(Jerusalem Post) Ben Hartman - On the way into Cairo from the airport, vigilante checkpoints ran about every 100 meters on the main roads and blocked every side street. The barriers varied from cinder blocks to park benches and scorched trash dumpsters. Other than the occasional firearm, the weapons deployed by the vigilantes included machetes, swords, bed posts, chains, and spiked blunt objects. The vigilantes began to take to the streets after the Egyptian police disappeared, which coincided with spontaneous jailbreaks in prisons across the country.
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