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3 U.S. students arrested amid Cairo protests (for throwing "firebombs" at police)
AP/CBS ^ | 11/22/11

Posted on 11/22/2011 8:56:51 AM PST by markomalley

Three U.S. students have been arrested in Cairo for allegedly throwing firebombs at Egyptian security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests.

The Americans attend the American University in Cairo as exchange students. The school, which sits on Tahrir Square, the central protest site, confirmed the students' arrest.

National television showed video of the three, identified as Derrik Sweeney, from Georgetown University, Luke Gates, from Indiana University and Greg Porter, from Drexel University.

Kevin Sweeney, Derrick's father, told CBS Radio news that his son was being held in a courthouse in Cairo.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: badambassadors; idiots; morons; troublemakers
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To: Diogenesis

“Sweeney Todd”? Meathead Catastrophe...life is not a video game and the parents and universities were INSANE to let them go to Cairo at this point in time.


21 posted on 11/22/2011 9:40:18 AM PST by colonialhk (Put them in green jails doing green jobs)
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To: vbmoneyspender
Jap policeman must have played some (American) football..Great tackle..down low..shoulders squared up..into the perp..good technique..

Do you know if Jap police are issued tasers?

As for the three Americans in the Cairo clink..they will stay in jail until trial ( does Egypt have bail?) be convicted..and sentenced to time served..and expelled from the country...US can't , and should NOT, intervene on their behalf..it would be like defending terrorists...

22 posted on 11/22/2011 9:41:37 AM PST by ken5050 (Support Admin Mods: Doing the tough, hard, dirty jobs that Americans won't do...)
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To: vbmoneyspender

I saw the Swedish Polis beat the living Skit out of some local Swede who was drunk and disorderly, gave him the full Rodney King in front of dozens of witnesses, yours truly included. I never intended to mess with Swedish, or any other police, but that just confirmed it.

The way we second guess the cops and coddle criminals in this country, we are asking for it.


23 posted on 11/22/2011 10:09:19 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: markomalley; Tribune7; Kid Shelleen
... Greg Porter, from Drexel University ...

PA ping. Even if they were (as they claimed) just rocks, they deserve everything they'll get. Idiots!

24 posted on 11/22/2011 10:20:22 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: markomalley

Darwin alert!


25 posted on 11/22/2011 10:21:33 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: markomalley

Occupy Egypt.


26 posted on 11/22/2011 10:35:02 AM PST by pallis
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To: markomalley

Oh, I feel so sorry for them...NOT!


27 posted on 11/22/2011 10:42:18 AM PST by Bigg Red (Maryland girl on the Cain Train)
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To: MAexile

I hear Rachel flat-out refused to comment.


28 posted on 11/22/2011 10:43:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Maryland girl on the Cain Train)
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To: Bigg Red

Gotta love Twits Tweeting.


29 posted on 11/22/2011 11:03:26 AM PST by sitkaspruce
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To: markomalley

Any American student stupid enough to attend college in any country that is the least bit hostile to the US deserves anything that happens to them.

Personally, I wouldn’t attend college in any foreign country. The world is way, way too unsettled.


30 posted on 11/22/2011 11:25:22 AM PST by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Diogenesis

I can’t let your comment go by without congratulating you on your ethnographic awareness. There were, indeed, Sweeneys in Egypt.

I’ve studied things Egyptic,
Those writings weird and cryptic,
Upon the tombs that dot Sahara’s sands.
I’ve solved each strange inscription
Left by each wise Egyptian
And hold the mystic secret in my hands.
The Irish were Egyptians long ago
Just read between the lines and you will know.

CHORUS:
It must have been the Irish who built the Pyramids
For no one else could carry up the bricks.
It must have been a Doyle
Who dug the river Nile
For no one but an Irishman would fight a crocodile.

I think these Micks were Turks, Mohammedans and Ghurks
They speak of “Irish Turkey” till today.
Cleopatra was a colleen who came from Connmara
She lost her nationality while roaming in Sahara
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago.

Chorus

Now every Houlihan once drove a caravan.
I’ll say the same for every Mac and O.
And when Moses went to Egypt and saw those Irish faces,
He took the name O’Callahan and changed it to O’Asis
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago.


31 posted on 11/22/2011 11:39:58 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


32 posted on 11/22/2011 12:41:12 PM PST by Tribune7 (Perry, Cain or Santorum)
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To: indylindy
They will be lucky if they only lose their hands.

I had a friend who was on leave from the Navy in Cairo. Someone was caught stealing from one of the market stalls.

They rounded up everyone in the market at the time, and they cut they guys hand off right there in front of everyone.

33 posted on 11/22/2011 12:47:02 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: mware

These students I am sure just want to be part of the big socialist movement. I am sure their professors encourage them to join the fray.

Probably not to lob firebombs at the military of a foreign country though.

This was plain stupid and they will be lucky if they get out of this without too much trouble. They sure looked terrified. They deserved to look terrified.

I figure someone will throw big bucks their way and the Egyptians will take it and make them leave the country.


34 posted on 11/22/2011 12:56:52 PM PST by dforest
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To: indylindy
These students I am sure just want to be part of the big socialist movement. I am sure their professors encourage them to join the fray.

Well, according to the local DC news I'm watching, the one from Georgetown interned for a Republican Congressman from Missouri last year.

The spot interviews from the Georgetown campus were hilarious. One airheaded girl (I thought Georgetown had high admission standards) prattled on about how Americans abroad need to understand that they don't have the same cherished rights in places like Egypt that they enjoy here in the US.

Did I miss something, or is creating and employing a gasoline-based incendiary device a "cherished right" here in the US?!?!?!?
35 posted on 11/22/2011 2:13:37 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: markomalley

As Red Forman would say “dumbasses”.


36 posted on 11/22/2011 3:32:43 PM PST by Americanexpat (Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
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To: markomalley
lets hope the next five or ten years are a learning experience for them...
37 posted on 11/22/2011 7:18:51 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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