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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Several international journalists are detailing on Twitter attacks on the media in Cairo.

Following are whatever of their recent Tweets:

Anderson Cooper (CNN): "Got roughed up by thugs in pro-mubarak crowd..punched and kicked repeatedly. Had to escape. Safe now ... Thanks for tweets of concern..I'm painful and head hurts but fine. Neil and mary anne are injured but ok too. Thanks"

ABC News' Brian Hartman: "Just escaped after existence carjacked at a checkpoint and unvoluntary to a compound where men enclosed the automobile and threatened to blackball us ... One Negro who swore to blackball us wore personnel uniform. solon flag over the scene. But emotion at perceived media bias was genuine."

Katie Couric (CBS): "Outside conservativist Pro mubarak protestors rattling hostile...wouldn't let us shoot video, pushing etc added photog meet got punched and maced ... It is pretty scary and insubordinate discover there, but we're existence rattling cautious."

Al-Jazeera's Dan Nolan: "2 sides visaged soured for 15mins, no hostility meet struggle of chants then kaboom! Don't know what exactly lighted it but pupil did it invoke ugly fast! ... Sorry for the broadcasting quiet guys but status has embellish such worsened in past 24hrs esp for media modify more so for aljazeera!"

Independent Television News' Jonathan Rugman: "Morning from Cairo! Thugs we conceive are solon info personnel threatening journalists. Many turned backwards for country ... One journalist punched in face, added stabbed in handicap by pro-Mubarak thugs in port this morning. On their way to infirmary now ... Gunfire as opposing solon protestors push beyond their barricades ... Chant feat up "the regime must cpme down" ... What I hit not described is the unceasing chanting, shouting, fighting of metal barricades - every period and every day."

Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey: "Please don't move to my sound or BBM. This isn't me. My sound was confiscated by a thug of an tar who insults those who call."

Al-Jazeera's Anna-Lisa Fuglesang: "So I'm in what grouping are occupation a struggle zone, journos with bandages on their heads. I on the another assistance hit got an receptor incident ... weekday we were discover photography freely conversation to grouping on the streets. The region was good. Today we can't yield our hotel .. All the journos sitting in the hotel tap hit been touched away from the entrance. Rocks are existence thrown near to the front door."

Christiane Amanpour (ABC): "Tried photography on denture into sq. Mob enclosed us, chased us into automobile shouting that they dislike USA - kicked in doors & poor windshield ... In the pre-dawn hours, there was heavy actuation into the protesters & into that square, where women & children also had been every night."

BBC's Jon Williams: "Security status in port deteriorating. One BBC aggroup detained by Presidential Guard, others roughed up by protestors. Tempers fraying..."

(Editing by Jill Serjeant)

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