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Exit Pharoah

Mubarak steps down; military in charge

by
Marc Tracy
February 11, 2011
Tahrir Square this morning.(Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)
Tahrir Square this morning.(Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)

Vice President Omar Suleiman has announced today, on the 18th day of protests, that President Hosni Mubarak has resigned from the presidency. According to the army, it will supervise Suleiman as he implements constitutional reforms in the coming months. In the last few minutes of ecstasy, anyway, for the exhausted multitude in Tahrir Square this has been Kifaya: Enough. Be happy for them.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.