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Khaled Elfiqi / EPA
A woman is taken away by the Egyptian army during clashes in central Cairo on Dec. 16, 2011.
Reuters reports from CAIRO:
Protesters clashed with military police in central Cairo on Friday after rumors spread that an anti-government activist was detained at a sit-in and badly beaten, in the worst violence since the start of Egypt's first free election in decades.
Police fired in the air after dawn to try to disperse around 300 demonstrators who said they were angered by images posted online of the man - named as Abboudi Ibrahim - being supported by a crowd, his face badly bruised and eyes swollen and shut.
The fighting continued and, by mid-morning, the area around the cabinet office and parliament was strewn with rubble as soldiers and men in plainclothes threw stones from the roofs of state buildings down on protesters, who hurled back rocks. Continue reading.
Amr Hafez / AP
Protesters throw rocks and firebombs at military police as another waves a national flag during clashes near Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square, in Egypt on Dec. 16, 2011.
Khaled Elfiqi / EPA
Protesters try to enter to the Prime Ministry building in central Cairo on Dec. 16, 2011. Dozens of protesters have been camping for three weeks outside the government headquarters near Tahrir Square to prevent new Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri from entering.
Mohammed Abed / AFP - Getty Images
Egyptian soldiers beat with their batons a protester during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Dec. 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament.
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....and the Muslim Brotherhood sits patiently on the sidelines waiting for the protest movement to be destroyed by the militrary. The Bro-hood has a new adage, "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy also, and they should destroy each other." This group is just waiting for their chance to strike. Onward Christian Soldiers!
I have news for you, Crusades ended over 800 years ago buddy. You lost. Nobody cares for you "Christian Soldiers!"
high army plus salfeen (saudi belief) plus Muslim brother hood united against the Young kids made the revolution and Christain copts with the green light from obama administration, but let me tell this obama administration when islamisitis in the rule , there is will be no peace in middle east and you will lose your control over these countries because your naive policies, obama administration gave loans and deals and donations to Muslim brotherhood.
If only some rich Christian would put a Christian army together and the Vatican would make a worldwide call to arms. Set up right on the gaza strip with 1,000 and 1,000 of mersonary missionaries. Setting up churches, schools, military bases and cemetaries. Sweaping across the middle east, convert or be killed. Force, the only thing they respect over there, until islam is all but a bad memory!
Ahhh, we can dream can't we!
You are as bad as the Radical Islamist s.
Activist or Muslim Brotherhood terrorists? They are playing with fire literally-.As one politician sid in another situation. "·Recess is over" They got rid of Mubarek.Twon`t succeed in getting rid of the country or turning Egypt into a crazed state like Iran This is not democracy. this is Islamic fascism or terrorism.Either overtly or waiting in the wings. They are as pycho as the beasts who followed the Ayatollahs in Iran But in Egypt they won`t suceed.A secular Egypt . A non Brotherhood free Egypt..!! A non Islamic terrorist free Egypt!! and now!!
Very few if any of you Morons on this board, whether liberal or conservative, took the effort to research this further. If you did your due diligence you would know that this particular isotope can only be used in medical research and is in no way a smoking gun of any kind. It surprises me how easy you are to fool when it comes to Iran. I see you are headed in the same mistakes you made leading up to the manufactured Iraq War. Please don't let them fool you twice. Even Dubya said he can't be fooled twice.
Amy, you're on the wrong article. You are the Moron.
Is that a 9 mil the soldier holds in his right hand? Batons or bullets, which one will it be Sir?
Thank you Barck Hussein Obama. Job well done. Muslim extremists now in charge in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood stronger than it has ever been in its 50 or so years of existance. The MB more influental than it has ever been in at least 6 other countries. And, eventually, we will see the MB come to power in Syria. Job well done BHO!
Wow... that girl in the first photo is about to have a really bad day... along with that poor guy getting an a**beating worse than Rodney King in the third photo. Sometimes its just safer to protest on twitter or facebook then getting down in the middle of that kind of crowd. Makes you almost appreciate the cops that just pepper spray sit in protesters instead.
I pray for the woman in the picture and the man who is being beaten. As human beings, we have a God given right to voice our thoughts peacefully. I pray for their physical, mental, and emotional strength and their enemies to stop the violence.
We can all share some blame for this the problems in Cairo - US govt needs to stop propping up morally bankrupt tin horn dictators. This little game of loaning and allocating money then leveraging the funds to achieve their political and financial goals breeds corruption and deceit. Tahrir square is just a symptom of the ongoing unnecessary interference that we continue to pursue. Maybe it's time we reexamine our policies and stop sending these countries our tax dollars and start a new policy of non-interference with counties that are not posing a threat to our national security. Regardless of natural resources that the corporate backed leaders of our govt (or China's gov't) may want to secure for monitary reasons.
There's some kind of plot going on. Everytime we threaten to leave one of their war torn countries another
rebellion starts up. We may be dupes of the middle east warlords. The US seriously needs to shake the dust off our sandals and not look back.