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Exclusive: Inside the Texas ‘Draw Muhammad’ Event as Shots Rang Out

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As two gunmen opened fire on security outside a Dallas-area center hosting a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, The Daily Beast was barricaded inside with the attendees.

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GARLAND, Texas—“Get inside the conference room now!” a man in camouflage yelled at me. Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, had just wrapped up her Draw Muhammad cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center with a short speech, and I had just stepped outside the room.

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