A protester is carried away after being shot in Sheik Zuweid in the northern Sinai area of Egypt in this image taken from TV on Thursday Jan. 27, 2011. The man later died of his injuries . Violence escalated outside the capital Cairo Thursday where anti-government protesters torched a fire station and looted weapons that they then turned on police. Egypt's top democracy advocate returned to the country and declared he was ready to lead the campaign to oust longtime President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Associated Press Television News) TV OUTAP – About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead.

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