Sunday, September 16, 2012

CNN is now reporting that protesters in Egypt were paid, So much for the "spontaneous anger over a movie" line.


CNN is now reporting that protesters in Egypt were paid: So much for the "spontaneous anger over a movie" line.
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7:38 PM - 16 Sep 12 · Details

Amid uneasy calm in Cairo, prime minister says some were paid to protest

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September 15, 2012|From Ian Lee, Hamdi Alkhshali and Joe Sterling, CNN
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.
Posted by Robby Ball at 5:37 PM