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Subscribe to RSSUpdate 3:44 p.m. ET: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeats the U.S. government's position that attacks on journalists are "unacceptable" and that "we condemn them in the strongest terms."
Update 2:44 p.m. ET: Time magazine says it has learned "exclusively" that CBS's Lara Logan and her crew have been detained.
Time did not identify its sources, and CBS would not comment.
Update 2:21 p.m. ET: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says that because larger protests are expected Friday, there could be more attacks on journalists in Egypt.
"I don't think that these are random events," he said at the daily State Department briefing.
Update 2:04 p.m. ET: The Washington Post reports that Leila Fadel and Linda Davidson have been released.
The State Department, meanwhile, says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may have a statement later today on journalists in Egypt.
Update 1:53 p.m. ET: ABC News has compiled a very useful list of journalists "who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt."
Update 12:18 p.m. ET: The Committee to Protect Journalists says it has confirmed the detention of 10 journalists. The government says they have not been arrested but were taken into "protective custody."
Vice President Omar Suleiman says "unfriendly media" from "friendly nations" are complicating the military's efforts to keep order, according to state television.
The New York Times reports that Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are unable to provide live video from Tahrir Square.
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells reporters that President Barack Obama has been briefed on the systematic targeting of journalists in Egypt and considers it "completely and totally unacceptable," NBC News' Scott Foster reports after a briefing aboard Air Force One.
Attacks and detentions of journalists — numerous reports, many unconfirmed, blaming the army — spiked beginnig overnight:
• Al Jazeera says three of its reporters reporters are in custody.
• The Washington Post reports that its Cairo bureau chief, Leila Fadel, and photographer Linda Davidson, have been detained.
• Two New York Times journalists are reported to have been arrested.
• The Globe and Mail of Canada reports that two correspondents and a driver were detained.
• Polish state television said two of its crews were detained in Cairo. One crew, made up of two cameramen, has been released; the status of the other, a reporter and two assistants, is unknown.
• The Russian channel Zvezda says a correspondent and a cameramen were detained and held overnight Tuesday before being released.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley tweeted: "There is a concerted campaign to intimidate international journalists in Cairo and interfere with their reporting. We condemn such actions."
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Mubarak is a criminal. He needs to leave now. Peaceful protestors and journalists should be treated with respect, not with the violence he has ordered. We see through his lies. This cannot continue.
Boy oh boy...looks like they are shutting down all news out of the country if its not given out through the State TV!
May the Universe protect and keep all the journalists safe! Who helped America when our war of Independence was waged? Hmmmm, lets see.....
Its fine to talk-talk-talk- up democracy and how hard won it is to win - its easy to inspire hope in peoples of other nations - Now -Its time for America and the rest of the free world to win its friends righteously! God help us all!
The evil Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to have deliberately placed AMERICANS inside Egypt in grave danger by Netanyahu's publicly broad-casted condemnation of American President Obama's refusal to back Hosni Mubarak.
The pro-Mubarak undercover police who largely compose the most violent anti-protesters now appear to be TARGETING Americans, American Journalists and American Camera Crews directly from the evil Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's remark seeing any America now as not supporting the Mubarak Government.
The so-called pro-Mubarak protesters are largely paid to violently protest against the protesters via Omar Suleiman henchmen, off-duty police, undercover Egyptian intelligence members. All in the back pocket of Egypt's depraved Vice President Omar Suleiman. All in keeping with Omar (the Destroyer) Suleiman's hard-core crack down to crush the Egyptian uprising against a cruel, depraved corrupt Egyptian Government, go figure!
Oh, ignorant morons will state the ID's showing them to be undercover Egyptian Police officers taken from the pro-Mubarak Government protesters are just fakes or stolen off a Egyptian cop. Right, WINK!
Protesters are being beaten and shot under the alleged orders of none other than Omar Suleiman, the newly appointed Vice President and successor of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Such violent crack-downs and sweeping round-up's of the Egyptian protesters is not surprising as Omar Suleiman was the CIA point man for the torture and imprisonment of thousands of victims the CIA kidnapped from around the world and gave to Omar Suleiman and his Egyptian torture dungeons to deal with (no I'm not talking about mere water boarding either).
Someone like Omar Suleiman who enjoys hearing the screams and cry's of people being tortured is what Israel and America's leaders want to rule over the improvised Egyptian people.
WATCH CLOSELY, under the ongoing chaos and confusion, Israel's Mossad Assassins and Omar Suleiman will use that cover-up select murders of the opposition leaders. Oh, just some unknown pro-Mubarak protesters shot those men they'll claim. Right, WINK!