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Egyptian People Will Not Let US Pick Leaders for Them
Thursday, 03 February 2011 05:33


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Loosing the Goons: The Mubarak-Obama Move to Crush Egypt’s Uprising
Chris Floyd

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I must agree with As’ad AbuKhalil: The violence we are seeing in Egypt today (Wednesday) is a direct result of a green-light from Washington to "do what it takes" to preserve the Cairo regime. Today we have suddenly seen hundreds of "pro-Mubarak" goons pouring into the public squares to attack the non-violent demonstrators. The Egyptian Army – whom most of the demonstrators had lauded and looked to for protection from the police – is now apparently refusing to interfere with the attacks by the goon squads against the unarmed protestors. The UN reports that at least 300 people have already been killed in violence against the demonstrators since the uprising began: this number will now rise, perhaps sharply.

What is happening seems clear: Mubarak, backed by Obama, has decided to foment a storm of bloodshed, chaos and fear in order to provide a justification for "restoring order" – i.e., crushing the uprising by force. This course could not have been adopted without the support of the Cairo regime’s patrons and paymasters in Washington. None of this should come as a surprise. From the very beginning, the administration of Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been killing people – most of them defenseless civilians – all over the world to advance a brutal agenda of militarist domination and the enrichment of corrupt elites.

For decades, a pliant regime in Egypt has been a linchpin of this thoroughly bipartisan agenda. Obama’s task now is to preserve this arrangement if at all possible. Mubarak himself doesn’t matter; he’s now become a liability to the operation of business as usual. But the power structures in Washington and Cairo can’t afford to have him simply forced from office by popular will; what kind of example would that set? Instead they will seek to use the months until Mubarak’s envisaged retirement in September to beat down the uprising by overt means – as we are seeing on the streets of Egypt’s cities today – and covert means, with the piecemeal arrest of various dissident leaders and other crackdowns on activities that might "threaten public order."

Whether they will succeed in this is still an open question; but things have taken a decidedly darker turn in Egypt. And a great deal of that darkness is being cast by the ever-looming shadow of Washington’s Domination Machine. *AbuKhalil has provided some of the most insightful and informed observations on the uprising in Egypt. Below are a few excerpts from several of his recent posts that throw light on the current situation.

A Western correspondent in Cairo told me that Mubarak goons targeted many reporters and that they also sexually harassed female protesters. Those goons and criminals are the linchpin of Obama's Middle East policy. ...

There are a lot of similarities already between Iran of 1953 and Egypt of 2011. Don't forget what happened in 1953 in Iran. The CIA then hired armed goons and thugs to defeat the pro-democracy movement. This time around, the armed goons are hired by the regime itself. ...

... I just read the speech by Obama: it confirmed my suspicion, that basically Mubarak was permitted by the US to do with the Egyptian people as he would like. Every drop of blood that is spilled in Egypt from this day onwards should be blamed on Obama because he has embraced this new strategy of letting Mubarak defy the popular will of the Egyptian people.

I don't trust the Egyptian army: the top brass is hand picked by the US/Israel [coalition] and can be easily bought off by a combination of bribes, gadgets, and perks. They could care less about the Egyptian people. This is part of the ruling group of this tyrant. ..

The US is now arranging for a coup against the will of the Egyptian people. ... This move by Obama towards Egypt can be described as criminal because it will lead to blood on the streets. I wonder if Obama during his talk with Mubarak discussed numbers like: just don't kill more than 50 or 60 a day, or something like that. His unprincipled cynicism reminds me of the conspiracies of the 1950s. I am so glad that I resisted all efforts by my liberal and leftist friends who were urging me to vote for this personification of the Bush Doctrine.

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US 'confident' in Egyptian military
Wed Feb 2, 2011 7:24PM
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Egyptian protesters scramble to evacuate the wounded.The top US military official, Admiral Mike Mullen, has expressed "confidence" in the Egyptian army's ability to quell anti-government protests and provide “security.”


Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed confidence that security would be provided “both internally and throughout the Suez Canal area" by the Egyptian military.

He made the remarks in a phone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart, Lieutenant General Sami Enan, on Wednesday.

The Egyptian general "provided an update on recent developments in the wake of President (Hosni) Mubarak's speech" on Tuesday, Mullen's spokesman, Captain John Kirby, said in a statement.

Admiral Mullen "reiterated his desire to see the situation return to calm," Kirby said.

It was the second phone call this week between the two top officers, according to the AFP.

With Israel's security in mind, the United States is anxiously tracking the quickly evolving events of Egypt.

Mubarak's regime has long provided the United Sates military safe passage for its naval ships through the Suez Canal.

An American aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is due to pass through the canal later this month en route to the Arabian Sea, AFP quoted officials as saying.

Protests entered their ninth day on Wednesday while clashes between millions of anti-government protesters and plain clothes police raged in the Egyptian capital.

Under disguise of pro-Mubarak supporters, Egyptian security forces attacked protesters with knives, sticks, and whips witnesses said.

The security forces have also attacked people in Suez and Alexandria.

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In a sign of further shockwaves reverberating across the Arab world, King Abdullah II of Jordan sacked his government in a surprise move after three weeks of street protests calling for economic and political reform.


The king dismissed Samir Rifai, the unpopular prime minister, after just over a year in the post, appointing the ex-premier and former army general Marouf Bakhit, whom many Jordanians see as a conservative hardliner with little appetite for reform.

The move was unexpected, not least because street protests in Jordan have remained manageable and largely peaceful, with protesters refraining from openly challenging the king. But Arab leaders have been badly rattled by the mass protests in the region.

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The move is being seen as an attempt to head off further trouble from angry Jordanians, in the wake of the more violent unrest in Tunisia and Egypt.

King Abdullah's decision to dissolve the government goes part of the way to meeting political demands of the opposition, which had called for the resignation of the cabinet, the right to elect the prime minister and an end to political appointments by the king. But it is unclear if it will be enough.

The palace said the new premier would be charged with carrying out "true political reforms, enhance Jordan's democratic drive and ensure safe and decent living for all Jordanians." But the claim was greeted with scepticism by opposition figures, who said the appointment did not signal genuine change. "This is not a step in the right direction and does not show any intent towards real political reforms or meeting the popular demands for people yearning for greater political freedoms," said Hamza Mansour, head of Jordan's Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

King Abdullah, a key ally of the US in the Middle East, had promised reform in the face of protests that provided the most serious challenge to his decade-long reign. Protesters had called for the resignation of Mr Rifai, a member of Jordan's wealthy business elite, amid grinding economic difficulties caused by high unemployment, soaring inflation and rampant corruption.

Jordan has raised food and fuel subsidies and civil servants' wages, but the measures have done little to mollify protesters. The palace confirmed the king had accepted Mr Rifai's resignation. While Mr Bakhit's appointment could bolster the king's position, analysts say the new premier has no track record of reform.

He was made premier to restore calm after the 2005 bombings in Amman that left 60 dead and is unpopular with the opposition for presiding over elections in 2007, seen as rigged.

"He carried out the worst parliamentary elections in Jordan in 2007," said Zaki Bani Rsheid, a leading member of the Islamic Action Front (IAF). "He is not the right person to run things at this current state and get Jordan out of crisis," he added.

"With the choice of Bakhit, it's obvious that reforms have not started yet. We are against Bakhit because our experience with him is not encouraging," added the leader of the IAF, Hamzah Mansur also said. "There is no reason to stop the protests now."

Before being installed as prime minister in 2005, Mr Bakhit served as the kingdom's national-security adviser and its ambassador to Israel.

He was also the head of a state committee that oversaw the implementation of the peace treaty that Jordan signed with Israel in 1994, and served as Jordan's ambassador to Turkey for three years.

He has a doctorate in political science and taught the subject at a university for army and police recruits in southern Jordan.

The IAF has said repeatedly it is not seeking to oust King Abdullah, who has the power to appoint governments, approve legislation and dissolve parliament.

Jordan has a high unemployment rate among its population of six million, the majority of whom are under 25, and is suffering from the rising food and fuel prices which have affected many of its neighbours.

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