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NBC's Mitchell still fuming about run-in with security detail.(Andrea Mitchell)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

| September 14, 2005 | Shister, Gail | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Gail Shister

After taking on Frank Rizzo, how tough can the Sudanese president be?

NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who tousled with the Philadelphia mayor as a young journalist in the mid-'70s, is still "mad as hell" at being roughed up by Omar el-Bashir's security detail during a photo op at his residence on July 22.

"On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12," says Mitchell, in Philadelphia on Thursday to flog her just-published memoir, "Talking Back ... to Presidents, Dictators and Assorted Scoundrels" (Viking Penguin).

As Bashir posed with visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Mitchell, NBC's chief foreign-affairs correspondent, had the …

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