Police and Protesters Clash in Cairo

Cairo, Dec. 17, 2011
An Egyptian protester throws a stone toward soldiers as a building burns during clashes near Tahrir Square on December 17, 2011. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, chasing protesters and beating them to the ground with sticks and tossing journalists' TV cameras off of balconies in the second day of a violent crackdown on anti-military protesters that has left nine dead and hundreds injured.

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