'Egypt is Free,' crowds chant after Mubarak quits
InternationalFeb 12, 2011
CAIRO (AP) _ Cries of ``Egypt is free'' rang out and fireworks it up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule. Ecstatic protesters in Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers ...