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CAIRO (Reuters) - Millions took to the streets to celebrate a new Egypt on Friday, reminding military rulers to keep their promise of a swift transition to democracy after protests swept away autocrat Hosni Mubarak in...
	                
	                
	            
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Millions took to the streets to celebrate a new Egypt on Friday, reminding military rulers to keep their promise of a swift transition to democracy after protests swept away autocrat Hosni Mubarak in just 18 days.
On an emotional day that was also a memorial to the 365 people who died in the uprising, many said they would guard promises from the military of elections within six months.
"This is a serious message to the military," said Mohamed el-Said, 28, who traveled to Cairo from Port Said. He gestured to a colorful sea of people from all walks of life around him who rallied to mark the stepping down of Mubarak a week ago.
"After today, it will be more than obvious to them that if they don't protect the revolution and respond to the people's demands, the next time people go down to Tahrir won't be to celebrate victory, but they will bring their blankets with them like before," he told Reuters in Tahrir (Liberation) Square.
Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, an influential Qatar-based Egyptian preacher, told worshippers in Tahrir Square that fear had been lifted from Egyptians who had toppled a modern pharaoh through faith and triumphed over sectarianism.
His appearance and the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood show a new-found acceptance of once-forbidden Islamist movements, although religious voices are only some of the many now being heard.
On the diplomatic front, the military rulers, in their first awkward diplomatic exposure, approved the passage of two Iranian naval vessels through the Suez Canal. Israel's right-wing foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, had said Iran's plan to send the ships through the canal was "provocative".
MUSIC ON THE NILE
The military, asserting its authority, said it would no longer tolerate strikes that were damaging the economy and national security. Workers in the vast public sector, inspired by the revolt that toppled Mubarak, are seeking better pay and conditions. Some have been demanding their bosses step down.
The revolution in Egypt, a U.S. ally which signed the first Arab peace treaty with Israel, sent tremors through the region. Protests erupted in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran and Iraq, taking their cue from Egypt and Tunisia who toppled their leaders.
Jubilant families sang and danced to pop music that blared from boats bobbing in the Nile, others danced and banged drums on the river banks. By evening, it was virtually impossible to move in Tahrir as the party carried on with fireworks and food.
"I call on the Egyptian army to liberate us from the government that Mubarak formed," Qaradawi told the faithful at noon prayers in Tahrir Square, after which the crowd exploded with cheers and waved national flags in jubilation.
"You are Egyptian -- raise your head high," read one banner, reflecting an outpouring of national pride caused by the revolt.
Egypt's official state news agency, which before Mubarak's downfall had largely ignored or played down protests, said on Friday that more than 2 million people were in Tahrir Square.
Such a popular wave of emotion was on a par with the 1970 death of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose speeches gripped and galvanized the Arab world, when mourners flooded the streets of Cairo and Egyptian cities.
	
	
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