Police shoot dead 17 attacking Egypt police stations
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead 17 people trying to attack two police stations on Saturday in Beni Suef governorate, south of Cairo, witnesses and medical sources said.
Twelve of those shot were attempting to attack a police station in Biba while five others were trying to attack another in Nasser city. Dozens of others were injured in the exchanges.
Egypt has seen five days of mass demonstrations across the country calling for President Hosni Mubarak to end his 30-year rule. Regions across Egypt have witnessed looting, arson and vandalism during the political turmoil.
There have been several attacks on police stations across the country during the day.
(Writing by Shaimaa Fayed)
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Comments (3)
FBreughel1 wrote:
No doubt they were coming directly out of the mosques.
LottaMoxie wrote:
So do you have the answer to philophy 301 – Ethics? Are men/women basically good are they basically bad? My answer is that they are like animals – some are recklessly attacking regardless of a reward, others are defending their nest.
gneubeck wrote:
Jimmy Carter gave us the Ayatollahs in Iran, now Barack Obama is about to give us the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. It’s no surprise that our devout Muslim in the WH, schooled from birth in Marxist dogma; and, experienced only in ‘Community Agitating’ as practiced on the streets of Chicago, while publically praising the Egyptian leader Mubarak would be secretively undermining him by providing guidance and counseling to Egyptian youth activists intent on overthrowing the Mubarak government. The Obama media is quick to emphasize that the Muslim Brotherhood, an ultra-extremist organization dedicated to the formation of a Muslim caliphate and imposition of sharia law on the entire Middle East, lacks a sufficient majority and populace support to achieve their objectives. It was only a few months ago that the same talking heads were erroneously discounting the Hezbollah fanatics attempts to achieve control in Lebanon! We should have learned from history that a small, dedicated, well organized group, willing to employ unconstrained violence in the pursuit of their goals can indeed prevail against a less-well organized majority more passive in their strategy. Unfortunately, Obama is a delusional narcissist who has actually convinced himself that foreign leaders, friend and foe alike, are enamored with his incoherent verbosity. In truth, they view Obama with amused ridicule. America is paying an agonizing and perhaps irreparable price for having elected such a severely mis-guided “incompetent”; and, the on-going Middle East inferno may well further enshrine Obama as: ‘Ignorance at its pinnacle’. Greg Neubeck
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