Heads a-crackin’ in Egypt
posted at 10:14 am on May 11, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Reader Cathy M. tips me to Sandmonkey’s post this morning on crowd control … Egyptian-style.
Bunch of photos at the link. I’m going to steal one just to whet your appetite.
SM also live-blogged the demonstration.
I need to start reading this guy.
Update: AFP:
An AFP reporter saw one protestor lying on the ground being kicked in the stomach by policemen and several others with bloodied faces being whisked away in police vans.
Several journalists were also manhandled by security, including a cameraman for the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera who was badly beaten and had his equipment confiscated, witnesses said.
Update: Some of the photos are on the wires at Yahoo News and Getty.
Update: The BBC quotes protesters chanting, “Judges, judges, save us from the tyrants.” Human Rights Watch explains why. The whole thing stems from the refusal of the Egyptian judiciary to validate last year’s bogus election results; two of the most vocal judges are now on trial before a disciplinary tribunal. Fifty of their colleagues held a sit-in shortly thereafter to protest, and reformists (and opportunistic members of the Muslim Brotherhood) have been out in the streets ever since.
Update: Condi cracks the whip.
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Al Queada Growing in Sinai
This is good for Egypt, when I was there during jimicarters ruination you just disappeared if you made noise. Apparently Mubarak can control Cairo, but can’t control Sinai any better than we can control the outskirts of El Paso.
Reality Check on May 11, 2006 at 11:29 AM
$2 billion a year works out to $167M a month and they’re holding at least 48 protestors at the moment. Tell them that arresting and detaining peaceful protestors comes with a $1M per week fine, then send only $23M for the month (48 x 3 week avg).
Mike O on May 11, 2006 at 3:34 PM
Just hearing that a ‘journalist’ from Al Jazeera got his head smacked in made my day. I’m still smiling.
Well done Mubarrak. These people only understand violence and unlike his Western counterparts, he knows that he cannot give an inch or they will take a mile. Maybe there is a lesson here? Follow the example set by people who face the real near-term potential in the hands of islamists. Can we afford Egypt becoming another Iran or Syria?
Great White on May 12, 2006 at 7:50 AM
$2 billion a year now beats $80-$100 billion a year fighting war-on-terror campaigns in Egypt if it were to fall into the hands of islamists. Those heads being ‘cracked’ are the same supporters of the bombers of tourist resorts.
Islamists know that Eqypt is the ultimate prize, with Saudi Arabia next. Egypt is the centre of the muslim world, get Egypt and you get the muslim world.
The price of freedom. It does not seem fair but the alternative would be far worse.
Great White on May 12, 2006 at 8:45 AM