WikiLeaks: Horrors by Mubarak Assisted by USA

from WSWS.org

WikiLeaks exposes US complicity in murder, torture, by Egyptian government

” . . . . The documents, diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Cairo from 2009 and 2010, make clear that the Obama administration was well aware that the Mubarak regime held onto power by terrorizing the population. But Washington tacitly supported the dictatorship and its crimes because Egypt is considered the most important component to US strategy for a wide region encompassing the Middle East, the Maghreb, and the Horn of Africa.

Perhaps the most damning cable is from Ambassador Margaret Scobey, dated January 15, 2009. The letter calls police brutality “routine and pervasive” and states that “police using force to extract confessions from criminals [is] a daily event.” Embassy informants “estimate there are literally hundreds of torture incidents every day in Cairo police stations alone. . . .” (more)

http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/wiki-j29.shtml

UPDATE –        [ Feb. 1]

The cable quoted in the above article is here –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/187359

More Egypt/USA embassy cables can be found by sorting near the date Jan. 30, 2011 at this compilation page from the Guardian – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/us-embassy-cables-the-documents

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