41.   Bullet and mortar holes pocked the large U.S. embassy building.

42.   But police from the Sabailskovo region in the capital tried to force the opposition supporters away from the embassy building.

43.   But protesters said police and their dogs provoked the violence by moving toward them from the embassy building.

44.   Consul Alfredo Tejeda said the demonstrators also threw stones at the embassy building, apparently to protest the raid.

45.   Cordons of police standing shoulder to shoulder blocked off the main gate to the embassy building and reinforcements were stationed in side streets.

46.   Despite the fact that it remained standing, the bombed embassy building was ruled structurally unsound and will be destroyed, embassy spokesman Chris Scharf said.

47.   Earlier reports indicated that the North Koreans had entered the main embassy building.

48.   Egyptian security officials said the move was apparently taken for security reasons to avoid crowding at the embassy building.

49.   For now, the embassy building will be used as a liaison office, housing a small group of American diplomats.

50.   Flags on the embassy building remained at full staff.