[Al Ahram] Five employees of Egypt's Mehwar TV channel were held hostage for several hours late Friday by Moslem Brüderbund protesters in Cairo's Helwan district, the channel's editor-in-chief, Beshir Hassan, has said.| Making friends and influencing people... |
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
the armed kidnappers, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.
| Guess which way they'll be reporting events involving the Muslim Brotherhood from now on. |
Hassan said the channel complied with the abductors' threats and aired 15 minutes of the protest before the battery of the Live View, used to transmit the footage to the channel, died.
The protest had a maximum of 200 people, Hassan stated.
| That was a definite shoot-yourself-in-the-kneecap. In the old days two weeks ago, they were able to call up tens of thousands. |
The Moslem Brüderbund and its allies held protests on Friday to commemorate the killing of around 700 people during the police's dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza on 14 August. Turnout at the protests was lower than expected.
| Hmm. You don't suppose they didn't want to be added to the body count? |