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’.

Egypt: Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez

From RawStory.com

Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez as protests in Egypt move into third day

Anti-government protests in Egypt moved into their third day early Thursday, with unconfirmed reports of police “massacres” of civilians in the port city of Suez.

In Cairo, protesters “played cat and mouse with police” into the early hours of Thursday, Reuters reported. Opposition groups reported on their websites that electronic communications had been cut off in the city center, and parts of the city were experiencing blackouts…. (more)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/reports-massacre-suez-protests-egypt/