WSJ recounts how youth groups plotted the first day in order ot avoid police presence.
""I was talking with Arabic admin and we were watching Tunisia and the moment we heard Ben Ali ran away, he said, 'We have to do something,' " said El-Shaheed, whose true identity couldn't be determined.
The Arabic administrator posted on the Arabic page an open question to readers: "What do you think we should give as a gift to the brutal Egyptian police on their day
The answer came from everyone: Tunisia Tunisia :)," wrote El-Shaheed."
"They met daily for two weeks in the cramped living room of the mother of Ziad al-Alimi. Mr. Alimi is a leading youth organizer for Mr. ElBaradei's campaign group.His mother, a former activist who served six months in prison for her role leading protests during the bread riots in 1977"
In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Ahmed Maher talks about the preparations for the 25 January 2011 protests, otherwise known as Egypt's "Day of Rage", as well as the ways in which the protest movement attempted to circumvent the efforts of the security apparatus to halt the demonstrations, and the Tahrir Square protestors commitment to continue protesting until Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak steps down from power.
[Asharq Al-Awsat] You are also a member of the "Coalition of the Revolution's Youth", can you tell us more about this organization?
[Maher] The role of the coalition is to manage all aspects of the main sit-in at Tahrir Square, from forming committees to provide protestors with food, to looking at methods of escalating the protests, and discussing our demands.
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