WikiLeaks: 2007 cable from USA touts cozy relationship with Egypt secret police

Read the Cairo embassy cable for yourself …..  [and check out paragraph 4 about Gaza and anyone who gets freight there is a terrorist] ….

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/28/2027

TAGS: PTER PREL PHUM KJUS

SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR JOHN PISTOLE

Classified By: Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone,

for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

¶1. (S) The Egyptians, and I, will warmly welcome you to Cairo. Despite strains in the relationship over the past several months, our partnership in law enforcement and mutual security affairs remains solid. Your visit provides the opportunity to review and reinforce our law enforcement cooperation with the State Security Investigative Service (SSIS), which is under the auspices of Minister of Interior Habib Al Adly (you have separate meetings with Adly and SSIS Director Hasan Abdul Rahman). We recommend you raise with both of them the proposal that Egypt share with us fingerprint records of suspected terrorists, to enter into the FBI’s global fingerprint database. This would greatly advance our practical law enforcement cooperation… (more)

http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2007/10/07CAIRO3155.html

 

Note: GWOT means Global War on Terror, embassy speak for ‘have at it, Boys’.

Did Washington send pro-Mubarak aggitators to attack activists?

Watching events unfold across Egypt today it cannot be forgotten that bank and corporate controlled Washington D.C. may be behind the violent tactics by civilian-dressed goons.

The cable released by WikiLeaks a few days ago concerning pesky environmental activists in Peru looks like a blueprint for Mubarak’s secret police.  In the cable mining execs lament they need to get rid of activists and the actions that are denting their operations. The American embassy staff are quick to suggest the activists be neutralized with faked stories about their propensity for violence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/38881

“6. (SBU) XXXXXXXXXXXX of Minera Quellaveco, laid much of the blame on Oxfam America and Friends of the Earth, stating the two international NGOs are fomenting anti-mining attitudes, exploiting low levels of education and weak institutions in rural areas of Peru. (Note: Oxfam America played a key role in mediating the conflict during the Tintaya crisis, Ref C. End Note.) The Ambassador stated that NGOs are entitled to express their views; nevertheless, he encouraged the companies to bring to his and the other Ambassadors’ attention NGO-funded groups or individuals that advocate violence. He requested, for example, public statements, newspaper reports or radio spots that encourage violence. Armed with this information, Ambassadors would be able to confront any NGOs from their respective countries about such dangerous activities. “

Once the establishment can paint their opposition as lawless or violent they can bring down the hammer to eliminate them. Dictatorship 101.  The fingerprints of Washington are everywhere in Egypt now.

Egyptians on Mubarak spiel: ‘How dare he talk to us like children’

From the Guardian –

Egypt protesters react angrily to Mubarak’s televised address 

‘How dare he talk to us like children?’ say demonstrators. ‘If he’s here until September then so are we’

” …..As he announced that he would not be standing for another term, the rally exploded in anger.The screen was pelted with bottles and the cry “Irhal, irhal” went up repeatedly: “Leave, leave”. It was taken up by the hundred thousand people who thronged Tahrir Square. At one point demonstrators held up their shoes to the screen –   ” (more + video)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/02/egypt-protesters-mubarak-address

US is 2 Faced in North Africa turmoil

the World Socialist Website says –

US pursues two-track policy to suppress protests in Egypt and Tunisia

The United States is working intensively to suppress mass protests in both Tunisia and Egypt and prop up the local ruling elites that are entirely subordinate to American imperialism. It is using different tactics in the two countries, dictated in large part by their relative strategic importance to US ruling class interests in the Middle East.

In Tunisia, Washington backed its long-time asset Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until it concluded that his position could not be salvaged despite weeks of violent repression against anti-government demonstrators. Just days before Ben Ali was driven from the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States was “not taking sides” between the dictator and protesting workers and youth.

It has been widely reported that the US instructed the Tunisian military to refuse Ben Ali’s orders to fire live rounds into mass demonstrations in Tunis and other cities, effectively pulling the rug out from under Ben Ali and making the military leader, Gen. Rachid Ammar, the political arbiter within the country.

The US undoubtedly engineered the formation of a so-called interim unity government following Ben Ali’s January 14 flight to Saudi Arabia.  . . . (more)

http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/egyp-j27.shtml