Friday, February 04, 2011
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON EGYPT'S NEW VP; GUNMEN KILLED 2 SULEIMAN BODYGUARDS
FORMER SPY CHIEF NEARLY KILLEDMUBARAK END GAME?
Thursday, February 03, 2011
EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CONFIRMS IT INTENDS TO SCRAP 32-YEAR-OLD PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL, TRY TO DESTROY JEWISH STATE
Forgotten History on the Eve of Destruction
America's support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood did not begin with the Obama administration, which clearly aims to align with the group (and with Islamism, in general, excluding Al Qaeda and so-called irreconcilable elements of the Taliban).THOUSANDS OF YEMENIS TAKE TO THE STREETS
ISS: IRAN COULD HAVE NUKES WITHIN A YEAR
EMBOLDENED MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD DEMANDS 'OVERTHROW' OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
'Something Fierce is Being Unleashed'
Saturday, 5 February 2011
China Confidential analysts say the Muslim Brotherhood was probably behind the attempted assassination of Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence head-turned Vice President.
The MB was responsible for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, which took place on October 6, 1981, and the group has made several attempts to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The conspiracy to kill Suleiman, analysts add, may have included agents of the Iranian regime, which is allied with the MB.
Cooperation between the Sunni MB and Iranian Shiite Islamists dates to the early 1950s--and a failed attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954 by members of the MB and theDevotees of Islam, an Iranian group to which the Ayatollah Khomeini belonged. (The movement that ultimately overthrew Iran's pro-American Shah was an outgrowth of the Devotees of Islam.)
In the 1940s, the MB was involved in a string of assassinations, including the murder of Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi al-Noqrashi in 1948, who was killed following a crackdown on the group.
On July 20, 1951, a Palestinian with MB ties assassinated Jordan's King Abdullah I because the monarch was believed to be secretly negotiating a peace agreement with Israel.
US NEGOTIATING IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION
OF EMBATTLED EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT,
TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT LED BY VP
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is in talks with Egyptian officials on a proposal for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, and turn power over to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say the proposal calls for the transitional government to invite members from a broad range of opposition groups, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to begin work to open up the country's electoral system in an effort to bring about free and fair elections in September.
On American television Friday, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, cautioned against cutting aid to Egypt and said he has been assured by his Egyptian counterpart that troops will not fire on protesters.
-VOA
Recent U.S. overtures to the MB, which assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and spawned Al Qaeda, began at least a decade ago.
Accent on recent. Covert U.S. support for the MB actually began in the early 1950s--and a failed MB uprising in 1954. The U.S. and Britain both backed the group in order to counter (and assassinate) Egypt's extraordinarily popular, pan-Arabist president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a secular nationalist--and Third World hero--who made the fatal error of siding with the Soviet Union.
Interestingly, the Sunni MB, even in those days, was working closely with an underground Shiite Islamist terrorist group in Iran known as the Devotees of Islam--a forerunner of the Islamists who overthrew Iran's modernizing monarch, the Shah, in 1979.
AL QAEDA-THREATENED REGIME ROCKED
BY FAST-MOVING POLITICAL SANDSTORM
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