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they are just hours away from what protesters anuja promise will be a mass
march to the presidential palace impose new mubarek organizers are calling it
the day of departure in the hope the president mubarak
and an interview with a_b_c_ news today insiders for if i'd palace with his son
in the room mubarak said he's fed up with being present and would like to
leave office now
but cannot
for fear that the country would sink into chaos
in the non chaos with president mubarak believes the country is now enjoying
according to his home health ministries official totals thirteen people have
been killed and twelve hundred experts have been injured since yesterday
now we'd like to show you pictures live from aged for the time is now just after
three a_m_ but none
of the major broadcasters are able to provide those pictures tonight after
egypt shin security sees cameras and other equipment in the crackdown on
journalists so far there have been at least forty-three incidents where
journalists have been threatened attacked or detain
which provoked this response from secretary of state hillary clinton
is acceptable unsure any circumstances
there is a clear responsibility by the exception governments including army
to protect though
interventions holding countable was responsible for these attacks
rejection government must demonstrates its willingness to ensure journalists
abilities to report on the same answer to the people of egypt and to the world
joining me now by phone to journalists who were targets of these
new crackdowns today contributing editor to the atlantic graham would
an a_b_c_ news producer brian hartman
graham i know you don't want to reveal exactly where you are it's unsafe or any
of you to do that but could you tell us what is now happening
way down the fairly secure place sexually uh... they're saying that the
the most secure place before journalists by actually pretty
albeit darker squares and that's where it most of the concentrated instances
safety in numbers
it you are didn't hurt in the where where i am right now
then none has done a lot of people watching so anything could happen sprawl
and you arrived at checkpoint today were things that's very very fast tell us
what happened there
sure quality here although we've been here a few days in the minimum time
we've gone through dozens and on the relation checkpoint you talk to you in
the first time you do if you pull up to an intersection about you guys in
civilian clothes
and walk into the car with rusty sources bike chain doesn't piping sticks
and get the other person is going to take my god is good for you know i
recorded on the people on earth
every corporate courage check your i_d_ the proper trunk
and contemporary primary and mexico i'm very sorry sir enjoy cairo enjoy urged a
welcome thank you very much we're very sorry for the security precautions what
did you people are worried about their homes to worry about their businesses
they worry about that on rafts
to sum up threatening them in their families where livelihood
so that's what we thought we were charged today which is donna it over
there you go and learn from the airport picking up some gear
we come on one of we call upon one of these checkpoints
and healthy people who are very differently uh... unwilling to vehicle
convoy
uh... our drivers were pulled out of the car uh... the people at the checkpoint
and got behind the wheel two vehicles controlled them over a bridge um... and
emily directed vehicles down into
uh... this
sort of a cul de sac history do you know walked in the area andrew where there
was a very alert your crowd of thousands of angry man
waiting for us down there and uh... carl was surrounded and and where you're
going to quite terrifying
grammar garcia like when they got in the car and started to drive that car away
well i i
but it was at first acting up everyone speaking arabic and nice because you may
report from the gate at the time i spent the middle east but i i wasn't take
their first clearer what was going on it wasn't until uh... we started writing
into this crowd and that the people started running our car i realize that
there was no way out of his area where they were bringing us that something was
wrong and meet me in my own guillotine makes a look at each other and thought
this is not good
now well you know that the situation others juridico school-age and uh... he
i think they're very very angry there is a large but there are three rupert there
are any number this whole thing
uh... who it was chosen to do the people who are upset
uh... about the media coverage which is why they were so angry with us but that
the situation strategic wal-mart and became more more angry at us
repeat in the cargo bay when we were journalist they started screaming that
making gestures as
processing is cutting their throats there's a policeman amanda police
uniform who should lead by god each time he was going to cut our throats
are cut off her head
uh... but pretend america at
serb efficient at the highest
part but they keep my cameraman who has spent thirty years in war zones at he's
just a
uh... appointment if you want to this sensibility that of up i have not spent
a great deal of time here but what little time i have spent in what i have
of the people of spokane
the preaching to people are very friendly very generous and when they're
not so companies politics and throwing stones at one another uh... end and
trying to kill one another because they're paid regardless director they're
good generous proud people any appeal to that
yahoo reached out to remember
silver-haired man
who've looked like an elder and he gave them a big bear all of the interest
among both cheeks
and and he pointed at me and then he said this man is a guest
uh... you get my guess is we're going to be objection people are better than this
d_p_p_ punitive
governor chose earned it it lowered the temperature
just enough for us to be able to until it out of there that they were chasing
after a spell motorcycles in trying to stop us the as we were making about that
articulate just
unedited transcript departing manicure chemical expensive airlines
aggrandizement had some rough times there are before today did you have any
checkpoint problems today
ticket at hadn't much the same type of experience that most of the checkpoints
where i found people
uh actually apologetic rapidly solidified papers decided that i'm
uh... but they can't really get our pretty rough spot net and that did
happen to be just before noon
i'd have to check point and of the people there they were apparently and
instructions to look for possible i'd agent provocateurs to were uh... of
uh... irani of or lebanese
or israeli or cutlery origin
they looked at by passport and they found in iran in visa which they
actually mistook to be the information page about passport so i was paraded
down the street for some distance uh... with
uh... did rock their arms into mine and
grabbed parts about blowing interface you drag cracking me several hundred
theaters head and saying we've got one we've got one uh... begun the runyon
grandma and
his uh... coming in right now the united states senate has voted on the
resolution
two-word should president mubarak to start the transition of power
uh... immediately and in egypt the that's probably are not the kind of
thing that's going to come to the media attention of the protesters a resolution
coming on the house and senate but what is the feeling their about what united's
what the united states can do at this point in terms of pressuring bark
well it as i am not uncover square haven't been there for last week where
they can stay with the protesters were thinking about it
on the periphery where this kind of vigilante justice is being meted out
their criminal acting upon the suggestion
of uh... police or a state t_v_ which suggesting that there's is
foreign involvement out there
in in the protests and if they could be suspicious all foreigners
it if there's a change they can be taken happened from from that level then
perhaps uh... that situation can be muted at the suggestion of of
of united states
brian hartman with a_b_c_ news in grand with the atlantic's thank you both for
joining us tonight and stay safe