Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mohamed ElBaradei lands in Cairo: 'There's no going back'
Guardian (UK) ^ | Thursday 27 January 2011 21.54 GMT | Jack Shenker

Posted on 01/27/2011 2:42:13 PM PST by Pan_Yan

Many in Egypt are accusing Mohamed ElBaradei of being a latecomer but in the end flight MS 798 from Vienna landed in Cairo 15 minutes ahead of schedule, carrying with it a man ready to assume the presidency.

Egypt's beleaguered regime was waiting. Dozens of metal traffic barriers manned by plainclothes state security officers had been erected throughout the terminal to block the public from mobbing ElBaradei when he arrived, but they proved no match for the media scrum as the 68-year-old emerged with his wife. "Will you be on the streets tomorrow?" screamed one journalist. "Doctor ElBaradei, the people of Egypt need you tomorrow," yelled a passer-by in Arabic.

Hemmed in by a throng of cameras, ElBaradei had little choice but to give an impromptu press conference.

"This is a critical time in the life of Egypt and I have come to participate with the Egyptian people," he said. "The regime has not been listening.

"If people, in particular young people, if they want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition.

...

"Is he coming for a photoshoot, or does he actually have something to offer? The fact is he's done nothing concrete; the Egyptian people in the last 48 hours actually have done something, something which has shaken this regime far more than anything ElBaradei has ever done. Whatever happens from now on it will be nothing to do with ElBaradei; if he does get involved it will just look shallow and crass."

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; lbaradei
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last
I'm not a big fan of dictators, but I'm a little leery that a U.N. hack is the answer.
1 posted on 01/27/2011 2:42:16 PM PST by Pan_Yan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

The Islamic hardliners in Iran used moderates as the face of the revolution in the beginning to gain credibility. Within a few months they were up against the wall.


2 posted on 01/27/2011 2:44:35 PM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

You are correct, Sir. And just like then we have Jimmy Carter in the White House.


3 posted on 01/27/2011 2:45:38 PM PST by Pan_Yan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan
I'm not a big fan of dictators, but I'm a little leery that a U.N. hack is the answer.

There's a difference? Idi Amin was a U.N. hack. Uganda was on the human rights council during his regime. Now, while he may have provided several generations with humor with his downright craziness (after all, he wrote sexual letters to the Queen of England), I don't think it was worth the estimated upwards of half a million people he and his cronies butchered.
4 posted on 01/27/2011 2:47:33 PM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

OK, so what happened to Mubarak? Is he still around and is he going to go for this!


5 posted on 01/27/2011 2:49:01 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Just as in Russia, the more moderate Mensheviks, paved the way for the Bolsheviks.


6 posted on 01/27/2011 2:53:45 PM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

This guy is just the banker hack that the globalists will put in place to make sure nothing changes.


7 posted on 01/27/2011 2:57:04 PM PST by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Autocratic leaders are sometimes necessary as a bulwark against communism, and now, Islamofascism. Franco, Pinochet, the Shah. Don’t call them dictators. They have nothing in common with tyrants like Stalin and Lenin.


8 posted on 01/27/2011 2:58:55 PM PST by balch3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: arderkrag

Ha! I remember that part of his official title was
“strutting cock who leaves no hen untouched..”.

I can think of a couple of hens he might have made an exception for.


9 posted on 01/27/2011 3:03:35 PM PST by rahbert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan
And not just any UN hack.

As head of the IAEA, this UN hack caved to the Pakistanis, the North Koreans, Iran, Saddam...you name it, he caved to it.

Just the kind of stout fellow who will stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood.

10 posted on 01/27/2011 3:08:41 PM PST by mojito
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: balch3

South Africa comes to mind as well, Russia 1917, so many regimes not quite powerful enough to overcome the mobs, and later the carpetbaggers. So they revolt and not knowing what it takes for freedom, they saddle themselves with worse for another twenty years or much much longer.


11 posted on 01/27/2011 3:13:10 PM PST by wita
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: balch3
"Franco, Pinochet, the Shah. Don’t call them dictators. They have nothing in common with tyrants like Stalin and Lenin."
This is intellectually dishonest. They have a lot in common with other tyrants, including a repressive secret police apparatus, suppression of dissent and not honoring individual rights.
12 posted on 01/27/2011 3:17:12 PM PST by JadeEmperor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: arderkrag
or as he once said,

Ma people make me GOD... and i appreciate it whole lot!!!

Good times hello...

13 posted on 01/27/2011 3:28:39 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: arderkrag

“I don’t think it was worth the estimated upwards of half a million people he and his cronies butchered. “

And ate their livers!


14 posted on 01/27/2011 3:31:33 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Mubarek = Shah
El Baradei = Bani Sadr
??? = Khomeni


15 posted on 01/27/2011 3:33:39 PM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Golly Golly Miss Molly. Where is Boutros Boutros?


16 posted on 01/27/2011 3:38:09 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...
"This is a critical time in the life of Egypt and I have come to participate with the Egyptian people," he said. "The regime has not been listening. If people, in particular young people, if they want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."
Nothing like having a strong sense of self-worth, eh? Thanks Pan_Yan.


17 posted on 01/27/2011 3:40:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
The Islamic hardliners in Iran used moderates as the face of the revolution in the beginning to gain credibility. Within a few months they were up against the wall.

Yep. The names Bani-Sadr and Gotbzadeh come to mind.

18 posted on 01/27/2011 3:48:34 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Do not for a minute forget that ElBaradei is and has always been Iran’s pet Poodle!


19 posted on 01/27/2011 3:54:16 PM PST by WellyP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

> Just as in Russia, the more moderate Mensheviks, paved
> the way for the Bolsheviks.

Oh, they paved the way, all right, because the “Mensheviks” who did not escape to exile became part of the pavement.

“Menshevik” means “minority” in Russian.
“Bolshevik” means “majority”.

The communist revolutionary savages called themselves the “majority”. They cynically accused the Kerensky Provisional Government of representing a “minority” of the Russian people.

Bolshevism, as I understand it is, the cynical application of language to foster a change in perceptions among the people. Like what the Nazi Party did in Germany. Like what the DemonRAT party does here.

Much of what we see acted out in the DemonRAT party is just Bolshevik theater.


20 posted on 01/27/2011 4:45:29 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson