Wednesday, September 12, 2012

And a Curious Photo from the Egyptian Riot Front


Egyptian protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo during a protest in Cairo, Egypt.

Rioters climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and tore up the American Flag, replacing it with a black al Qaeda flag.

But, Travis Holte writes:
Not sure what to make of this, but one commenter points out that two of those in the photo are wearing press passes.

3 comments:

  1. This is a slightly larger snap:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9537898/Anti-US-protests-in-Libya-and-Egypt-at-film-that-insults-Prophet-Mohammed.html?frame=2337105

    They might be press passes, but the one on the right has a photo of a bearded man on it who seems older than the fella around whose neck it's hanging.

    No idea who the photo is of. I thought it might be Morsi (the president) but online photos all show him with a cropped beard

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  2. It's an obvious attempt to conflate the "Guy Fawkes" mask, like those typically worn by anti-government protestors in the west, with Islamic extremism and possibly terrorism. Everyone knows "Anonymous" uses that mask as a symbol. Everyone knows the government wants us to believe "Anonymous" is evil.


    It wouldn't surprise me if all four guys in that photo are on the CIA payroll.

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  3. It could be they're wearing those pictures as a way to ID themselves for the specific attack on the embassy. Iranian students used the same method when they stormed the embassy in '79.

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