ElBaradei: 'More Vicious' Ahead?

Nobel laureate and Egypt opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday it would be a "major setback" if the United States supported keeping Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, in office during a transition of power— as many reports indicate. "It would appear that you (the United States) are just responding to who is more powerful for each day rather than a principled position," ElBaradei said in a telephone interview with Reuters from Cairo, "and I do not want to see it turning from a beautiful, peaceful revolution into a bloody revolution." He also said that anything less than Mubarak's immediate resignation could cause protests to grow “more vicious.” ElBaradei, a major opposition leader, said recently that he would run to replace Mubarak “if the Egyptian people want me.”