"We don't really know how the military deals with internal policing," said Morayef of Human Rights Watch. "The targeting of activists is very reminiscent of the state security approach."
Their captivity yielded some insights into the military's position on the political crisis, Islam said. The officer who interrogated him acknowledged that Mubarak was "finished," but that the uprising "must stop because the army will not accept this kind of end for one of its leaders."
