The crowd of Salafists, who are Sunni-Muslim extremists, marched from the al-Nour mosque in eastern Cairo, towards the United States Embassy near the centre of the capital.

They were shouting slogans including ‚Down with the US and its agents‘ and ‚We are all bin Laden.‘ They carried banners with bin Laden‘s picture on it, which read ‚This is the symbol of Islamic Jihad.‘