Some Egyptians expressed fear that more unrest would leave their country in ruins, and hoped Mubarak would go quickly.
"We don't want this regime to leave this country in a state of destruction. We want it to go away. We need to give them a safe haven to leave this nation. Leave us, enough," Salah Abdel Maqsoud, a senior official in the Journalists Union close to the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, told Al Jazeera television.
Mubarak, 82, has been a close ally of Washington and beneficiary of U.S. aid for decades, justifying his autocratic rule in part by citing a danger of Islamist militancy.
The Muslim Brotherhood opposition, however, appears to have played a backseat role in the unrest.
His government has largely shut Egypt off from the Internet, which protesters used to organize. The mobile phone network in Cairo was still out of action. Obama called for an end to interference with communications networks.
"I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters," Obama said.
Anthony Skinner, Associate Director of political risk consultancy Maplecroft, said Mubarak's conduct was reminiscent of that of Tunisia's ousted leader Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, who also fired his cabinet hours before he was forced to flee.
"Mubarak is showing he is still there for now and he is trying to deflect some of the force of the process away from himself by sacking the cabinet. We will have to see how people react but I don't think it will be enough at all."
Markets were hit by the uncertainty. U.S. stocks suffered their biggest one-day loss in nearly six months, crude oil prices surged and the dollar and U.S. Treasury debt gained as investors looked to safe havens.
This would be very a dangerous situation for egypt and it's people, if you will ask for a CHANGE and you will not handle it will then radicals may take advantage. This is a problem for a muslim nation and it has happened many times, in Iran after the Sha falls, in Iraq when saddam's regime was over, in lebanon when the western backed goverment left.
People in Egypt should handle this things carefully and watch those people and organization who supported this unrest, they maybe more than the change the egyptians are asking, maybe worst.

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