Further evidence the US adminstration is on the side of the regime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04diplomacy.html

The plan being floated by the White House for the transition represents an effort to prop up the regime.

"Even though Mr. Mubarak has balked, so far, at leaving now, officials from both governments are continuing talks about a plan in which Mr. Suleiman, backed by Lt. Gen. Sami Enan, chief of the Egyptian armed forces, and Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the defense minister, would immediately begin a process of constitutional reform."

Where are the civilians?