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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Thousands of people streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday and chanted for unity across the Arab world, and a couple of hundred staged a pro-Osama bin Laden protest in front of the U.S. Embassy.

The people crossed the bridges along Cairo and converged in the iconic Tahrir square where the daily gatherings of protesters earlier this year led to the removal of longtime President Hosni Mubarak.

They proclaimed their solidarity with opposition forces and protesters across the Arab world, including Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Libya, and urged Egypt to withdraw its ambassadors from those countries in solidarity with the citizens of those countries.

People carried flags of different countries, and a coffin for the “martyrs” of Syria was seen, a sight that symbolized the tough crackdown on demonstrators by the Damascus regime.

The so-called Arab spring, the uprisings against regimes across the Arab world, started in Tunisia earlier this year and quickly spread to Egypt — where Mubarak was forced to resigned after more than 30 years in power.

There have been persistent police crackdowns against protesters in places like Syria and Bahrain and a civil war has erupted between forces for and against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Mubarak has been in poor health and living in a hospital in the southern Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. He is under investigation on charges of ordering the killing of protesters.

Outside the U.S. Embassy, a couple of hundred people called for the removal of the U.S. ambassador and chanted slogans against U.S. President Barack Obama and in support of bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda who was shot and killed during a U.S. operation in Pakistan.

One chant heard was “Obama, Obama, bin Laden is in Tahrir Square.”

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