Egypt dictator Hosni Mubarak on the brink of being toppled.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 7, 2011.​

 

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A general view shows Egyptian anti government protesters praying at sunset on Cairo's Tahrir Square, on February 7, 2011, on the 14th days of protests calling for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's regime.​

 

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Anti government protestors arrange transparent plastic sheets to shelter themselves from the cold night air on Tahrir Square on February 7, 2011, on the 14th days of protests.​

 

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Anti-government protesters walk under an effigy hanging from a noose representing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, at the continuing protest in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Egypt's embattled regime announced Monday a 15 percent raise for government employees in an attempt to shore up its base and defuse popular anger but the gestures so far have done little to persuade the tens of thousands of protesters occupying Tahrir Square to end their two-week long protest, leaving the two sides in an uneasy stalemate.​

 

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Anti-government protesters pray at dusk at the continuing protest in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011.​

 

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Placards of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are held by protesters during a rally denouncing Mubarak's rule near the Egypt embassy in Seoul on February 8, 2011.​

 

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An Egyptian protestor shouts with a placard during a rally near the Egyptian embassy in Seoul on February 8, 2011. The protestors, Egyptians living in South Korea and South Koreans, supported demonstrations calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down.​

 

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is seen on a screen as he speaks during a ceremony called for by Lebanese anti-American groups to support of the anti-government Egyptian uprising, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Nasrallah says the Egyptian uprising will change the Mideast for generations to come. The Arabic on the wall left reads: "Freedom for the Egyptian people."​

 

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A large poster of one of the people who were killed during clashes, is seen in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Faces of some of the hundreds killed in Egypt's two-week-old uprising are beginning to emerge from the fog of chaos. Details of the lives lost have started to appear in Egyptian newspapers, on websites and in huge posters put up in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the center of the revolt that erupted Jan. 25. The arabic on the poster reads "The blood of the martyrs won't go in vain, the name of the martyr, Ahmed Sharif Mohammed".​

 

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A large banner depicting people who were killed during clashes and the Arabic writing reading, "The blood of the martyrs", is seen in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011.​

 

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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian anti-government demonstrators crowd Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 8, 2011 on the 15th consecutive day of protests demanding the ouster of embattled President Hosni Mubarak.​

 

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Hundreds of Egyptian anti-government demonstrators crowd a bridge as they walk toward Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 8, 2011 to join evening protests demanding the ouster of embattled President Hosni Mubarak.​

 

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Protesters wave flags as they chant anti-government slogans during mass demonstrations inside Tahrir Square in Cairo February 8, 2011. Egypt has a plan and timetable for the peaceful transfer of power, the vice president said on Tuesday, as protesters called more demonstrations to show their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak remains potent.​

 

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Egyptian anti-government protesters perform the evening prayers as they gather at Cairo's Tahrir square on February 8, 2011 on the 15th day of consecutive protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.​

 

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A man rides a horse-pulled carriage amid the traffic jammed Qasr El-Nil bridge in central Cairo on February 8, 2011 as pedestrians try to reach the Tahrir square where anti-government demonstrators are protesting for the 15th consecutive day calling for the ouster of embattled President Hosni Mubarak.​

 

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Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters camp out next to Army tanks and armored vehicles near Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning Tahrir Square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheets.​

 

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A tourist walks in front of the Great Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo February 9, 2011.​

 

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Egyptian soldiers sit atop a military vehicle in front of the Great Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo February 9, 2011. Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as re-invigorated protesters flocked again to Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand President Hosni Mubarak quit immediately.​

 

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Protesters pray at dusk at the continuing anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Thursday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer.​