Human Rights Watch: 2 "looters" were just caught in Alexandria who had police ID cards

[Turborama]

From http://www.hrw.org/egypt-live-updates">Human Rights Watch's live blog

"2 looters were just caught in Muharram Beyh neighborhood of Alexandria who had police ID cards and were members of undercover plainclothes force."

As was predicted: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x301121


ETA

Al Jazeera English reporting that hundreds of civilians are rounding up the gangs of "looters" & vandals and handing them in to the army as there's no police. The army are just acting as recipients and are not trying to stop any of the "looting" or vandalism. Woman on the phone right now absolutely distraught that the army appear to be complicit in the "looting" and vandalism.

[somone]

1. Just as suspected

caught red-handed

[ck4829]

2. K&R

[Odin2005]

3. Suprise Suprise!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Oh my I am so damn shocked and surprised I TELL YAH!

SURPRISED!!!! Cops engaged in this... Oh NEVER!!!!!

:sarcasm: for those who need it.

[intheflow]

5. Plants to discredit the protesters.

I'll be this was what was behind the museum destruction, too.

[girl gone mad]

6. That would be my guess, too.

And this is why I do not believe the CIA (or any other government-backed group) is behind these protests - it took them two days to get their false flag ops up and running. They weren't prepared.

[slackmaster]

25. If it was a false-flag operation, why were they carrying IDs?

It doesn't make sense.

[intheflow]

30. Plain-clothes.

They weren't wearing their ids but having it on them insured they wouldn't be beat bloody if arrested. Yet they still looked like regular civilians to any media that might capture them on video.

[Turborama]

7. "We've been seeing atrocities and what's more important is the withdrawal of police."

8:18 am: Salma ElTarzi, a protestor in Cairo, tells Al Jazeera by telephone that she and other demonstraters have been subject to "brutal violence" from police.

"We've been seeing atrocities and what's more important is the withdrawal of police. On the 28th midday, they were brutally bombing us with tear gas, with live bullets. My brother was shot with a shotgun. There was blood everywhere. Suddenly, after all this violence, police started retreating for no apparent reason."

Despite the violence, ElTarzi said she will be back on the streets today.

"We will be back on the streets everyday until he (Mubarak) leaves and until we choose who is going to follow."

From today's excellent live blog from AJ English: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-301-egypt-protests

[Turborama]

8. .

:kick:

[Fumesucker]

9. Agents provocateur

How quaint.. :mad:

[malaise]

11. How typical

:puke:

[slackmaster]

10. Being police doesn't make them not looters

Anyone who loots is a looter.

[Turborama]

12. If they were given orders to loot by the dictator then in my book they are "looters". n/t

[slackmaster]

13. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.

I haven't seen any evidence that they are anything but ordinary looters.

[Turborama]

15. There are lots of reports of men being caught "looting" and holding police ID

All over the internet.

You carry on believing they are "ordinary looters" if you want, though.

[slackmaster]

19. Are you seriously suggesting that a person can't simultaneously be a cop and a criminal?

:crazy:

[Turborama]

27. Are you seriously suggesting that you know what was going on better than the Egyptian witnesses?

And Human Rights Watch?

:crazy: Indeed.

[slackmaster]

29. HRW and witnesses said that some individuals who were caught looting had government IDs

They didn't jump to conclusions.

[Turborama]

31. Actually, Egyptians are saying that Mubarak vanished the police and unleashed the thugs,

including releasing 1,000s of prisoners, to make everyone frightened and miss him.

Well, it looks like that tactic failed.

[KittyWampus]

24. During Sept 11th in Manhattan, did you know firefighters were caught looting underneath the Towers?

[Turborama]

28. So? Apples and Durians.

[Richard Steele]

16. Police ID cards are EVIDENCE. They were not ordinary 'looters'. nm

[slackmaster]

20. Yes, evidence that police officers were looting

Probably for their own personal gain.

Cops break laws too.

[Richard Steele]

14. Just as it always is, be it Seattle, Montreal, or Cairo: "anarchists" are creations of the POLICE

ALWAYS.

[underpants]

17. Several of us called that yesterday

no big surprise but thanks for following up on it.

[Judi Lynn]

18. K & R.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[slackmaster]

21. If all these cops were conducting a false-flag operation, why did they carry IDs?

It doesn't add up.

[Turborama]

26. Because they were arrogant and thought they wouldn't get caught?

And if they did get caught the ID could be used as a psychological weapon, like in the Egypt of just over a week ago?

[SoCalDem]

22. police looted walmart in New Orleans..

PEOPLE loot.. people have many "professions"

mob rule makes people do all kinds of crazy stuff they would never do otherwise..

[Catherina]

23. It was a lot more than two who switched to plainclothes and did all they could

to discredit the revolution.

The Tunisians warned the Egyptians they would do this, as they had in Tunisia, and people were out everywhere, armed with whatever they had, fighting and catching these Mubaratchiks.