Posted on 01/28/2011 1:55:41 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning regime change for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
By Tim Ross, Matthew Moore and Steven Swinford 9:23PM GMT 28 Jan 2011
The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.
On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.
He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations and his identity is being protected by The Daily Telegraph.
The crisis in Egypt follows the toppling of Tunisian president Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, who fled the country after widespread protests forced him from office.
The disclosures, contained in previously secret US diplomatic dispatches released by the WikiLeaks website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police.
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It was progressive humanists. Obama is their god. Obama will let Egypt fall, just like Carter let Iran fall.
Well, our fearless leader is about to get what he wants, the Islamic Terrorists in power in all nations surrounding Israel. It is going to get nasty and all the blood will be on Øbama's hands!
Forget about Saudi. If Egypt goes, the Saud family will fall within 6 months at most, most probably 3.
Useful idiots whose leaders will be be-headed by the Muslim Brotherhood if they do not submit to hardline Islamic rule. Coptic blood will flow freely in the streets - they should flee to Israel now and join forces for a strong Judeo-Christian state.
Don’t forget Obama was a CIA agent. His mother and family worked for the CIA.
His CIA mentors David Rockefeller and Zig Brzezenski helped topple the Shah of Iran.
The headline really isn’t supported by the story. All this sounds like is that the U.S. permitted a student to visit without notifying Egyptian authorities of his name, perhaps to prevent him from being persecuted. That doesn’t mean qw backed him or others, financially or otherwise, or that we were otherwise behind this uprising at all.
Sure. In a very real sense that is what they are in the process of overthrowing.
They are not culturally capable of sustaining a western style democracy.
Ths 0bama administration is supporting the pro-Iarnian rebels in this affair. Look, I’m no fan of Hosni Mubarak but he is the leader over there and has supported the US in the past. I wonder what other governments around the world are thinking. The next time the USA needs help with anything, I betcha we don’t get it.
We need to overthrow 0bama and his band of thugs.
:-) Compellingly unrestrained cynicism in its finest form.
“It may not be a government we will like or will like us, but it is certainly possible for the people there to have a gov that represents them.”
You are correct - want another Iran under a Moslim whacko?
Oops - pardon the Moslim whacko redundancy.
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In answer to the Moslim Brotherhood issue:
Nuke them all, nuke them all,
The Sunni, the Shi’a, and all,
NUKE THEN ALL!
Islam is antithetical to, and irreconcilable with, America.
This is far to spontaneous to be planned.
This administration has been caught flatfooted.
The outcome of all of this will be a murderous, non-tolerant exact copy of the so-called “Islamic Republic of Iran”.
Anyone who is familiar with the world knows that there is no republic in Iran. As in Iran, there will be no tolerance of anything other than Muslims.
Not necessarily.....
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