Just after he was released from the custody of Egyptian National Security Forces, Google executive Wael Ghonim gave an emotional interview on Egypt's Dream TV in which he revealed that he created the Facebook group that has been instrumental in the ongoing movement in the country.

Just after he was released from the custody of Egyptian National Security Forces, Google executive Wael Ghonim gave an emotional interview in which he revealed that he created the Facebook group that has been instrumental in the ongoing movement in the country.

"I didn't want anyone to know that I was the admin," Ghonim said in a conversation with Mona El Shazly on Egypt's Dream TV. "I'm not the hero."

Ghonim, Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, admitted that he created the Facebook group "We are all Khaled Said," a page that has been vital to the organization of the Tahrir Square protests. It was named for a 28-year-old Egyptian who was allegedly beaten to death by police.

The Google executive is based in the United Arab Emirates and was previously believed to have traveled to Cairo for a conference; however he said he made the trek to Egypt specifically to participate in the protests that are calling for an end to government corruption and the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.

Ghonim's release was brokered by "a group of Egyptian elder statesmen  businessmen and intellectuals who have opened negotiations with Vice President Omar Suleiman," the Wall Street Journal reported. Ghonim was escorted home by the National Democratic Party's Secretary General Hossam Badrawi.

On the program, Ghonim relayed some of the details of his capture. After attending protests, he was kidnapped by the National Democratic Party's security forces in the wee hours of Friday morning. Although he said he was not mistreated, he was blindfolded for his 12-day detention and was not told any details about what was going on in the streets of Cairo.

Ghonim told El Shazly that officials who initially noticed the group wrote it off, dismissing it as "kids on Facebook just making some noise."

"They didn't believe that these 'kids' came out, tens of thousands of them, to demonstrate on Jan. 25," he said. "This is the revolution of the youth of the Internet which then became the revolution of the youth of Egypt. And now it's become the revolution of all of Egypt."

The interview, which is quickly going viral, was originally posted on egypt.alive.in with English subtitles. Alive in Egypt is a site that posts news, video, audio, and other communications from the country, translated into other languages by volunteers.

Ghonim was a guest on Dream TV just before he was taken into custody, speaking to El Shazly about the government assault on communications in Egypt that began nearly three weeks ago.

Ghonim is one of many captured by the ruling party. According to the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, about 1,275 people have been captured by the government, although organization lawyers have said that many have been released.

Throughout his detention, Ghonim became a face of the protests, with the April 6 youth movement last week.

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