(CBS News) CAIRO, Egypt – The president of Egypt has declared a state of emergency in three cities

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(CBS News) CAIRO, Egypt – The president of Egypt has declared a state of emergency in three cities. Anti-government demonstrations are raging in the cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismalia.

Riot police are also battling back against protesters in central Cairo exactly two years after protests there led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.

The rallying cry now is that after only 200 days in office, President Mohammed Morsi must go.

Opponents accuse Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party of not delivering economic reforms and not living up to pledges to represent all Egyptians.

“None of the goals of the revolution we made two years ago have been achieved,” said protester Maher Hamam. “There is no bread, no freedom, no dignity.”

President Morsi went on state TV to announce a 30-day state of emergency and an overnight curfew in three Egyptian cities.

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In one of them — Port Said — riots and protests at a mass funeral for dozens killed on Saturday brought at least four more dead, dozens wounded, and more than 400 suffered from teargas inhalation, according to a hospital spokesmen.

Hundreds of masked rioters stormed and set fire to a police station in the coastal city of Suez Saturday after clashes which left eight dead, including a policeman.

Military patrols have taken to the streets to restore order, 태백출장샵 and the local commander said the army had requested authority to arrest lawbreakers.

The Egyptian president called for dialogue, but more demonstrations are planned for Monday.

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A senior Western diplomat told CBS News on condition of anonymity that the charges against bin Laden’s wives may be the result of pressure on Pakistan to keep them in the country. “It is quite plausible that the Saudis want these people in Pakistan, away from the public eye,” the diplomat said. “Once they return to Saudi Arabia, they may become a headache for the Saudis, especially if they speak out on events surrounding Osama bin Laden’s killing.” A second senior Western diplomat said the news was “not surprising.” “My impression for some time has been that there are many people who would not like Osama bin Laden’s family members to go public on the circumstances surrounding his killing.” A Pakistani legal expert contacted about the case, Hashmat Habib, said the maximum punishment the women could receive was five years in jail. One of their relatives has reportedly visited Pakistan recently to urge authorities to let them leave the country. The decision to charge them could be a formal part of that process. One of the women is known to be from Yemen, another from Saudi Arabia. The nationality of the third woman is unclear. Bin Laden, the subject of a massive international manhunt, had been living in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad for around five years before the CIA traced his whereabouts. The unilateral American raid humiliated and angered the Pakistani army, which has also faced uncomfortable questions over why it wasn’t aware of bin Laden’s presence. A government commission is investigating the affair, but few expect it to come up with many answers. Its members have interviewed the wives. Last month, the government destroyed the three-story compound the bin Laden clan was living in, removing a concrete reminder of the country’s association with the world’s most wanted man. Brig. Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani army officer who spent months researching the events and says he was given rare access to transcripts of Pakistani intelligence’s interrogation of bin Laden’s youngest wife, who was detained in the raid, paints a picture of bin Laden living in a house divided, with wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below. Others in the family, crammed into the three-story villa compound where bin Laden would eventually be killed in a May 2 U.S. raid, were convinced that the eldest wife intended to betray the al Qaeda leader. Qadir was also given rare entry into the villa, which was sealed after the raid and demolished last month. Pictures he took, which he allowed The Associated Press to see, showed the villa’s main staircase, splattered with blood. Other pictures show windows protected by iron grills and the 20-foot high walls around the villa. Qadir’s research gives one of the most extensive descriptions of the arrangements in bin Laden’s hideout. His account is based on accounts by an official of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency who escorted him on a tour of the villa, the interrogation transcription he was allowed to read, and interviews with other ISI officials and al Qaeda-linked militants and tribesmen in the Afghan-Pakistan border region. The compound where bin Laden lived since mid-2005 was a crowded place, with 28 residents — including bin Laden, his three wives, eight of his children and five of his grandchildren. The bin Laden children ranged in age from his 24-year-old son Khaled, who was killed in the raid, to a 3-year-old born during their time in Abbottabad. Bin Laden’s courier, the courier’s brother and their wives and children also lived in the compound. The 54-year-old bin Laden himself seemed aged beyond his years, with suspected kidney or stomach diseases, and there were worries over his mental health, Qadir said he was told by ISI officials and an al Qaeda member he interviewed in the border regions. Bin Laden lived and died on the third floor. One room he shared with his youngest wife, Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, a Yemeni who was 19 when she married the al Qaeda leader in 1999. Another wife, Siham Saber, lived in another room on the same floor that also served as a computer room, Qadir told AP.

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