Posted on 03/03/2014 6:34:28 PM PST by kristinn
Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin announced on Twitter Monday night she is being held in a jail cell at the Cairo, Egypt airport:
“I’m being held in a jail at Cairo airport!!!”
Benjamin is in Egypt to lead a delegation of activists to Hamas-led Gaza to mark International Women’s Day later this week.
Code Pink has a history of working with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow the Egyptian government of former President Hosni Mubarak as well as other terrorist groups and state sponsors of terrorism.
Medea Benjamin appeared at ease as she walked around Tahrir Square and handed out roses during the anti-Mubarak protests in 2011.
Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin mingling with the protesters in Tahrir Square. (Founding Bloggers)
Code Pink and the far left has had a long relationship with the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood terror group. They held a joint anti-Mubarak protest together back in 2008.
Code Pink also works with President Barack Obama and leading elected Democratic Party officials.
Benjamin said she borrowed a cellphone to send out tweets and photos from her cell. She complained about the food and water.
Code Pink national organizer Alli McCracken relayed messages between Benjamin and other Code Pink leaders. One message was from Ann Wright, who is slated to be part of the delegation to Gaza, advising to not inform the press so as to allow the other delegates to fly in to Cairo unmolested by the Egyptian government: “also Ann says we should wait to alert the press until the next wave of the delegation has gone in. is that ok?”
(Update): Code Pink put out a tweet on the group’s official Twitter feed stating Benjamin was not arrested, but was being detained:
“Folks, @medeabenjamin has not been arrested, but detained in Cairo airport cell 2 prevent her from going to #Gaza. Details to come.”
Here's your chance Medea!
Martyr yourself for your cause, whatever that cause is....
They’re a few days early, aren’t they?
It would be a shame if something happened to her like what would happen to other women protesting there who were not connected.
Double dare ya!
Here’s hoping you have a long stay, Medea.
She’s an attention hound of the female persuasion ! (Much nicer than calling her a bitch)
Should have stayed on the porch. She’s not ready for Islamic “ prime-time “!
Awww, don’t tell me she’s a vegetarian to boot!!!????!!!
Yup, if u can’t run with the big dawgs, stay on the porch!!”
We ought to check and see if she’s a member of BaPak’s group. She fits their MO. Even a name change !
Ping!
Are you serious? What a disgusting comment.
now we can see 0Bamma’s foreign policy at work
is it working????????
ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Look what’s being posted here. Doesn’t take much to read through the lines on some of them. I’m just being brutally frank. What part of the world do you think this treasonous bitch ended up in? Disneyland?
Egyptian prison -- couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
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