Video Shows Cairo Protesters Were Attacked by Armed Assailants May 3, 2012, 6:05 pm As my colleagues Kareem Fahim and Mayy El Sheikh report, Egypt's military rulers denied on Thursday that they had any role in the attacks on protesters in the Cairo neighborhood of Abbaseya this week that left at least 11 people dead. Speaking at a news conference, Maj. Gen. Mohammed el-Assar said that the assailants who attacked protesters calling for an end to military rule outside Egypt's Ministry of Defense early on Wednesday were residents of Abbaseya angered by the sit-in, not thugs supporting the Egyptian security services. A video report on the attacks, posted on YouTube late Wednesday by Mosireen, a collective of activist filmmakers in Cairo, appeared to offer clear evidence that the assailants were, however, armed. The first scene in the Mosireen report, showing a man in civilian clothes aiming and firing a gun at the cameraman, was recorded by a volunteer who had just taken one of the group's training workshops. Salma Said, an activist and Mosireen video journalist, told The Lede on Twitter that the cameraman, whose injury was shown in the video's second scene, is now recovering from a birdshot wound to his forehead. As The Lede reported in February, Ms. Said, 26, took more than 100 hits from birdshot pellets fired at her by the police as she recorded an attack on protesters. The new Mosireen report includes several images of guns in the hands of the men who attacked the sit-in and witness accounts of the assault, including one from a doctor working at a field hospital who said that one of his colleagues was among those shot and killed on Wednesday. A video posted on Mosireen's Web site gives an overview of the group's work, which includes public screenings of its compelling video reports on Egypt's transition