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Amid uneasy calm in Cairo, prime minister says some were paid to protest
CNN ^ | Sept. 15, 2012 | Ian Lee, Hamdi Alkhshali and Joe Sterling

Posted on 09/15/2012 9:46:16 PM PDT by Innovative

Egypt's prime minister said some of the thousands involved in days of protests near the U.S. Embassy got paid to participate, state news reported Saturday, the same day riot police managed to force demonstrators from the area.

Prime Minister Hesham Kandil said "a number" of those involved in the tense, sometimes violent protests, which began Tuesday, later confessed to getting paid to participate, according to the state-run Middle East News Agency. He noted, too, that some of the demonstrators were acting on their own and weren't paid to vent their anger against the United States over an inflammatory anti-Islam film that was privately produced in that country.

Kandil did not say whether the government knew or suspected who paid the demonstrators, according to the MENA report.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; middleeast; obama; protests; terrorism; usembassies
Big surprise! (NOT)
1 posted on 09/15/2012 9:46:31 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Our tax dollars at work.


2 posted on 09/15/2012 9:51:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

My thought exactly!


3 posted on 09/15/2012 9:53:02 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: Innovative

Placemark


4 posted on 09/15/2012 9:53:35 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Innovative

I looked at the comments over there....oh...my...gosh...


5 posted on 09/15/2012 9:57:17 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Innovative

And why would anyone believe what the Egyptian prime minister says? It might be better to look at what he has DONE since coming to power. The naivete and incompetence astound.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 10:03:48 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Innovative

Just like the leftist rent-a-mobs and OWS here in America.


7 posted on 09/15/2012 10:06:32 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Innovative

Just like the leftist rent-a-mobs and OWS here in America.


8 posted on 09/15/2012 10:06:44 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Innovative

Just like the leftist rent-a-mobs and OWS here in America.


9 posted on 09/15/2012 10:07:13 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Irenic; Innovative

All we need to know is that everything that has happened is Bush’s fault and everything that will happen is Romney’s fault, except for the good stuff of course, and Obama did that.

So sayeth CNN and it’s commenters.


10 posted on 09/15/2012 10:11:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Innovative

ACORN LIVES!


11 posted on 09/15/2012 10:13:25 PM PDT by Sivad (Nor Cal Red Turf)
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To: Innovative

bambi? is this where you sent my taxes?


12 posted on 09/15/2012 10:23:26 PM PDT by THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH
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To: Innovative

OCCUPY


13 posted on 09/15/2012 10:37:16 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Sivad

Community organizing...Muslim style!


14 posted on 09/15/2012 10:48:41 PM PDT by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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To: Innovative

(cough)Soros(cough)


15 posted on 09/15/2012 10:54:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Innovative

So,DemonRat “Rent-A_Mobs”are there too?????????????????


16 posted on 09/15/2012 11:02:46 PM PDT by bandleader
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To: Innovative

“Organizing for Obama” has many branches?


17 posted on 09/16/2012 12:56:39 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 51 days away.)
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To: rfp1234

I smell a rat here. All is not what it seems. Now you can think in terms of October Surprise?


18 posted on 09/16/2012 5:41:30 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Innovative

What starts in Cairo always spreads across the ME bump.


19 posted on 09/17/2012 7:50:49 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Innovative

But of course, Egyptian Muslims don’t hate the USA. They were just making a few extra bucks. /s


20 posted on 09/17/2012 8:01:27 AM PDT by jpsb
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