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00:05:53    >> Richard, during the 18 days and especially today, how was information passed so that people knew exactly where they stood in terms of what was unfolding in egypt, and it is my sense, I could be wrong from where I'm sitting, but it is my sense that the information that the crowd had at any given time was generally true at that time.

00:06:15    This doesn't seem to be a story of different rumors rifling through the crowd and changing momentum through false rumors as the story developed.

00:06:26    >> There were lots and lots and lots of rumors, thousands of rumors.

00:06:31    But there was a correcting process that is much faster now, so a rumor would come out, and because of social networking sites or different media sites, it would quickly be countered or shut down by competing statements.

00:06:46    So there wasn't a persistent rumor that would offset, put the movement off track a day or two like we've seen in political movements in the past.

00:06:56    People were communicating mostly by cell phone.

00:06:59    That was the overwhelming source of communications and information distribution.

00:07:05    And I remember there was this one image in tahrir square, people were pulling the electrical cables out of the lampposts and plugging them into extension cords so that they could plug in dozens of cell phones at a time.

00:07:19    In tahrir square, they set up a little bit of a media center where people would come in, exchange information and use their cell phones to get out the latest information.
00:07:31    When they thought that the cell phones weren't safe or that the cell phone messages weren't safe, they would switch to twitter.

00:07:39    Then when twitter messages were compromised, they would switch to facebook.

00:07:44    So there was a very sophisticated use of information, but those would be the three.

00:07:48    Cell phones the biggest, twitter and facebook the other two.

00:07:51    And then of course, when the government shut it down, people just started talking to each other.

00:08:00    >> One of the eye ronnies may be that tahrir square became the center of this movement in part because the government shut down communication.

00:08:07    I was speaking with a demonstrator, she said the day the government tried to stop people from getting together and organizing online is when they cut off communication.

00:08:20    Because people didn't know exactly where to go, they all converged on tahrir square, which is in the center of the city, and it was that gathering of people which created such momentum, it created that iconic image that helped drive this revolution forward.

That's mostly what drove the Egyptian Revolution.

`Correct. Weapons of mass effect,' said Mr Hallor.

`You ever found one?' asked Mr Blacher.

`Not at this location,' Mr Hallor said.

`But they have found them?' asked Mr Blacher.

`Yes,' said Mr Hallor.

`You never found one in San Diego though?' Mr Blacher asked.

`I would say at the port of San Diego we have not,' Mr Hallor said.

`Have you found one in San Diego?' Mr Blacher asked.

The interview was then interrupted and cut short by a public relations official before Mr Hallor was able to answer the question.