that problems started to happen. there are thugs still out there in the downtown area. anyone who looks remotely foreign is being checked. anyone with a camera is being checked. the army is very helpful, but the problem is when people gather up around reporters or someone coming from the downtown area it s a dangerous situation. i heard that your brother had a run-in with thugs today. yes. it s not the first time. the day before he was trying to protect some journalists, foreign journalists and that was not even near the tahrir area. then another time and today when they were coming out of the demonstration in tahrir, people stopped them, asked to see their i.d.s, accused them of being foreigners. all were egyptians and looked egyptian as well. but the fact that they were coming from the area made them look suspicious. and it was just a random attack.
the spirit there is great, but it s actually when people were trying to leave the protests that problems started to happen. there are thugs still out there in the downtown area. anyone who looks remotely foreign is being checked. anyone with a camera is being checked. the army is very helpful, but the problem is when people gather up around reporters or someone coming from the downtown area it s a dangerous situation. i heard that your brother had a run-in with thugs today. yes. it s not the first time. the day before he was trying to protect some journalists, foreign journalists and that was not even near the tahrir area. then another time and today when they were coming out of the demonstration in tahrir, people stopped them, asked to see their i.d.s, accused them of being foreigners. all were egyptians and looked
down to the square, even though they had seen their compatriots attacked with rocks, mootov cocktails. they went in huge numbers that matched what we had seen earlier in the week before the violence began. it was a jubilant crowd of people. also significantly the egyptian military finally after 48 hours of literally standing by watching rocks being thrown and molotov cocktails thrown and allowing pro-mubarak demonstrators to descend into an area where they could attack protesters, the military finally set a perimeter, a cordon, set out wire and checked people to try to prevent infill traitors from coming in. checking i.d.s, doing body searches. they helped it be a peaceful day. earlier reports of the shooting we heard a short time ago from the square, early reports
and how are they defending? i mean, i know they ve had these metal barricades set up. but what kinds of weapons to the anti-mubarak protesters have? because they ve been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, but they ve been checking i.d.s, bodily searching them through multiple layers. we ve all been searched. what kind of weapons did they have? sticks. you know, pieces of metal. they ve been digging up the street and they had a whole system where teens would carry buckets of stones to use at the front lines in the battles where they really dug up a lot of the roads here that you and i were walking on yesterday sorry, the day before. but nothing more formal than that. when the petrol bombs first
and how are they defending? i know they ve had these metal barricades set up, but what kind of weapons to the anti-mubarak protestors have? because they ve been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, checking i.d.s, bodily searching them. we ve all been searched. what kind of weapons did they have? sticks. you know, pieces of metal. they ve been digging up the street and they had a whole system where teens would carry buckets of stones to use at the front lines in the battles where they really dug up a lot of the roads here that you and i were walking on yesterday sorry, the day before. but nothing more formal than that.