Thousands of demonstrators tear down U.S. flag at embassy in Cairo

PanARMENIAN.Net - Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators have torn down the Stars and Stripes at the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced it with an Islamic flag on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S., Al Jazeera reports.

Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement or football fans, gathered at the embassy in protest over a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad which was produced by expatriate members of Egypt's Christian minority resident in the United States.

A dozen men scaled the embassy walls and one of them tore down the US flag, replacing it with a black one inscribed with the Muslim profession of faith: "There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

Demonstrators also daubed part of that slogan - "There is no God but God" - on the walls of the embassy compound.