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Description: Part of Our Coverage of the 2011 Protests in Egypt Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- The government's call for protesters to obey curfew and the low-flying fighter jets overhead did nothing to deter thousands of Egyptians from continuing their protest into Sunday night. Instead, crowds surrounded Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure, as he walked into Cairo's Tahrir Square. Throngs of people cheered his arrival. ElBaradei told protesters he came "to participate today in the lives of Egyptians. Today I look into the eyes of each one of you, and everyone is different today. Today you are an Egyptian demanding your rights and freedom, and what we started can never be pushed back. As we said, we have one main demand: the end of the regime and to start a new phase." In a CNN interview earlier, ElBaradei called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to "leave today and save the country." Thousands defy Egyptian curfew ElBaradei: Egypt's Mubarak must leave Uncertainty in Egypt Gallery: Protesters hit the streets in Egypt "This is a country that is falling apart," ElBaradei told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." ElBaradei, a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is one of several opposition figures whose name surfaces when protesters talk about possible future leaders of Egypt. Among other names is Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League. But Mubarak has given no indications of giving up his 30-year rule. He vowed to listen to the protesters' message and fired his entire ...
