Malveaux at one point wonders out loud if the flag could be a warning of a London attack: 'This is our next location, this is our next attack,' she suggests. Bergen seemed puzzled by the sight, saying that it's unclear who was waving the flag or what his motivations were and repeatedly noting that a gay-pride parade is a strange place to wave an ISIS flag given the group's anti-gay views. Read More: CNN's Don Lemon Called 'Uncle Tom' On-Air While Covering Charleston ShootingĬNN also brought in national security analyst Peter Bergen for its 'exclusive' report. 'It was very subtle and us Brits known for our subtle sense of humor but I'm not sure that everyone, if they had spotted it, might have thought it was particularly amusing,' Pawle added, with Malveaux saying, 'it may be a parody.' She suggested later that it might be a 'subtle' joke. 'I seem to be the only person who has spotted this, and nobody seems to be raising any questions,' Pawle added, saying that neither event organizers nor the police knew about the flag. The 28-year-old denies waving the flag but is one of 57 people arrested so far in Egypt’s widest anti-gay crackdown yet, a swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for.
