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CAIRO — Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have stormed a building of the country's hated internal security service in Cairo.
It is the second time in as many days that protesters forced their way inside State Security Agency offices.
Three weeks after the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are turning their anger toward his internal security apparatus, rallying outside several of its key buildings Saturday to demand that it be dismantled.
Protester Mohammed el-Saffani says hundreds of protesters barged into one of the buildings, in the northern Nasr City neighborhood from the backdoors, despite an army cordon.
He says the protesters want to save official documents that they believe are being destroyed to hide evidence of human rights abuses.
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Egyptians Storm State Security Building In Cairo
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CAIRO — Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have stormed a building of the country's hated internal security service in Cairo.
It is the second time in as many days that protesters forced their way inside State Security Agency offices.
Three weeks after the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are turning their anger toward his internal security apparatus, rallying outside several of its key buildings Saturday to demand that it be dismantled.
"This could be bigger than Mubarak's fall in terms of the effect it could have on the country," said Elijah Zarwan, a Cairo-based analyst with the International Crisis Group.
State Security also collaborated with the United States on counterterrorism and was likely to have kept files on the rendition program under which terrorism suspects from around the world were relocated to Egypt by U.S. agents, Zarwan said.
But there were indications that some of the most sensitive documents might have been destroyed or removed, and most of the rest were taken away by prosecutors, witnesses said.
The evening attack on the facility in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City was the culmination of a wave of similar assaults over the previous 24 hours on State Security offices across the country, apparently fueled by rumors that officials had begun burning or shredding documents.