Posted on 07/26/2016 3:32:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Intelligence Community.
I’m not sure what to make of that guy, other than he’s definitely been dealing in backroom dealings for a long time.
IIRC Egypt also granted asylum to the Shah of Iran after he was overthrown.
And IIRC, it was France that provided a “safe haven” for the then exiled Ayatollah Khomeini.
You can be sure that the CIA listens to him. Not that they take it to heart...but they listen.
Indeed.
Egypt (Sadat?) knew that although the Shah was an authoritarian, he was better than what was coming with the Mullahs. IIRC, Egypt was the first Arab country to accept Israel's place in the world. Egypt along with Jordan are the only two nations in the region that are reasonable since the Israel/Arab wars of '67 and '72?
While I vaguely remember the Aya-sh*thead being exiled, I don't remember who gave him "safe haven". The French, huh?
Nothing. He's old news and they have their utopia and legacies to build.
I dont think so either. Egypts government is a bitter enemy of Erdogans Muslim Brotherhood. Gulen is a guy on their side.
Egypt also cant be blackmailed like the US can, about Eurppe, Nato, Russians, Incirlik or Iraq. Arguably Gulen is safer in Egypt than here.
In Egypt he doesnt risk being handed over, though he has to worry more about assassins.
Ayatollah Khomeini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini#Return_to_Iran
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As protest grew so did his profile and importance. Although thousands of kilometers away from Iran in Paris, Khomeini set the course of the revolution, urging Iranians not to compromise and ordering work stoppages against the regime.[84] During the last few months of his exile, Khomeini received a constant stream of reporters, supporters, and notables, eager to hear the spiritual leader of the revolution.[85]
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Khomeini was not allowed to return to Iran during the Shah’s reign (as he had been in exile). On 17 January 1979, the Shah left the country (ostensibly “on vacation”), never to return. Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd estimated (by BBC) to be of up to five million people.[86] On his chartered flight back to Tehran 120 journalists accompanied him,[87][88] including three women.[88] One of the journalists, Peter Jennings, asked: “Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?”[89] Khomeini answered via his aide Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: “Hichi” (Nothing).[89] This statement—much discussed at the time[90] and since[91]—was considered by some reflective of his mystical beliefs and non-attachment to ego.[92] Others considered it a warning to Iranians who hoped he would be a “mainstream nationalist leader” that they were in for disappointment.[93]
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What is most telling is that while this insane Islamic Leader/thinker/writer was in France, he was courted by dozens of Western Journalist and so called intellectuals.
They loved him.
They loved him because, even in the 1970’s, he was Anti-American and these media tools set aside any moral objections of his positions in order to advance their greater cause of Multiculturalism and bringing down the US.
Bookmarked. Thanks.
For What it’s Worth,
and
In my Humble opinion.
These observations are based primarily on what happened and just slightly less on what was said.
I believe that as WWII was winding down there were very serious and high level discussions between the US and Britain regarding what to do with the Islamist in the Middle East and North Africa.
The conclusions I believe they reached were that these Islamist are literally insane and have no place in the Western World.
I believe they embarked on a plan that would support Islamic dictators if those dictators would keep their populace under control and keep them isolated from the rest of the World.
It worked for many years but now the genie is out of the bottle.
Islamist are insane because the premise of their faith (their hearts desire--their raison d'etre--is based on a falacy...and the genie (the jinn) is out of the bottle.
Yes, the Silk Road is not good for Egypt.
Unlike Turkey, Russia and Iran Egypt is of no use to China.
A Silk Road to the Dardanelles would drastically reduce revenue from the Suez Canal.
Perhaps I have missed your comment.
China is rebuilding it. They’ve invested huge sums.
It’s the new center of Middle East policy for everyone.
Google it when you’ve time.
After relative calm since the 1973 Yom Kippup War, Arafat re-ignighted with his Intifadas and it grew from there because the West was too PC. Israel stopped the murderous so-called Palis from blowing up their cafes, weddings, market-places, buses, et al on a weekly basis with a wall.
After Israel moved out of Gaza and the Palis destroy anything Jewish and continued to attack, I believe they should have just wiped them out - world opinion and collateral damage be damned. We did it with Germany and Japan, and I'm glad we did.
I’m certain that there have been countless books written on this and I, like you, haven’t read them.
There is something in my gut that suggests there are thousands of documents held in both the US and British archives that have drawn a conclusion on Islam and were instrumental in developing our policy of containment.
Conclusions that weren’t influenced by Political Correctness but by the facts.
Conclusions that were 100% correct.
I must confess, I shed some tears when Sadat was killed. He was a good man, who evolved over time.
I would question why Egypt would do something so seemingly provacitive?
I would guess the Egyptian know well that Erdogan has a Neapolitan complex.
From what I understand the current Egyptian government are the good guys as opposed to Obama’s failed Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood government.
If true they deserve our support and in your face Turkey.
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