Israel requests U.S. aid after protesters attack embassy in Cairo

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/thousands-gather-in-egypts-tahrir-square-to-demand-civilian-rule/2011/09/09/gIQAWD2nEK_story.html


Israel airlifted its ambassador home and sought U.S. intervention with Egypt to help secure its embassy here early Saturday, hours after thousands of Egyptian protesters besieged the building, with several managing to gain entry and fling Hebrew-language documents from a balcony.

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Israeli officials who tracked events during the night described tense hours during which Netanyahu spoke by phone with President Obama to seek help in protecting the embassy and extricating six Israeli security guards trapped inside when a mob broke through an outer door into the public reception and consular affairs area. The ambassador and other embassy staff were not in because it was Friday night, the Jewish Sabbath, and a day off in Egypt, when the embassy is closed.

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Netanyahu was also in contact with the Egyptian chief of intelligence, Gen. Murad Muwafi, a member of the ruling military council, according to the officials. Defense Minister Ehud Barak meanwhile, spoke to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and with Dennis Ross, the president’s Middle East adviser on the National Security Council, his office said in a statement early Saturday. The statement said Barak had asked Panetta and Ross “to protect the embassy from the demonstrators who broke into it,” but Israeli officials later clarified that to say that the request was for the Americans to press the Egyptians to take action.
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thus, do we continue to be 'enablers'?

(not knowing if we 'pressed' or not)

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1. no in this case we disabled in a sense

the US intervention helped defuse the situation which would have much worse if any Israeli's had been killed or injured