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  • Egypt Frees 950 Gamaa Islamiya Prisoners

    04/12/2006 8:20:24 PM PDT · by Calpernia · 21 replies · 587+ views
    Voice of America News ^ | 12 April 2006 | By Challiss McDonough
    Egypt has released 950 jailed members of the militant Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya. Some of them have been in prison since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat 25 years ago. The group's lawyer says about 950 members of Gamaa Islamiya have been released over the last 10 days. The largest group, several hundred, were freed Tuesday, in honor of a Muslim holiday marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Those released include several senior figures, some of whom have been imprisoned for more than 20 years. Gamaa Islamiya was once Egypt's largest militant Islamist group, responsible for a string of...
  • Mubarak responsible for killing protestors

    04/19/2011 10:29:50 PM PDT · by Cardhu · 5 replies
    China.org ^ | April 20th 2011 | Staff
    Egypt's fact-finding committee's report held Mubarak ultimately responsible for killing the protestors during Jan. 25 uprising to force the former regime to step down, local news website Al Shorouk reported on Tuesday. Fact-finding committee, formed in Ahmed Shafiq's cabinet and included panel of judges, submitted its final report to the ministry of justice, saying 846 civilians were killed and more than 6,400 people were injuries during the 18 days massive nation-wide demonstrations. Omar Marawan, the committee's secretary general, said at a press conference after the release of the report that 26 policemen were killed, 149 prisoners died and 263 were...
  • O's Saudi scramble: US U-turns peeve princes

    04/15/2011 2:35:20 AM PDT · by Scanian · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | April 14, 2011 | Benny Avni
    The Obama administration is scrambling to repair dam aged relations with Ameri ca's most prominent Arab ally -- and it's hard to blame the Saudis for being furious. Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to beg for an audience in the Saudi king's palace. (Gates was making the rounds in the region -- but the Saudis at first declined to see him.) Then National Security Adviser Tom Donilon showed up again on Wednesday for a hastily arranged meet. According to The Washington Post, he hand-delivered a secret letter from President Obama to King Abdullah. And yesterday the White House...
  • NBC’s Brokaw: Saudis ‘So Unhappy' With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia.....

    04/06/2011 12:53:20 PM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 31 replies
    NBC’s Brokaw: Saudis ‘So Unhappy' With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties Wednesday, April 06, 2011 By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) – Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples' Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries. After remarking on the difficulty of establishing democracy in the Middle East, Brokaw said that Defense Secretary Robert Gates “will face some tough...
  • It’s Official: Egypt Will Hold Parliamentary Elections in September

    03/29/2011 1:11:19 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 7 replies · 1+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | March 29, 2011 | Barry Rubin
    The military junta ruling Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will be held in September. Rather than spending the next five months complaining, those who aren’t supporting the Muslim Brotherhood better get started actually working and organizing. I’ll analyze this a lot more in the coming months but briefly the blocs are as follows: Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood says it is aiming at getting 30 percent of the seats. I think they’ll succeed. A smaller, moderate Islamist party — whose members split from the Brotherhood because they say it is too extremist — would be lucky to get any seats....
  • Egypt Prime Minister Quits Amid Calls For Mubarak-Era Purge

    03/03/2011 4:07:20 AM PST · by edpc · 15 replies
    Haaretz ^ | 2 Mar 2011 | Amira Hass and Reuters
    Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned on Thursday and a former transport minister was picked to appoint a new government after pro-democracy activists demanded a purge of Hosni Mubarak's old guard from the cabinet. Military rulers said they had accepted the resignation of Shafiq and appointed Essam Sharaf in this place.
  • Ruthless works ("Learning from History" during the Islamic Uprisings of 2011)

    03/02/2011 3:25:22 PM PST · by mojito · 2 replies
    DavidWarrenOnline ^ | 3/2/2011 | David Warren
    Libya retains the focus of the moment, for the media need a headline, but the background story is so much larger. The entire region is on fire, or very close to ignition, from Morocco to Pakistan, and we need to start thinking on this larger scale. It does not follow, from the fact everyone is hooting, that Moammar Gadhafi will fall. He might, tomorrow, for all I know, or all anyone knows who is not clairvoyant. But as I recall, Saddam Hussein did not fall after the Gulf War of 1991. And the comparison is instructive. [....] Saddam's consistent policy...
  • Kim Jong-il Orders Dozens of Tanks to Deployed around his Residence at Yongsung, Pyongyang

    03/01/2011 8:24:24 PM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 22 replies
    /begin my excerpts Kim Jong-il Orders Dozens of Tanks to be Deployed around his Residence at Yongsung, Pyongyang Sources in Pyongyang reported on Feb. 28, "When the Egyptian protests were at their peak in early February, Kim Jong-il deployed tens of tanks around his residence at Yongsung, Pyongyang." They believe that he made such decision when it was apparent that Egyptian President Mubarak, whom he had close relationship with, was being forced to step down, and it made him extremely wary. The sourced added, "Starting at the second half of 2009, when the succession process is in (full) progress, he...
  • Egypt imposes travel ban on Mubarak, family

    02/28/2011 3:13:02 PM PST · by mojito · 2 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 2/28/2011 | Oren Kessler
    Egypt imposed a travel ban Monday on former president Hosni Mubarak and his family while complaints about their wealth are being investigated. The public prosecutor issued an order freezing the money and assets of Mubarak and his family, following claims that they had acquired wealth through illegal means, a spokesman for the prosecutor said. A Cairo criminal court is set to look into the case on March 5, the state news agency MENA said. The travel ban follows the prosecutor’s February 21 decision to ask foreign governments to freeze the overseas assets of Mubarak, who handed power to the army...
  • Is History Repeating Itself in Egypt?

    02/21/2011 5:57:03 PM PST · by Iam1ru1-2 · 15 replies · 1+ views
    Email from friend | 02-21-2011 | MICHAEL R. FOX PHD
    Events in Egypt with Mubarak resigning and thousands of jubilant Egyptians in the streets have brought joy and hopefulness to people in Egypt and around the world. We hear the siren words of freedom, liberty and justice from the Egyptians in the streets, while the media portray these events as joyous blessings and the end of a tyranny. Perhaps. We seem to be, again, without any history context. With more of this important context, the need for caution would be obvious. For these words of freedom, liberty, justice (a supremely vague term) have all been heard before, and they did...
  • Obama Quicker Denouncing Gov. Walker than Mubarak

    02/20/2011 1:20:10 PM PST · by library user · 14 replies
    ABC News ^ | Feb. 20, 2011 | by Joshua Miller
    ~ EXCERPT ~ Thousands in the streets protesting. Chanting workers, young and old, taking over a government building and grinding activity to a halt. Lawmakers fleeing. An executive standing firm in face of the revolt. **snip** President Obama weighed in on the issue on Wednesday, calling Walker's legislation "an assault on unions." **snip** "The President was quicker and more forceful of his denouncement of Gov. Scott Walker than he was of denouncing Hosni Mubarak," (ABC News Correspondent Jon) Karl said. "Madison, Wisconsin – the state of Wisconsin -- this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. Look, this...
  • Former Egyptian interior minister arrested for corruption (Purges Begin)

    02/17/2011 3:57:58 PM PST · by mojito · 15 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 2/17/2011 | Unattributed
    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...
  • 'Offended Mubarak refuses phone call from Obama'

    02/17/2011 9:02:38 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 48 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | February 17, 2011
    Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak refused to respond to telephone calls from US President Barack Obama because he still felt offended by Obama's statement in which he called on Mubarak "to step down immediately," London-based Arabic language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Thursday. Mubarak, still living in "presidential style" in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to the report, refused an invitation from Saudi King Abdullah to come to the kingdom, telling him he preferred to die on Egyptian soil. The report said that it was not clear if Mubarak had been in contact with Egypt's new military rulers through his former deputy...
  • Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings

    02/16/2011 7:40:42 PM PST · by Nachum · 111 replies
    NYT ^ | 2/16/11 | Mark Landler
    WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.
  • Mubarak has given up and wants to die, says Saudi official

    02/16/2011 11:17:36 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 9 replies
    Haaretz ^ | February 16, 2011
    Egypt's ousted president has given up and wants to die in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been living since a popular uprising ended his rule, a Saudi official said on Wednesday. Hosni Mubarak, 82, has suffered from health problems in recent years and travelled to Germany for gall bladder surgery in March last year. Reports of a further decline have increased since he stepped down on Friday after three decades in power. An official in Saudi Arabia said the kingdom had offered to host Mubarak but he was determined to see out his days in...
  • Egypt: Islamist judge to head new constitution committee (No women on committee)

    02/16/2011 7:17:22 AM PST · by Qbert · 7 replies
    Telegraph UK ^ | 2/15/2011 | Richard Spencer
    Tarek al-Bishry, the chairman of the constitutional panel, is a respected judge who criticised former president Hosni Mubarak and is regarded as moderate in his views. But he has been associated with Al-Wasat, an offshoot of the Brotherhood. He has selected a committee made up mainly of judges and politicians, including a judge who is a Coptic Christian, but also a former Muslim Brotherhood MP. There are no women. Wael Abbas, the best-known human rights blogger in Egypt, who was sentenced to prison by the Mubarak regime last year, said it was a "worrying" choice. "There is no such thing...
  • Hosni Mubarak in Death Spiral Since Being Forced from Office...

    02/16/2011 6:24:47 AM PST · by Reaganite Republican · 4 replies
    Reaganite Republican ^ | February 16, 2011 | Reaganite Republican
    Saudi Official: Mubarak has given up and 'wants to die' There is talk of his depression, refusing to take medicine for ongoing health issues, and even of his falling into a coma this weekend. Yet despite reports that he'd flown to Germany, Hosni Mubarak is refusing Saudi offers to host him, instead saying he prefers to remain on Egyptian soil to the end of his days... which may be drawing near from the sound of things: On Tuesday morning, the London-based pan Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported that Mubarak is in very grave medical condition. A senior Egyptian official close to...
  • Professional Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood’s long march through the institutions.

    02/16/2011 2:30:15 AM PST · by Scanian · 9 replies
    The Weekly Standard ^ | February 16, 2011 | STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
    The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, is more than a radical network, comparable to al Qaeda; more than an ideological phenomenon, like the followers of Khomeini in the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and more than a political insurgency, similar to Pakistani jihadism. It is an Egyptian Islamist subculture of great depth and influence. It is therefore also much more than a product of political decisions made by Hosni Mubarak. The Brotherhood was powerful before Mubarak, before his predecessor Anwar Sadat, and before their elder comrade, Gamal Abdel Nasser. But the Brotherhood today is not identical with the paramilitary Arabist-Islamist Ikhwan...
  • I knew Sadat

    02/15/2011 9:15:12 PM PST · by Rabin · 6 replies
    aljazeera ^ | 29 Sep 2009 08:48 GMT | Staff
    On October 6, 1973, in a move calculated to attract US attention, Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal, capturing a narrow strip of land. After three weeks of fighting and with a fragile UN ceasefire in place, Sadat's grand plan came to fruition. In November, Henry Kissinger, the US national security adviser, arrived in Cairo for talks. Agreements between Israel and Egypt were brokered and the following year Richard Nixon, the US president, visited Egypt for the first time. A series of diplomatic efforts ensued which ultimately led to an historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel and Sadat's highly...
  • The Huge Clue Everyone Is Missing re: Sign of the Radical Islamic Focus of Egyptian Overthrow

    02/11/2011 11:01:17 AM PST · by MindBender26 · 68 replies
    Video from FNC, CNN, others
    The overthrow of the Egyptian government is being led by the hard-corps Islamics, and there is video to prove it. We are repeating history. In 1962, a group of senior enlisted USAF photo interpreters was secretly slipped into the back door at the White House. They were there to brief President Kennedy. There had been unconfirmed rumors of a significant Russian military presence in Cuba, but the CIA agents on the ground were supplying conflicting information, and no proof of anything. In addition, no one had reported the missile crates being unloaded from Russian ships in Cuban harbors. The crates...