Though details of the alleged incident are scarce, the circulated video shows one of the alleged gay men appearing to be kicked, punched and slapped by two security personnel while a third guard looks on.
He shot the guard in the upper chest and ran toward the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, chased by the second guard, the witnesses said.
Major Ahmed Nur, a police officer, told Reuters that a car bomb rammed the entrance to the hotel and was followed by a second blast, which a security guard said was another vehicle bomb.
I got waved through the first gate by a G4S security guard, and then I started talking to a second security guard who just let me walk through to the backstage area.
"Hang on a second," the guard said.
With the active-duty military having shrunk by a third since the cold war, guard and reserve units have become integral parts of virtually every operation overseas -- from humanitarian relief to peacekeeping operations to the air war over Kosovo.
Trying to overcome the loss of Raymond Felton, the Charlotte Bobcats added a third point guard by signing the undrafted rookie Sherron Collins to a two-year, non-guaranteed deal.
The security guard was employed by a third party, said a spokeswoman, and had a senior manager been alerted to the incident, no action would have been taken, in line with the company's guidelines.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that a detainee was shot in the neck by a guard, the first incident of gunfire known to have occurred in the camp's history.
As expected, that effort didn't turn out so well for the guy -- he winds up getting tackled to the floor by a security guard just seconds after he threw his arms up into the air in what must have felt like a moment of triumph (moment of impact in the somewhat NSFW video above: 0 24).
