this happened to a protest on march 9 which of course was after hosni mubarak had stepped down, but when the protesters were pushing for more reform saying that the pace of the changeover with the military running the country was too slow. and what happened for the first time, you saw the military actually target protesters, and you can see it there, and they went in and arrested, and they arrested hundreds actually, but there was a group of women that were taken into custody, and 17 of them, and amnesty international raised the allegation a few weeks after this protest said that they had been given electric shocks and beaten and strip searched and e threatened with prostitution charges, and given these virginity tests. at the time, one of the spokesmen for the army said, no, it would not happen. we wouldn t do that. but what has happened now is that we have spoken to a general who did confirm that yes, indeed these things happened. the worst thing about this is that he is not sorry. t
they itch and tingle and not good. we are going off of the radar and what have you got? something else coming into florida and should not be affected by the weather, because off that big word there, sunny. but when the shuttle is coming down tonight, it is moon-filled. i won t say mooney. but it will be moon-lit, but not sunny, but the shuttle coming down and two attempts at 2:35 and little after 4:00 a.m., and they should get it down on the first try, because the weather should be good, but they have to have weather good spots other places and not just there. not just florida. the criteria to get this thing on the ground is just like sending a rocket into space, and good weather here and the wind the right direction and no cross winds and clouds within you know, it goes on and on and on, and it looks like the criteria will be in good shape tonight. all right. ly i will take your word for it. thank you, chad. word that women subjected to virginity tests in egypt.
america s toughest sheriff will run for the u.s. senate. joe arpaio says he s already raised $5 million, in his words, without even thinking about it. it s something i m looking at, and it comes up all the time. so i m not going to make my decision yet. i ll make it pretty soon. i don t have to be a u.s. senator to get a little press in washington, d.c. arpaio could run for john kyl s seat in 2012. kyl is retiring. there s growing outrage this morning over the treatment of several women arrested during protests in egypt s tahrir square back in march. an egyptian general now admitting they underwent virg virginity checks. zain verjee joins us from london. this sounds so disturbing. why do they do this? reporter: they can call it so-called virginity tests, carol, but it is sexual assault. these women, there were 17 of them.
now? people are very frustrated. those are certainly challenges for this president once the republicans pick their nominee. those are areas where he is going to be vulnerable. a disturbing story coming out of egypt and those demonstrations this spring. listen to this. a senior egyptian general is admitting that some of the 17 women arrested at this march 19th demonstration were checked to determine if they were virgins. zain verjee joins us live from london. to many of us here in the united states, this sounds awful. it is awful. to many people in the arab world, it is horrifying as well. these 17 women were subjected to some pretty brutal things here. what some of them say is this, after they were detained, they were beaten, given electric shocks, strip searched, threatened with prostitution charges and then they were forced to have these virginity tests, just listen to what one
woman had to say, carol. they made us sign statements declaring wornt we were virgins. during the test, no one was standing, september for a woman and a male doctor. six soldiers were standing hyped us and watching the back side of the bed. i think they were there to be witnesses. listen to the army s logic here, carol. they said they did these virginity tests to make sure these 17 women were virgins, because then that way, the army says they couldn t be accused of sexual assault. that s the reason they say they did it. anyway, it turned out that none of these women were virgins. so then the army said, you are all prostitutes and wanted to put them in jail and then they freed them and one view that came out was that was because some of them held university degrees. they couldn t possibly be prostitutes. it was an awful situation for these women. the army doing something horrifying. it is a new egypt, under new