Mubarak dictated response to protests in Cairo

Mubarak Dictated Response to Protests in Cairo, Report Says CAIRO - Sitting in his palace in early 2011, as protests against him consumed Egypt,President Hosni Mubarak watched live video feeds of the demonstrations in TahrirSquare and the brutal response by his security forces, who used clubs, teargas and live ammunition against civilians, according to a commission investigatingdeaths during the 18-day revolt and its aftermath.