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The military also deployed tanks in Hara, a town near Dara'a where demonstrations galvanized the unrest in mid-March.

Even in Homs, where the military deployed tanks last week, at least five small protests were reported.

But yesterday Mr Deby's army deployed tanks near his palace in the capital, and heavily armed soldiers patrolled the streets.

The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo, the BBC reports.

But last week the northern military deployed tanks and thousands of soldiers to Kadugli to forcibly disarm the southern-allied soldiers there.

That reluctance could blunt their role, given how the government has deployed tanks, soldiers and pounding force to crush centers of dissent.

But deploying tanks is a sign of desperation, and raises the question of when the military might begin to doubt Mr. Mubarak's viability.

In the past few days, the peacekeepers have spearheaded the fighting, deploying tanks, armored bulldozers and artillery to pound insurgent positions in Mogadishu.

The generals, for their part, began deploying tanks and troops on Wednesday at the entrance to Cairo in their own show of force.

The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed since March, when the uprising began and the regime responded by deploying tanks and troops to crush protests across Syria.

Several marchers said it was one thing to deploy tanks in provincial cities to fight antigovernment protesters, but it would be impossible to say that foreign armed gangs had penetrated an area close to the presidential palace.