Pidgin Arabic News Today

Sorry, sir, enjoy cairo, enjoy your stay, welcome, thank you very much, were very sorry for these security precautions. these people are worried about their homes. theyre worried about their businesses. and theyre worried about this unrest somehow threatening them and their families and their livelihoods. so thats what we thought we were encountering. so today we were just on a run from the airport picking up some gear. we come on one -- we come upon one of these checkpoints. and it worked very ...

Theyre worried about their businesses. and theyre worried about this unrest somehow threatening them and their families and their livelihoods. so thats what we thought we were encountering. so today we were just on a run from the airport picking up some gear. we come on one -- we come upon one of these checkpoints. and it worked very differently. in a two-vehicle convoy. our drivers were pulled out of the car. the people at the checkpoint then got behind the wheel of the vehicles. they drove the...

Know, everyones speaking arabic, and i speak pidgin arabic from the time ive spent in the middle east. but i wasnt at first clear what was going on. and it wasnt until we started driving into this crowd and the people started surrounding our car and i realized that there was no way out of this area where they were bringing us, that something was wrong, and me and my, you know, teammates looked at each other and thought, this is not good. >> and how did you get out of that jam? >> well, you know,...