Egypt crowd attack ElBaradei at voting station

[JanDutchy]

Source: Reuters

Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:06pm GMT
CAIRO (Reuters) - A crowd of people blocked Mohamed ElBaradei from entering a polling station in Cairo on Saturday to cast a vote in Egypt's constitutional referendum, shoving him and smashing his car window with rocks as he left.
"We don't want you, we don't want you," a crowd of youths chanted at ElBaradei, who has said he wants to run for president. He was shoved after joining a queue of people seeking to vote. He then went back to his car and stones were hurled


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[jakeXT]

1. So they really think this is democracy ...

No UN sock puppets?

[EFerrari]

4. Revolutionaries still fighting for democracy, army trying to impede them. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. Elections monitors were also arrested by army. (ETA link)

Looks like a co-ordinated attack between army and baltagiya.

@sharifkouddous Sharif Kouddous
by monasosh
My friend's sisters, lawyer and activist Ragia Omran and Dana, were arrested by the army in Cairo today while doing election monitoring
28 minutes ago via Echofon

http://twitter.com/#!/sharifkouddous/status/49220101622345728

[riderinthestorm]

3. Definitely not what democracy looks like, preventing people from voting, throwing stones

at a candidate, and smashing his car.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. They should take a cue from Republicans in this country and just pass laws to make it

more difficult.

[JDPriestly]

5. I posted here that the protestors in Tahrir Square should not go home

until the elections had taken place. They made a huge mistake.

[neoralme]

6. I said the same. Same with the Wisconsin 14. They should not

have returned.