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U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt

04/15/08

Permalink 04:37:42 pm, by Amanda Hughes Email , 40 words   English (US)
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U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt

By Bill Brand

BERKELEY _ When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.

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