"It was spontaneous, of course not. We planned everything in detail," said Sally Moore, a psychiatrist of 31 years and a member of the revolutionary committee, young people who designed and guided the Egyptian revolt still unable to imagine how far they reach. A sense of strategy almost spy movie and iron discipline have been key to its success.
We have not known their names so far, as they used the anonymity of the Internet to escape the persecution of the regime, although it is a mean to escape and many have suffered arrests and torture. Doctors, pharmacists, engineers and lawyers, studied at the best universities in the country and have about thirty years, the same as Hosni Mubarak had clung to power.
Some met in college, others in parties political, others through social networks. In their ranks are Marxists, liberals, Islamists and independents, but decided to join forces when they realized they shared the same dream: a democracy. In the heat of the revolution in Tunisia, it all started with a Facebook message.
Wael Ghonim, manager of Google's 30 years that had created the group We are all Khaled Said, proposed date of January 25, the day of the police. Within days, a committee was formed consisting of five organizations-elMovimiento April 6, Campaign ElBaradei and the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Democratic Front, and Justice and Freedom, "and some independents.
At that first meeting, three weeks before 25 January, established what is still a standard: there is an agenda with times allocated to each subject that they are respected to the letter. The strategy was planned to the last detail. The day of the event, divided into several groups, to ensure that someone came to Tahrir Square but others were arrested.
They had maps with alternative routes, and had calculated the time it would take to reach the square. They thought a great trick to fool the police. Spread the rumor that they were going to meet at the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque in the district Mohandisin accommodated, as they always did. Instead, congregated in neighborhoods where they began to chant slogans against rising food prices, against rock-bottom wages.
"The truth is we always think we detenedrían, who would not get Tahrir. But it was amazing. My group started with about fifty people. After an hour and thousands were marching toward the center. At half past three we arrived at the plaza, and other groups also came with thousands of people, "recalls Dr.
Moore. One day we realized that everything had changed. " 
We have not known their names so far, as they used the anonymity of the Internet to escape the persecution of the regime, although it is a mean to escape and many have suffered arrests and torture. Doctors, pharmacists, engineers and lawyers, studied at the best universities in the country and have about thirty years, the same as Hosni Mubarak had clung to power.
Some met in college, others in parties political, others through social networks. In their ranks are Marxists, liberals, Islamists and independents, but decided to join forces when they realized they shared the same dream: a democracy. In the heat of the revolution in Tunisia, it all started with a Facebook message.
Wael Ghonim, manager of Google's 30 years that had created the group We are all Khaled Said, proposed date of January 25, the day of the police. Within days, a committee was formed consisting of five organizations-elMovimiento April 6, Campaign ElBaradei and the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Democratic Front, and Justice and Freedom, "and some independents.
At that first meeting, three weeks before 25 January, established what is still a standard: there is an agenda with times allocated to each subject that they are respected to the letter. The strategy was planned to the last detail. The day of the event, divided into several groups, to ensure that someone came to Tahrir Square but others were arrested.
They had maps with alternative routes, and had calculated the time it would take to reach the square. They thought a great trick to fool the police. Spread the rumor that they were going to meet at the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque in the district Mohandisin accommodated, as they always did. Instead, congregated in neighborhoods where they began to chant slogans against rising food prices, against rock-bottom wages.
"The truth is we always think we detenedrían, who would not get Tahrir. But it was amazing. My group started with about fifty people. After an hour and thousands were marching toward the center. At half past three we arrived at the plaza, and other groups also came with thousands of people, "recalls Dr.
Moore. One day we realized that everything had changed. "
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