Angry crowd turns on journalists reporting embassy attack in Egypt

[cali]

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"There was this older lady who decided to follow me and rally people against me," Amer recalled.

"She said 'you're a spy working with the Americans.' Then they swarmed me and I was a target."

A growing crowd surrounded Amer and her colleagues, as they tried to leave the scene.

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, a producer working for CNN, rushed to help escort Amer through the angry crowd. But suddenly the two reporters were pinned against the railing of an overpass by young men who were accusing Amer of being an Israeli spy.

Yelling "I'm Egyptian," Fahmy managed to pull Amer another 10 meters down the road, until the pressure from the mob overwhelmed the pair.

Amer screamed as she and Fahmy were knocked to the ground and the crowd started to trample them.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/09/10/egypt.journalists.targeted/

[RKP5637]

1. Why was this unrec'ed so quickly ...

[cali]

2. I suppose because it's not glowing admiration of the siege of the Israeli embassy

[RKP5637]

3. Thanks ... n/t

[Odin2005]

4. To be fair, I really can't blame the crowd for being paranoid.

[cali]

5. how about blaming them for being assholes and violent ones at that?

mobs suck. they suck. suck. suck.

[Odin2005]

6. I was suggesting an explaination for the behavior, I wasn't supporting it.

[cali]

7. actually, you suggested that you don't blame them

for being paranoid. that's hardly an explanation.

[lame54]

8. If it were Wolf Blitzer I could understand