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Violent Clashes Hit Cairo With John Kerry Visit: ‘You Have to Know the Egyptian People Are Angry’

Mar. 2, 2013 11:00pm
Egypt Erupts in Violence as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Makes First Visit

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks down during a pause in a statement to the media with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, not pictured, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Violent protests erupted outside Egypt’s capital on Saturday as activists accused police of using excessive force in two cities and running over protesters, including one who was crushed to death by an armored vehicle.

The violence in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura and the Suez Canal city of Port Said came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo meeting with opposition figures (he is scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Morsi on Sunday).

The U.S. Embassy invited 11 opposition figures to meet with Kerry, but five declined, angry that Washington seems to be supporting President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party.

“John Kerry you have to know that the Egyptian people are angry,” a middle-aged woman sternly told NBC News.  Another said: “We are protesting against American interference and supporting a fascist regime.”

The U.S. State Department said Kerry had a telephone conversation with opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, who heads the opposition National Salvation Front. Kerry also met with Amr Moussa, a longtime diplomat and prominent figure in the group.

Egypt Erupts in Violence as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Makes First Visit

(Photo: NBC News)

Protesters and opposition parties accuse Morsi and the Brotherhood of trying to monopolize power and of reneging on promises of reform. They also want parts of a new constitution amended and are calling for the formation of a more inclusive government.

Calls for strikes coincide with a diesel crisis that has caused microbuses, taxi and truck drivers to wait in fuel lines for hours across Egypt. The political turmoil has rocked the country’s economy and the government is struggling to contain declines in foreign reserves, which threatens to affect the country’s ability to provide subsidies that millions of Egyptians rely on for survival.

ElBaradei’s Salvation Front says participating in the upcoming election will only further polarize the nation and that voting should not take place during the current climate of violence. Liberal parties have trailed behind their Islamist rivals in all elections since the country’s uprising two years ago.

Since the second anniversary of the uprising in late January, more than 70 people have been killed in clashes with police.

The Interior Ministry, which oversees the country’s police force, said one protester died and dozens were wounded before dawn Saturday in Mansoura, where about 400 people protested outside the local council office. The ministry said protesters were chanting anti-government slogans before they cut off a main road and threw firebombs at the building.

Egypt Erupts in Violence as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Makes First Visit

An Egyptian protester shouts slogans as she holds an anti-Muslim brotherhood poster showing what she said was victims of overnight clashes in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 2, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Abdel-Rahman Saad, a law student in Mansoura, likened Saturday’s violence to what happened on Jan. 28, 2011, the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak that led to his ouster. The office of the opposition “Tayar al-Shaabi” was turned into a field hospital to treat the wounded, he said.

Activists uploaded videos of the violence online. One video purported to show an armored police vehicle rushing protesters at high speed on Thursday. Another video showed a protester from the overnight clashes Saturday with what appeared to be a crushed skull. The videos could not be independently verified.

Elsewhere in Egypt, a police car in the restive Suez Canal city of Port Said hit five protesters along a main road and sped off, according to an AP reporter at the scene. The protesters were blocking traffic during an anti-government march.

The reporter said that when the protesters refused to allow a police car passage, the driver fired warning shots into the air and rammed into the crowd, hitting five people. The protesters, who are angry with the police, then torched a number of vehicles at a nearby police station, the AP reporter said.

Schools have been closed for a month in Port Said following deadly clashes there late last month that killed around 40 people. The violence erupted after protesters tried to storm the city’s prison in January to free 21 defendants sentenced to death for their roles in a deadly soccer riot.

In Kom Ombo, near the Aswan High Dam, religious tension added to the violence.

On Friday, hundreds of Muslim residents reportedly firebombed and tried to storm a church after hearing that Christians were sheltering a woman accused of converting.

ElBaradei’s Dustor Party concluded by saying the violence is reminiscent of police assaults on protesters during the anti-Mubarak uprising. It condemned what it said was “an excessive use of force” by police and Brotherhood loyalists.

Human Rights Watch said Saturday that Morsi should “order the police to limit any use of force to what is strictly necessary.”

“Neither the Interior Ministry nor the president has admitted any wrongdoing on the part of the police in Port Said,” the statement said.

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:00am

    Maybe the next time he goes to Berlin, he can call some students up, and pop some popcorn to watch this? Maybe not? Here’s an idea Mr. Vietnam Rap about peace? You hold a national meeting, inviting every Fortune 500 executive, and you tell them, look, we can’t send tax dollars to these Islamic countries anymore, it establishes a religion, and violates civil rights?

    We are not going to deny this anymore, you either tell your employees, continue to work with these countries at your own risk, or pull out, because we are not going to support you in these countries anymore? Then you hold a meeting with the leaders of Islamic nations and say, that was fun, we taught you how to fish, looks like you got the hang of it, have a nice day, no hard feelings?

    I would also remind these Islamic leaders that one day, a meteor could demolish some of their precious landmarks, don’t blame us if it happens, figure out a way around that? They will remind you not to come back, they hacked your State Department databases, and know who to look for? Americans certainly don’t want the Muslim brotherhood having heavy weapons?

    Nice job Carl Rove, that’s how branding and diversity works? Diverting people from the US Constitution is not a branding issue, that’s an ethical one?

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  • marine249
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:55am

    if he came to my town I would be pizz’s off also.

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  • DLV
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:46am

    I can’t say I blame the Egyptian people’s anger over Obama supporting Morsi.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:33am

      …Another said: “We are protesting against American interference and supporting a fascist regime.”

      ——————————————————————————————————————————-
      Well at last we’ve found some common ground. Most American-Americans protest the very same thing. We’re against giving billions of dollars in “aid” to this muslim brotherhood led country…as well as the fighter planes and so on. Most of us are against US interference in nations where we stick our noses in and try to steer them in the directions we want…all so we can make money off of their misery.

      It’s time to move towards an isolationist practice…not for our safety…but for our honor. Because those doing the steering are greedy politicians and corporations who neither care for the country/people they are interferring in…or America.

      We need to pull out of these countries and let them stand or fall on the TRUE choices of their own people…and find our way back to being an honorable nation once more.

      Whatever “suit” has the job –in this case, John Kerry– they have zero concern for the Egyptian people or for America…they are only concerned with keeping whoever in power who will give the most favorable and consistant terms on oil, import/exports, etc.

      They don’t even do it for military bases, treaties or agreements any more.

      Only to line their pockets and those of their masters.

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    • ihasa
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 5:30am

      Creestof… I agree with you 100%!

      The trouble is that being an ally of Israel is not necessarily a natural position for Egypt to take, no matter who’s in power. Therefore the US gives ‘aid’ to the Egyptian government – whoever’s in power – to help keep them ‘on side’. It’s not about partisan support for the MB; if one of the other parties had won power, the US would have supported them too. I’m not saying this is right – it’s not – but it’s just the way it is and the whole US political machine on the left and the right think this way. Only the people who are demonised as ‘the radical left’ or ‘Islamists’ or foreign affairs libertarians like Ron Paul see things differently.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 8:39am

      DLV: I think you are right. We need to move John Kerry to a safe house in Benghazi, before he gets hurt in Egypt. Lol

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:19am

      @ ihasa I agree…But, please keep in mind that backing whoever is in charge with money & military is not the sum total of our “crimes”…since the Vietnam era we have actively backed those in power with one hand, while backing those “seeking” power with the other…if the government in charge tries to wear the pants, we’ll fund a rebel coup if it looks like their leaders will be better puppets.

      That’s why we backed Ghadafi so long, and then had “advisors” on the ground working among the rebels…trying to find the best one to back as our new boy. I have no doubt we were doing the same thing in Egypt while pretending to back Mubarek…and I ahve no doube we are doing the same in Syria.

      I believe in the true story “The Falcon & the snow man”, one of the first things that set Christopher Boyce on his path was learning of the US interferring in Australia by actively working against their elected government, and –via dirty tricks and finances– backing certain rivals.

      It’s natural for a soverign nation and its people to want create their own destiny –pass or fail– without outside manipulation & without strings attached to any aid they receive. Therefore, isn’t it natural for them to hate us with a passion when we keep moving the pieces on their chessboard when they’re not looking?

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:07am

      DUBLIN: But on;y on the night before Obama goes campaigning….which is any night of the week .

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    • Hotconchick
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 4:02pm

      That’s all great in theory and I don’t really disagree all that much, that is until we are attacked on our own soil which will probably happen again in the near future with our foreign policy.

      I mean if we aren’t going to intervene anyway, we can pull our spies out as well. After all, even if we did get some good intelligence we shouldn’t intervene on it. Let these countries run themselves and see how much longer we are safe.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:11am

    I will tell you one thing; I hope the plastic surgeon that did his work isn’t on obummmer care, this is some of the worst work I have seen.

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    • asybot12
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:54am

      What plastic surgeon? It looks more like a power boat ran over that chin.

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    • Workingthedirt
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 8:54am

      You can only do so much when you have so little to work with.

      Ya gotta admit though you can hardly see where the horns used to be.

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:06am

    I still vote for fixing it so the Koran is read only in He ll.

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:01am

    I wish the American people were equally angry. Used to be when we got angry all the POS in the world got mostly killed.

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:01am

    “Now is the Glorious Summer of Our Arab Spring made the Winter of Discontent by this Son of Dork.”

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  • Lucky2013
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:56am

    He can stay with them.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 7:03am

      I wonder how it feels to have the same tactics you used in the 60′s come back around and bite you in the ass. Looks like that bullhorn using tactic may have been taught to them by Code Pink.

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  • gyro
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:52am

    Can I say this ?
    Kerry you are also not welcome in Canada
    and in most places in usa / sweeden/ portugal / and on and on and on

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  • MDECKER
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:51am

    Sure would be a nice time to watch a video.

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  • wordsofwisdom
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:48am

    This is outrageous, right out of the gate this idiot is trying to help the Muslim brotherhood. Treason is the word I would use. This song is about how our solders feel about his kind “Tokyo Rose” http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/10790024

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 6:11am

      Interesting that Woodward came out and said that he hadn’t seen anything like the Obama regime in a lot of years (sounded like he was referring back to Nixon — he knows a lot about how corrupt regimes work). Tonight I went on Amazon Prime to look for a movie to watch .. and where they show what people are watching most was the 1976 movie … ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN … about how Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post took down a corrupt regime. The rest of the lamestream media might just get scooped by them again if they don’t get their heads out of their collective a$$e$. Some young REAL journalist wouldbe wise to hook up with Woodward and make a name for his or her self.

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  • HOOT_OWL
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:39am

    I’m starting understanding why the M.B. opposition didn’t receive any “gifts”

    It’s hard to do a photo op while getting carpet bombed.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:39am

    Maybe Kerry needs a bonding trip with some of his fellow Viet Nam Vets. I think he is lonely and confused and needs to be consoled with maybe a hunting trip to Ted Nugent’s ranch in Texas.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:35am

    Don’t worry people of Egypt, we will soon be in the same boat, Kerry works for a muslim brotherhood president here in the United States.

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    • gyro
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:53am

      woooot the truth lives here

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    • geeman
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:55am

      The people of egypt should love kerry and bho,they hate america as much as they do.maybe even more.

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  • KingArthur
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:10am

    I am really very, very sure neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor the Opposition really care for the kind of “Democracy” Mr. Kerry is peddling really very much… And frankly… I really don’t care for it very much either…

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  • oneshiner
    Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:01am

    H e y! No problem, just send them more money to MAKE them love us. Of course, the Check will Bounce, but don’t worry, we’ll just make it work out. Cancel all the welfare cell phones and Egypt can take the check to the bank. Easier than making grannie and the children go without food.

    And whoever dreamed our poor kids would be owing the Gov’t $50,000+ before they are old enough to work because our Nation doesn’t know how to FRY PORK?

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  • ChangeAll
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:49pm

    a pacifist idiot!

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    ChangeAll  
  • neverending
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:48pm

    Too bad they missed.

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:46pm

    What the MSM refuses to report on.. http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/02/egypt-hundreds-of-muslims-try-to-storm-church-over-rumor-woman-who-converted-from-islam-hiding-inside/

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:43pm

    Didn’t Kerry bring a speech to make everything better?

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:43am

      Yes he did…it said:

      “People of Egypt…please do not fight. I found out that fighting is not good. I joined the military thinking my connections would get me a soft, cushy job in the rear and found myself on a boat getting shot at. When begging, whining and rich connections did not get me a transfer to a safe job shuffling paperwork…I had to actually put my boat & men in harms way so I could fake wounds to get the 3 purple hearts needed to get out. So…to clarify…fighting is bad, paperwork is good. Go home now, order in take out and watch the Flintstones. Good night!”

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    • crackerone
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 8:56am

      Yes Monk, he said, “The Egyptian people have a right to be stupid!”

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:36pm

    We, meaning this administration, screwed up in the middle east, first by not supporting Iranian protestors, then y backing fascist radical alarmists in Egypt, then by pretending to do nothing in Libya, while quietly providing arms ( remember Benghazi ), then finally have realized we cannot win and are watching in syria and commenting without acting.

    For a man of the global people, he seems to appoint elitists with ideas that have been refuted by history, and neither he nor Kerry will be listening to the people or admit their mistake or act to fix the regime we helped but into place in Egypt

    Hopefully the Egyptian people realize we the American people are not our politicians.

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    • The Big Mick
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 1:05am

      Oh gee, you mean Pharaoh BO is a foreign Policy INCOMPETENT?!
      Sure I know everybody knows he was a DOMESTIC Policy Incompetent, but FOREIGN POLICY was his forte’ his gift to the planet, his edge over SaraCuda!
      Or are you saying The Van Jones Doctrine (“eff whitey”) applied to Foreign Policy is less than optimal?

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:32pm

    Kerry and Obumer will give them money and more military hardware and fuel thinking that they will like us. BS they are muslims and one should never trust a muslim.

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  • Sumrknght
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:24pm

    Kerry needs to know that folks here at home are angry about OUR fascist regime too. Takes one to support one. Poor Kerry… all those F16′s and tanks and they STILL won’t show up to talk to him.

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  • gdbhusker
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:16pm

    love that peaceful arab spring, you remember? the one that was about equality, democracy, and civility? enter the US… we replaced a secular tyrant…with an islamo-fascist regime…great job “Merica”..we have done this now everywhere in the Middle east and it has just caused nothing but terror, fascism, and hatred.. Maybe if we just leave them alone (mind our own business) things would be better…it hasnt worked in Iran, Iraq, afghanistan,pakistan, yemen, egypt, libya, sudan, or anywhere else we have meddled… but (as history shows) we have had the same result… a stark rise in radical islam and a deep seeded hatred for the U.S..now we send this Jackass over to speak for?????????

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:07pm

    They don’t like kerry and I don’t like him!!! for once I agree with Egypt!

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:03am

      Plus you are agreeing with Morsi’s opposition! the National Salvation front! made up of Liberals, socialists, progressives and revolutionaries! This is a big day for you!

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:45am

      33 1/3: The entire ” revolution” movement is just a group of wacko, dysfunctional haters . All of their chaos will only lead to another despotic ruler whom the people will turn to to bring back security and order. That is exactly why these people have had and will have despotic rulers : they are unable to tolerate , compromise, or think beyond their hate and their anger.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 10:06am

      lol BARBER… some people just don’t realize that “left” and “right” mean something totally different to the rest of the world. Many don’t understand that the concept of “freedom” is unique to the U.S.

      The term “conservative” is relative to traditions of those respective regions. If fascism is the tradition…. than the fascists are “conservative”. Here, freedom is the tradition, so supporters of freedom are “conservative”.

      Vocabulary doesn’t exist in a global vacuum.

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    • resme
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 10:22am

      “The entire ” revolution” movement is just a group of wacko, dysfunctional haters . All of their chaos will only lead to another despotic ruler whom the people will turn to to bring back security and order. That is exactly why these people have had and will have despotic rulers : they are unable to tolerate , compromise, or think beyond their hate and their anger.”

      What do you call democracy? Democracy is mob rule… Mob rule is Deconstructionist-Anarchy, Chaos and insanity. The dysfunctional haters are the majority who voted Morsi into Office. The patriots are the small minority protesting Statism.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 10:56am

      RES: Guess if democracy means ” mob rule ” ( guess that’s minus the majority gets to rule compromise idea ?! ) glad our Founding Fathers established a Republic here ! Except that our current leaders only operate on only grid-lock ..similar to the mob style but at least here they are only assassinating reputations and good names – not the actual body….yet !

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    • resme
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:18am

      ” glad our Founding Fathers established a Republic here ! ”

      The Republic is long dead. The majority votes away individual liberty guaranteed by the bill of rights and natural order (God) constantly. Public school indoctrination has created an unlimited army of uniformed voters for the state… We have delved into a system worse than dictatorship, Democracy…. It’s only grid lock on petty issues like “sequester”. When it comes to major issues like the 2nd, 1st, 4th, 5th and other Important issues they come together in one massive boot to stomp out liberty.

      “Bipartisanship usually means a large than usual deception is being carried out” ~ George Carlin

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:27am

      Awesome RES… love Carlin!

      Lewis Black had a good take, also- “Our two party system is a bowl of (poop) looking in the mirror at itself.”

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