El Baradei attacked; flees without voting

Cairo: A crowd of angry men pelted Egyptian reform campaigner and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei with rocks and smashed his car windows outside a polling center.

He wasn't injured but was forced to flee in an SUV without casting his ballot in a referendum on whether to adopt a package of constitutional amendments that would allow new parliamentary and presidential elections to be held later this year or early in the next.

ElBaradei and other critics are opposed to the changes, saying it's too soon. Critics fear an early vote would give unfair advantage to established organizations, including the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

ElBaradei and a group of his supporters were attacked as they headed to vote in Cairo's Mokkatam district.