Anderson Cooper Goes Back to Hiding in a Closet After Egypt Attacks

 

ANDERSON Cooper has gone into hiding.
The CNN anchor — who was recently attacked by a mob of supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and then assaulted again by the same rabble rousers who smashed his car window — has moved to an “undisclosed location” out of fear for his and his crew’s safety.
“We’d like to be showing you live pictures of what’s happening in Liberation Square right now,” Cooper said.
“But we can’t do that because our cameras have been taken down through threats, through intimidation, through actual physical attacks, there are no live cameras that we can get access to right now.”
Cooper noted that CNN still has “eyes on what’s happening” on the ground in Liberation Square. He also confessed his own fears, but quickly reminded his audience that the protesters calling for Mubarak to step down and seeking greater democracy in Egypt were equally at risk if not more so.
“I don’t mind telling you I’m a little bit scared because we don’t really know what the next few hours will hold and I think there’s a lot of people tonight who are scared in Egypt,” he said.
“I think there are people in that square who are fighting for their lives and understandably so because this is the second night of a full-on assault on them and they have been defending themselves for their lives.”