Friday, February 18, 2011

Pro-Mubarak goons

"Second, Cohen repeats allegations that the crowd that assaulted Logan shouted "Jew, Jew." I don't know if that's accurate, but if it's true, the blame should go to the pro-Mubarak camp for disseminating the sick view that Logan, as a foreign reporter, was a pro-Israel conspirator. This theme that the Tahrir demonstrations were the work of pro-Israel foreign agents masked as reporters was spread by pro-government sources, and even the official media. When foreign journalists were attacked and beaten, it wasn't by the Tahrir protesters, but by pro-Mubarak thugs. The Logan attack may have been an appalling echo of this outrageous pro-Mubarak campaign against foreign journalists."