Egypt takes delivery of US fighter jets - Reuters UK
Welcome to the Inter-Continental, Cairo
2. Egypt is not safe for tourists
"The mayhem on Cairo’s streets briefly spilled into the lobby of one of the city’s luxury hotels, the Semiramis InterContinental, during intense clashes between riot police and protesters along the Nile Corniche overnight.
Under Attack, 29 January 2013, Cairo Hotel Tweets an S O S
"Images of a mob streaming into the hotel, shown live on Egyptian television and then posted online, raised fears of further damage to the country’s already battered tourist industry...
"About 40 men armed with shotguns, knives and a semiautomatic weapon broke into the shuttered lobby and started looting...
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"Phone calls to the police and the army initially went unheeded...
"Coming at the same time as violence in cities on the Suez Canal, this week’s unrest threatened two of the main pillars of the Egyptian economy...
"An Ahram Online journalist who witnessed the attack, Karim Hafez, said that protesters had stopped fighting with the police to help protect the hotel..."
3. "Recent weeks have seen the emergence of the CIA's so-called 'black bloc' among the protestors."
Poverty, disillusionment drive Egypt's protests - Deutsche Welle
"There are skeptical voices... Some argue the protestors swathed in black are merely a government tool to justify fighting demonstrators off more aggressively."
"The mayhem on Cairo’s streets briefly spilled into the lobby of one of the city’s luxury hotels, the Semiramis InterContinental, during intense clashes between riot police and protesters along the Nile Corniche overnight.
Under Attack, 29 January 2013, Cairo Hotel Tweets an S O S
"Images of a mob streaming into the hotel, shown live on Egyptian television and then posted online, raised fears of further damage to the country’s already battered tourist industry...
"About 40 men armed with shotguns, knives and a semiautomatic weapon broke into the shuttered lobby and started looting...
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"Phone calls to the police and the army initially went unheeded...
"Coming at the same time as violence in cities on the Suez Canal, this week’s unrest threatened two of the main pillars of the Egyptian economy...
"An Ahram Online journalist who witnessed the attack, Karim Hafez, said that protesters had stopped fighting with the police to help protect the hotel..."
3. "Recent weeks have seen the emergence of the CIA's so-called 'black bloc' among the protestors."
Poverty, disillusionment drive Egypt's protests - Deutsche Welle
"There are skeptical voices... Some argue the protestors swathed in black are merely a government tool to justify fighting demonstrators off more aggressively."
4. "Clashes between protesters, security forces across from presidential palace in Cairo leave one dead, dozens injured, yet video showing violence against single protester stirs public uproar."
Egypt turmoil: Protester attacked, stripped - Ynetnews-2 Feb 2013
"A video clip showing Egyptian security forces furiously beating a protester who was part of a demonstration across from the presidential palace in Cairo is causing an uproar in Egypt...
"One man was killed and dozens were injured as demonstrators were sprayed with tear gas and water hoses.
"Protestors threw Molotov cocktails over the gates of the presidential palace and one of the protestors was forcibly dragged, naked, into a police vehicle..."
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Kick Morsi out the door.
Egypt turmoil: Protester attacked, stripped - Ynetnews-2 Feb 2013
"A video clip showing Egyptian security forces furiously beating a protester who was part of a demonstration across from the presidential palace in Cairo is causing an uproar in Egypt...
"One man was killed and dozens were injured as demonstrators were sprayed with tear gas and water hoses.
"Protestors threw Molotov cocktails over the gates of the presidential palace and one of the protestors was forcibly dragged, naked, into a police vehicle..."
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1234
Kick Morsi out the door.