In Mubarak's home town, angst and sorrow

"We didn't want him to go that way," said Hossam Habasha, 53. "Even if he was sick and had problems, we could have tolerated him for a bit longer. He served us for 30 years. If you have a cat and he gets sick, you take care of him until he dies."

"He did a lot of good things for Egypt," Habaa Saeed, 31, said of Mubarak. "People are afraid of saying that now. They are afraid of being beat up by the revolutionaries. With the streets empty of soldiers and police, who knows what could happen?"

"We were all safe during his rule," he said. "We're middle-class people. We don't have big dreams. We just want our kids to grow up with dignity and safety. The youth felt differently. They don't have that sense of loyalty."

"We lived in peace for 30 years," said Nadia Abdul Hamed, 53, as she shopped for groceries along an unpaved road Sunday morning. "We're all sad. I have cried for hours. Until now, every time I think about it, I cry." -- In Mubarak's home town, angst and sorrow

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