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highplainsdem

(48,968 posts)
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:35 AM Sep 2012

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

Source: CNN

Cairo, Egypt (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.

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

Also Saturday, some semblance of normalcy finally returned to Cairo after riot police successfully pushed away demonstrators from the U.S. diplomatic as well as nearby Tahrir Square.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/world/meast/egypt-us-embassy-protests/index.html

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Amid uneasy calm in Cairo, prime minister says some were paid to protest (Original Post) highplainsdem Sep 2012 OP
Ahhh, so it's like an Islamic version of the Tea Party! Crowman1979 Sep 2012 #1
Elephant of a different color. ReasonableToo Sep 2012 #7
Its not far fetching to say railsback Sep 2012 #2
Nothing would surprise me. Lugnut Sep 2012 #3
Were they paid when they chanted "Monica" to Hillary? Sounds like international Karl Rove to me!!! winstars Sep 2012 #4
If Koch/Adleson/Rove money financed any part of this HeiressofBickworth Sep 2012 #5
They also got four Americans killed. sofa king Sep 2012 #15
I wonder if it is the same people who paid for the movie. /nt Festivito Sep 2012 #6
Never thought of that tawadi Sep 2012 #8
September surprise for October try-outs. Festivito Sep 2012 #9
Does seem like an interesting coincidence tawadi Sep 2012 #10
I rest your case!! nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #12
So who has money to spread around like that? Sounds like Koch-Adleson to me. nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #11
Time to investigate the American 1% maxrandb Sep 2012 #13
Juan Cole predicted this. joshcryer Sep 2012 #14
Need proof mojo2012 Sep 2012 #16

ReasonableToo

(505 posts)
7. Elephant of a different color.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:32 AM
Sep 2012

McClatchy reports there were no protesters outside when well-armed and organized Libya raid happened.

Movie only had 6000 hits when Libya raid happened. Libya deaths was not due to protesters going too far by climbing the wall and taking a flag.

Stevens died of smoke inhalation. Glen Doherty was shot. (yes he was a guard) Glen was helping to stop religious fanatics in US military. Any top brass on the line? I also saw report of documents taken. What was in the documents?

Payments to protesters is interesting bit of info. Someone wanted protesters.

 

railsback

(1,881 posts)
2. Its not far fetching to say
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:44 AM
Sep 2012

that with all the money flowing to these SuperPacs, like Karl plant bugs in my office and then cry foul Rove, that someone here was heavily involved in all of this. It all seems way too coordinated to have happened spontaneously.

winstars

(4,220 posts)
4. Were they paid when they chanted "Monica" to Hillary? Sounds like international Karl Rove to me!!!
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:32 AM
Sep 2012

We are supposed to believe that the wing nuts in Cairo and Alexandria stumbled on the Frank Gaffney's or Goldberg's website by accident??? Possible but if some in Egypt financed the "movie" and some in Egypt financed some of the protesters, why can't they be the SAME people.

This whole thing smells. But I think the events of this week in Egypt and everywhere else is one thing and Libya is another.

The killers in Libya were opportunistic and latched onto the demonstrations as a cover... I think they might have been going to do it anyway on 9/11 or were waiting for the "next" demonstration to make the attack. Opportunistic...

The whole movie outrage started in Egypt for a reason... Apparently the people who made it and paid for it are from there, whatever their politics or religion. Our country is getting used here and it all can possibly just be a big 'kin circle and the smell is really coming from certain wing nuts HERE who do not have ANY MORAL COMPASS. it's your modern day, 21st century 'rat fucking' ------Donald Segretti and Lee Atwater are smiling somewhere (Hell?) right now.

And this fucking BeBe Netanutjob pressure is part of it too! Since when is he running our country??? this is bullshit.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
5. If Koch/Adleson/Rove money financed any part of this
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:45 AM
Sep 2012

to give Romney a foreign policy platform, they wasted their money. Don't they know their candidate isn't up to giving a strong, well-thought response, well, to anything? -- he makes a mess of everything he tries to do.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
15. They also got four Americans killed.
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:41 AM
Sep 2012

Isn't it interesting that the yarn is starting to lead back to the Republican ball, and tangled up right in the middle of it is al Qaeda, running a planned operation in the middle of a supposedly spontaneous demonstration.

If those people were paid by Republican cut-outs to demonstrate... and al Qaeda knew about the demonstrations and used them as part of an attack... well, that makes them real cozy, doesn't it?

Real cozy.

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
9. September surprise for October try-outs.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:16 PM
Sep 2012

To give Romney an edge they have to whip some National Security issue.

Problem is that Romney blew the first round.

Now, George Will does damage control. saying it's all equal.

Later, it can return. Same paid "protesters." Only, they'll be better prepared to attach it to the Obama is not making things better meme, which I hope will backfire on them again.

tawadi

(2,110 posts)
10. Does seem like an interesting coincidence
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:11 PM
Sep 2012

Let's see if I can post this. FireFox crashed twice before, when I attempted to reply. lol

mojo2012

(290 posts)
16. Need proof
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:34 AM
Sep 2012

IF there are ties to U.S. for the protests (payment), it won't be proved in time for the elections. However, if Egypt's PM did make a statement like this publicly, you know the FBI were told prior. I have no doubt that there is an investigation going much deeper than we would ever be privy to.
IF there are ties to the superpacs (Koch or Rove) for and it can be proved, I certainly hope they would be tried and put away for treason. IF they footed the bill for the movie, they probably can't be tried for that, but I think public disgrace would be fitting. Doubtful, anything can be tied to Romney (darn). He's probably not smart enough to have come up with the idea anyway.

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