Analysts: Mubarak's resignation is only the beginning

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CNN.com:

(CNN) -- Amid the jubilant celebrations over Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation Friday, analysts cautioned that the protest movement's biggest challenges lie in the days ahead as the euphoria of revolution dies down and the reality of rebuilding a country sets in.

"Egypt's problems began before Mubarak, and they will not end with his ouster," Kenneth Pollack, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution,wrote in a commentary piece for CNN.com. "Instead, they are the product of a corrupt, stagnant and oppressive system which Mubarak helped to build but now extends beyond his own person."

World leaders have been pushing for an orderly transition since the protest movement first gained momentum late last month. The calls grew only louder Friday after Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman made a somber one-minute announcement on state television announcing Mubarak's resignation and the appointment of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces to "run the affairs of the country."


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Seems to concur with my thoughts that the military may not be too anxious to give up the power any time soon.