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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, angering protesters who want an immediate end to his 30-year-rule. Mubarak pledge to step down dismissed as too slow, Al Baradei calls it a trick. The United States called for the transition of power to begin straight away, stopping short of endorsing Mubarak's plan to stay in office for another six months. What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now, President Barack Obama said after speaking to him by phone. A leading reformist figure, retired diplomat Mohammad Al Baradei, was quoted as calling Mubarak's move a trick. In the streets of Cairo, protesters whose numbers swelled above 1 million across Egypt on Tuesday, many renewed their calls for the 82-year-old leader to quit. We will not leave He will leave some chanted.As the sun rises over Cairo today, protesters in Tahrir Square begin preparations for another day of demonstrations against President Mubarak's regime. The army tanks are still deployed throughout different positions in and around the square.
