UPDATE 116, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 11:01 a.m. EST/6:01 p.m. Cairo (Siddhartha Mahanta): Sonia Verma, reporting from Tahrir Square, tweets "Some pro-mubarak placards were pre-printed. This is not spontaneous #egypt" and "Mosques across the city are sending pro Mubarak messages." Her tweets appear to confirm that the pro-Mubarak response—complete with club and knife-wielding, horse-and-camel riding thugs, as Al Jazeera has reported—was a carefully executed plan.
UPDATE 123, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 3:15 p.m. EST/10:15 p.m. Cairo (Siddhartha Mahanta): On state television, Egypt's health minister said that 611 people have been injured (so far) in today's clashes in Tahrir square. And via CNN's Ben Wedeman, The New York Times' The Lede reports that some of the pro-Mubarak demonstrators today work for government-supported companies and were ordered to attend the protests today.
UPDATE 124, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 3:43 p.m. EST/10:43 p.m. Cairo (Siddhartha Mahanta): What you're looking at: Pro-Mubarak demonstrators facing off against anti-government protestors in Tahrir Square:
