[mewykwistmas]

I was reading about this guy yesterday. Not the type you want to shoot and fail http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4800970/The-fixer-in-the-shadows-who-may-emerge-as-Egypts-leader.html

[jazusamo]

Interesting article. If the attempted assassins got away they better run long and hard because this VP sounds like he's a man not to be messed with.

Yet Gen Suleiman has no experience of managing an economy, let alone running schools or hospitals.

Running the economy, schools or hospitals mean little if radical muslims take over the country. I'd bet a President Suleiman could manage that without radicals in control.

[2harddrive]

“I was reading about this guy yesterday. Not the type you want to shoot and fail http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4800970/The-fixer-in-the-shadows-who-may-emerge-as-Egypts-leader.html";

He is GOOD. He will learn basic economics fast, I predict. Not like Hussein Obama.

[battousai]

Yet within three years, the security forces had managed to cripple both of Egypt's main extremist groups. How this happened is still controversial. Critics point to brutal methods, notably torture inside Egypt's prisons. But officials stress a programme to rehabilitate Islamist fighters. Whatever the explanation, Egypt's experience in the 1990s is one of the few recent cases when an Islamist insurgency was crushed.

Gen Suleiman would not claim all the credit: the State Security Directorate, Egypt's MI5, was more directly involved. But Gen Suleiman is the only serving intelligence chief who has personally taken apart an Islamist insurgency.

Well now here's a man I wouldn't mind seeing taking over Egypt, no wonder they are trying to kill him!