army seems to be defending select buildings with violence, the interior ministry and the central bank headquarters, but not enforcing control widely. fear of the police authority has evaporated; lots of images of the army tanks and other vehicles parked on the periphery of the crowd in tahrir square (liberation square), with people climbing on the vehicles and engaging soldiers friendlily. protesters tagging army tanks w/anti-muhbarak graffiti.
if you announce a curfew, you got to enforce it. if the people stop fearing/respecting your authority, you're gonna need a lot of violence to re-establish it.
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