Posted on 03/19/2011 12:23:17 PM PDT by opentalk
CAIRO —Islamists hurled stones and shoes at Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace laureate and a secular contender for Egypt's presidency, as he tried to vote Saturday in a referendum on constitutional amendments. ElBaradei was hit in the back by a stone thrown from the crowd of hundreds but managed to escape unhurt and slammed as "irresponsible" the holding of a referendum without adequate law and order.
"We don't want you," the mob shouted, throwing stones, shoes and water at the former UN nuclear watchdog chief as he turned up at a Cairo polling station, five weeks after president Hosni Mubarak was ousted by mass protests.
"He lives in the United States and wants to rule us. It's out of the question," one of them said.
"We don't want an American agent," said another.
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I was using the well known metaphorical saying from Hamlet that means “cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb”.
In this case the bomb was ELBaradei, stirring of unrest in Egypt that seems to have come back to bite him.
the irony is that he was in charge of keeping others from getting the bomb. not that he ever did that.
I believe you’re right. I think its the International policy institute.
The troops have to come home — the United States is bankrupt. What part of “we no longer have money for foreign adventures”, doesn’t Washington get?
Obama has practically been horse-whipped by the libtards into involvement (stupidly, IMHO) in Libya’s civil war.
We don’t know exactly who the rebels are and we certainly do not support Gaddafi. But France is diving headlong into this pooch screw, so the Libtards want a piece of the action, too.
Middle Eastern Islamists deserve their tyrant leaders. They may despise them but they cannot function under a democracy.
Islam and democracy are a gross mismatch—a marriage made in hades.
When king of SA is brought down there won't be any oil.
From KeyWiki link
---In April of 2010, a weekly magazine aiming to link Arab bloggers with politicians, the elderly and the elite was launched in Egypt.
The weekly Wasla –or “The Link” –is being heralded as a first for the Arab world, with plans for articles by bloggers as a way of giving them a wider readership.
Wasla is published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and is financially supported by the Open Society Institute created by none other than George Soros.[25]
In the 1st edition of Wasla, the cover featured Mohamed ElBaradei. ElBaradei is Wasla's chosen candidate and he is also supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. George Soros and ElBaradei both sit on the Board of Trustees for the International Crisis Group---
Isn’t this the guy our media loves and backs? This story is going to the same hole as the ones about the anti-Obama riots in Rio.
International crisis group board of trustees
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx
A few that pop out at me.
George Soros
Samuel Berger
Kofi Annan
Wesley Clarke
Mohamed El Baradei
Isn’t that something, who would have thought...
Instant karma?
I have a bad feeling about Egypt.
Has he tried promising to pay tomorrow for a hamburger today? Seems to work well for American politicians.
But I would not feel so all alone....
I will jump in.
although there are some who disagree, a Petard was a medieval equivalent of a hand grenade used to blow up things.
Explosives were crude then & often blew up in the hands of the user - Hoisted by his own Petard
True, unless it's one of those "Some one set us up the Petard" situations...
I see a peaceful, tolerant “democracy” is brewing...
They crucify their own.
Seem to recall another group that did that.
El Baradei is an American agent? Who knew?
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