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Anderson Cooper and his crew were attacked in Egypt today, and fled for cover in a hotel.
Coopter tweeted: "Got roughed up by thugs in pro-mubarak crowd..punched and kicked repeatedly. Had to escape. Safe now." Check out more dramatic pictures of the incident below, captured by Kim Badawi of Getty. (Anderson will be on "Piers Morgan Tonight" this evening to talk about the experience.)
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It is very unlikely that those who have benefited during Mubarak's reign will simply say "Sorry!", fold up their tents and leave. What we have seen today is probably just the beginning of a major push-back by those whose power, status, privilege and jobs will be severely threatened by any sudden departure by Mubarak. Some, of course, will already have their money out – but the majority at lower levels of power will be left to face the consequences – just as is already happening in Tunisia.
Coptic Orthodox
Diocese of the Southern United States
Bishop Youssef
We Love you, Egypt Egyptian Youth, protect Egypt our Mother. The issue now is not who you are with or who you are against, the issue is Egypt.
Those who support are doing so for Egypt, and those who are opposing are doing so for Egypt; and the true freedom and democracy that you are calling for, is the ability to accept the other opinion with love and understanding.
If you are divided against each other and fought each other, then Egypt is the one who loses; and those who don’t protect Egypt whether they are supporting or opposing, then they are traitors to Egypt.
The voice of the truth has reached the ears of the authorities, and serious steps towards changing have started; therefore we have to give them a chance to see if they deliver what they had promised.
Continuing to protest any longer is destruction for our beloved country Egypt. Now is the time to put our hands together to build Egypt.
You have achieved the impossible and you won. Now is the time for us to work together to keep what you have achieved in correcting the path, therefore I ask everyone:
1. Stop assaulting each other immediately, for all of us have one goal, and that is Egypt.
2. Disassemble the protests at once to keep our country’s peace and its stability
3. Not listening to those who are stirring chaos and lawlessness whether they are individuals or from the media, because there are people who want to ruin your beautiful revolution to achieve personal interests and goals of their own.
4. Cooperation with each other to build our beloved country Egypt on the principles of Freedom, Security, Democracy, Justice, and Equality.
5. Giving the authorities a chance to achieve what they had promised, and closely follow their progress, asking those who don’t deliver to give account for their shortcomings regardless of their position.
My beloved children, I write these words and my heart is bleeding for Egypt, let’s all shout “We love you Egypt” and turn this love into an act of building.
His Grace Bishop Youssef
Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States
February 2, 2011
the crises in egypt is getting worse, and it is redicouls when usa watching this and thier reason is Mubarak has been a good leader and friendly to america ( but they forget he never been good to his own citizen which is important) when he comes to egypt as a president with out a decent election and stayed for 30 years and during all these years the ONLY people who can decide he is not perfect to them and thier country, who only can decide this is egyption,,,so please america now look at the people who die every day and be beside them instaed of saying an indirect meassage saying we own Mubarak,,,,you owm him and you paying people blood to pay for it...the meage is clear,,they donot wont their own prisedent and let them elect who is quilified,,but this Mubarak won't work again,,,america you can't decide if Mubarabis a dectator or not cuz you see it as america not see im as egyptian,,please please do somthing let people live
Nobody said covering a revolution was going to be pretty.
This isn't like covering the red carpet outside the Oscars. COME ON!
I think he knew what he was getting into, Murph. Granted, revolutions are usually messy, but still, he's a reporter, not a soldier. He's not going around taking sides or whatever, he's there to report the news. When that's your purpose, you probably don't expect a mob to attack you.
After 8 days of mostly peaceful protests, Mubarak's last attempt at scaring people results in the death of innocent Egyptians, whose only crime was wanting a better life for themselves and their country. Do you see now, America? Mubarak is a tyrant who brutalizes his own people. He must be arrested.
Wow stay safe
Wow, Cooper must've been very scared, I know I would have been. Glad he's okay. I wonder if the US would get what they wanted if they too protested against our controlling, corrupt, wealthy politicians up on Capitol Hill? They have to much Govt everything is becoming illegal, everyone can be a potential terrorist. Obama is not a very president, he's a liar,an opportunist like the rest of them, getting rich, more powerful and that's about all. He must 'Step Down' with others now.
Dear Mr. Morgan,
The Interview with Guiliani was awful. If you wanted to interview an ignorant person about whats happening in Egypt you could have grabbed any joe shmoe from the street. He said there is a concern that Egypt can turn into another Iran! This proves he knows nothing about Islam or Middle Eastern Issues. How disappointing. He asked Where were the police while the pro Mubarak people were attacking....THEY WERE THE POLICE. ID cards taken from many of these Violent thugs show clearly that they are Mubarak's Capos and Thugs. Please be on the side of the Facts. Please be on the side of the reality that the Egyptian people have dealt with for 30 years. Mubarak has made his country into an armpit and has destroyed a very proud people. They are trying to get their freedom and dignity back. This is not about whats good for us or whats good for Israel. This is about what the free humans in Egypt want for themselves. Mubarak is now breaking international law by sending people to brutalize peaceful protesters. The people have spoken. We must report on it bravely and fiercely and with facts.
Sorry to hear about Cooper's problems, I hope he and his crew are safe and sound. As for Morgan's guest:
Rudy Giuliani is a fear mongering republican who wants us to "watch out for the Muslim Brotherhood," because he doesn't get it and wants to keep the American public fearing those Islamists, even though Egyptian revolt is a popular uprising following the successful ouster of the Tunisian dictator, Ben Ali.
Piers Morgan is a joke. He is unprofessional and and does your program no good. He thinks that he is cool and I think that is a result of his limited ability to complete the job at hand.
You should listen to some of his programs. You can tell that he has limited knowledge of what he should be doing....
First, I think it was a dangerous miscalculation on part of his team. I believe any further ventures into a revolutionary crowd will be more scrutinized.
Second, what else need in order for us to label what is happening in Egypt what it really is; a Revolution. Third, according to doctors in the middle of the square, there has been more than 8 injured and two people dead. May GOD bless the courageous men, women and children fighting for their freedom and those that have died in doing so.
@Dorothy Cory; Who is PRESIDENT OBAMA getting rich from? Like all the others? Like all the other who? He's lied exactly about what? He's availed himself to what opportunities? With people of your anti-AMERICAN mindset, and you all have certainly come out of your deep sleeps, to yell FOUL at him on everything the man has tried to do, to bring the nation back to it's feet; how can he even began to expect more power? If you all didn't request your GEORGE W BUSH/CHENEY to 'step down', DON'T EVEN TRY IT!
Even though I believe in democracy and I truly support those that want to peacefully overthrow a dictator like Mubarak, I also wonder what percentage of the population support this protest. Even if a million people took to the streets, that's only 5% on the population of Cairo and a little more than 1% of Egypt.
President Obama may have been too quick to tell Mubarak that he has to step down. After what happened today, I think that American foreign policy in the Middle East could be seriously hurt if Mubarak remains in control of the country.
Would you want to be dictated too ?? Be told when you can use the internet ? have your phone service turned
off ??? Maybe, you should go live over there !
That's not what I said. I truly support all attempts to remove a dictatorial regime and all peoples struggles for freedom, democracy and liberty. I was just pointing out that President Obama might have put the US government in an awkward position with one of its closest allies in the Middle East if this isn't a true popular uprising.
I have been watching what's going from the beginning in Tunisia & Algeria and was truly looking forward to see democracy take root in Egypt. I would love to see this as part of a dominoes of dictators falling in the Middle East, but I don't think that we should alienate ours closest allies until we know the true feelings of the majority of the population.
If a few hundred thousand people take to the streets in any country of the world, should our governments automatically tell their leaders to leave?
too quick ???? !! have you been living in a closet ?? it's been over 18 hours and no one is helping
the good people of Egypt ! If you were in the same situation I think every second would be important to
you. You would not want leaders to wait !!! Try putting yourself into the good people of Egypt's shoes !!!!
Looks like most of my holiday videos
i guess cooper&company 4got 2 choose the right group-anti mubarak.anyway its high time african leaders start thinking about the people+the continent,hw can u rule 4 30yrs and still think of leaving evrything to your sons.africa has a problem of leadership&maybe only protests may help coz its now kenya,zimbabwe,ivory coast,tunisia,egypt-these old men should go.
All Egyptians who are anti-Mubarak regime are so worried here about Egyptian Noble Prize holder Prof. Zowel,who declared that he would be arriving yesterday to Egypt to support the Anti- Mubarak demonstrators in their struggle for freedom and democracy,but he never show up on any TV Screen so far that made a big question mark to rise here about whether he was threatened by the Egyptian Regime and was not granted Entry at Cairo airport,everyone here is appealing CNN to investigate where did Prof. Zowel had disappeared and what had happened to him that made him suddenly unable to comment as before on the current situation ,can you help us in knowing the truth and to reveal the truth to all the worried Egyptians here?
Bunch of animals take our guys out and let them animals kill each other
So, why doesn't Cooper and his crew carry around a shotgun for times like these? Just go to Walmart, pick up some ammo, and get er' done!