Just watching CNN.. the video is amazing. People fighting on horseback, camels, buildings on fire with thousands of rebel and pro-mubarak mobs fighting it out. Looks like a movie.
This thing could get very, very bad and become a massive humanitarian disaster.. think Katrina but add in a civil war and the troops firing on the mobs.
And on top of it all that, pro-Mubarak protesters beat up Anderson Cooper:
The anchor was "punched 10 times in the head," CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted.
Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt Wednesday.
CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted, "Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration."
Cooper then escaped to the roof of a nearby building, where he said on air that he and his crew were trying to get to a neutral zone between protestors and pro-Mubarak supporters when they "were set upon by pro-Mubarak supporters punching us in the head. The crowd kept growing, kept throwing punches, kicks...suddenly a young man would look at you and punch you in the face."
Cooper told CNN's live blog that the attackers "pushed and shoved the CNN crew and punched them in the head... but no one was seriously hurt."
Added Brusk on Twitter, "Live images now of crowds on opposite side of trucks throwing rocks. A CNN reporter called earlier scene snowball fight with rocks."
CNN's Ben Wedeman told the blog that "he overheard a panicked army officer say the situation was out of control and there was nothing the army could do to restore order."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anderson-cooper-attacked-mob-egypt-95628
EDIT: fires seem to be getting worse, people throwing molotov cocktails. Building next to the Cairo museum is on fire. CNN also reporting men armed with machetes.