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Barack Obama had to call Egypt's interim leader, Field-Marshal Muhammad Tantawi, to urge him to intervene.

Lapan said Gates spoke to the Egyptian military council chairman, Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, on Saturday, the day after he took power.

In a live television address, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said next week's parliamentary elections will not be cancelled.

Five months later, a more frequent chant you hear is for Tantawi to step down and for military rule to end.

Egyptian Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi was seen visiting the square Friday for the first time since the start of the protests.

Now in a speech in the official ceremony Mr Tantawi has said nobody ever asked the army to open fire.

Egypt's Al-Ahram reported that, Tantawi said that if he had been summoned to court to testify, he will testify.

Its top official, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, 75, served for decades as a top official of Mr. Mubarak's government.

Tantawi defense team as an apologist for the Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak that he will justify charges.

A strict media blockade was imposed before Field Marshal Tantawi's appearance in Mr Mubarak's trial on Sep 24.

It also puts Tantawi in a position where he needs to respond to the accusations in some way. '

Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi, Egypt's senior cleric, died in Saudi Arabia, aged 81.

But Mr Tantawi, now 78 years old, is believed to be ailing and soon to retire.

Who runs the military council: the defence minister, Muhammad Tantawi, once a Mubarak man, always conservative and now ailing;