Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Until recently, Seif Awad worked a day job as an account manager for Cisco.
But since Saturday he has begun volunteering at nights, protecting his neighborhood with a volunteer defense squad of young male neighbors armed with makeshift weapons. Last night he armed himself with a big stick. On Sunday, Awad bought gasoline canisters and started making Molotov cocktails.
"If anyone comes on the street we're going to throw those at them," Awad said. "And I have a friend here who has a gun".
Shortly before he spoke on the phone Sunday night with CNN, Awad says he and his comrades scared off a group of men who tried to scale the walls of his upscale gated residential neighborhood. CNN
