Soldiers and police have moved into Cairo”s iconic Tahrir Square to end a five-day sit-in by protesters demanding that the country”s ruling military council step down and that Hosni Mubarak, the country”s former president, and his allies be prosecuted more swiftly. Traffic began flowing in the central Cairo thoroughfare by early Tuesday evening. Earlier, hundreds of soldiers took positions in the middle of the square, and military vehicles were seen at every entrance to the normally busy thoroughfare. Protesters had earlier closed the square to traffic by setting up barricades. Troops with machine-guns detained several young men, pushing them into police vans, while others broke down the…
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