It is fairly ordinary for a group to be protesting something or other outside a venue that the PM is known to be at.
When he leaves the venue, in an armoured, bulletproof limousine and surrounded by security personelle, sometimes one or two of the "violent mob" will lean through the police line and swing a fist or foot at the PMs car, presenting no threat whatsoever to the occupants of the car, and earning themselves a trip to the local station in the back of a paddy wagon every single time.
Thats as far as the "violent mob" went, oh, there was a projectile or two...eggs, tomatoes,spitballs maybe, certainly werent bullets.
These particular "violent mob" members were Lebanese and Palestinian, does it suprise you they are yelling about wanting peace to a PM who is hardly shy about being pro western world/US/Israel and very anti terrorist organisations like Hezbollah and Hamas?
There was no "violent mob", the PM was never "attacked".
Its media sensationalism plain and simple.
PM has publicly known agenda, agenda calls for meeting at certain place and certain time, PM attends, local ethnic lebanese and palestinian people with a bee in their bonnet about Israel/Palestine situation congregate at known venue and wait for PM to leave, as he does they tussle with the cops, throw the odd egg or two, yell "we want peace" two or three times as PMs limo drives quickly away, mob disperses and goes home.
Hardly makes for as gripping a story as "Aussie PM attacked by violent mob" now does it?
laughable part is wtf is lil'Johnny gonna do to suddenly bring peace to the middle east?
As if the people who could bring about peace in the middle east (if such people exist) give a rodents rear end what the PM of Oz thinks, says or does.
