The beleaguered Egyptian leader said he was "fed-up with being president and would like to leave office now, but cannot, he says, for fear that the country would sink into chaos," ABC`s Christiane Amanpour reported after their 20-minute interview in Cairo.
"I don`t care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country, I care about Egypt," Mubarak said, as violent protests against his rule stretched into a 10th day.
The veteran leader added: "I was very unhappy about yesterday. I do not want to see Egyptians fighting each other."(*)
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