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| Gunfire, bloodshed as hundreds clash outside Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Cairo |
| 2013-03-22 |
| Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have encircled the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo, attempting to break in. RT’s correspondent Bel Trew reports that protesters and Brotherhood supporters are clashing in Moqatam quarter around the HQ. Earlier an Al Arabiya correspondent reported that protesters have already broke into the Muslim Brotherhood complex guarded by police and Brotherhood members, but the news has not been confirmed so far. RT’s correspondent Bel Trew, who is at the scene, reports that hundreds are fighting each other with sticks and stones. She hears gunshots, but is unable to make out who is shooting at whom. AP reports that there are about 3,000 anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters rallying outside the group’s headquarters in Cairo. The number of defenders of the compound is estimated in the hundreds and only riot police that make desperate attempts to separate the parties prevent the compound from being captured. Police fired tear gas at the protesters storming the headquarters. According to RT’s Bel Trew the situation in the Moqatam neighborhood is chaotic, as the frontline between protesters and Brotherhood supporters constantly moves back and forth. Ambulances are taking away people with severe head injuries evacuated from the scuffle. Many people on both sides are badly beaten. “Blood everywhere. Gunfire continues. Still can't find out where from,” Bel Trew tweets. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 NGO --- No Go |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-03-22 20:43 |
| #11 "She hears gunshots, but is unable to make out who is shooting at whom." Here's a suggestion: People with guns are shooting at people without guns - except sometimes they're shooting at other people with guns. Or maybe there are a lot of weddings going on.... |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-03-22 20:24 |
| #10 Rooting for both sides to lose... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-03-22 20:23 |
| #9 "Mahmoud, what do we do!? We're surrounded!" "Achmed, RELEASE THE PIGS!" |
| Posted by: Charles 2013-03-22 20:10 |
| #8 She hears gunshots, but is unable to make out who is shooting at whom. UmmÂ…Muslims? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2013-03-22 19:45 |
| #7 The Real Arab Spring. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-22 18:15 |
| #6 Which side will want 0bama's support? |
| Posted by: Vespasian Oppressor of the Visigoths8235 2013-03-22 16:43 |
| #5 Perhaps making them an NGO was a mistake... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-22 16:42 |
| #4 Which side will Obama be supporting? |
| Posted by: Flusogum Spealet6811 2013-03-22 15:59 |
| #3 Kerry could be reached for comment? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-03-22 15:39 |
| #2 Hey!! I did it right this time!! Loaded up on Pop-corn at the store yesterday!! I'm all ready!! |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-03-22 13:39 |
| #1 Hmmm, Maybe this grand Muslim Brotherhood thing isn't turning out the way they thought it would. Too bad, maybe living in a nonsecular world for so long the Egyptians are reacting to the possibilities of living under a reboot of the Taliban's crazy crap interpretation of Sharia...or maybe reacting to the reality of Sharia and understand, like Hegel and Marx, it makes great theory and very pretty debates in a classroom, but it just doesn't work when you plug it into the real world and have to account for the whims and vagaries of outrageous humanity. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-22 12:58 |