptians, not activists, not Islamists, not politicians, in fact, there's been a deal that no one will market their parties on the square.

What's happening now, is similar to the atmosphere of the twenty eighth of January, except this time is even more violent, clashes have been ongoing non stop for the past four days now, so similar that the ruling authority is taking the same steps the former president took, first speech, that was very late, trying with a desperate try to please the crowds, but as the crowd chanted "Too late" "The people want to topple the field marshal", "Down down with the military rule" you can get the sense that the people are fed up, and they're done with the military in power after being ruled by a military authority ever since Nasser took over in 1952.

And now the humorous Egyptians were saying, regardless of all the violence, "Al right, that's one speech, two more to go, and you're out Tantawi" -As before Mubarak stepped down, he gave three speeches-

Situation doesn't seem to be calming down any time sooner, but anyway, I will make a habit out of it to write something every night after the day goes by to keep you folks updated.

The video of First LT firing at protesters and the clashes from the Police side:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54-1qNeef0E