We did it...

It was 6:01PM, and it lasted but some thirty seconds...
Taking into consideration the difficult circumstances the country is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave the post of president of the republic and has tasked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to manage the state's affairs, the Vice President Omar Suleiman declared on Egyptian television.
Hosni Mubarak had just resigned, and the armed forces were now in charge of the nation...
Only the night before, Mubarak had vowed not to step down.
The thousands that had gathered in Tahrir Square expecting to celebrate the news of his departure were bitterly disappointed.
Thousands shouted Irhal! (Leave!), in unison, as their hopes of victory at long last were dashed by the old autocrat's obduracy.
The response from the people here is massive and direct. He can be as stubborn as he likes, but the will of the people is clear, Fakhr El-Sanhoury, a twenty-six-year-old architect, told Jack Shenker, of The Guardian.
Some people here worry about what is going to happen next, but I'm not scared. Just like the Tunisians did to Ben Ali, we will follow their example. We have won, whatever comes next, Nisma Saïd, a secretary, told Shenker.
Nisma was right.
Less than twenty-fours later, the despot was gone, driven away by his people's rigteous wrath...
Mubarak is gone, but the regime is still in place.

There will be time tomorrow to worry whether or not  the army will respect its previous pledges to honor all of the Egyptians people's demand, and is ready to cede power to civilians of the opposition...
Tonight, they have earned the right to celebrate a glorious victory, obtained in just three weeks.
For 18 days we have withstood tear gas, rubber bullets, live ammunition, molotov cocktails, thugs on horseback, the scepticism and fear of our loved ones, and the worst sort of ambivalence from an international community that claims to care about democracy. But we held our ground. We did it, Karim Medhat Ennarah, a protester, told The Guardian.
Mubarak resigned thirty-two years to the day after the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran.
Wael Ghonim, a spokesman for the opposition sent this message to the Iranians, shortly before Mubarak's departure. I would tell Iranians to learn from the Egyptians, as we have learned from you guys, that at the end of the day with the power of people, we can do whatever we want to do. If we unite our goals, if we believe, then all our dreams can come true.
This was the great lesson of the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings.
Once the people acquire sufficient faith in their ability to take control of their own destiny, they are invincible...
May their example inspire all the oppressed in the Middle East and elsewhere...
It can be done...
The Tunisians and now the Egyptians have just done it...
(the photograph above is by Suhaib Salem/Reuters)