[Lemon:] Tomorrow will be a pivotal day in Egypt's future and observers fear it could be a violent one as well. Cairo's Tahrir Square is already overflowing with people anxious to know who will be named president. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate is claiming victory but there is unofficial word that tomorrow the military which holds most of the power in Egypt will name the former prime minister as the new president. That would almost certainly lead to angry protests. And speaking of angry protests, intense clashes today between riot police and Sudanese protesters in the country's capital. Crowds have been rallying against spending cuts and austerity measures there for the past week. The protests really got heated up at Friday prayers with crowds calling for the removal of President Omar al-Bashir. As many as 75 people were killed in uprisings today in Syria. Twenty two of them in a turbulent town in the eastern part of the country. Even medical personnel rushing in to help victims are being killed as opposition leaders continue their 15-month clash with government forces. And there is proof those opposition forces are gaining steam. Not just their numbers but also the peculiar place they're getting their weapons. CNN's Barbara Starr has more from the Pentagon.
[Barbara Starr, Cnn Pentagon Correspondent:] It's just one Syrian armored vehicle under attack by opposition forces. Opposition forces that have grown from handfuls to nearly 40,000 by some estimates now attacking Bashar al-Assad's regime every day. Some weapons are being smuggled into the country but a senior U.S. official with access to the latest information says, there's also an increasing number of weapons from the Syrian military, itself. How the rebels get them says a lot about what is going on.
[Andrew Tabler, Washington Institute For Near East Policy:] They just purchase them from officers. So, you know, the Syrian system is quite corrupt. Many times when people are stopped at checkpoints soldiers ask if they'd like to buy any ammunition.
[Starr:] There is no sign of collapse by Assad's most elite military units, but the rank and file may be less loyal. Opposition sources tell CNN, some Syrian troops may deliberately be missing their targets, a sign of support for the people.
[Tabler:] I've heard that on a number of occasions. It wouldn't surprise me. And that also can be these kind of slowdowns in the government and army and the bureaucracy are a way of resisting the Assad regime's reaction to the uprising.
[Starr:] U.S. officials say, there is no way to confirm the reports but it's now clear that opposition forces are strong enough that Assad's most elite units cannot always respond everywhere they are need.
[George Little, Pentagon Press Secretary:] You have an opposition, set of opposition groups that is finding ways not totally coalesced but they are finding ways of organizing themselves more effectively.
[Starr:] No one is saying that the Syrian regime is about to crack, but just this week two brigadier generals and two colonels defected and that Syrian pilot that's defected to Jordan, U.S. officials believe he is a Syrian colonel with intelligence about Syrian military operations. Barbara Starr, CNN the Pentagon.
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