Busted: Pro-Mubarak Thugs Are Police Officers ! (Invoking Gandi and MLK)

[KoKo]

Wednesday, February 2, 2011--→ Washington’s Blog

The protesters accused Mubarak’s regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented 9-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.

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“If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

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CNN writes:

The United States doesn’t know the identity of “thugs” who attacked anti-government protesters Wednesday in Egypt, but others have identified them as “supporters of the government,” U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.

“This was clearly an attempt at intimidating the protesters,” Crowley said.

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And Al Jazeera reports:

Protesters in Tahrir Square shows the Al Jazeera camera the ID cards of accused plain clothed security (police ID) who came in earlier to create chaos.

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This is just like when the British police attacked the non-violent protesters led by Gandhi, or the police in towns in the South of the United States attacked the peaceful protesters led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

MORE WITH VIDEO SHOWING THE POLICE "ID's" Seized!

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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/02/guest-post-busted-pro-mubarak-thugs-are-police-officers.html

[aquart]

1. We've known that all day.