Egypt protesters tear down US flag
2012-09-11 20:21
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Cairo - Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators, angered by a film deemed offensive to Islam, tore down the US flag during a protest at the embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported.
Nearly 3 000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement or football fans, gathered at the embassy in protest over a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad which was produced by expatriate members of Egypt's Christian minority resident in the United States.
A dozen men scaled over the embassy walls and one of them tore down the Stars and Stripes, replacing it with a black flag inscribed with the Muslim profession of faith: "There is no God but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God."
Police intervened without resort to force and persuaded the demonstrators to come down.
