Depois de mais de 55 anos de casamento, marido e mulher morreram praticamente no mesmo momento: com intervalo de apenas um minuto!
Donald Dix, de 85 anos, desmaiou em casa, em Cardiff (País de Gales), e a mulher, Rosemary, de 76, ligou para a emergência. Pouco depois, o marido foi levado de ambulância para um hospital. Quando a abalada Rosemary estava ligando para a filha do casal a fim de comunicar o ocorrido, ela passou mal e morreu na hora. Ela foi encontrada com o telefone na mão. A caminho do hospital, Donald não resistiu e faleceu. Nos atestados de óbito: mortes separadas por um minuto!
"Um não sabia viver sem o outro", disse a consternada filha, Jacqueline, segundo reportagem do "Daily Mail".
Um vídeo divulgado na internet nesta quinta-feira mostra dois suspeitos sendo obrigados a se beijar dentro de uma delegacia em Pernambuco. As gravações, feitas de aparelhos celulares de policiais, permitem identificar a farda de um agente da Rádio Patrulha da Polícia Militar de Pernambuco. Um outro homem, também acompanha as humilhações com o rosto encapuzado, para não ser identificado.
Em Pernambuco, policiais militares obrigam presos a se beijarem
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RECIFE - Um vídeo divulgado na internet mostra o momento de humilhação a que dois presos são submetidos em Pernambuco. Eles são obrigados por policiais militares a se beijarem diante de câmeras de celulares. A gravação, que pode ter sido feita em uma delegacia, permite identificar a farda da Rádio Patrulha da Polícia Militar de Pernambuco.
Na imagem, um dos policiais envolvidos aparece encapuzado. O abuso foi divulgado nesta quinta-feira pelo Jornal do Commercio.
O secretário de Defesa Social, Wilson Damásio, prometeu punição para os culpados pelas humilhações.
- Isso será tratado como investigação criminal. Nosso pessoal vai apurar para que tudo isso seja esclarecido. Os nomes dos envolvidos estão registrados na delegacia - afirma.
Este é o segundo caso divulgado de abuso cometido por policiais militares em Pernambuco. Na semana passada, um vídeo mostrou policiais militares maltratando presos já dominados na praia de Piedade, em Jaboatão dos Guararapes. Um agente chegou a prender a cabeça de um homem com o pé, na areia da praia, com a onda chegando e cobrindo o rosto do suspeito. Os detidos eram suspeitos de ter invadido o edifício do vice-governador do estado. (NETV: Veja imagens dos abusos na Praia de Piedade )
O secretário reafirmou que a Corregedoria de Polícia está agindo para que também este caso não fique sem punição. Segundo Damázio, a ação foi truculenta e a Corregedoria está já em fase adiantada de apuração.
- Certamente ali pode acontecer a sanção disciplinar ou até a exclusão do policial - diz.
A Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil divulgou uma nota sobre o caso dos abusos cometidos pelos policiais na praia de Piedade. A OAB considera que o comportamento dos PMs é uma ameaça à sociedade e pede a punição dos agressores.
Eleita primeira vice-presidente do Senado, Marta Suplicy (PT-SP) fez sua estreia nesta quinta-feira no comando de uma sessão plenária da Casa.
A petista adotou postura rigorosa para controlar o tempo destinado a cada senador durante seus discursos, incluindo do ex-marido Eduardo Suplicy (PT-SP).
Enquanto Suplicy discursava, Marta o alertou por três vezes sobre a necessidade de encerrar o pronunciamento.
Em uma delas, o microfone do petista acabou cortado, mas a senadora permitiu que ele concluísse o discurso.
"O último minuto, senador, porque já foi prorrogado várias vezes. Agora, vamos para mais 1 minuto e encerramos", disse a petista.
Marta também endureceu o jogo para outros parlamentares, como José Agripino (DEM-RN). "Só mais um minuto, senador, para encerrar", disse.
Como Marta acabou concedendo tempo extra para Suplicy e para senador Inácio Arruda (PC do B-CE), Demóstenes Torres (DEM-GO) protestou contra a postura da petista.
"Quando se abre exceção para um senador, creio que seja de bom alvitre dar o mesmo tempo para os demais", disse.
O presidente José Sarney (PMDB-AP) começou a presidir a sessão, mas se retirou do plenário para permitir que Marta ficasse pela primeira vez no comando da Casa depois de eleita.
"Tenho a honra de transmitir a presidência desta sessão e da Casa para a senadora Marta Suplicy, senhora primeira vice-presidente", disse o peemedebista.
Sem experiência na função, Marta recorreu inúmeras vezes aos assessores da Mesa Diretora para tomar decisões durante a sessão --que durou mais de duas horas.
Pacientemente, a senadora ouviu seguidos discursos dos colegas, que se revezaram na tribuna para falar de diversos temas do cenário nacional.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused in the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Report says the FBI and the Army could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings
Officials were hampered by unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism, it claims
The report was written by Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins
The alleged shooter -- Maj. Nidal Hasan -- potentially faces the death penalty
Washington (CNN) -- FBI and Army officials repeatedly ignored multiple warning signs that could have prevented the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a long-awaited report released Thursday by two U.S. senators.
The inability to act was a result of both bureaucratic inefficiency and an unwillingness to identify and confront homegrown Islamic extremism, the report concludes.
Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused in the shootings, which left 13 people dead and 32 wounded. He faces a likely court-martial and potential death penalty.
Thursday's report -- titled "A Ticking Time Bomb" -- was written by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. Lieberman is the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Collins is the committee's top Republican.
"Although neither the Department of Defense nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place, or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it," the report says.
"Our investigation found specific and systemic failures in the government's handling of the Hasan case and raises additional concerns about what may be broader systemic issues."
Among other things, the report notes that a FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force had learned that Hasan was communicating with a suspected terrorist and flagged his communications for "further review." A second task force, however, subsequently dismissed the evidence and "dropped the matter rather than cause a bureaucratic confrontation."
Hasan reportedly communicated by e-mail with radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki's name is not included in the publicly released version of the report.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon "possessed compelling evidence that Hasan embraced views so extreme that it should have disciplined him or discharged him from the military, but (Defense officials) failed to take action against him," the report says.
It concludes that Hasan's military officer evaluation reports were "sanitized" to minimize his "obsession with violent Islamic extremism."
"It is clear from this failure that (the Pentagon) lacks (an) institutional culture ... sufficient to inform commanders and all levels of servicemembers how to identify radicalization to violent Islamist extremism and to distinguish this ideology from the peaceful practice of Islam," the report states.
The report claims that the Defense Department's alleged failure to identify the threat of Islamic extremism "explicitly and directly conflicts with (the Pentagon's) history of directly confronting white supremacism and other threatening activity among servicemembers."
It recommends that the Pentagon "revise its policies and training in order to confront the threat of Islamist extremism directly."
At the same time, the report says the FBI faces a series of "internal challenges -- which may include cultural barriers -- that can frustrate ... ongoing institutional reforms" designed in part to facilitate better intelligence sharing.
The report criticizes an FBI inquiry on Hasan for focusing "narrowly on whether (he) was engaged in terrorist activity -- as opposed to whether he was radicalizing ... and whether this radicalization might pose counterintelligence or other threats."
Lieberman and Collins argue that the failures leading up to the Fort Hood massacre should spur the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council to "lead in the development of an integrated approach to law enforcement and intelligence domestically and a comprehensive national approach to encountering homegrown radicalization to violent Islamic extremism."
They warn that the current extremist threat "goes beyond the capabilities of the law enforcement, intelligence, and homeland security agencies."
The two senators objected to a number of redactions in the report, required by intelligence officials, calling them "unjustified." But "we have consented to them in order to produce this report in a timely manner," they asserted.
Addressing members of the media as the report was released, Lieberman declared that the Fort Hood massacre "should have been prevented" and that federal officials "had ample evidence of alleged killer Nidal Hasan's growing sympathies toward violent Islamist extremism in the years before the attack."
Lieberman called Hasan a "traitor," and urged a quick adoption of reforms to ensure "the next 'ticking time bomb' can be spotted early and defused before another deadly detonation."
A Pentagon spokesman responded by telling CNN the Defense Department "places a high priority on implementing recommendations that will strengthen policies, programs and procedures (that) contribute to the safety and health of our military forces."
"We will continue to cooperate with Congress while ensuring the integrity of the administration's own internal reviews as well as any ongoing criminal investigation or prosecution," Lt. Col. Robert Ditchey said.
Ditchey said the Pentagon is already "implementing initiatives that will significantly improve the department's ability to mitigate internal threats, insure force protection, enable emergency response, and provide care for victims and families."
The FBI released a statement saying it "agrees with much in the report and many of its recommendations."
The statement noted that an internal FBI review undertaken after the attack "identified several of the areas of concern outlined in the report and ... implemented changes to our systems and processes to address them."
"We will review each of the report's recommendations and adopt them as appropriate," the statement said.
Hasan's lawyer, John Galligan, said he has been trying for months to gain access to the information set out in the Lieberman-Collins report, claiming that he cannot prepare a defense without it.
A team of mental health experts delivered a report last week on Hasan's competency to stand trial and his state of mind at the time of the shooting. The findings of that report are secret, but Galligan has told CNN he doesn't think the report will stop the Army from moving forward with the case.
Egypt’s Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary said today it may ask the International Criminal Court to look into attacks yesterday on demonstrators protesting against President Hosni Mubarak.
“There were attacks on peaceful demonstrators committed by Egyptian regime-backed groups using armed weapons, batons and Molotov cocktails in Tahrir Square,” Nasser Amin, the president of the rights group, said by telephone in Cairo.
“This means there is a possibility of considering those acts crimes against humanity under international law as they involved intentional killings and excessive harm. We are currently documenting these incidents and asking the International Criminal Court to consider them and may at some point submit an official request to the court.”
Opponents of Mubarak faced down a drive by supporters of the 30-year-old regime to force them out of central Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the site of almost daily protests since Jan. 25. Six people were killed and more than 800 others wounded in the clashes, the government said.
These acts were “committed by police in plainclothes and supporters of the government” in a “systematic way,” the center said in a faxed statement today. “We are calling on the United Nations secretary-general and international non- government organizations to intervene to stop the Egyptian regime from committing crimes against humanity.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Ola Galal in Cairo at ogalal@bloomberg.net.
CAIRO -- Foreign journalists were beaten with sticks and fists by pro-government mobs on the streets Cairo on Thursday and dozens were reported detained by security forces in what the U.S. called a concerted attempt to intimidate the press.
Foreign photographers reported a string of attacks by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak near Tahrir Square, the scene of vicious battles between Mubarak supporters and protesters demanding he step down after nearly 30 years in power. The Egyptian government has accused media outlets of being sympathetic to protesters who want Mubarak to quit now rather than complete his term as he has pledged.
The Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini said its correspondent in Cairo was hospitalized with a stab wound to the leg after being attacked by pro-Mubarak demonstrators in central Tahrir Square. He has been released. A Greek newspaper photographer was also beaten.
"There is a concerted campaign to intimidate international journalists in Cairo and interfere with their reporting. We condemn such actions," U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.
Washington Post Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl said on the paper's website that multiple witnesses had reported that Cairo bureau chief Leila Fadel and photographer Linda Davidson were among two dozen journalists arrested by the Egyptian Interior Ministry.
"We understand that they are safe but in custody and we have made urgent protests to Egyptian authorities in Cairo and Washington," he said.
The New York Times said two reporters working for the paper were released on Thursday after being detained overnight in Cairo.
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A CNN reporter tweeted: Wash. Post, NY Times, Canada's Globe & Mail reporters arrested; mobs clashed w/ CNN IBN, NPR, Time.
Fox News foreign correspondent Greg Patlok and producer Olaf Wiig were badly beaten. As their colleague John Roberts described it:
They were forced to leave their position when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at it, a large fire erupted. They were forced to flee. They ran out and ran right into the pro Mubarak crowd and were severely beaten and had to be taken to the hospital, spent the night in the hospital. The extent of their injuries was fairly grave, however, they have been released from the hospital.
Just escaped after being carjacked at a checkpoint and driven to a compound where men surrounded the car and threatened to behead us.
The Qatar-based pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said in an e-mail that three of its journalists were detained by security forces and another was reported missing.
Egyptian authorities have complained the network's round-the-clock coverage was slanted toward protesters and could encourage more unrest.
Al-Jazeera also said its journalists' equipment had been stolen and destroyed during more than a week of unrest and it had faced what it called unprecedented levels of interference in its broadcast signal across the Arab world.
The Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Arabiya pleaded on an urgent news scroll for the army to protect its offices and journalists.
The Toronto Globe and Mail said on its website that one of its reporters, Sonia Verma, said the military had "commandeered us and our car" in Cairo.
"It is believed that Globe reporter Patrick Martin was travelling with Ms. Verma, along with a driver," the site said.
UPDATE: The two were released, the Globe and Mail said later on Thursday:
"The pair, along with their driver, were scooped up at a checkpoint by men in civilian clothes who seized their passports, Ms. Verma said. After learning they were journalists, one of the men commandeered their car and directed their driver to head to another part of the downtown. Ms. Verma and Mr. Martin were taken to an outdoor area in a military-controlled zone where more than 20 other foreigners, including journalists and tourists, were being held. Soldiers searched their bags and forced Ms. Verma and Mr. Martin to hand over their cellphones. When the Canadian reporters asked why they were being detained, they were told it was because the military was planning a large operation, Ms. Verma said. Soldiers also said they were keeping their passports because they were looking into their background."
The injured Greek journalist, Petros Papaconstantinou, said on Kathimerini's website that: "I was spotted by Mubarak supporters. They ... beat me with batons on the head and stabbed me lightly in the leg. Some soldiers intervened, but Mubarak's supporters took everything I had on me in front of the soldiers."
A Greek freelance photographer was punched in the face by a group of men who stopped him on the street near Tahrir Square and smashed some of his equipment.
The leaders of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain said in a joint statement that the "attacks against journalists are completely unacceptable."
Associated Press spokesman Paul Colford said that "AP journalists in Egypt have faced the same harassment and intimidation as other news organizations."
One Associated Press location was disrupted by men wielding sticks, and satellite equipment was taken.
"The situation was quickly defused," Colford said. "No one was injured."
Turkey's state broadcaster TRT, said its Egypt correspondent, Metin Turan, was beaten by a group of around 15 pro-Mubarak demonstrators with batons and lost a tooth in the attack. His camera, money and cell phone were stolen.
Three other Turkish journalists were also stopped and roughed up near Tahrir square, TRT said.
Polish state television TVP said that two of its crews were detained in Cairo. One was released after one of its camera's was smashed, it said.
Government spokesman Magdy Rady said Wednesday that the assertion of state involvement in street clashes and attacks on reporters was a "fiction," and that the government welcomed objective coverage.
"It would help our purpose to have it as transparent as possible. We need your help," Rady said in an interview with The Associated Press. However, he said some media were not impartial and were "taking sides against Egypt."
CNN's Anderson Cooper said he, a producer and camera operator were set upon by people who began punching them and trying to break their camera in central Cairo on Wednesday. Another CNN reporter, Hala Gorani, said she was shoved against a fence when demonstrators rode in on horses and camels, and feared she was going to get trampled.
"This is incredibly fast-moving," Cooper said. "I've been in mobs before and I've been in riots, but I've never had it turn so quickly."
In Wednesday's fighting, security forces did not intervene as thousands of people hurled stones and firebombs at each other for hours in and around the capital's Tahrir Square.
There were reported assaults that day on journalists for CBS, the BBC, Danish TV2 News, Swiss television and Belgium's Le Soir newspaper, among other organizations. Two Associated Press correspondents were also roughed up.
Reporter Jean-Francois Lepine of Canada's CBC all-French RDI network said that he and a cameraman were surrounded by a mob that began hitting them, until they were rescued by the Egyptian army.
"Without them, we probably would have been beaten to death," he said.
O repórter Corban Costa, da Rádio Nacional, e o cinegrafista Gilvan Rocha, da TV Brasil, foram detidos, vendados e tiveram passaportes e equipamentos apreendidos no Egito.
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Costa e Rocha
Segundo informa a Agência Brasil, os dois ficaram sem água desde a última quarta-feira (2) até esta manhã e presos em uma sala sem janelas e com apenas com duas cadeiras e uma mesa, em uma delegacia da capital Cairo.
"É uma sensação horrível. Não se sabe o que vai acontecer. Em um primeiro momento, achei que seríamos fuzilados porque nos colocaram de frente para um paredão, mas, graças a Deus, isso não aconteceu", afirmou Corban, que volta na próxima sexta-feira (4) com Gilvan para o Brasil.
Os repórteres só foram libertados após assinar um depoimento em árabe, no qual, de acordo com a tradução do policial, ambos confirmavam a disposição de deixar o Egito imediatamente e voltar para o Brasil. "Tivemos que confiar no que ele [o policial] dizia e assinar o documento", relatou Corban.
Desde o início dos protestos contra o presidente Hosny Mubarak, que há 30 anos ocupa o cargo, cerca de 300 pessoas morreram e três mil ficaram feridas.
Ainda que nenhum profissional de imprensa tenha sido gravemente ferido ou morto, a intimidação dos manifestantes pró-Mubarak e das forças segurança do país tem assustado os jornalistas.
Na última quarta, jornalistas brasileiros de diversos veículos informaram que os quartos em que estão hospedados foram invadidos por policiais que procuravam câmeras e advertiam que estava proibido registrar os protestos contra o governo.
Dois irmãos morreram e o pai ficou ferido após um carro invadir a casa da família em Teresópolis, região serrana do Rio de Janeiro, no final da tarde desta quinta-feira. Uma outra criança também teria ficado ferida e foi socorrida por vizinhos. Segundo o Corpo de Bombeiros, o acidente aconteceu na altura do km 13,5 da BR-130, bairro Vargem Grande, onde o motorista perdeu o controle da direção e invadiu duas residências.
Lucas Silva Conceição, 10 anos, morreu no local. A irmã Thainá Silva do Canto, 6 anos, foi levada ao hospital, mas não resistiu. O pai, José Augusto do Canto, 30 anos, assim como uma outra criança que não teve o nome revelado, foram socorridos para atendimento médico no Hospital das Clínicas. O caso foi registrado na 110ª DP (Teresópolis).
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Foram apreendidos em São Luís um avião e um helicóptero de propriedade do prefeito Foto: Polícia Federal/Divulgação
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Direto de São Luís
A Polícia Federal (PF) procura o prefeito de Barra do Corda (460 km de São Luís), Manoel Mariano de Souza (PV). Ele é suspeito de integrar um grupo que desviaria e se apropriaria de recursos públicos, além de realizar lavagem de dinheiro e cometer crimes contra a ordem tributária. Os agentes ainda procuram sua mulher, filho, genro e nora. Dentre as apreensões efetuadas de propriedade de Souza na capital na manhã desta quinta-feira, estão um avião e um helicóptero.
Até as 10h30 da manhã de hoje, a Polícia Federal havia prendido nove pessoas em Barra do Corda, região central do Estado. O prefeito e a mulher dele estão foragidos. A operação, batizada de Astiages, apurou que foram desviados aproximadamente R$ 50 milhões dos cofres públicos. As irregularidades seriam feitas em dois núcleos ligados ao prefeito: o familiar e um de apoio, que envolvia funcionários da prefeitura e lobistas.
Participam da Operação 100 policiais federais do Maranhão, Piauí e Brasília. Além das prisões, serão cumpridos 18 mandados de busca e apreensão. Na cidade de Barra do Corda foram apreendidos seis carros, seis caminhões baús e jóias. O material foi encaminhado para a Superintendência da Polícia Federal, em São Luís.
"O crime principal é o de lavagem de dinheiro. Ele (prefeito) não tem como explicar a evolução patrimonial gigantesca em tão pouco tempo", afirmou o superintendente em exercício da PF no Maranhão, Eugênio Ricas.
Segundo o filho do prefeito, os advogados do político acompanharam os depoimentos dos presos no auditório da PF e disseram que só vão se pronunciar quando tiverem acesso ao processo.
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Violent protests continued for a second day in Egypt as Will Englund, Griff Witte and Debbi Wilgoren reported:
As bloody attacks on anti-government demonstrators in central Cairo continued for a second day Thursday, Egypt's new vice president appealed for patience in implementing reforms but warned against unspecified conspiracies and flatly rejected opposition demands that President Hosni Mubarak leave power immediately.
The remarks came amid a growing chorus of international condemnation as dozens of foreign journalists and human rights workers were arrested while reporting on violent clashes following attempts by Mubarak supporters to break up anti-government demonstrations.
Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief and Mubarak confidant who was appointed vice president last week, said in an interview on state television that Mubarak would keep his word not to run in the next presidential election, to be held no later than September. Suleiman said Mubarak's son Gamal, who had been considered his heir apparent, also would not run.
Foreign journalists were caught up in the protests, and several were detained by military police, as David Nakamura explained:
A day after journalists were beaten by pro-government supporters in Cairo, at least two dozen reporters, including two Washington Post staff members, have been detained according to multiple witnesses. Based on reports from witnesses, they were in the custody of the military police in Cairo as of 3 p.m. EET (8 a.m. EST). Early reports that they were in the custody of the Interior Ministry appear to have been incorrect.
Leila Fadel, the Post's Cairo bureau chief, Linda Davidson, a staff photographer, Sufian Taha, their translator and a longtime Washington Post employee, and Mansour el-Sayed Mohammed Abo Gouda, their Egyptian driver, were among those who have been detained, said Douglas Jehl, the Post's foreign editor. Fadel and Davidson have since been released, but Taha and Abo Gouda are believed to still be in custody.
Three Al Jazeera journalists also have been detained and another is reported missing, according to a statement from the news network. Meantime, the Associated Press reported that its correspondent saw "eight foreign journalists detained by the military near the prime minister's office, not far from Tahrir Square."
Mohamed ElBaradei has become the unlikely face of the anti-government protesters, as Colum Lynch and Janine Zacharia reported:
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Prize-winning former United Nations bureaucrat, has emerged this week as an improbable revolutionary, clamoring for the overthrow of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.
On Wednesday, as pro-Mubarak mobs attacked protesters in Tahrir Square, ElBaradei appealed to the Egyptian army to break with the nation's aging leader and defend the demonstrators. "This is yet another symptom, or another indication, of a criminal regime using criminal acts," ElBaradei said, according to al-Jazeera. "My fear is that it will turn into a bloodbath."
Earlier this week, he scolded the United States for refusing to withdraw its support for Mubarak.
ElBaradei's transformation from a high-profile U.N. official with a home in Vienna to a key player in Egypt's popular uprising follows a lackluster year-long campaign to enter his native country's politics, both as an advocate of democracy and as a possible presidential candidate in this year's elections.
Canada urges Egypt to stop attacks on journalists
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on Thursday called on the Egyptian military to guarantee the safety of foreign journalists covering clashes between partisans and opponents of Egypt's embattled president.
Canada is "very concerned" about the safety of Canadian journalists in Egypt, he said, after public broadcaster CBC, Radio-Canada and the daily Globe and Mail reported that their correspondents had been intimidated or attacked in Cairo.
Cannon called on the Egyptian military to "guarantee their safety."
On Wednesday, media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders condemned as "shocking" attacks in Cairo against foreign media by partisans of Egypt's embattled president.
"These attacks seem to have been acts of revenge against the international media for relaying the protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's resigning," Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general for the Paris-based group, said in a statement.
Crowley says Egyptian VP's opposition meetings "not broad, credible enough"; Obama prays "violence will end" in turbulent Egypt
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a sharp criticism of attacks on journalists, peaceful demonstrators, human rights activists and diplomats in Egypt on Thursday. Clinton said the attacks violated international norms on freedom of the press.
Without directly blaming Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime, she said, "It is especially in times of crisis that governments must demonstrate their adherence to these universal values."
She said Egypt's government and army must provide protection and hold accountable those responsible for the attacks. Clinton said journalists must be allowed to report on the demonstrations.
She urged Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman to include a "broad and credible representation of Egypt's opposition" in a transition toward free and fair elections.
US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman's meetings with opposition figures so far "are not broad enough, not credible enough."
Crowley said the US wanted Egypt's government to do more. And he urged the opposition to participate in dialogue.
He also said there were strong indications that attacks on journalists in Cairo were part of a concerted effort to stifle reporting on the crisis. He did not blame Mubarak or the government, though.
The White House also sharpened its criticism of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's teetering regime and expressed outrage over violence against protesters, declaring that its once-close partner should set a brisk course for new elections.
US President Barack Obama began his remarks at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast with pointed hopes for better days ahead: "We pray that the violence in Egypt will end and the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized."
The administration's call for an immediate end to three decades of authoritarian rule in Egypt coincides with American hopes that reforms in Jordan and Yemen could stave off similar revolt. It represents something of a dual approach for the Obama administration, which has gradually shed its support for the 82-year-old Mubarak while looking to shore up its other Arab friends facing much of the same resentment if not yet imminent revolt.
Aboard Air Force One Thursday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs condemned the violence on the Egyptian streets. "The government of Egypt has to ensure that peaceful protests can take place," as he accompanied Obama on a trip to Pennsylvania.
Gibbs offered a strong denunciation of reports of "systematic targeting" of journalists in Egypt, saying those actions are "totally unacceptable."
"Any journalist that has been detained should be released immediately," Gibbs said. "I think we need to be clear that the world is watching the actions that are taking place right now in Egypt."
In Egypt, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq acknowledged that the attack on anti-government protesters "seemed to have been organized." He promised an investigation into who was behind it.
Gibbs, in response, said he hoped that Shafiq's "acknowledgement that anybody that is involved in this will be held accountable is something that the government is serious about."
A day after Obama pressed Mubarak to loosen his three-decade grip on power immediately, clashes between protesters and pro-government supporters Wednesday further alienated Egypt's besieged government from its longtime patron, the United States.
The administration decried the fighting that started when several thousand Mubarak supporters, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, attacked anti-government protesters. Demonstrators dragged some of the attackers to the ground and beat them bloody, and the two sides rained stones and bottles down on each other.
Crowley also drew attention to the increasing attacks on foreign reporters covering the upheaval. "There is a concerted campaign to intimidate international journalists in Cairo and interfere with their reporting," he said in a Twitter post. "We condemn such actions."
The administration's comments aim to keep the pressure on Mubarak amid fears that the Egyptian government was trying to outlast the protesters' calls for democratic change with cosmetic changes that don't meet the need for real reform. They echoed Obama's call for change to "begin now" after Mubarak announced he would not run for re-election.
"We don't know who unleashed these thugs on the streets of Cairo," Crowley said, but called it a clear attempt to silence Egyptian voices of dissent. "The use of violence to intimidate the Egyptian people must stop."
Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send text messages
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A man takes pictures with his cell phone on Tahrir, or Liberation Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 31, 2011.
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER Associated Press
Story Published: Feb 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM PST
LONDON (AP) — Egyptian authorities forced Vodafone to broadcast pro-government text messages during the protests that have rocked the country, the U.K.-based mobile company said Thursday.
Micro-blogging site Twitter has been buzzing with screen grabs from Vodafone's Egyptian customers showing text messages sent over the course of the demonstrations against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old regime.
A text message received Sunday by an Associated Press reporter in Egypt appealed to the country's "honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honor." Another urged Egyptians to attend a pro-Mubarak rally in Cairo on Wednesday. The first was marked as coming from "Vodafone." The other was signed: "Egypt Lovers."
In a statement, Vodafone Group PLC said that the messages had been drafted by Egyptian authorities and that it had no power to change them.
"Vodafone Group has protested to the authorities that the current situation regarding these messages is unacceptable," the statement said. "We have made clear that all messages should be transparent and clearly attributable to the originator."
The company also said its competitors — including Egypt's Mobinil and the United Arab Emirates' Etisalat — were doing the same. Etisalat, known formally as Emirates Telecommunications Corp., declined comment.
Vodafone said the texts had been sent "since the start of the protests," which kicked off more than a week ago. Vodafone did not immediately return an e-mail asking why the company waited nearly 10 days to complain publicly. Its statement was released only after repeated inquiries by the AP.
The company declined to reveal how many such messages it had sent, or whether it was still pumping them out.
Vodafone has already come under fire for its role in the Internet blackout that cut Egypt off from the online world for several days. The company said the order to pull the plug on its Egyptian customers could not be ignored as it was legal under local law.
Vodafone was able to restore its data services on Wednesday — five days after it suspended all services in the country, according to company spokesman Bobby Leach.
The company, however, was still unable to provide mobile phone text message services as of Thursday evening, he said.
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The loose-knit group of online global hackers known as "Anonymous" has trained its sights on Yemen following cyber attacks on government websites in Tunisia and Egypt.
The website of Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, presidentsaleh.gov.ye, was inaccessible on Thursday following calls by Anonymous members for attacks on the site.
Luis Corrons, the technical director at PandaLabs, the malware detection laboratory for computer security firm Panda Security, said Anonymous members "feel that somehow they have to support the people in those countries."
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"It is a worldwide thing," Corrons told AFP. "They think the goal is obtaining freedom for those countries."
Valleywag, a Silicon Valley blog owned by the Gawker network, said the cyber attacks on official Yemen government websites had been dubbed "Operation Yemen" in Anonymous chat rooms.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis staged a "day of rage" in Sanaa on Thursday against President Ali Abdullah Saleh as clashes and protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were continuing in Cairo.
The attacks on Yemeni websites came a day after Anonymous "hacktivists" resumed attacks on the websites of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Information and others.
The hackers first began attacking Egyptian government websites on January 26, according to computer security experts, as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation Egypt" before the authorities there shut down the Internet.
Those sporadic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on official Egyptian websites resumed on Wednesday after the country went back online but most Egyptian sites were accessible on Thursday.
"Welcome back to the Internet #Egypt. Well except http://www.moiegypt.gov.eg -- you stay down," members of Anonymous said on the Twitter feed @AnonymousIRC.
Anonymous last month managed to shut down the Tunisian government's official website, the national stock exchange site, and other sites during a popular uprising that led to the ousting of the country's dictator.
In a typical DDoS attack, a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers, slowing service or knocking it offline completely.
In December, members of Anonymous attacked the websites of Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard, Visa and others for withdrawing their services to WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website.
PandaLabs' Corrons said he was not in a position to say how many people were involved in the latest attacks, but the highest number seen during the attacks on companies seen as taking steps against WikiLeaks was around 5,000.
British police arrested five people last month and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation launched raids across the United States in connection with the wave of WikiLeaks-related cyber attacks by Anonymous members.
The defense of WikiLeaks was an extension of "Operation Payback," a movement which began on the Internet message board 4Chan in September.
Operation Payback involved attacks on the websites of the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America and others over their vigorous copyright protection efforts.
La cadena Nile TV cubre las revueltas en El Cairo, aunque imprime su sello. La cadena rival Al Yazira ha mostrado las diferentes caras de la capital egipcia que están ofreciendo al mundo los dos canales.
En una comparativa de imágenes realizada por el blog de Al Yazira sobre la revuelta se resalta un juego de diferencias. A la izquierda, en un supuesto directo, las imágenes de Nile TV: calles desiertas con apenas algunos viandantes. A la derecha, las de Al Yazira: una multitud que abarrota la céntrica Plaza Tahrir.
El trabajo de Nile TV ha quedado en entredicho a la vista de las últimas bajas que viene sufriendo. Dos periodistas han abandonado su trabajo por sus discrepancias con la línea del medio.
Shahira Amin ha anunciado su decisión de renunciar a su puesto porque no quiere "ser parte del aparato de propaganda" y por sus discrepancias con la cobertura informativa de las manifestaciones de El Cairo contra el presidente de Egipto, Hosni Mubarak.
"No quiero ser parte del aparato de propaganda, no voy a seguir alimentando las mentiras", ha declarado Amin a la cadena qatarí Al Yazira tras renunciar a su trabajo en el canal Nile TV.
El martes, la presentadora Soha el-Nakash dimitió de su cargo en la televisión nacional después de 20 años por lo que dijo era "una falta de ética" en su cobertura de las protestas masivas de Egipto que piden la destitución del presidente.
Muchas de los canales estatales de Egipto restaron importancia a las protestas en los primeros días, pero desde el viernes les han dado una cobertura total.
Soha el-Nakash dijo que ella presentó cinco programas para el canal estatal Nile el 26 de enero, el segundo día de las protestas, y se sintió consternada ante el retrato de calma y tranquilidad que se hacía de las calles de El Cairo, cuando en realidad miles de personas estaban manifestándose.
¿Egipto 2011 = Irán 1979?
Una constante en la cobertura de la revolución egipcia es buscar una comparación con algún antecedente histórico, un referente que sirva de orientación para una situación que muchos analistas definen como “territorio desconocido”. La analogía más recurrente es la Revolución Iraní de 1979. ¿Es el Egipto del 2011 igual que el Irán del 1979?
Existe una división de la opinión publicada a la hora de responder a esa cuestión. Los pesimistas creen que la Historia se está repitiendo, y que el país caerá en manos de unos islamistas radicales, personificados en los Hermanos Musulmanes. En cambio, los optimistas señalas que el principal partido islamista, los Hermanos Musulmanes, no ha estado detrás de las movilizaciones, y que los jóvenes egipcios no han caído rendido a los cantos de sirena de la teocracia.
Es lógico que la pregunta domine los medios estadounidenses, ya que Irán representa uno de los grandes fracasos de la política de EEUU en el siglo pasado. El país asiático pasó en un abrir y cerrar de ojos de ser uno de los dos pilares centrales de la política de Washington en los años 60y 70, a ser el Estado más hostil hacia Washington de la región entera. El otro pilar, Arabia Saudita, se ha mantenido incólume. Al menos, de momento.
Curiosamente, más allá de las similitudes sobre el terreno entre ambos países, hay otra semejanza a miles de kilómetros: la existencia de un presidente demócrata al que sus detractores acusan de “inexperto y blando” en el política exterior. En aquel entonces era Jimmy Carter, ahora Barack Obama.
De hecho, muchos argumentan que fue la Revolución Iraní la que hundió la presidencia Carter. La crisis de los rehenes tras la ocupación de la embajada de EEUU en Teherán coincidió con la campaña electoral que le enfrentó a Reagan, que fustigó a su adversario por haber sido incapaz de liberar a los centenares de ciudadanos estadounidenses secuestrados.
La cautela ha marcado las reacciones de la Casa Blanca, así como de la mayoría de la clase política estadounidense, independientemente de su ideología. Los líderes republicanos, como John Boehner, se han alineado en esta ocasión con Obama, o han declinado adoptar una posición contundente.
Casi todos los políticos que han hablado han destacado la necesidad de evitar baño de sangre. Pocos son los que piden un apoyo incondicional a Mubarak. Un capítulo aparte es Glenn Beck, que no ha buscado una analogía histórica con Irán, si no con la I Guerra Mundial, y ello para anunciar una guerra cataclísmica tras la que se creará un gran califato que incluirá a media Europa.
A mi juicio, a corto plazo, las opciones de que un islamismo radical como el de Khomeini se haga con el control de Egipto son muy escasas. A diferencia del chiíta, el Islam sunnita es descentralizado. No existe un líder mesiánico, capaz de despertar una devoción entre las masas, y cooptar así la revolución. Además, los Hermanos Musulmanes hace años que abandonaron la violencia y no disponen de unas “camisas pardas” capaces de tomar el poder.
Ahora bien, que nadie dude de que los Hermanos jugarán un papel importante en el futuro político del país. Si hay elecciones, seguramente serán la primera fuerza, pero es difícil que obtengan la mayoría absoluta. Que harían si la consiguieran, es una incógnita. Los analistas discrepan sobre la supuesta moderación del movimiento. De momento, actúan con mucha prudencia, conscientes que más que el Irán de 1979, si intentan hacerse con el poder, Egipto se parecerá más bien a la Argelia 1990.
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Ban Ki-moon tacha de "totalmente inaceptables" las agresiones a los periodistas que cubren las protestas.
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El primer ministro egipcio dice al ministro del Interior que no se obstruyan las marchas pacíficas del viernes, según la televisión estatal.
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Varios senadores estadounidenses están pidiendo suspender toda ayuda económica a Egipto -que en 2010 alcanzó los 1.500 millones de dólares- hasta que Mubarak dimita. "Si no se va, no habrá dinero americano. Es así de simple", declara el senador Patrick Leahy.
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El especulador financiero y filántropo George Soros se une a los antigubernamentales. "Normalmente no apoyo revoluciones. Esta, sin embargo, tienen buena pinta, y toda posibilidad de triunfar".
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A lo largo del día han sido detenidos más de 30 periodistas, entre ellos representantes de Al Yazira, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Toronto Globe, Daily News Egypt, Channel 4, TV3, BBC, France 24, TF1, y Arte en el país.
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Algunos de los cascos improvisados vistos durante el día de enfrentamientos en la Plaza de Tahrir. | AP / Reuters
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El portavoz del Departamento de Estado estadounidense denuncia la persecución de la prensa en El Cairo y dice temer que la violencia de hoy "sea en anticipación de mayores actos mañana", haciendo referencia a la protesta multitudinaria que ha organizado la oposición.
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Mubarak insiste que si dimite, "sólo habría caos". A la vez, asegura que nunca fue su intención de que su hijo, Gamal, le sucediera, y que sólo le importa el bienestar del país. Cara a Washington, asegura que Obama es un "buen hombre", pero que "no entiende la cultura egipcia, y lo que pasaría so yo dejara el cargo".
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El Jerusalem Post informa que los túneles que cruzan entre Gaza y Egipto, normalmente utilizados para pasar armas y víveres de contrabando desde el Sinaí a Gaza, ahora están siendo empleados para trasladar suministros a los residentes en el lado egipcio. Desde hace días los ciudadanos del Sinaí sufren una grave escasez de bienes debido a la disrupción del comercio por las revueltas populares. "Los túneles ahora funcionan en dirección contraria", declara un testigo.
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En Beirut se han producido choques entre el Ejército libanés y manifestantes a favor de los movimientos populares en Egipto. La violencia se produjo cuando más de 100 manifestantes intentaron asaltar la embajada egipcia en la capital; muchos llevaban retratos del ex mandatario egipcio, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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La cadena estatal egipcia, en manos de los seguidores del presidente, muestra calles vacías; las imágenes en vivo que difunde Al Yazira demuestran que miles siguen en la abarrotada Plaza Tahrir de El Cairo.
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La oposición siriana ha organizado una manifestación mañana en Damasco, pero es poco probable que tenga el éxito que han tenido las de Egipto o Túnez. Las fuerzas a favor del gobierno de Bashar al Assad ya han sido movilizados y actualmente recorren las calles con pancartas que llevan eslóganes a favor del régimen.
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Testigos indican que la policía ha empezado a decir que las personas que están deteniendo son "miembros de Hamas que han venido a El Cairo para quemar la ciudad".
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Amal Sharaf, uno de los dirigentes del grupo de oposición Movimiento Seis de Abril -compuesto mayoritariamente por jóvenes y muy activo en Facebook-, y el director del Centro de Ley Husham Mubarak, Ahmed Seif, han sido detenidos junto unos 10 activistas por miembros de la fuerzas de seguridad vestidos de paisanos.
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El secretario general de Reporteros Sin Fronteras, Jean-François Julliard, denuncia la "caza de brujas" perpetrada contra la prensa por los 'pro Mubarak' en Egipto. "Robos, agresiones, detenciones, violencia extrema... Los periodistas en El Cairo están siendo perseguidos, y el nivel más alto del Gobierno egipcio es responsable".
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El portavoz del Departamento de Estado estadounidense reconoce que hay "una campaña concertada para intimidar a los periodistas internacionales" en Egipto. A lo largo del día han sido detenidos más de 25 periodistas.
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Tres periodistas de Al Yazira siguen detenidos y un cuarto ha desaparecido. Entretanto, seis periodistas de la cadena de televisión francesa TFI y France 24 también han sido detenidos, junto a un enviado especial de la cadena francoalemana Arte.
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La televisión estatal egipcia transmite que "espías israelíes" se han infiltrado en el país, disfrazados de periodistas occidentales, con intención de desestabilizar la nación.
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Suleiman asegura que el país acumula "al menos 1.000 millones de dólares en pérdidas por turismo en los últimos nueve días" y que un millón de visitantes se habrían ido a causa de la crisis política que enfrenta el Gobierno.
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