Egyptians stage big protest, dismiss power plan

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim addresses a mass crowd inside Tahrir Square in Cairo yesterday. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptians staged one of their  biggest protests yet yesterday demanding President Hosni  Mubarak step down now, their wrath undiminished by the vice  president’s announcement of a plan to transfer power.

Protesters, many moved by a Google executive’s tearful  account of his detention by security forces, poured into Cairo’s  Tahrir Square to pack a space that can hold a quarter of a  million people.

While the government refuses to budge on the demonstrators’  main demands, Vice President Omar Suleiman promised there would  be no reprisals against the protesters for their three-week-old