Not so much backing down as switching tactics. The demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir square are now under assault from what the news is describing as "pro-govern

Not so much backing down as switching tactics. The demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir square are now under assault from what the news is describing as "pro-government demonstrators", who are throwing stones. They're marching with slogans like "thirty years of stability, nine days of anarchy", but things only turned violent when they showed up. There are multiple reports of these people being found to be bearing police IDs. Perhaps Mubarak's idea is to say, "it's me or this chaos." But it may very well be his police (otherwise invisible over the past few days) that are creating the chaos... EDIT: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon seems to think that's what's going on; he was just on al-J English saying that violence against peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable...