Coptic Christians show solidarity by forming a human chain around Islamic protesters
during Friday prayers in Tehrir Square on Friday, February 04, 2011.
Ann Hermes/Staff
As events in Cairo moved steadily – perhaps inexorably – toward a quick end to the 30-year regime of Hosni Mubarak, the United States continued to do what it could to push things in that direction without appearing to orchestrate what is amounting to political revolution in Egypt.
