Posted on 06/29/2013 2:18:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
An American citizen was killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Friday during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi, Al-Ahram reported.
A total of two people were killed in the city on Friday, the report said, the second victim being an Egyptian man.
The American man died from a stab wound to the chest, according to Amin Ezz El-Din, head of Alexandria's security directorate.
Ezz El-Din told Al-Ahram that the young American had been taking pictures with his mobile phone near one of the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which President Morsi hails, when he was attacked by unknown assailants.
The victim was rushed to a military hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The man, whose name remains unconfirmed, reportedly worked as a journalistic photographer.
The state-owned news agency MENA reported earlier that 70 people who were injured in the Alexandria clashes were being treated at the hospital.
Al-Ahram reported that the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in the Alexandrian district of Sidi Gabr were set on fire, leading to 40 injuries.
Thousands of Egyptians also gathered in Cairo on Friday, reported Al Arabiya, in two opposing mass rallies, one calling for Morsi’s ouster and another showing support for the embattled Islamist president.
Opponents of Morsi poured into the iconic Tahrir Square, waving flags and chanting “leave.”
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He wanted to see demoncracy in action, and he did.
I sometimes wonder if these murdered people—Americans—aren’t often working for our govt...I know it all sounds so innocent, but would not surprise me,
Wait a few seconds, and they’ll claim he was working for both the CIA and Mossad. Neither would surprise me if they were true, but it would surprise me if they didn’t claim it regardless.
And Obama demands that “this government must go.”
I think I’d feel safer in the path of an EF-5 tornado than in the middle of iconic Tahrir Square during a political rally.
We just can’t know...and after Benghazi , I have NO idea what is going on.
wouldn’t surprise me if Snowdon was a double agent on OUR side giving Disinformation on his little laptops.
idealistic = idiotic
I’ve seen scads of articles and posts on this, but nobody has mentioned the name of “the American.”
Call Hillary!
Aw, but why? They only killed an American, and a Jooo! at that.
The related article I posted along with this names him Andrew Pochter, of Chevy Chase, MD, age 21.
You couldn’t pay me enough to visit Egypt. Ever. Not even during Mubarak’s rule. Don’t eat Nile perch, either.
Egypt: think Exodus.
No sane person should go to any country where bearded savages murder, rape and jump up and down shouting bloodthirsty slogans.
Thanks. I wasn’t quite clear on what he was doing there - but he probably wasn’t either.
He was working through this NGO:
http://www.amideast.org/about/board-directors
Palestinian... institutional development..
http://www.amideast.org/our-work/institutional-development-and-capacity-building
Empowerment, Advocacy etc.
http://www.amideast.org/our-work/institutional-development-and-capacity-building/strengthening-civil-society/strengthening-civil-society
It looks like maybe one of those NGO CANVAS (used to be called “Otpor”) things...part of what they do is to take brutality-type pictures of their opposition or police, send them to news organizations, human rights watches..., and post them on their internet sites.
an idealistic Jewish student covering the MB in Alexandria Egypt?
For Jewish students and tourists to troll for adventure in muslim countries is like swimming with sharks carrying bloody fish
the guy didnt have his head sawed off with a dull knife though if they knew he was Jewish AND American they might have done so
like Sanford Florida, for example
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