JohnQPublic
22nd November 2011, 04:30 PM
Arrested Americans paraded on Egyptian TV (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrested-americans-paraded-egyptian-tv-article-1.981278#ixzz1eU07M5XL)
U.S. students accused of tossing Molotov cocktails during protests
BY Helen Kennedy (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Helen%20Kennedy)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Originally Published: Tuesday, November 22 2011, 2:04 PM
Updated: Tuesday, November 22 2011, 5:43 PM
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Three American students in Cairo arrested during the violent new eruption of pro-Democracy protests in Tahrir Square were paraded Tuesday on Egyptian TV, looking stressed and scared. The trio studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo was accused of throwing firebombs from a rooftop at the military forces struggling to keep control of the country.
Egyptian state television showed their student IDs lined up on a desk Sweeney, 19, a Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Luke+Gates"]Luke Gates (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrested-americans-paraded-egyptian-tv-article-1.981278#ixzz1eU3t6c6S), 21, an Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; and Gregory Porter (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Gregory+Porter), 19, a Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa.
Before his arrest, in a series of Twitter posts starting Sunday, Gates described being in the middle of the increasingly violent protests.
“We were throwing rocks and one guy accidentally threw his phone,” he reported.
“Earlier tonight, rubber bullets, a charge and then a retreat. My knee and elbow are (expletive) up,” he said.
“I thi nk I am missing part of my ear. Should I cut the rest off and pull a Van Gogh?”
Gates seemed energized by the fervor.
“Wish the protests in New York looked like the ones in Tahrir,” he wrote.
U.S. students accused of tossing Molotov cocktails during protests
BY Helen Kennedy (http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Helen%20Kennedy)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Originally Published: Tuesday, November 22 2011, 2:04 PM
Updated: Tuesday, November 22 2011, 5:43 PM
[/URL]
Three American students in Cairo arrested during the violent new eruption of pro-Democracy protests in Tahrir Square were paraded Tuesday on Egyptian TV, looking stressed and scared. The trio studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo was accused of throwing firebombs from a rooftop at the military forces struggling to keep control of the country.
Egyptian state television showed their student IDs lined up on a desk Sweeney, 19, a Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Luke+Gates"]Luke Gates (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrested-americans-paraded-egyptian-tv-article-1.981278#ixzz1eU3t6c6S), 21, an Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; and Gregory Porter (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Gregory+Porter), 19, a Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa.
Before his arrest, in a series of Twitter posts starting Sunday, Gates described being in the middle of the increasingly violent protests.
“We were throwing rocks and one guy accidentally threw his phone,” he reported.
“Earlier tonight, rubber bullets, a charge and then a retreat. My knee and elbow are (expletive) up,” he said.
“I thi nk I am missing part of my ear. Should I cut the rest off and pull a Van Gogh?”
Gates seemed energized by the fervor.
“Wish the protests in New York looked like the ones in Tahrir,” he wrote.