Tens of thousands of Egyptians and government forces clashed today in the streets of Cairo.
Police armed with batons beat pro-democracy opposition leader ElBaradei’s supporters.
Russia Today released video from Cairo:

From the video: The Egyptian capital Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons. It was a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-rule. They are demanding Mubarak’s ouster and venting their rage at years of government neglect of rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei —a former U.N. nuclear watchdog and Nobel Peace Prize winner – was trapped in a mosque for several hours.
MSNBC reported:

It was a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-rule.

Police also used water cannons against Egypt’s pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei —a former U.N. nuclear watchdog and Nobel Peace Prize winner — and other protesters as they joined the latest wave of demonstrations after noon prayers.

Police used batons to beat some of ElBaradei’s supporters, who surrounded him to protect him.

A soaking wet ElBaradei was trapped inside a mosque nearly an hour after he and his supporters were water cannoned.

There are reports that El-baradei is now under house arrest.

 

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  1. #1 January 28, 2011 at 9:09 am

    american patriot commented:

    Jim, your posting was rather instructive, “Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei . . . was trapped in a mosque for several hours.”

    Not just mosques. That sentence is actually descriptive of every Muslim: they are trapped, trapped in the cult of Islam. For the vast, vast majority of Muslims there simply is no escape from the tyranny of this cult.

  2. #2 January 28, 2011 at 9:25 am

    shibumi commented:

    My take on the “trapped in a mosque” statement is he went there to be safe- you know, the expectation that police won’t attack a mosque. I mean, hasn’t that been a big problem in the M.E., people holing up in mosques and then using them as their de-facto military base?

    Glad they put El-Baradei under house arrest. He’s the sole reason that Iran is where it is with their nuclear program.

  3. #3 January 28, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Paul in N. AL commented:

    Is it sad that we get more news out of Russia Today than our own network broadcasts?

  4. #4 January 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Khan Krum commented:

    They put Mr. Potato Head under house arrest?!! Next thing we’ll be hearing that the Egyptian secret police his slicing and dicing him into hash browns?

  5. #6 January 28, 2011 at 9:48 am

    forest commented:

    How many countries on the Mediterranean are actually stable right now? These aren’t: Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia. Spain, France, Turkey and Italy, probably in trouble. Libya is still crazy Libya. Algeria and Morocco, how are they doing?

  6. #7 January 28, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Dave-O commented:

    I imagine that Barack Obama will turn to his foreign policy expert, Joe Biden, for advice in this matter. I mean our country is in the very best of hands. What could possibly go wrong??

  7. #8 January 28, 2011 at 10:41 am

    forest commented:

    Now the Muslim Brotherhood and commies are rioting in Jordan too.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/us-jordan-protests-idUSTRE70R4L120110128

  8. #9 January 28, 2011 at 10:58 am

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    i’m not so sure these people are pro-democracy, maybe pro-theocracy would be more like it. spontaneous revolt break out all over the middle east. i’m not buying it.

  10. #11 January 28, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Rick554 commented:

    El-Baradei should have been arrested 10 years ago. Maybe then this shill for the muslim brotherhood wouldnt have hamstrung us in Iraq. I wonder if he was at the meeting as well between Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and the “Brotherhood” back in 2006?

  11. #12 January 28, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    DaMav commented:

    @Reaganite Republican
    Thanks for the link to common sense. Anyone who lived through Carter’s waffling about with the Shah of Iran will get a strong sense of deja vu. These are islamofascists, not the forces of democracy. One may as well be cheering the thugs at the beer hall putsch in Munich in their “struggle” against the abuses of Wiemar.

    It is not a choice between good and evil but between evil and very evil. And if we opt for high and lofty idealistic sounding rhetoric we will see Iran reborn in Egypt.

  12. #13 January 28, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    dunce commented:

    Hillarys body language to those who know her sent a message clearer than her words,she had a genuine smile on her face as she talked of our support for the people of egypt.This is a revolution she can really get behind unlike the iranians. Her college dreams are coming true, she is in a leadership position as established govrnments are pulled down by rioters in the streets. This crisis will not be wasted. She sees it as burnishing her foreign policy credentials.S he looks foward to stepping on the fallen to higher office. Does she know the words to the internationale.

  13. #15 January 28, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    Mad Hatter commented:

    You’re no dunce, that’s an interesting observation.

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