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February 01, 2011
White House Gives Thumbs Up to Muslim Brotherhood

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The Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian government.

The organization must reject violence and recognize democratic goals if the U.S. is to be comfortable with it taking part in the government, the White House said. But by even setting conditions for the involvement of such nonsecular groups, the administration took a surprise step in the midst of the crisis that has enveloped Egypt for the last week.

The statement was an acknowledgment that any popularly accepted new government will probably include groups that are not considered friendly to U.S. interests, and was a signal that the White House is prepared for that probability after 30 years of reliable relations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Read the full story at latimes.com

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Egyptian Revolution Backed By George Soros

Next: Soros Brings “Democracy” to Egypt…

#1 — Soros Funds Unrest in Egypt
In May, 2007, OSI consultant Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, was arrested by Iranian officials along with a colleague Haleh Esfandiari, for allegedly trying to undermine Iran’s government according to the Soros blueprint. Tajbakhsh said at the time:

“The Soros centre’s job in eastern Europe is nearly finished. Its main focus now is the Islamic world, Arab countries, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.”

This claim’s timeline, at least, is certainly correct. Having become the uncrowned king of Eastern Europe, and working hard for a government in Turkey that has the Soros stamp of approval, Soros’ focus clearly turned from Eastern Europe to the Islamic world.

In April of last year, a Soros-funded organization in Egypt launched a weekly newspaper called Wasla.

The weekly Wasla – or “The Link” – is being touted as a first for the Arab world, with plans for articles by bloggers as a way of giving them a wider readership.

It is published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and financially supported by the Open Society Institute created by Soros, said ANHRI director Gamal Eid.

The Daily News Egypt reported that “ElBaradei Fever” was an important topic at Wasla. Elbaradei, Muslim Brotherhood-backed, is believed to have attempted to destroy (along with Soros) George Bush’s hopes for re-election in 2004.

The first issue of Wasla includes entries published on tahyyes.blogspot.com, and demaghmak.blogspot.com on the “ElBaradei fever .

Elbaradei and Soros both serve on the board of directors of the International Crisis Group, an organization that also has connections within the Democratic Party including President Obama.

On January 18, Wasla headlined the story “Tunisia is the answer”.

The issue interconnects all uprises in the Arab world with Tunisian revolution which overthrew Ben Ali.

On February 5, Jihad Watch offered an overview of the dangers faced here.

Reports on the role of Islamic movements in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings have placed considerable faith in the “secular” elements of those societies to resist Sharia’s regressive influence on human rights. But one cannot passively invoke as protection the institutions that Sharia will attack and destroy once its proponents are strong enough to go on the offensive, especially not when recalling how flimsy the veneer of a modern, secular society turned out to be in Iraq.

Indeed, secularism in and of itself hasn’t a chance in resisting Sharia.

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Of Philanthropists and Monsters – Rockin’ the Casbah (Egypt-ElBaradei-Soros connection)
NoisyRoom.net ^ | 1-30-11 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:36:45 PM by Whenifhow

Riots. We are seeing them erupt throughout the Middle East everywhere we look: Tunisia, Algeria, Albania, Yemen, Jordan and of course, Egypt. And in the wings, drooling with horrific glee, Iran is pushing and prodding for a Muslim uprising to oust the enemies of Islam – primarily the US and Israel – using their Muslim Brotherhood henchmen and utilizing Hezbollah and Hamas.

And Iran’s chosen vessel for Egypt – Mohamed ElBaradei, who, until a day or two ago, was under house arrest.

You remember ElBaradei right? He’s the tool for the IAEA who kept giving blessings to Iran and their nuclear program. But I’m sure he’s a good guy - he has a Nobel Peace Prize just like Obama does. Wait a minute… On second thought, I guess that designation is pretty much a joke currently. I’m also sure it is a huge coincidence that George Soros and ElBaradei both sit on the Board of trustees for the International Crisis Group.

By all accounts, Mubarak is a vicious dictator who routinely uses torture and murder to achieve his goals. The brutal Egyptian police are the feared enforcers for Mubarak and now they have all but disappeared from the streets, leaving Egyptians to protect themselves from roving gangs and militant Muslims who were freed from the prisons by radical Islamists. He needs to go, but G-d forbid he is replaced by Islamofascists. Since the Muslim Brotherhood is approximately 20% of the rioters and the Coptic Christians are about 20%, there is hope for a free government to be put in place. But much is in doubt.

Side note: Why does the media keep calling the Egyptians who are protecting their homes and families vigilantes? A vigilante is someone who illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker. That word unjustly labels these people as criminals which they are not. Wouldn’t you protect your home and family if it was you? Of course you would…

Let us return to the beginning of the riots. I have seen many who are asking who started all this in Egypt, including Walid Phares on Fox News last night. That’s a very good question. And Phares stated that he believed it was bloggers on Facebook who began the riots. Curious, I started to dig and I believe he has stumbled upon something.

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. I understand that only 50 issues were planned. Sounds like just enough to accomplish an intended goal. 1,000 copies are planned for distribution to political, academic and literary circles.

Wasla is published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and financially supported by the Open Society Institute created by none other than George Soros. That wasn’t very long ago and Soros has a definite track record of rallying the youth to create chaos and revolt. This is a link between Soros and Egypt and the other riots as well. Of course, he is several levels removed as he always is, but this has his telltale stamp on it as well as his documented financial support.

If bloggers on Facebook started the riots, Wasla and ANHRI could well be involved. I don’t read Egyptian or Arabic so I cannot know for certain. But I do know this, Soros always cloaks the implementation of revolutions in human rights. The names of his front groups are always misleading and usually state the opposite of what he does.

Look at the links here:
Soros + OSI + Wasla/ANHRI + ElBaradei + The Muslim Brotherhood + Iran

Get it now?

Not good.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air puts it succinctly:
"The Western nations that think ElBaradei will be a leader they can trust had better hope that ElBaradei can deal with the Islamists in his own backyard better than the ones in Tehran. He seems more like a convenient beard for the Muslim Brotherhood at this point than a charismatic revolutionary leader for democracy and personal liberty. Obama and the EU don’t have many choices here — in fact, they have none at all, really — but ElBaradei is a long shot at best to survive as leader of a free Egypt.
Update (AP): Sounds like the Muslim Brotherhood has decided on its cat’s paw.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Arti...id=205909&R=R3
"The Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday threw its support behind Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei to hold proposed negotiations with the government in order to form a unity government.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Muslim Brotherhood official Essam el-Eryan said that “political groups support ElBaradei to negotiation with the regime.”

Read Morrissey’s post all the way through. We seem to be in complete agreement on this issue and besides he’s one hell of a writer and there are a lot more pieces in this puzzle than you are seeing in the media.

ElBaradei spouts massive lies on ABC today:

“This is total bogus that the Muslim Brotherhood are religiously conservative,” he said. “They are no way extremists. They are no way using violence. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people. They will not be more than maybe 20 percent of the Egyptian people.

“You have to include them like, you know, new evangelical, you know, groups in the U.S., like the orthodox Jews in Jerusalem,” ElBaradei said.

He said the Islamists were “not at all” behind the uprising."

Right… More Jihadist propaganda from ElBaradei. Who would’ve thought?

Is Soros somewhere behind this lurking with another of his regime collapse scenarios? Every piece of information and evidence I see adds up to it.

Here’s a refresher on his 5 step plan for a regime collapse:

* Step One: Form a shadow government using humanitarian aid as cover.

* Step Two: Control the airwaves. Fund existing radio and TV outlets and take control over them or start your own outlets.

* Step Three: Destabilize the state, weaken the government and build an anti-government kind of feeling in the country. You exploit an economic crisis or take advantage of an existing crisis — pressure from the top and the bottom. This will allow you to weaken the government and build anti-government public sentiment.

* Step Four: Provoke an election crisis. You wait for an election and during the election, you cry voter fraud.

* Step Five: Take power. You stage massive demonstrations, civil disobedience, sit-ins, general strikes and you encourage activism. You promote voter fraud and tell followers what to do through your radio and television stations. Incitement and violence are conducted at this stage.

Sounds eerily similar to the riots in Egypt currently doesn’t it?

Do you think it is possible that Mubarak shut down the Internet to stop the bloggers from continuing the riots? That I don’t know, but it is a possibility.

Doesn’t make it okay by any means, but it does show a level of desperation and a knowledge of who was behind the original flash point.

Once again, a country is devolving into violence and revolution. Only this time it is spreading throughout the Middle East and it could have deadly consequences for Israel and the US. Many of the people in Egypt are starving or hungry. Inflation and food prices are going through the roof.

They can’t find jobs. When people get hungry and desperate, all bets are off. You will always find the likes of anarchists, communists, Marxists (CodePink is now in Egypt) and of course George Soros, just waiting to offer their help; waiting for that perfect moment to make their move to create chaos so they can grab more power and more wealth. It may be that the monster Soros is rockin’ the Casbah right now and it is getting ready to explode.

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Africa/Middle East Files: Anti-, pro-Mubarak forces clash, Obama concedes Muslim Brotherhood’s role in “new Egypt,” Syrian branch threatens uprising



- Yevgeny Primakov, Russia’s Foremost Arabist and Ex-Boss of KGB/SVR, Reflects on Egyptian Turmoil, Cautions “Social Revolutions Not A Thing of the Past”

- Israel Faces Strategic Disaster as USA’s Crypto-Muslim President Prepares to Hand Egypt over to Islamic Extremists

- 5,000 Criminals Escape in Massive Prison Breaks Last Weekend, Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists among Escapees

- Tunisia’s Interim Interior Minister Accuses Security Services of Fomenting New Unrest to Thwart Transition to Democracy

- Jordan’s King Abdullah II Capitulates to Muslim Brotherhood and Leftists, Fires Prime Minister, Implements Reforms

- President Assad Alleges Country “Immune” to Unrest, Next Day Syrian Branch of Muslim Brotherhood Promises Civil Disobedience

- Algerian Opposition Plans More Anti-Government Rallies, Demands Ouster of National Liberation Front President Bouteflika

Pictured above: Backdropped by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 3. Note the rows of many devout Muslims praying.

Over the past 10 days, more than 300 Egyptians have been killed in fighting between anti-government protesters and security forces and also between pro- and anti-government forces. In the midst of President Hosni Mubarak’s attempts to cling to power, the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the future of Egypt has entered the international media spotlight.

On Wednesday, thousands of supporters and opponents of Mubarak clashed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which is near the headquarters of the long-ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). Mounted on horses and camels, some wielding whips, pro-Mubarak militants stormed barricades set up by oppositionists. The next day, army tanks and soldiers finally cleared away pro-government rioters and positioned themselves between the attackers and protesters seeking Mubarak’s ouster. The clash followed a call by the army for protesters to return home, prompting the latter to accuse state security of employing thugs to break up the barricades.

The new head of government promptly made an unprecedented apology for the assault by regime backers. Appointed this past weekend, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, in an unprecedented official apology, acknowledged that the assault on the anti-Mubarak protesters was likely organized and promised to investigate who was behind it. Shafiq is a former air force commander and lately president of Egypt Air. Observing the political turmoil from Washington, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs admonished: “If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately.”

On Wednesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, chief architect of the new Union for the Mediterranean, urged a speedy political transition “to respond to the desire for change and renewal forcefully expressed by the population.” Sarkozy has come under criticism for appearing to support the regime of Tunisian dictator President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, toppled in mass protests last month.

Internet service was restored throughout Egypt, having been cut off for days by the government. State television reported an easing of a nationwide curfew and declared that parliament was suspended until the results of last year's contested elections were revised.

Adding uncertainty to the political turmoil were several prison breaks that occurred over the weekend, as a result of some police officers abandoning their posts. Last Sunday, a total of 5,000 inmates escaped from a penitentiary in Faiyum Governorate, located about 130 kilometers southwest of Cairo. A top prison official holding the rank of general was killed in the incident. Among the escapees in Faiyum were members of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the political party/terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip.

On the same day, at the Wadi Natrun prison north of Cairo, incarcerated members of Hezbollah fled after guards abandoned their posts. In April 2010, a Cairo court sentenced 26 people, including members of the Lebanese political party/militia, in connection with a plot to carry out terrorist attacks against the Suez Canal and resorts on the Sinai Peninsula. Four were sentenced in absentia.

This week, the Muslim Brotherhood reiterated its demands for the president’s departure and the end of the Socialist International-affiliated NDP regime. On the organization’s website the Brotherhood urged Egyptians to resist pro-government militants and “stand in one trench against the ruling autocratic regime.” On Tuesday, Mubarak vowed to complete his present term, which expires in September, but promised that he would not stand for re-election. Despite opposition demands, the Egyptian dictator refuses to leave the country.

On Thursday, Kremlin-run Novosti reported that “Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement has unveiled its plans to scrap a peace treaty with Israel if it comes to power, a deputy leader said in the interview with NHK TV.” Speaking to the Japanese media, Rashad al-Bayoumi announced: “After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the peace treaty with Israel.” Egypt was the first Arab country to officially recognize Israel and sign a peace agreement with the Israeli government in 1979.

Since January 25, the Muslim Brotherhood has participated in the mass anti-government rallies in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities, prompting some political analysts to speculate about the Islamist organization’s role in a post-Mubarak government. The Brotherhood has in fact publicly declared its intention to join pro-Iranian opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei in a government of national unity following the next presidential election, slated for September.

This week, various news agencies diligently ferreted out the US government’s real stance regarding Egypt’s expected transition to democracy. Not surprisingly, the administration of crypto-Muslim US President Barack Hussein Obama is prepared to hand Egypt over to radical Islamic and pro-Iranian forces. According to the Israeli media, citing The New York Times, “Obama believes that the Muslim Brotherhood should participate in the political process in Egypt.” Online business magazine Globes, noting the White House’s disappointment with Mubarak’s decision to postpone his departure until September, continues:

The option to approach the Muslim Brotherhood came during a meeting of over a dozen foreign policy experts at the White House on Monday [January 31]. The meeting, led by deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Benjamin Rhodes, and two other National Security Council officials, Daniel Shapiro and Samantha Power, examined unrest in the region, and the potential for the protests to spread.

The New York Times quotes participants as saying that White House staff members said that Mr. Obama believed that Egyptian politics needed to encompass 'non-secular' parties: diplomatic-speak for the Muslim Brotherhood.

In keeping with Obama’s position, the US State Department has acknowledged that the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest and best-organized opposition party, may play a role in Egypt’s transition from autocracy if the group agrees to a peaceful, democratic process. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley denied that US officials in Cairo or Washington have spoken to Brotherhood representatives. However, he conceded that the Brotherhood is “a fact of life in Egypt.” The Brotherhood won 88 seats in the 2005 parliamentary elections, but lost every one in last year’s poll, partly provoking the current unrest.

An anonymous official at the US embassy in Egypt acknowledged that Ambassador Margaret Scobey had spoken to a “large number of people,” including former United Nations nuclear watchdog chief El Baradei. “Embassy has been in touched with a large number of people, but I don’t know all the names for sure. However, Muslim Brotherhood—no.”

Located at the intersection of the Asian and African continents, Egypt is a key ally of the USA and Israel. Until 1991 Egypt was armed principally by the Soviet Union. Since the so-called demise of communism, however, the Mubarak regime has turned to the USA for $1 billion in military aid each year. Cairo has used these funds to buy tanks, F-16 fighter jets, Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, and other weapons systems. Foreign policy analysts warn that “US military and intelligence agencies would lose vital air, land and sea assets if Egypt falls into the hands of radical Islamists, as Iran did in 1979.”

Ken Allard, a retired US Army colonel and military analyst, predicts: “Let me count the ways. They are our biggest strategic partner in the Middle East. At that point, you’ve lost your biggest Arab partner. Geostrategically, the mind boggles.” The US Navy would not be able to navigate the Egyptian-run Suez Canal, which reduces sailing time for Atlantic-based carriers groups going from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The US Air Force would probably lose overflight rights into the Middle East, while the US Army would lose a partner in building the M1A1 tank.

“If we lose Egypt to the Brotherhood, it is absolutely devastating,” fretted former US Representative Peter Hoekstra, who led the House Select Committee on Intelligence. “The Egyptians are a key stabilizing force for us throughout the Middle East.” During a 2009 visit to Cairo, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates stated: “Our military has benefited from the interactions with the Egyptian armed forces—one of the most professional and capable in the region. We are always looking for ways to expand these ties through education, training and exercises.”

The Obama White House has been courting the Muslim Brotherhood for some time. In January 2010, Washington lifted a ban preventing Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan from entering the USA. Ramadan, an Egyptian then living in Switzerland, is a leading member of Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood branch and the grandson of the movement’s founder Hassan al-Banna.

Russia has waded cautiously into Egypt’s political turmoil, but nevertheless directed subtle warnings toward the USA and Israel not to interfere in the country’s domestic crisis. On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized that Egypt remains Russia’s strategic partner, minimizing Mubarak’s alliance with the USA:

Egypt is our strategic partner and a key country in the Middle East region. That it why we are not indifferent to what is happening there and are interested in Egypt being a stable, prosperous and democratic state and want today's socio-economic and political problems to be peacefully solved as soon as possible.

We do not consider it useful to produce any recipes from outside or deliver ultimatums - it is political forces in Egypt who should speak out.

On Tuesday, the aging Yevgeny Primakov, a trained Arabist who was formerly head of the Soviet KGB but currently presides over the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce, noted the absence of overt Islamic slogans in the Egyptian protests. However, he asserted that it is erroneous to believe that social revolutions are “a thing of the past.” Primakov’s full comments were published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily:

We have concentrated in our analysis quite fairly on radical Islamism, which has been gaining strength in the Muslim world, and we have somewhat overlooked “traditional” roots of social revolutionary explosions. Generally, we have erroneously assumed that revolutions, which sweep away conservative and authoritarian regimes, are a thing of the past, including in developing countries. The situation in Tunisia and Egypt show that we are wrong.

Having focused on the dangers of extremist Islamism, we have underestimated the influence of modernization, primarily on advanced Muslim states, in terms of their socio-cultural development. Spontaneity backed by chatting on the Internet and via mobile phones played a role in the revolutionary movement that shook Tunisia and then Egypt.

There were no Islamic slogans in demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia, even through the Muslim Brotherhood has rather strong positions in Egypt.

It is a sign of serious importance. But it gives no guarantee that the Islamists will not try to ride the revolutionary wave. The Muslim Brotherhood did so during the revolutionary events in Egypt in 1952-1953.

Whatever concessions it makes to faux rightist conspiracy theories, the New American exposes the role of the Communist Party of Egypt in the present revolutionary convulsions by quoting the party website:

Hundreds of patriotic and democratic forces and cadres of our Party in the Cairo district of Abidin and in other places in the capital as well as other demonstrations in Port Said and Alexandria against the inheritance of power to Gamal Mubarak, or an extension for Hosni Mubarak…

Our party has participated in the demonstration raising banners of the Communist Party Banners to fly the red in the field of Abdeen and confirm the position of the Communist Party of rejection of this system.

Elsewhere in the Arab world, the Syrian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood is threatening civil disobedience against the socialist dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad. On Tuesday, Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Riyadh Al Saqfa, warned the Ba’athist regime to “learn from what happened in Tunisia.” He rumbled: “If the [Syrian] reimge continues to ignore the views of the people and corruption and discrimination continues, we will incite the people to demand their rights until this reaches the point of civil disobedience. A statement released by the organization demanded that the Ba’athist party remove Article VIII of the constitution, which enshrines single-party rule, and terminate all emergency and martial laws, release all political prisoners, and ameliorate the country’s poverty.

This ultimatum from the Syrian section of the Muslim Brotherhood comes one day after Assad proudly declared in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that his country is “immune” to the unrest gripping the Arab world.

In Jordan this week, King Abdullah II capitulated to demands from the Islamic Action Front, the national branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and leftist parties to dismiss the government and implement political reforms. In Algeria, oppositionists plan a large anti-government demonstration for February 12 with the intent of ousting National Liberation Front President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and ending a state of emergency that began when the Algerian Civil War erupted 19 years ago.

In Tunisia, where the revolutionary wave began, the new interior minister accused members of the security services of instigating further unrest to block efforts to establish democracy following the ouster of Ben Ali. Farhat Rajhi also announced the detention of his predecessor, Rafik Belhaj Kacem, who led the crackdown in December and January against protesters seeking to end Ben Ali’s 23-year rule.

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Egypt's time for change is now: Obama



U.S. President comments after Egypt's VP meets with opposition

Last Updated: Sunday, February 6, 2011 | 5:27 PM ET Comments370Recommend12

CBC News

Egypt is ready for political change and will not go back to what it was before historic pro-democracy rallies swept the country, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday night.

Speaking to Fox News, the president said the U.S. could not "forcefully dictate" whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should step down after 30 years of authoritarian rule, but could only encourage the leader to relinquish his post.

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Reporter Nahlah Ayed:
"Life is closer to normal today than at any point in the past 12 days."

Reporter David Common:
"Thousands upon thousands of people continue to stream into that square day and night. They continue to lie down in front of the Egyptian army tanks, trying to prevent military vehicles from moving into the square and trying to clear the crowd."

"What we can do is say the time is now for you to start making a change in your country," Obama said. "Mubarak has already decided he's not going to run again."

The president also played down expectations that Egypt's most organized opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, would take a major role in a new government, reasoning they are only "one faction in Egypt" and did not have majority support in the North African nation.

Obama's remarks came after Egypt's Vice-President Omar Suleiman convened talks there with opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood said Sunday's negotiations with the recently appointed vice-president were well-intentioned, but did not go far enough.

Suleiman agreed to press freedoms and to lift the country's longtime emergency laws once security is stabilized. As well, demonstrators arrested since the start of the protests will be released.

A group including opposition organizations will study constitutional amendments that would pave the way for political reform.

Abdel Monem Aboul Fotouh, a senior member of the Brotherhood, told Al Arabiya network the government statement represented "good intentions but does not include any solid changes."

Suleiman's meeting with opposition organizations occurred as demonstrations against Mubarak's regime continued for a 13th day.

Articles in constitution need immediate change

Fotouh said certain articles in the constitution needed to be changed immediately, specifically one covering presidential elections, which put Mubarak's ruling party in a position to choose the next president. Another amendment would restrict the president from running for unlimited presidential terms.

Until change happens, Fotouh said, people will remain in the streets.


An anti-government protester shouts anti-Mubarak slogans at Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters)

A variety of officials took part in the negotiations, including members of secular opposition parties, independent legal experts, a representative of opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris, according to Reuters.

The negotiations marked the first time the Muslim Brotherhood, officially banned in Egypt, has held direct talks with the government. In the past, Egyptian officials have accused the group of trying to overthrow the secular order.

Senior Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mursi said his representatives would be sticking to the protesters' main condition that Mubarak step down after nearly 30 years in power.

Mubarak has said he would not run for the presidency again in elections slated for September, but has insisted he will serve out the remaining seven months of his current term to supervise a peaceful transfer of power.

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Countries such as Israel and the U.S. have worried that the anti-government protests would end with an Islamist government eventually running the country.

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Assam el-Aryan said his party won't contest the next election, but it will help with the transition of power.

"We are ready for any duty, any burden that can be given to us as a task for the future of our country," he said.

On Saturday, Hossam Badrawi, the new secretary general of the ruling National Democratic Party, replaced Safwat El Sherif, who resigned from the post. At the same time the president's son, Gamal Mubarak, stepped down as head of the party's policies committee.

Doctors, medical supplies enter protest square

Several women were among the anti-government demonstrators who continued to occupy Cairo's Tahrir Square as the weekend came to a close.

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As thousands of chanting protesters gathered in the square, doctors in white coats came with medical supplies, the CBC's David Common reported from the scene.

Protesters have been camped out in the square for a week, but supplies have been flowing in for the past two days.

Meanwhile, garbage trucks were making the rounds again and banks near the square were able to reopen on Sunday.


Several women joined the anti-Mubarak protest in Tahrir Square on Sunday. (Nahlah Ayed/CBC)

People have been clamouring to get into the the banks amid reports that automated tellers have been running out of money.

Overnight, the army set up checkpoints farther away from the square in central Cairo. David Common said he saw the army confiscating food and other supplies and he heard they were turning away cars but letting pro-government supporters through.

The UN estimates at least 300 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in the unrest in Egypt.

Stability in Egypt of global concern: Cannon

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said it's up to Egyptians to determine the political makeup of their country, but Canada is calling for respect for human rights, religious freedoms and for Egypt to continue to recognize the state of Israel.

"There must be stability in that region because it does affect global security," Cannon told CBC News on Sunday in an interview from Ottawa.

Cannon revealed that nearly 500 Canadians have opted to voluntarily leave Egypt on flights arranged by the Canadian government.

When the service to help Canadians leave the country for connecting flights in Europe began early last week, Foreign Affairs estimated that about 6,500 Canadians were in Egypt, including 1,200 registered with the Canadian Embassy.

Regular commercial flights out of Egypt are still available, Cannon noted.

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Clinton tentatively welcomes Muslim Brotherhood

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/06/2011 23:42



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US Secretary of State says Egyptian people will ultimately determine if governmental transition meets their needs, US has set forth principles.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday tentatively welcomed the Egyptian government's inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood in negotiations over the future of the country.

"Today we learned the Muslim Brotherhood decided to participate, which suggests they at least are now involved in the dialogue that we have encouraged, the US's top diplomat told National Public Radio (NPR).

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Speaking from Germany on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Clinton added: "We're going to wait and see how this develops, but we've been very clear about what we expect."

"The Egyptian people are looking for an orderly transition that can lead to free and fair elections," she said. "That is what the United States has consistently supported."

Clarifying that Washington has "set forth the principles" it supports and is "adamant about non-violence," Clinton reiterated that the Egyptian people "will ultimately determine if [the transition] is or not meeting their needs."

Earlier Sunday, Egypt's vice president reached out to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups as part of a new offer of sweeping concessions including press freedom and an eventual end to hated emergency laws that have been in place for decades, the latest attempt to try to calm an anti-government upheaval.

But the youthful protesters filling Cairo's main square said they were not represented and were united in rejecting any form of negotiations until Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak steps down, raising questions about whether a rift might be developing that could undermine their campaign.

The protesters, skeptical the government will keep any promises to reform, said they will maintain their pressure.

Egypt's opposition has long been hampered by a lack of cohesiveness and Sunday's talks could be a sign the government is trying to divide and conquer as it tries to placate protesters without giving in to their chief demand for Mubarak to go now.

The Brotherhood and another group that attended the talks both said afterward that this was only a first step in a dialogue which has yet to meet their central demand for Mubarak's immediate ouster, showing the two sides had not reached a consensus.

"I think Mubarak will have to stop being stubborn by the end of this week because the country cannot take more million strong protests," said Brotherhood representative Essam el-Erian.

Suleiman's invitation to the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in the meeting was the latest in a series of concessions that would have been unimaginable just a month ago in this tightly controlled country.

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Soros-funded 'expert' backs Muslim Brotherhood on Matthews show

Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media Chris Matthews has found an “expert” on Egypt he can trust and his name is Brian Katulis of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress. He told Matthews on the Monday edition of MSNBC's “Hardball” show that, on the matter of Egypt: “We have got to [go] beyond this addiction to dictators…” He welcomes the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in a new Egyptian government, saying, “…let them be part of the Egyptian politics.”

When Katulis told Matthews that he had opposed the invasion of Iraq, that clinched it in Matthews’ mind as to the man's geopolitical credibility. “I was against going in [to Iraq], and I think we needed to get out as quickly as possible,” Katulis said. Matthews replied, “Well, then I trust you.” It apparently never occurred to Katulis or Matthews to make the elementary point that, by invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. had removed a dictator.

Although it has many flaws, Iraq has a more democratic form of government today and is not a threat to its neighbors. The same cannot necessarily be said for the kind of new government that Katulis and his allies in the Obama Administration have planned for Egypt.

What is the Katulis plan for Egypt, now that the Obama Administration has helped destabilize the pro-American Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak? Katulis didn’t say much about that on the Matthews show, except that the Muslim Brotherhood will and should be a part of a new regime. What’s more, he claimed: “We can actually secure our counterterrorism concerns, our regional security concerns, while also helping Egyptians open the door to their democratic reforms.”
How is this to be done? Katulis didn’t exactly say.

Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy has been making the point, based on a key internal document from the Muslim Brotherhood, that “the Muslim Brotherhood is our enemy, and whatever role it plays in Egypt’s future will be to our detriment.”

Gaffney quotes from a Muslim Brotherhood document, entitled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.”

It says, “The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Drawing attention to this kind of evidence is considered “fearmongering” by the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP).

In a follow-up article on the CAP Web site, Katulis said that, in addition to formal government-to-government contacts and “broad engagement with the diverse political opposition in Egypt by U.S. diplomats,” there is a role for “nongovernmental organizations such as human rights groups and democracy promotion organizations.”

Who are these groups? Katulis didn’t say. But one suspects they are probably Soros-funded. Soros is notorious for funding organizations around the world dedicated to his vision of an “open society.” His financial manipulations, conducted through off-shore hedge funds, have the ability to undermine governments and currencies.

He acknowledged that “it seems almost inevitable that any real democratic opening would lead to greater participation of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in a future Egyptian government.” Since the Muslim Brotherhood has numerous violent off-shoots, including Hamas and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, how would this comport with U.S. “counterterrorism concerns?” Katulis didn’t say.

“Some Egyptian opposition figures have opposed the treaty with Israel,” Katulis noted. Nevertheless, he asserted: “All of these tensions and concerns can be managed. It seems unlikely that Egypt anytime soon would seek to change its bilateral ties with Israel…”

So Israel has some temporary breathing space until a new Egypt turns into a full-fledged Islamic state, abrogates the peace treaty, and assumes a war footing against the Jewish state.

The Katulis prognosis is what passes for wisdom you can trust on the Chris Matthews “Hardball” show. And there is some indication that this kind of thinking reflects the Obama Administration approach.

Last November Katulis was quoted by Al-Jazeera as saying that the problem with democracy promotion in Egypt, as advocated by the Bush Administration, was that Bush officials “felt that you could have democracy without Islamists,” Katulis said. “I think those people haven’t spent much time on the ground in places like Egypt.”

So that’s the difference between the Bush and Obama approach to freedom in the Middle East. Bush wanted true freedom, without the influence of radical anti-American religious movements. Obama favors the official inclusion of these anti-American forces in Egypt and throughout the Arab/Muslim world.

In terms of whether members of the Muslim Brotherhood are any kind of threat at all, NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel on the “Hardball” show tried to reassure his American audience. “A lot of them are truly patriotic Egyptians,” he said.

Engel said he knew some of them: “They were nice people. I mean, if you fell down in the street, they would come and help you out. If you didn‘t have enough money for the bus, they would give you money.”

This, too, is analysis you can trust, MSNBC-style.

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Socialist Roots to Yemen's "Days of Rage"

Christian Gomez | The New American
07 February 2011


President Ali Abdullah Saleh

As thousands of protesters take to the streets in opposition to the Yemen government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, leaders of the Yemeni Socialist Party, which once ruled over the Soviet satellite nation of South Yemen and has current ties to known terrorist organizations such as the Huthist movement and Southern secessionist insurgents, call for Days of Rage.

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Fanning the Flames of Revolution in Egypt
Christian Gomez | The New American
01 February 2011

As Mubarak's Egypt succumbs to revolution, little is none of the forces fueling the protest, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, but moreso the role of the Communist Party of Egypt in revolution's inception and current activities - thus revealing an Islamo-Communist connection. by Christian Gomez

U.S. Socialists and Communists Exploiting Events in Egypt
Christian Gomez | The New American
02 February 2011

As many Americans of Egyptian decent protested in cities across the country, this past weekend, demonstrating in solidarity with their families back in Egypt, forces on the far-Left from ANSWER coalition to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) have taken advantage of the situation to promote their socialist agendas.

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Similar Thread of Interest: Obama Administration and it's agencies partner and fund Google

Google engineers hacked through the governments firewalls to help lead the Riots in Egypt
Egyptian activist creates image issues for Google

By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO | Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:04am EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Google Inc executive who has become a hero of the Egyptian revolution is public relations gold for the Internet power, but analysts say the company must be careful not to overplay its hand.

Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim became the public face of the uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak handing power to the army on Friday.

Ghonim was detained by security forces and came out swinging on his release, calling for Mubarak to step down.

When Internet access was shut down during an early phase of the Egyptian protests, Google engineers hacked together a way to allow Egyptians to use Twitter by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail message.

Despite its association with the events in Egypt, Google has not commented on the politics of the country's upheaval.

Instead, it has focused on values surrounding freedom of information and the Internet. "We're incredibly proud to see Googlers take a stand on those issues," spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said on Friday, when asked about Ghonim.

That has played well for the company.

"This is going to get Google some positive publicity," said Rosabeth Kanter, a professor at Harvard Business School. But she added, "They have to be careful."

Consumers and businesses would love the tools for communication that Google supports and provides -- but less democratic governments might see Google as a threat.

"Google will not be their search engine of choice," she said. "You're going there to sell products and services, you're not going there to topple the regime."

INTERNET REVOLUTION
Ghonim's ties to Google and the Internet have become part of his appeal.

"I always said that if you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet," Ghonim said in an interview on CNN on Friday.

He helped create a Facebook page devoted to a victim of police brutality that helped spark the uprisings.

Internet tools, particularly social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, have been credited with playing an important role in the Egyptian uprising, helping protesters organize and communicate.

"Had he been an executive for Philip Morris or something, I don't think it would have been as big a part of the story," said Hani Sabra, an analyst who focuses on the Middle East and Africa at the Eurasia Group.

Google has made irregular progress toward its goal of "Don't be Evil," some say.

It took a public stand against Internet censorship in China. It partially withdrew from mainland China last year, redirecting Web surfers to a Hong Kong site.

But it had operated in China and self-censored its search results for several years before that and it left some business in China after relocating its search service to Hong Kong.

"They're not a company that is consistent in terms of how they do business in the world in terms of a value standpoint," said Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

Ghonim himself credits another Internet company for the ousting of Mubarak.

"This revolution started on Facebook," he told CNN, adding, "I want to meet (founder) Mark Zuckerberg someday and thank him."

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Peter Henderson and Peter Cooney)

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Google Executive Addresses Hundreds of Thousands at Tahrir Square (video)

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Wael Ghonim, the new face of the Egyptian protest movement, abducted on video in broad daylight by Mubarak’s security forces and held incommunicado for 12 days, addresses hundreds of thousands gathered at Tahrir Square. Ghonim told the massive crowd that now is not a time for parties and factions, but for the Egyptian people to speak with one voice, to put the good of the nation ahead of personal interest, and to demand the end of the regime.

Ghonim was freed after intense pressure from human rights groups and at least one prominent media tycoon. But dozens of other human rights monitors and pro-democracy activists were also taken into custody, and now there are reports they may be subject to a concerted and far-reaching campaign by the regime to abduct, disappear and torture its critics.

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Saudia Arabia's King Abdullah passed away

Islam Times - Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz passed away yesterday, according to an Islam Times reporter...

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Islam Times: Saudi Arabia's 86-year-old King Abdullah was discharged from a New York City hospital in good health after going through two back operations in December 2010.

The king delegated the management of the affairs of the world’s largest oil supplier to his half-brother, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, during his absence.

King Abdullah talked with Obama about the situation in Egypt over the phone yesterday. Obama and the King got into a heated debate about their opinions of what Hosni Mubarak should do. After the phone call sources stated that King Abdullah was furious and then suffered a sudden heart attack.

Doctors ran to his rescue but were unable to save him.

He was pronounced dead, but his death was not reported due to the sensative conditions that exist in the region.

The Saudi Arabian government will reject this claim; but the ball is in their court to prove that he is alive.

More on their heated exchange:

Back off Hosni Mubarak, Saudi King Abdullah warns Barack Obama

• From: The Times
• February 11, 2011 12:00AM

SAUDI Arabia has warned Barack Obama not to push for swift regime change in Egypt, vowing to bankroll President Hosni Mubarak if the White House cuts aid to Cairo.

In a testy telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told the US President not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and said the Egyptian leader should be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards democracy and then to leave with dignity, The Times of London reported yesterday.

King Abdullah threatened to step in with funding for Egypt if the US withdrew its $US1.5 billion ($1.47bn) a year aid program.

"Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the king is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated," a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.

Two sources confirmed details of the king's call, made four days after Egyptians took to the streets.

The revelation of Saudi concerns sheds new light on America's apparent diplomatic paralysis and lays bare the biggest rift between the nations since the oil price shock of 1973, according to The Times.

It said the tough line from Riyadh was driven by concern that Western governments were too eager to shove aside Mr Mubarak, without proper consideration of what should follow him.

"With Egypt in chaos, the kingdom is Washington's only major ally left in the Arab world and the Saudis want the Americans to remember that," said a source in Riyadh.

Riyadh's intervention seriously undermines the US leverage in the Egyptian crisis.

The White House declined to comment on the revelations by The Times yesterday, but warned Egypt's leaders to expect unrelenting protests unless they began real reforms and a transition to a freer society.

Government concessions offered so far did not meet even the minimum threshold of what the people wanted, the White House said.

Obama administration officials were increasingly blunt in describing the limits of their leverage. The US was not seeking to dictate events in Egypt - and could not. "We're not going to be able to force them to do anything," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Mr Gibbs and other officials called on Egypt's leaders to end the harassment of activists, to broaden negotiations with opposition leaders, to lift a repressive emergency law, and to take up a series of other moves the Obama government has requested for days.

Mr Obama reinforced that message yesterday. In a phone conversation with the Saudi king, he emphasised the need for "immediate steps towards an orderly transition that is meaningful, lasting, legitimate and responsive", the White House said.

Thousands of state workers joined strikes and protests around the country yesterday, despite warnings from Vice-President Omar Suleiman that they won't be tolerated much longer.

Calling on labour unions to join it, Egypt's opposition movement extended its protest to new ground outside parliament, blocking the street and access to other government buildings and forcing cabinet ministers to move a meeting ahead of a mass protest tonight.

Mr Gibbs suggested that some Egyptian leaders thought they could wait out the protesters by offering up some concessions and assuming "life will return to normal" after years of repression.

"I think that's largely been answered by a greater number of people, representing a greater cross-section of Egyptian society, who have come out," he said.

"Those are not likely to dissipate until the government takes some genuine steps."

Sources: Mubarak falls into coma in Sharm al-Sheikh


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Ousted President Hosni Mubarak went into a coma on Saturday at his residence in Sharm al-Sheikh, according to well-informed sources.

Mubarak flew to the Red Sea resort town on Thursday with his immediate family following his final speech, in which he handed over executive authority to former Vice-President Omar Suleiman.

The same sources said that Mubarak was currently receiving medical treatment but that no decision had yet been made on whether to transfer the 83-year-old former head-of-state to hospital.

Rumors had circulated earlier that Mubarak had fainted twice while recording his final speech, which was broadcast on state television on Thursday evening.

Translated from the Arabic Edition.

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Obama 'Furious' With Hillary State Department Over Egypt

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Is a civil war brewing between the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton's State Department?

A New York Times story published this weekend suggests one may have erupted already.



On Saturday, the Times, quoting numerous White House sources, sought to explain the Obama administration's erratic policy statements during the Egyptian crisis.

The paper reported that Obama was "seething" over State Department officials's statement suggesting that the administration did not want a quick transition of power in Egypt, with President Hosni Mubarak stepping down from his office immediately.

Obama felt that the State Department "made it look as if the administration were protecting a dictator and ignoring the pleas of the youths of Cairo."

As Secretary Clinton and her special envoy Frank Wisner repeatedly called for an orderly transition that would include President Mubarak remaining in office for at least a period of time, Obama and his team studiously sought to undermine the State Department stance.

The Times states that Mr. Obama "was furious" about Clinton's and Wisner's statements, "as Mr. Obama was demanding that change in Egypt begin right away."

Secretary Clinton was not the only figure who opposed Obama's view.

Clinton was joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who also were advocating that Obama adhere to a cautious and more traditional foreign policy approach toward the situation in Egypt.

Unhappy about the mixed signals high-ranking officials were giving, Obama intervened directly, telling White House advisers that "this was not the message we should be delivering.”

According to the Times, the Obama White House even recruited Democratic Sen. John Kerry to appear on "Meet the Press" last Sunday to contradict Wisner's statements that reflected Secretary Clinton's views. Wisner’s comments “just don’t reflect where the administration has been from day one,” Kerry said on the program.

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Crisis in Cairo: Has Mubarak Slipped into a Coma?

Unconfirmed reports suggest former Egyptian president fell ill over the weekend

Video clip from GMA. Only a brief mention of the story, with cautions that the story is NOT confirmed. They mentioned that this kind of rumor has actually cropped up before.

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Rumor?

One king drops dead, another one fell ill (or was knocked unconscious)

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Young Egypt Marches Again

By John Galt
February 14, 2011

Fear not the revolution but the consequences.

This is not about “revolution” but in reality “resurrection.”

The problem with being an American is that as our history is so short, our leaders have become short sighted and neglect either deliberately or through willful ignorance the history of the world, be it in modern times, or the most dangerous past which almost lead to the destruction of modern civilization and our freedoms. Unfortunately the concept of unapologetic neglect must be taken into consideration when reviewing the current and previous policies of our leadership, be it of a liberal of moderate slant.

The story I am about to present is nothing new, but worthy of a reminder that the world is not as it seems; a world where revolution to the masses is actually accommodation for those who desire to see a change in the world formula for strategic restructuring. This particular website took a pause overnight to indicate that the time was 11:59 aka, one minute before midnight. Once the clock strikes twelve, which it shall, our world will tilt in a different direction on its axis, and America will have to adjust to the new order of things because of ti being designed in such a matter. Many commentators have been warning about this, but none have been willing to discuss the nasty past of the leaders of Egypt and many other nations which fail to tie stark realities into the future which will shatter the dreams of European “democracy” and American idealism for a decade or more to come. Thus the necessity of this morning’s history lesson.

The first question one might ask about this title is why “Young Egypt” and thus the next most obvious question, what does one mean when the author says it “marches again?” In 1933, some five years after the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood by Hassan al Banna, an idealistic British educated lad named Ahmed Hussein created the “Green Shirts” also known as the Young Egypt Society (1). This new group was renamed the Young Egypt Party or Misr al-Fatah in 1936, and developed a strong following based on the ideals of “social injustice” and Islamic nationalism. To give one a brief evolutionary picture of where this group came from and the policies it engaged in, I shall excerpt this quote from The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

The party went through several transformations, changing its name to the Islamic Nationalist Party in 1940 and again to the Socialist Party in 1949. When President Nasser ordered the dissolution of all political parties in 1953, Misr al-Fatah disbanded.

The “Green Shirts” did not take long to indoctrinate their new members into a Nazi like elite unit, designed to eradicate the Jewish scourge of the era. The transition to the “Islamic Nationalist Party” with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood was no accident. In fact the truth about our “ally” from the Sadat-Mubarak era would probably shock most Americans who had a basic education and understood the implications of the policies and desires of these radical Islamist groups. Preceding the start of and during World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood under Hassam al-Banna was in fact an infatuation with and active working relationship with Adolph Hitler and the radicals withing the Nazi party which pursued mysticism and the ideals of radical Islam. (2)

The connections extended far beyond the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt however as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el Husseini, who rejected the Balfour Declaration and the settlement of Palestine with European Jews began a campaign to align the Islamist movement with the Nazis, in an attempt to create a pro-Nationalist Socialist Islamic Caliphate which would destroy the Jewish faith and recreate the glory of the Islamic era of empire and eradicate European influences. (3) This relationship would carry forward into the war years when young British trained officers would take the leadership role after the war.

During World War II, the supporters of Pan-Arabism and a liberation from British rule included some of modern day America’s allies, including Sadat and Mubarak. When Irwin Rommel was marching on Alexandria, Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and Young Egypt movement used its influence to attempt riots and destruction of British forces in those areas with the promise from a treaty that stated the following(4):

A treaty with Germany including provisions for German recognition of an independent, but pro-Axis Egypt had been drafted by Sadat, guaranteeing that no British soldier would leave Cairo alive. When Rommel’s push east failed at El Alamein in the fall of 1942, Sadat and several of his co-conspirators were arrested by the British and sat out much of the remainder of the war in jail.

Thus when one reads the history of the Young Egypt movement, the Muslim Brotherhood and groups aligned with the former Grand Mufti, it is not hard to conclude why the leaderships of the post-World War II nations favored a pro-socialist, anti-Western bloc evolution to create a new caliphate with the expressed purpose of exploiting the Western weaknesses and unwillingness to re-colonize the regions to create a Pan-Arab movement and society. This is why the creation of the Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS “Handschar” or first Muslim SS division which recruited heavily on the discontent sowed by the Balkan conflict and the British occupation of Egypt and Eastern Mediterranean nations should not have come as any shock.(5)

Fast forward to the “revolution”in the streets of the major cities in Egypt and start to reflect my friends. This is no a true “revolution” but a resurrection of the ideas of the past, of Islamic Socialism where the masses submit to a modified versions of the monarchies of the sheiks or military yet where the “people” are considered the rulers of a pauper’s fallacy and not where true republican freedoms and Jeffersonian ideals are promoted. The groups leading the movements in the background behind the military and civilian coup are not angels, nay they are seeking to exploit the situation to a point where societal breakdowns encourage and expand the powers of the new leadership. When one reviews the future it becomes apparent that the past is not that long ago, where the purpose of the national unity groups and Pan-Arabism exist only to annihilate the nation of Israel. Sadly that nation’s only true ally has turned its back and elected to attempt to moderate, once again, instead of lead.

(1) – Surrendering Islam by David Livingstone & Sahib Mustaqim Bleher, 2010

(2)- Al-Queda Terrorist Nazi Connections; Johh Loftus

(3)- Islam Under the Swastika, Carl Savich, 1999

(4)- Islamism, Fascism, and Terrorism (Part 3), Mark Erickson, Asia Times, December 4, 2002

(5)- http://www.feldgrau.com/13ss.html

Other references from the www.SephardicCouncil.org , 2006:






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Health of former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak is deteriorating and he is refusing medical aid, Saudi-owned newspaper reports - Reuters

about 1 hour ago via breakingnews.com

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None of this confirmed?

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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Plans Political Party


Egypt's Brotherhood plans political party as military launches panel to change constitution


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Egyptian youth dance in a Faluka, traditional boats on the Nile river, during the Islamic holiday...
Egyptian youth dance in a Faluka, traditional boats on the Nile river, during the Islamic holiday marking prophet Mohammed's birthday in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Egypt's military is trying to push ahead quickly with a transition after Mubarak resigned Friday in the face of 18 days of popular protests.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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The long banned Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday it will form a political party once democracy is established in Egypt but promised not to field a candidate for president, trying to allay fears among Egyptians and abroad that it seeks power. Still, the fundamentalist movement is poised to be a significant player in the new order.
Egypt's new military rulers gave a strong sign they recognize that the Brotherhood, which calls for creation of an Islamic state in the Arab world's most populous nation, can no longer be barred from politics after the mass popular uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak.
The Armed Forces Supreme Council included a former Brotherhood lawmaker to an eight-member panel tasked Tuesday with amending the constitution enough to allow democratic elections later this year.
The panel is comprised of legal experts of various ideologies, including secular liberal scholars and three judges from the current Supreme Constitutional Court, one of them a Christian. The changes aim to open the field for political parties to form, loosen restrictions on who can run for president and write in guarantees to prevent the rampant election rigging that ensured Mubarak's ruling party a lock on power.
The military is trying to push ahead quickly with a transition. Generals from the Armed Forces Supreme Council said Tuesday the military wants to hand power to a government and elected president within six months, the firmest timetable yet outlined. The constitutional panel is supposed to propose its changes within 10 days to be put to a referendum.
In Washington, President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised Egypt's military council for working to set the stage for elections and a turnover of the government back to civilian control.
"Egypt's going to require help in building democratic institutions, for strengthening an economy that's taken a hit. So far, at least, we're seeing the right signals coming out of Egypt," Obama told reporters.
The potential that the Brotherhood will emerge from Egypt's upheaval with greater influence has worried many Egyptians. It has raised alarm bells in neighboring Israel and among some in the United States, fearing a spread of Islamic militancy in the region. During his 29 years in power, Mubarak stoked such concerns at home and abroad, depicting his regime's authoritarian grip as the only thing standing between Egypt and a Brotherhood takeover.
But many in Egypt contend the Brotherhood's strength is exaggerated. Police crackdowns on the group raised sympathy for it in some quarters. Government restrictions kept liberal opposition parties weak, meaning the Brotherhood was the only organized vehicle for action against the regime. Public apathy at elections made the more motivated pro-Brotherhood voters loom larger.