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Global Warming Skeptics Linked With Holocaust Deniers, Labeled Violent Threat
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Cooling off the heated climate change rhetoric
Andrew Freedman
Washington Post
Feb 2, 2011
Defending his use of a term (“deniers”) that many climate change skeptics say they find offensive due to its association with those who deny the Holocaust, (Kevin) Trenberth defiantly tells the audience: “My reaction to some of them is, ‘well, if the shoe fits, wear it.’”
Like Trenberth, (Ben) Santer has been on the receiving end of more recent criticisms from Morano’s Climate Depot website. “[Morano] attacked me in a very unjust way on his website and posted my email address, and in my view such behavior is basically an incitement to hatred,” Santer says.
“Those [emails] are of concern,” Santer says, “particularly when you have loved ones and it’s clear that some of these people out there are not very rational.”
Santer points to Morano’s work as a major source of worry. “If something were to happen I would hold people like Mr. Morano personally responsible.” As a general practice, Morano prominently posts the email addresses of those he takes issue with, as if to incite the masses into writing hate mail. He even copies his opponents on blast emails he sends out criticizing them, as if to taunt and intimidate them.
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Move Over Egypt: Homeland Security Shuts Down Sports Websites
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JENNIFER MARTINEZ
Politico
Feb 2, 2011
The federal government has seized the Web addresses of ten websites that allegedly live stream sporting and pay-per-view events online, shutting them down just days before one of the biggest televised sporting events of the year: the Super Bowl.
The U. S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, working in conjunction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seized the Web addresses Tuesday. The seizure affidavit was unsealed Wednesday.
The websites, which include channelsurfing.net and Spain-based rojadirecta.org, were said to illegally provide access to content from the major professional sports organizations, namely the National Football League, National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. The sites do not host the pirated sporting content themselves, but instead provide links to other websites where people can access it illegally.
Government officials argue that the sites are not only distributing pirated content illegally, but in the process, are also denting the revenues of the professional sports leagues and broadcasters as well as negatively impacting viewers.
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Murder-case confession: 'I didn't mean to hurt him like that'
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Murder-case confession: 'I didn't mean to hurt him like that'
A homeless man accused of robbing and fatally strangling a fellow guest at a Manchester Township motel broke down in tears as he confessed.
"God, I didn't mean to hurt him like that ... I swear to you," Tracey Raynard Bradley said during his videotaped police interview. "It wasn't my intention for this man to die."
Northern York County Regional Police said Bradley, 46, robbed and killed 72-year-old Lee Choppin of Roanoke, Va., inside the victim's room at the Motel 6, 323 Arsenal Road, on May 26.
Bradley's confession was played at a hearing Tuesday in York County Court. His defense attorney, Rick Robinson, is seeking to have the confession suppressed, arguing that when police arrested Bradley he asked for an attorney and therefore shouldn't have been questioned any further by police.
But York County District Attorney Tom Kearney maintains the statement should be admissible.
Immediately before Bradley confessed, Northern Regional Sgt. David Steffen advised him, on tape, of his Miranda rights. He also had Bradley confirm he hadn't been coerced or threatened, and that he'd been given a McDonald's Big Mac value meal for dinner.
Steffen testified Tuesday that while eating, Bradley asked Kearney, "So Mr. Tom, are you going to give me the needle or not?" and that Kearney replied, "Well, Tracey, we'll have to see."
Taped interview: Initially on the video, Bradley adamantly denied having anything to do with the homicide.
But as Northern Regional Sgt. David Steffen began to reveal the evidence investigators had already gathered against Bradley, his story changed. That evidence included the confession of his stepdaughter to pawning one of the victim's rings, as well as records that Bradley used the victim's credit card at two gas stations.
"You know we got you," Steffen told Bradley. "You're a user, you're a junkie. ... I know what you're all about."
Police ended the interview but it resumed.
"Mr. Bradley indicated he had a willingness ... to tell us what really happened, in exchange for an opportunity to visit with (family) and to tell them goodbye," Steffen testified.
Police allowed him to visit with his wife and stepdaughter, then began taping Bradley again. On the tape, Steffen had Bradley confirm there were no conditions placed on Bradley as to what he would say to investigators after being granted the visit.
'The truth': "The truth is something everybody needs to know," Bradley said on tape.
He told police he went into Choppin's room to rob him, and -- panicked he would be caught and returned to prison -- put the victim in a "sleeper hold" to knock him out.
"I just held him ... till he stopped moving," Bradley said. "I'm thinking he was still alive and I ran out the room."
Bradley told investigators he felt forced into committing the robbery because his family had no money and had been evicted from their apartment by York City officials due to its uninhabitable conditions.
"Do you know what it's like when your family doesn't have enough to eat? I didn't know what else to do," Bradley said. "I'd been going all over York trying to find assistance for my family. ... Nobody wanted to give me any help."
Bradley's children are adults, police said.
He said if his former landlord had simply refunded his family's rent or security deposit, the killing wouldn't have happened.
Continued: The conclusion of Bradley's suppression hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 16.
He remains in York County Prison without bail, charged with first-, second- and third-degree murder, robbery, burglary and theft.
Bradley's stepdaughter, Enishia Bradley, 22, of York, faces theft-related charges for allegedly pawning Choppin's belongings. She is cooperating with prosecutors, Kearney has said.
Also charged is Bradley family friend Teara Hardy, 21, of York. She is charged with robbery, burglary, theft, conspiracy to commit all three charges and receiving stolen property.
Like Enishia Bradley, Hardy has been extended a plea offer from prosecutors, according to Kearney.
-- Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com, 505-5429 or twitter.com/ydcrimetime.
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Rebranding Big Brother
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 2, 2011
In the video here, the multinational telecom corporation Motorola associates itself with 1984, the year of George Orwell’s dystopian and authoritarian nightmare future.
Motorola tells us 1984 represents freedom and its technology – wireless telephony that serves as a vital component of Big Brother’s vast panopticon spy network – is one authority, one design, and one way to work.
On the surface the video seems innocuous enough – yet another 30 second commercial featuring computer animation and dazzling effects – but in fact it is another attempt to normalize tyranny, the same way the government and the corporate media daily normalize TSA sexual molestation, naked body porno scanners, cavity searches, warrantless checkpoints (now with thugs in ski masks) and dozens of other examples of the steady erosion of our liberty.
Goodbye 1984, ShareMoto headlines this video.
Say hello to a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
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Obama: Forcing Uninsured to Buy Insurance Is Like Forcing Homeless to Buy Homes
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden react to cheers as they arrive in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, for the signing ceremony for the health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(CNSNews.com) - Long before his administration went into federal court to fight 27 states that are now challenging the constitutionality of the federal government forcing people to buy health insurance, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told Ellen DeGeneres that—unlike his opponent Hillary Clinton—he opposed forcing the uninsured to buy health insurance, saying that it would be like forcing the homeless to buy homes.
“Both of us want to provide health care to all Americans. There’s a slight difference, and her plan is a good one. But, she mandates that everybody buy health care. She’d have the government force every individual to buy insurance and I don’t have such a mandate because I don’t think the problem is that people don’t want health insurance, it’s that they can’t afford it,” Obama said in a Feb. 28, 2008 appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' television show. “So, I focus more on lowering costs. This is a modest difference. But, it’s one that she’s tried to elevate, arguing that because I don’t force people to buy health care that I’m not insuring everybody. Well, if things were that easy, I could mandate everybody to buy a house, and that would solve the problem of homelessness. It doesn’t."
In a ruling issued yesterday holding that the insurance mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson pointed to a similar statement that Obama had made in a Feb. 5th, 2008 interview with CNN. “Indeed,” wrote Vinson, “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.’”
Judge Vinson was the second federal judge to rule that the federal government does not have the constitutional power to force individuals to buy health insurance. Last month, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson also ruled that the mandate was unconstitutional. Vinson was ruling in a suit brought against the federal government by Florida and 25 other states. Hudson was ruling in a suit brought against the federal government by the state of Virginia.
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The Ellen DeGeneres Interview That Will Haunt President Obama
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The Ellen DeGeneres Interview That Will Haunt President Obama
Long before his administration went into federal court to fight 27 states that are now challenging the constitutionality of the federal government forcing people to buy health insurance, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told Ellen DeGeneres that—unlike his opponent Hillary Clinton—he opposed forcing the uninsured to buy health insurance, saying that it would be like forcing the homeless to buy homes.
“Both of us want to provide health care to all Americans. There’s a slight difference, and her plan is a good one. But, she mandates that everybody buy health care. She’d have the government force every individual to buy insurance and I don’t have such a mandate because I don’t think the problem is that people don’t want health insurance, it’s that they can’t afford it,” Obama said in a Feb. 28, 2008 appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ television show. “So, I focus more on lowering costs. This is a modest difference. But, it’s one that she’s tried to elevate, arguing that because I don’t force people to buy health care that I’m not insuring everybody. Well, if things were that easy, I could mandate everybody to buy a house, and that would solve the problem of homelessness. It doesn’t.”
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Chris Matthews: Obama doesn’t have long-form B.C.
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Chris Matthews: Obama doesn’t have long-form B.C.
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, who earlier announced he is the “enemy of birthers” but said even so he thinks Barack Obama should release his birth certificate, now has suggested that the online, computer-generated image of a Certification of Live Birth from Hawaii is the only document Obama has.
It also was Matthews who famously stated about listening to Obama, “I felt this thrill running up my leg. I don’t have that too often.”
Matthews was poking fun at a new move by state legislatures across the country to adopt state laws that would require presidential candidates to document their constitutional eligibility in order to be on the state’s ballot:
The beard keeps growing on this thing,” he jested. “They believe they’ve got something there that could embarrass the president.”
He pointed out that the “old school” birth certificates have all sorts of signatures and writing on them.
“Now you have the new kind which is a digital thing, printed out,” he said. “The president has produced this new kind. It’s been fine for him … He doesn’t have the other kind apparently,” Matthews said.
Earlier, he was addressing Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s statement that he was going to chase down Obama’s original state birth certificate to prove his eligibility.
Read More: By Bob Unruh, WND
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Muslim Modesty: Top UK Imam Raped Boy, Age 12
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It’s yet another example of “peacefulness” in the “Religion of Peace.” And as I always say when we hear of these many stories, remember this the next time Muslims lecture you on “Islamic modesty” . . . the same “Muslim modesty” that the hooker/stripper procuring 9/11 hijackers practiced, too. And this wasn’t just some “fringe” or irrelevant Muslim cleric. He was one of the top Muslim clerics in Britain, honored by British royalty and as the first full-time Muslim cleric in the British Prison Service. I’ll bet he took, um, “liberties” there, too. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. Nor does this member of the Islamic Man-Boy Love Association:
One of Britain’s most respected Muslim ministers was behind bars last night for raping a boy of 12 and abusing another.
Mohammed Hanif Khan – honoured by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace for his work – preyed on the lads when they went to his mosque for religious lessons.
Imam Khan, 42, play-wrestled with one boy after prayers then raped him. He told his terrified victim: “You’re my bitch.” [DS: emphasis added.]
The boy told his father – and a 15-year-old cousin revealed he had been abused. Furious relatives attacked father-of-four Khan before he was arrested.
The twice-wed holy man [DS: this is "holy?"], whose mosque is the largest in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, was the Prison Service’s first full-time Muslim minister. Khan was convicted at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday of rape and a sex act.
He was remanded in custody to await sentence.
“Religion of peace” . . . and “getting a piece.” And don’t think this imam is the only Muslim religious cleric preying on young boys. There are many more like him where he came from–as in, Islam.
I wonder how many prisoners this imam raped as he worked at HMP [Her Majesty's Prison] Dovegate. And how many boys he raped as founder and chief of Hizb ur Rasool (HUR), an Islamic charity dealing with youths and promoting Islam.
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Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Getting Brighter
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Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Getting Brighter
After the sun sets on a summer evening and the sky fades to black, you may be lucky enough to see thin, wavy clouds illuminating the night, such as these seen over Billund, Denmark, on July 15, 2010.
Jan Erik Paulsen/ NASA Earth Observatory.
Clouds bright enough to see at night are not as hard to find as they once were.
These so-called night-shining clouds are still rare — rare enough that Matthew DeLand, who has been studying them for 11 years, has seen them only once. But his odds are increasing. [Related: In Images: Reading the Clouds.]
These mysterious clouds form between 50 and 53 miles (80 and 85 kilometers) up in the atmosphere, altitudes so high that they reflect light long after the sun has dropped below the horizon.
DeLand, an atmospheric scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has found that night-shining clouds — technically known as polar mesospheric or noctilucent clouds — are forming more frequently and becoming brighter. He has been observing the clouds in data from instruments that have been flown on satellites since 1978.
For reasons not fully understood, the clouds' brightness wiggles up and down in step with solar activity, with fewer clouds forming when the sun is most active. The biggest variability is in the far north.
Underlying the changes caused by the sun, however, is a trend toward brighter clouds. The upward trend in brightness, DeLand said, reveals subtle changes in the atmosphere that may be linked to greenhouse gases.
Night-shining clouds are extremely sensitive to changes in atmospheric water vapor and temperature. The clouds form only when temperatures drop below minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 degrees Celsius), when the scant amount of water high in the atmosphere freezes into ice clouds. This happens most often in far northern and southern latitudes (above 50 degrees) in the summer when, counter-intuitively, the mesosphere is coldest.
Changes in temperature or humidity in the mesosphere make the clouds brighter and more frequent. Colder temperatures allow more water to freeze, while an increase in water vapor allows more ice clouds to form. Increased water vapor also leads to the formation of larger ice particles that reflect more light.
The fact that night-shining clouds are getting brighter suggests that the mesosphere is getting colder and more humid, DeLand said. Increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could account for both phenomena. In the mesosphere, carbon dioxide radiates heat into space, causing cooling. More methane, on the other hand, puts more water vapor into the atmosphere because sunlight breaks methane into water molecules at high altitudes.
So far, it's not clear which factor — water vapor or cooling — is causing polar mesospheric clouds to change. It's likely that both are contributing, DeLand said, but the question is the focus of current research.
This story was provided by OurAmazingPlanet, a sister site to SPACE.com.
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23,000 volts go through windshield, man survives with minor injuries
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23,000 volts go through windshield, man survives with minor injuries
- By: Ted Kortan
AKRON, Ohio - Joseph Ferrato was driving his Chevrolet Suburban home from work late Tuesday evening when he thought he saw a flash.
"There were sparks, it was red, green, yellow, boom, bang, a real loud explosion... Enough of a sound wave to knock me out," Ferrato said.
When Ferrato came to his senses, Akron police informed him his windshield had been blown out by a falling power line cut down by copper thieves.
"The policeman said I was really really fortunate," Ferrato said.
Ferrato said he was transported to the hospital, where he had broken glass removed from his eyes.
According to Akron police, Ferrato's injuries occurred because would-be copper thieves had climbed a utility pole and used a hacksaw to cut through a non-energized power cable which hung across state Route 224 near Manchester Road.
As the cable fell, it came in contact with another electrical line carrying 23,000 volts. The copper-cutting crooks fled the scene -- leaving behind their tools and several other smaller pieces of downed copper line.
Police are looking for whoever is responsible for the attempted theft. They are asking anyone with information to contact the Akron Police Department at 330-375-2490.
Meanwhile, Ohio Edison, who owns the transmission lines, told NewsChannnel5 the episode should be a warning to anyone considering the electric power infrastructure as a source for scrap metal.
"It was a crime, it was wrong, and if we find you, we'll put you in jail," said spokesman Mark Durbin. "Any time you think about making a quick buck by stealing some of our equipment, stealing some of the copper, it might end up costing you your life."
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Violence Escalates as Gunfire Breaks Out in Cairo Square
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By CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
Cairo gave way to armed chaos.
The Egyptian military stood neutral as pro- and anti-
Mubarak crowds exchanged punches and rocks and
Molotov cocktails. The question now becomes: How
will the military respond now that bullets are flying
through Liberation Square?
It was a very ugly night in Cairo--and it could shape
up to be an even uglier day. This after violent
protests all day Wednesday.
It's quieter now as dawn is breaking and people now
are pouring into the square. But for at least two
hours, in the pre-dawn hours, there was shooting,
heavy shooting, into the protesters and into that
square, where women and children also had been all
night.
We will wait see how this day develops.
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On Wednesday, after five days of peaceful protests,
the square suddenly was engulfed in all-out battle.
It did not look to be a spontaneous eruption. It
appeared to be deliberately orchestrated political
theater, a planned and organized bid by supporters
of President Hosni Mubarak to send a message. The
stage for the violence, Tahrir Square, was in full view
of the world audience.
Anti-government demonstrators have occupied the
square for more than a week.
The group rushing the square all came from one area
and it happened all at once. As we stood on the roof
of Associated Press television headquarters preparing
to do a broadcast, we could see that down on the
street, the throngs protesting had gone from a couple
of hundred pro-Mubarak people to what looked
Then we saw men on horseback and camels rushing
the square. The whole thing had the feel of an
organized band of thugs moving in. That was when
the pro- and anti-government demonstrators began
fighting, throwing bricks with the army standing by.
Around 4 p.m., we started to hear gunshots and we
could not be sure where they were coming from.
Some of those who began beating and throwing
stones at the anti-government protesters were likely
genuine Mubarak supporters, but others were
wearing uniforms indicating they were government
workers. Many looked to be agitators. It was widely
thought that a number were police and security forces
in civilian clothes.
Each time the pro-Mubarak forces charged them, the
protesters fell back, only to inch forward again once
the pressure had receded. There were Molotov
cocktails. People the square were smashing the
pavement.
Eventually the ground all around this historic
square, in front of the Egyptian Antiquities museum,
was ripped up and turned into projectiles. After a
battle of several hours, the protesters were in control
Was Swarming the Door'
some improvements. The Internet was restored and
curfew hours were shortened.
But even this morning, before the clashes, the
jubilation of the last few days had already given way
to an overwhelming sense of fear about how this is
now going to go.
In Tahrir Square, protesters had been telling us two
things. Some were saying that President Hosni
Mubarak's announcement Tuesday night, in which he
announced that he would not seek reelection, was not
enough and that he has to go now.
Others told us that although they have protested
against him, they want him to leave in an orderly
fashion, with dignity.
A majority, it seemed, were concerned that if he left
quickly, the economy and institutions could collapse,
resulting in an explosion of crime and violence.
If Mubarak leaves precipitously, there could be real
chaos. Mubarak's party had been sending a message
on state TV regarding moves to restore law and order.
The army, in a new statement on television, had urged
the protesters to go home, "for the love of Egypt."
But when pro-Mubarak forces rushed the square, it
turned the sentiments. We had gone over to interview
Amr Moussa, the longtime President of the Arab
League. He said the demonstrators had sent a clear
message that the Arab world was ready for
democracy.
As we left the Arab League headquarters, a band of
angry pro-Mubarak demonstrators were already
gathered around the Amr Moussa's headquarters. By
the time we got to our office at the Associated Press
TV, a mob was swarming the door.
Those opposed to change have clearly turned
against the media. One of the women who works there
later told us that as she approached the building with
a camera in her hand, the crowd pulled her by her
scarf, trying to pull her to the ground.
On Tuesday, two of our colleagues were arrested and
roughed up by a plainclothes policeman who tried to
seize their camera. After several young Egyptian men
intervened and argued with them, they were let go.
Our producer heard one of the young men mutter,
Home'
Tahrir Square, an angry mob of pro-Mubarak
protesters surrounded us and chased us into the car,
shouting that they hated us and America. Some of the
protesters kicked in the car doors and broke our
windshield as we drove away.
As night fell, nobody was certain what would come
next. There are fears that now the military and the
people may now be headed for a showdown. The
military amended its earlier request that "everyone go
home."
Now they have issued an order: "Leave Tahrir
Square."
Do you have questions about the mass protests in
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Amanpour HERE.
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Katie Couric, narrowly escaping as the mob circles her
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America's news anchors, most notably Anderson Cooper, are getting beaten up left and right by pro-Mubarak troublemakers today. Here's "America's Girl," Katie Couric, narrowly escaping as the mob circles her. Don't threaten our national lady-mascot, Egypt. Just don't.
[CBS News]
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Christiane Amanpour Gets Her Egyptian Media Beating
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Egypt's pro-Mubarak thugs are just wailing on America's anchors. ABC's Christiane Amanpour is the latest, joining Anderson Cooper and Katie Couric: "The mob chased [her crew] into the car shouting that they hate America" and smashed the windshield. Who's next?
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Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo
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CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. [Updated with video]
"My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from the safety of a hotel balcony. "There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us." According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head."
But he seems OK! Cooper told CNN that the crowd tried to take his crew's camera; we'll see if there's video. Cooper was caught up in what appears to be rapidly escalating violence today as pro-Mubarak forces have taken to the streets to quell protests.
Update:
CNN has aired the video of the encounter, above, which consists of a lot of jostling and audio of Cooper saying, "Hey! Hey!" Below is video of Cooper recounting the attack—"suddenly a young man would come up, look at you, and punch you in the face." The thugs were trying to break or steal his crew's camera, but Cooper had been using a handheld Flip camera to film, which they didn't notice.
Katie Couric faced danger in Cairo today, too. And Christiane Amanpour had a run-in of her own as well.
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