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Brutality has a much longer history. we must warn you, this report contains graphic image that some of you may find disturbing. reporter: i went to all the morgues. i went to the hospitals. nadia sobbed hysterically. where is my son? his name is mohammad and he worked at the pyramids. the 15-year-old disappeared on the first day of the uprising. clutching his picture, mohammad s younger brother hopes someone attah hir square might recognize him. one of many egyptians unaccounted for as these demonstrations began. i hope you come back, his mother cries in agony. the family hopes but fears he has been detained. before the recent unrest human rights watch long accused egypt of oppressive police state tactics against dissidentses and ....
Cnn s arwa damon reports on opposition figures, including human rights activists and some journalists who have been targeted, along with some citizens who may simply have been at the wrong place at the wrong time. translator: i went to all the morgues. i went to all the hospitals,hys? where is my son. his name is mohammed and he worked at the pyramids. the 15-year-old disappeared on his way home on the first day of the uprising. clutching his picture mohammed s younger brother hopes someone in tahrir square might recognize him. just one of many egyptians unaccounted for since these demonstrations began. translator: i hope you come back, mohammed. i hope you come back, his mother cries in agony. the family hopes but also fears that he has been detained. even before the recent unrest, human rights watch has long accused egypt of oppressive police state tactics. ....
You ve seen a lot. have you ever seen anything like this? reporter: well, ed, when you consider that the red brick building across from us is the repository of the major antiquities of human history from 5,000 years ago, at the beginning of civilization, and if you consider that it were daylight and this height above cairo, we could see the tops of the pyramids, which are really in a suburb of the city. this is pretty extraordinary. this is a kind of heavy automatic high-caliber weapons fire richard became enured to in baghdad. we both heard it in afghanistan. you don t expect it in cairo. i m peeking my head around the corner. our safety. nobody s interested in us up here. this has to do with what s going on down on the ground. ....
You ve seen a lot. have you ever seen anything like this? reporter: well, ed, when you consider that the red brick building across from us is the repository of the major antiquities of human history from 5,000 years ago, at the beginning of civilization, and if you consider that it were daylight and this height above cairo, we could see the tops of the pyramids, which are really in a suburb of the city. this is pretty extraordinary. this is a kind of heavy automatic high-caliber weapons fire richard became enured to in baghdad. we both heard it in afghanistan. you don t expect it in cairo. i m peeking my head around the corner. our safety. nobody s interested in us up here. this has to do with what s going ....
Line of people patting you down, volunteers. they made sure no one had weapons, anything provocative, to incite violence. that was yesterday. you look at what happened today and you look at they came right by this location, by the way, this group that clearly had a plan to infiltrate and try to take back that square. i think it s pretty clear that it was organized and that the violence came from the side that went in today, which was the pro mubarak supporters. now certainly, coming in on horseback and camelback, animals that probably a week ago were carrying tourists on tours of the pyramids, being used to carry people, ready to wage war in the square today. i take camels as a good sign, though. i have a sense that the mubarak forces had to resort to camels because the military wouldn t use the abrams tanks that they have. is that a fair assessment? you know, i ve got to tell you, the whole use of the ....