While satellite television channels showed military personnel and the interior ministry’s Central Security Forces clearing Tahrir Square on Sunday, SCAF member Hamdy Badeen asserted that military police had not entered the square “since the last Eid El-Fitr” holiday in early September. ..

El-Eissawy went on to say that “unknown individuals” had been firing on protesters in downtown Cairo from the rooftops of surrounding buildings. ..

Commenting on videos circulating online showing protesters detaining an alleged state security officer found in the square carrying a firearm, El-Eissawy said that the man was a retired officer. As for a video screened on Al Jazeera showing state security and military personnel throwing a slain protester in a garbage pile, El-Eissawy said they had simply been “setting the body aside.”