Cairo Mob Attacked CNN: 'They Were Animals'

Arutz Sheva ^ | 11/9/11 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

[Eleutheria5]

CNN journalists described the Friday mob that attacked them during the riot at the Israeli embassy as “animals.” One other journalist was called a spy and was almost raped.

The worldwide news site reported a scene that brought back ugly memories of the gang rape of CBS reporter Lara Logan earlier this year during the Arab spring uprising against the Mubarak regime.

CNN reported that one person in the mob on Friday called Dina Amer, a woman member of another American crew, “a spy.” A CNN producer who is an Egyptian approached to rescue the woman from the rioters, but “the mob overwhelmed the pair,” the network reported.

"I was thinking, how powerless I was because there was no police to save us," said the producer, Mohammed Fadel Fahmy. "I was worried that they were going to rape her."

Someone shouted to Fahmy that there was a nearby car, and he brought the “spy” into the vehicle, which belonged to a television crew.

“When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program ‘Newshour’ managed to get the vehicle moving away from the crowd, men threw stones at the departing vehicle,” the journalist said.

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[cricket]

See where this is reported from; am wondering if New York Times had this story as well? Or just, ‘yet’?

[Eleutheria5]

NY Times: Racist CNN crew slurs Egyptians, runs away.

[yup2394871293]

Very astute.

[cricket]

NY Times: Racist CNN crew slurs Egyptians, runs away.

Missing the sarc tag - or for real? Right on the money; in any event!. . .

[Eleutheria5]

We’ll just have to check the NY Times to find out:-)