Posted on 02/17/2011 3:57:58 PM PST by mojito
Egyptian authorities arrested on Thursday former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly and two other ex-ministers who are under investigation for corruption, security officials said.
Authorities also arrested steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz, once a prominent member of the ouster leader Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party.
El-Adly, whose job gave him control over the 500,000-strong security forces, has been widely blamed for the deadly brutality used by riot police against demonstrators in massive protests that began Jan. 25 and forced Mubarak to step down Feb. 11. El-Adly served in his former post for 12 years.
News of el-Adly's arrest followed the detention earlier Thursday of former Housing Minister Ahmed Maghrabi, ex-Tourism Minister Zuheir Garana and Ezz.
All four face allegations that range from money laundering to abuse of authority and squandering state wealth.
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How long before the public executions begin?
July or August
did he say something good about McCain?
What civilized world? We’re not nearly as advanced as a species as we like to think. It’s appalling were the world is right now.
“I believe that a well armed society is as polite and civilized as they come.”
If personal arms is what protects you from government then I agree with you. Right now the only reason the morons who populate public office are at all receptive to public sentiment is because they fear the wrath of the voter at the ballot box. Once they nullify that fear sufficiently (by immigration-associated shifts in voting demographics, by control of the media message to the public, and by election fraud), the only thing left for them to fear and thus to keep them in check is the fear of armed rebellion. I would never have believed this possible in the America I knew as a child. It’s beyond sad.
Seems like a dangerous place to be...
No. You don’t say.
Come on, folks!
If Obama is legally found to be a usurper and forced out of the Presidency, do you honestly expect there would be NO charges against the folks who knowingly pushed him politically?
Off with their heads.
Here it comes.
I expect a few more comas to be in the news.
You imply due process and rule of law by referring to legally; however, by referring to forced I assume you mean legally removed.
Assuming such -I see NO comparison drawn between what we see now in Egypt and what could possibly given the circumstance legally happen here in the US...
I see mob rule and rule of man in power in Egypt versus rule of law in US regardless who is in power...
I agree with you. But "they" need believe armed rebellion is a real possibility. Otherwise they won't take it seriously,
I find it very hard to have any sympathy for crooks who spent their entire political career fattening themselves up at the bottomless trough of public money. I care not what their political persuasion happens to be: conservative, liberal, libertarian, communist, fascist, islamist, democrat, republican. It seems almost all of them are in it for themselves one way or another and I can’t help but smile when one of them has a sudden fall from grace. I only wish it would happen more often!
But do not be deceived about the nature of this new regime in Egypt. The coup plotters are not reformers; they are opportunists. These arrested men have now fallen into the hands of an authority that by any account has less legitimacy than they themselves possessed, which has fattened itself on the same public trough (actually US taxpayer money, most likely) and is eager to get their hands on their erstwhile allies riches.
Things are taking a very ugly turn in Egypt very quickly.
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