Atlantic: ‘This Is How Terrifying Cairo Is Tonight’
- Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:51am by
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Horrifying video and images are emerging of Egyptian security forces beating protesters in Cairo, as reports of military units firing into the crowds continue to spread.
One such video, posted online this afternoon, is below. It’s jarring. Watch at your own risk:
Late Sunday night, Egypt’s ruling military council apologized on its official Facebook page for the violent events in the square and charged the interim cabinet with investigating the incident. It also restated its commitment to keeping the democratic transitional timetable.
The opposition appeared to be uniting against the military leadership, breathing new life into a youth-led protest movement that had grown moribund during the summer. Over the weekend, a clearer set of demands began to emerge as protesters girded for a longer fight.
Leading protest groups, such as the Revolutionary Youth Coalition and the 6th of April Youth Movement, say they intend to occupy the square until the military hands over power to a civilian authority.
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Comments (91)
Fina Biscotti
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:09amWhy doesn’t Obama have something to say about this?!
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:26amMubarak was a benevolent President compared to what these Egyptians have now.
They got what they wanted–Freedom
Report Post »Flex-it
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:36am…Because that’s part of the master plan…..and he knows it quite well. Obama’s speech in Cairo in June of 2009 instigated all the Arab springs movement, specially the one in Egypt. But according to politicians and the media, we the people, are considered “dumb” and can’t add one and one together.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:37amJust remember that anything less than a completely devastating defeat in the popular vote will result in Obama being re-elected.
The DOJ’s civil-rights division, along with its ‘voters section’, will create so many illegal votes that the vote cannot be remotely close to keep Obama out.
Search “Ike Brown’…..
Report Post »Jester311
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:12am@Philo That was the first thing that I thought. As bad as Mubarak was, they now have an entire “council” of military “Mubarak”s. From the get go, I have thought that the military will either not release power to a “civilian elected official” or simply hand over power to the militants, Muslim Brotherhood, al Queda, et al.
Sad situation. If it is not denounced in the press conferences today, Mr. Obama is complicit in my opinion.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 9:09amGeorge Bush was vilified by the left for starting a war in Iraq. But, there are other ways to start, and perpetuate a war and that is what Obama did by forcing Mubarak to turn over the country to radicals.
Obama is responsible for the turmoil in the middle east just as if he had bombed those countries.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:10amObama already has spoken, he wishes this to happen, and so it happens, plain and simple.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:02amThe muslim world can thank ODUMBO INC. AND HIS RINO SUPPORT for the ARAB SPRING, A.K.A. MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPRING. It was intended to lay the tracks for the DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. In reality, it will lead to thousands more muslim deaths, then, tens of thousands more muslim deaths. And that will just be in civil, street warfare. The WAR WITH ISRAEL WILL COME TOO. Thank YOU, ODUMBO INC.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 5:49amObama’s game plan for the USA — People better wake up.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:35amThe muslim brotherhood are everyone’s friend, so says our present government. BO and Clinton seem to be saying try it. You will learn to like it.
Report Post »Flex-it
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:38amAnd yet……we‘re not even suppose to consider that something fishy is going on behind close doors in this Obama’s administration? Give me a break…..God help us.
Report Post »Wilbur D Pig
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:17amHey OWS, this is what police brutality looks like. You guys cry about non-compliant people being pepper-sprayed as if it were tantamount to stomping babies to death.
OWSer: “They were brutalizing people” (read: lifting their passively non-compliant bodies off the ground).
OWSer: “They just came at us for no reason” (hey dummy they told you to quit blocking traffic, clear the street and get back on the sidewalk; you refused. Trust me, in most cities if you cause a traffic slowdown, the cops aren’t the ones who get violent. You’d better pray they get to you before the road-ragers do).
OWSer: “They were beating people senselessly” (Yeah, your version of the video shows cops swinging away. The uncut footage shows the truth; you and four dozen friends actually did a countdown before rushing a police barricade and then were surprised when the cops kicked-your ***es. How is that senseless? Makes perfect sense to me).
AAAAAAGH, YOU PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID!
Report Post »becca_leigh
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:52am“Leading protest groups, such as the Revolutionary Youth Coalition and the 6th of April Youth Movement, say they intend to OCCUPY the square until the military hands over power to a civilian authority.”
Report Post »when are people gonna make the connection?!?!
dgktowntx
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 5:49amAs soon as you help us make the connection…
Report Post »becca_leigh
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:42amyou seriously missed the OCCUPY part of that sentence?!?! the same people are behind it….they wanted democracy but the instigators just used them to create the chaos!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:23amDid anyone see the evil 1% starting trouble?
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:20amIf mob rule creates a demand and receives it (as in Egypt). Then the conditions are set up to repeat the behavior necesary for the next demand to be met. This is exactly what OWS are trying to duplicate. So tedious and time-consuming and degrading…..not to mention non-profitable for the protestors…all the while becoming boring reality TV.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:14amShow me what democracy looks like? Looks pretty much like hell on earth!!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:23amAnd this is what Obama wants to have happen in America.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:33amSNOWLEOPARD Like the song “You Don’t Always Get What You Want” I feel a backlash coming here soon and Obama is going to get the dirty end of the stick…….and it just might come from his party
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:17amYes, BULLET….
What’s happening in Egypt is always possible in any Democracy. Majority rule/mob rule was a concern of our founders….you know, the old White guys that gave more freedom to more people (not just in the US) than ANY other country ever has.
A Constitutional Republic has elected representatives to do the peoples’ negotiating. We can remove those reps who do not act according to Constitutional law thru the ballot-box. You can’t blame the Founders for giving us the best chance possible for man to govern himself.
Yes, there will always be greed and, yes, Capitalism’s nature gives man more chances to be greedy. The alternatives to Capitalism are not attractive, however.
Socialism/Marxism/Communism will remove opportunities for average peoples’ greed to be a factor. Those three will also remove most opportunities to be free to excell by using your own creativity. Do we want equal results that desperately to give up our freedom? People do not all have equal ability. Sorry!
I’ve lived the life where people who did not have the same ability as me were mandated to make the same wage as me. That’s equal results, and that is not freedom.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:09amOH isn’t the Arab Spring just wonderful, democracy at work, I have tears in my eyes. Now back to you in the studio Brian!! Oh and please report that my CBS colleague is being madly raped by a pack of wild dogs I mean Muslim men, they‘re such pranksters Brian you know it’s really a religion of peace and I think she’ll be ok anyhow!!”……..
The entire non liberal world smelled this coming 10000 miles away and they mock and ridicule Glenn and he’s the ONLY ONE who had this whole scene pegged to the “T” .. Our freaking media should be rounded up and shot one by one by one after these past three years.
Treasonous rats.
Report Post »Flex-it
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:39amAgree…….
Report Post »Rightallalong
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:58amSoon we will all know how that female reporter felt … interesting how the same thing seems to be happening with the OWS except it to their own people. Whats sad is that a huge number of people are more concerned about Black Friday and what Whorelywood skank has been knocked up or what Reality Housewife has lost her fortune than the fact that they are being played by the Media Presstitutes of the Whitehouse – you think this will get any coverage at all in the next few days… not much.
May your own personal god help us as we prepare to fight a war that is most certainly coming. First it was a war of ideas which the morally true have lost, Now its a war of finance which our gvernment (Republicans and Progressocrats are losing on purpose to line their own pockets) and finally it will be a war of destruction where we will all lose.
As our Founding Fathers said … here is your Republic, lets see if you can keep it….sadly I am afraid the answer is No but lets give it a good fight
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:59amComing soon to a neighborhood near you! Thank you President Obama! God help us!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:31amI wouldn’t be too concerned, Abby. Seriously…..‘if’ anarchists attempt to break into private citizens’ homes at will….if it becomes widespread, people will quickly realize they will not be protected by the police. There just are not enough police to do the job. Folks will have to, and believe me….WILL protect themselves. The second Amendment is critical.
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:57ammaybe we will get lucky and all the Muslims will kill each other
Report Post »LightvsDarkness
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:43amWe need Pharaoh Obama to come to the rescue!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:28amFreggin’ Neanderthals! Really glad we have better weapons than a freggin’ cane! Bring it!
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:58amA sharp rock on the end of a stick works fine for me.
Report Post »punish-success-reward-failure
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:27amThat person being dragged by the hair is always nice after a nice Spring. It is crazy, because the kids protesting against the police want “democracy” and the police need to stay in power, so they allowed the first uprising to take out Mubarek, but now they are cracking down because they are not giving power to the “civilians” and others here are wanting the same thing. Many don’t realize that they are being used as Useful Idiots, and are masking the true intentions of those in power, to gain more power. How can so many people not see what is going on??? Blinded by their own desire for “democracy” when they don’t even know what that means, and that democracy results in Mob Rule. Sing it with Glenn, Pat and Stu “This is what democracy looks like…”
Report Post »Veritas Libertas
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:21amMuslim Brotherhood Gone Wild, the video. With the gas masks it’s sort of like a S&M Mardi Gras scene with the krews using riot batons instead of beads and moon pies.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:17amDo you realize the hate you must have in your heart to do such things to another human?
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:45amexactly.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:14amOf course none of this is ever covered by the MSM.
Report Post »DianaGL
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:08amSo this is the wonderful “Arab Spring” Obama and his cronies supported! What a great result, just dandy. It’s only a short matter of time before a new Egyptian style Ahatolla takes over. Just brilliant.
Report Post »What a tremendous mistake this country made electing a neophyte like Obama, thinking the self-imposed guilt of past racism would go away, thinking Obama would magically erase the past, make others love us, bring peace to the world. It was a total joke and obvious to me. But many ate it on a plate. I fought with many people about this, including my own brother. And here we are. How sad.
lodgerat
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:04amOh, what a refreshing Arab Spring. Looks like the Arab Fall sucks. Sure am glad these new guys have everything under control. Kinda looks like Oakland
Report Post »skiziks20453
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:43amroger that……….
Report Post »Badger Patriot
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:01amI think this is part of 0bama’s “hope and change” ….well at least the change part. Nice job berry…how long until this is what streets in the USSA look like? I will still be Clinging to MY Guns and Religion.
Report Post »alshere
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:03amAint that Arab spring just grand! Makes yopu get misty all over.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:08amHey………………..Isn’t this the H U G E success story Obama, Clinton, and Biden were peddling not so long ago?
Take a G O O D look people, that IS exactly what DEMOCRACY looks like. We should be glad that America isn’t a democracy, but a REPUBLIC!
It’s too bad America currently has a communist for a president, a communist for a VP, and a communist for Secretary of State, and a Senate comprised of their commissars.
Report Post »ImMadAsHell
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:03amWOW, this is what this part of the world looks like huh? When will these people wake up. There needs 2 be change in this crazy world. We are heading to a nuke WAR unfortunately and sooner than latley
Report Post »kalli
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:01amNice job, obama. Bet you’re sleeping well tonight.
Report Post »The Eleventh Doctor
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:59amI bet the fools are still screaming “This is what democracy looks like!!”
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:58amHumanity is a sham! Good ridance to us all!
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:04amNihilist, or what?
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:14amMaybe. Unintentional. I think most blazers look at this and think ‘well of course this is happening in a Islamic country’. I seriously believe this is about to happen everywhere. Worse. I hope not.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:18amLighten up on yourself, don’t give up the fight, that’s what they want you to do.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:03amWe are a Predator Species… when divided, we fight each other… when united, we fight others. You are Predator or Prey!
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