CNN reports here.

Until recently, Seif Awad worked a day job as an account manager for Cisco.

But since Saturday he has begun volunteering at nights, protecting his neighborhood with a volunteer defense squad of young male neighbors armed with makeshift weapons. Last night he armed himself with a big stick. On Sunday, Awad bought gasoline canisters and started making Molotov cocktails.

“If anyone comes on the street we’re going to throw those at them,” Awad said. “And I have a friend here who has a gun.”

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Real estate broker Karim Amer armed himself with a kitchen knife Saturday night and joined his own hastily formed neighborhood militia.

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“People are much more organized today,” Amer said. “We’ve got people with whistles now. Different neighborhood corners have agreed to different whistles to signal for help.”

I wonder what Egyptian gun control laws look like?

Update: Thanks for the link Instapundit!