sorry, sir, enjoy cairo, enjoy your stay, welcome, thank you very much, we re very sorry for these security precautions. these people are worried about their homes. they re worried about their businesses. and they re worried about this unrest somehow threatening them and their families and their livelihoods. so that s what we thought we were encountering. so today we were just on a run from the airport picking up some gear. we come on one we come upon one of these checkpoints. and it worked very differently. in a two-vehicle convoy. our drivers were pulled out of the car. the people at the checkpoint then got behind the wheel of the vehicles. they drove them over a bridge. and then they directed their vehicles down into this sort of a cul-de-sac, this dirty blocked-in area, where there was a very, you know, crowd of dozens of angry men waiting for us down there. and the car was surrounded. and you know, it was quite terrifying. graeme, what did it feel like when they got in the car
they re worried about their businesses. and they re worried about this unrest somehow threatening them and their families and their livelihoods. so that s what we thought we were encountering. so today we were just on a run from the airport picking up some gear. we come on one we come upon one of these checkpoints. and it worked very differently. in a two-vehicle convoy. our drivers were pulled out of the car. the people at the checkpoint then got behind the wheel of the vehicles. they drove them over a bridge. and then they directed their vehicles down into this sort of a cul-de-sac, this dirty blocked-in area, where there was a very, you know, crowd of dozens of angry men waiting for us down there. and the car was surrounded. and you know, it was quite terrifying. gram, what did it feel like when they got in the car and started to drive that car away? well, it was at first, you know, everyone s speaking arabic, and i speak pidgin arabic from the time i ve spent
know, everyone s speaking arabic, and i speak pidgin arabic from the time i ve spent in the middle east. but i wasn t at first clear what was going on. and it wasn t until we started driving into this crowd and the people started surrounding our car and i realized that there was no way out of this area where they were bringing us, that something was wrong, and me and my, you know, teammates looked at each other and thought, this is not good. and how did you get out of that jam? well, you know, the situation started to escalate. and you know, things got very, very angry. there was a large banner, hosni mubarak banner hanging over this whole thing, which tells you that these are people who are upset about the media coverage, which is why they were so angry with us. but the situation started to get more and more tense. they became more and more angry at us. they became when they learned we were journalists, they started screaming. they were making gestures, putting their fingers, cu