David Cameron said yesterday “If it turns out that the regime in any way has sponsored or tolerated this violence, that is completely unacceptable...These are despicable scenes that we are seeing and they should not be repeated".
The Guardian reports: The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, condemned the unleashing of what, it appeared he presumed, were state-sponsored attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators, in the face of a direct call from Obama that there should be no violence. "If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately," he said.
Here are a few tweets. I did not record the time and date, but all tweets can be validated by searching for the author and one of the terms in the tweet. You have to start at http://twitter.com/
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@monasosh One of Mobarak thugs caught, turns out he is a police officer.Yasin Ali Mohamed Ali, from 10th of Ramadan police station. ID 89015191
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@HebzyA Amiralx Mohamed at #tahrir confirms 3 ppl have been shot by snipers now. Thugs caught have NDP ID. Over 50 thugs have been caught so far.
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@carlesdijous ID cards of people who tried to infiltrate the protest camp. (Photo) http://bit.ly/hmXCeV #Tahrir #Egypt #Jan25
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safeworld4women R @sharifkouddous: Every now and then an infiltrator is caught. Police ID found. & dragged away roughy to be arrested by army #Egypt #Jan25
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The confiscated thugs have confessed that they were paid 50 LE to come and protest pro-Mubarak by central forces (via @Gsquare86 & @AmoonaE
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Small jail set up in #Tahrir for thugs and infiltrators with weapons. Best organization I've seen in egypt.
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MT @sharifkouddous: .. think infiltrators in #Tahrir. People walking around filming, not looking the part. #Egypt #Jan25
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hindhassan @SkyNews foreign editor @ITwitius: I have seen at least 17 ID all from 'mukhabaraat' (secret police). #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir
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Protesters caught a StatePolice Major Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Meguid (ID shown) who tried to burn the National Museum. #Tahrir #Jan25
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So there you are, Mr Cameron and Mr Gibbs. Here is some evidence for you, sampled from Twitter searches like #jan25 ID, and #Tahrir infiltrators by an amateur in a few minutes. You are going to have to search your thesaurus for synonyms for "unacceptable", "despicable", and "stop immediately".
Alternatively, you could pick up the phone and tell the Egyptian Army that they are going to have a budget deficit of $1.3 billion next year unless they give Mubarak the bum's rush.
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