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Originally Posted by MJM
My timing isn't skewed. Her team was pulled from the country for safety coincerns and than ran back after the fall of the government to likely be one of the first on scene given most had already backed out.
Clearly they underestimated the resistance they would encounter and didn't take the appropriate precausions, or they just didn't care in an effort to get the story.
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Journalists left the country over a week ago when things were coming to a head. Anderson Cooper, who you mention earlier, left on February 6th amid attacked on journalists by Mubarek supporters.
A full week later, after a regime change (the regime whose supporters were responsible for attacks against journalists) and widespread celebrations, of course journalists are going to go back and cover the story. At this point, it isn't even clear from what I have read that the attackers were pro-Mubarek. It sounds like a mob of 200 or so people turned violent and sexually assaulted her.
What I am saying is, the threat that caused/forced journalists to leave the country a week ago doesn't appear to be related to the attacks on her upon her return.
Again, it wasn't without risks, and I'm sure that she was well aware of them. But to say that journalists shouldn't return to cover the celebrations of a regime change and the emergence of democracy in a country after 30 years of Mubarek rule goes against the very reason that journalists exist in the first place.