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Musicians, one (center right) playing the oud, entertain anti-government protesters with songs against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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** FILE ** ABC News journalist Christiane Amanpour (right) and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak talk after an interview in Cairo on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/ABC News)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. John Kerry Sunday disavowed a diplomat's apparent support for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's continued rule.

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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman (center) meets Sunday with representatives of the anti-government movement in Cairo to try to end the country's political crisis. The immediate ouster of President Hosni Mubarak continued to be a key demand.

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Egyptian flags wave during a Jan. 29 demonstration in front of the White House demanding that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down. (Associated Press)

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A cargo ship transits the Suez Canal en route from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez at the city of Suez, Egypt, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Oil has come off two-year highs above $92 earlier this week as investor fears that chaos in Egypt could disrupt the two million barrels of crude per day that pass through the Suez Canal and an adjacent pipeline eased. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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President Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Sept. 1, 2010. U.S. intelligence agencies' failure to predict the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had drawn criticism from the White House and Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Illustration: China and Egypt by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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Anti-government demonstrators grab a man they suspect to be a supporter of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's Tahrir Square Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou)

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In this frame grab from video taken from Egypt state TV, Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman speaks during an interview, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, in Cairo. (AP Photo/Egypt State TV via APTN)

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Anti-government demonstrators hand over to the the army a man, center, they suspect to be a supporter of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's Tahrir Square Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou)

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A wounded anti-government protester is tended during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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A man suspected of being a plain-clothed policeman is escorted by anti-government protesters during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Egypt's prime minister apologized for an attack by government supporters on protesters in a surprising show of contrition Thursday, and the government offered more concessions to try to calm the wave of demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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U.N. soldiers escort U.N. staff based in Egypt after they arrive in Cyprus' Larnaca airport, Thursday, Feb. 3 2011. The United Nations is evacuating its 350 Egypt-based staff members to the east Mediterranean island due to security concerns. Around 150 U.N. staff and their dependents arrived aboard a U.N. chartered flight from Cairo on Thursday. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

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French photojournalist from SIPA Press agency Alfred Yaghobzadeh is being treated by anti-government protesters after being wounded during clashes between pro-government supporters and anti-government protesters, in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo)

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Pro-government demonstrators, bottom, clash with anti-government demonstrators, top right, as a palm tree burns from a firebomb, in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Riding a camel, a supporter of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fights with anti-Mubarak protesters in the streets of Cairo on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, as Egypt's upheaval took a violent turn in its ninth day. (Associated Press)

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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters Wednesday at the White House on the situation in Egypt. (Associated Press)

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An injured anti-government protester gestures as he is treated by medics during clashes in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Several thousand supporters of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with anti-government protesters as Egypt's upheaval took a dangerous new turn. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)