Friday, February 11, 2011
WHICH ABDULLAH WILL BE NEXT?
Which U.S.-allied Middle Eastern leader will be the next to fall?EUPHORIA IN EGYPT AND AT CNN
STRATFOR RED ALERT: EGYPT'S PRESIDENT MUBARAK RESIGNS, MILITARY IN CHARGE
On Obamunists and Carterites, 32 Years Later
EGYPT'S MILITARY SAYS IT'S IN CHARGE
IRAN BOUGHT URANIUM FROM N. KOREA
EGYPT AT THE ABYSS
Thursday, February 10, 2011
BIG FRIDAY CONFRONTATION POSSIBLE IN EGYPT
China Confidential Mideast sources say the Egyptian military and security services are preparing for a major confrontation with protesters tomorrow. The Republican Guard could hold the key to the country's future--and to the preservation of the regime that has essentially been in power since the early 1950s.RAGE OVER MUBARAK ANNOUNCEMENT
MUBARAK REFUSES TO STEP DOWN
TAIWAN GENERAL SOLD STATE SECRETS FOR $EX
Egypt's Military Moves to Take Power; Mubarak Expected to Resign Today in Address to Nation
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Egypt Accuses US of Meddling
Coming to a Pump Near You: $4 Gas
China Confidential energy analysts warn a new Suez Canal crisis could quickly cause U.S. gasoline ("gas") prices to rise above $4 per gallon. The price of gas--irreplaceable motor transport fuel for tens of millions of Americans--has been rising because of the media-fueled chaos in Egypt, which controls the Canal.MB DENIES IT WANTS TO CONTROL EGYPT
N. KOREA READYING NEW NUKE TEST?
TRIBAL LEADERS TARGET JORDAN'S QUEEEN
Violent Clashes as Egypt Protest Spreads
AQ OPERATIVES AMONG EGYPTIAN ESCAPEES
Courageous US Congressman Refuses to Bow to Radical Islam, Insists on Investigating Threat
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Leader Tells Turkey (Obama's Model Muslim Nation) Not to Worry About Cairo's Peace Pact With Israel: It's as Good as Dead
Egypt's Neighbors Urge US Not to Betray Mubarak
Damascus Dreams and Delusions
Turkey Turns US Down on Iran Sanctions
Muslim Mob Burns Churches in Indonesia
FUNDAMENTALISTS DEMAND DEATH PENALTY
Friday, 11 February 2011
Time will tell.
The Jordanian monarch is the weakest link. Exit planning would make a lot of sense. Better to step down and depart in stages, assets intact, than to wait for the inevitable ouster--or assassination.
The population of Jordan (really a river, rather than a country) is overwhelmingly Palestinian; and even the Beduin tribal leaders are angry and restive. Not a good combination--for Abdullah and the West. The Muslim Brothers would probably win a truly free and fair election.
Could Bin Laden (the Al Qaeda leader, not the billionaire businessman) be elected president of a Saudi Islamic Republic?
One wonders.
THIS JUST IN: The New York Times has made it official! America's leading liberal newspaper says "history" overthrew Mubarak. Hmm.... Time was, the Times believed history put Hitler and Stalin and Mao in power, not to mention the Ayatollah Khomeini....
NETWORK ANCHOR CONGRATULATES ACTIVIST,
WHO SAYS CNN WAS 'PART OF THE REVOLUTION'
SULEIMAN STATEMENT STRONG INDICATION OF A COUP
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman delivered the following statement Feb. 11: “In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens, during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the office of president of the republic and has charged the high council of the armed forces to administer the affairs of the country. May God help everybody.”
Suleiman’s statement is the clearest indication thus far that the military has carried out a coup led by Defense Minister Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi. It is not clear whether Suleiman will remain as the civilian head of the army-led government. Egypt is returning to the 1952 model of ruling the state via a council of army officers. The question now is to what extent the military elite will share power with its civilian counterparts.
At a certain point, the opposition’s euphoria will subside and demands for elections will be voiced. The United States, while supportive of the military containing the unrest, also has a strategic need to see Egypt move toward a more pluralistic system.
Whether the military stays true to its commitment to hold elections on schedule in September remains to be seen. If elections are held, however, the military must have a political vehicle in place to counter opposition forces, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood. The fate of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) thus lies in question. Without the NDP, the regime will have effectively collapsed and the military could run into greater difficulty in running the country. While the military council will be serving as the provisional government, it will likely want to retain as much of the ruling NDP as possible and incorporate elements of the opposition to manage the transition. Sustaining its hold over power while crafting a democratic government will be the biggest challenge for the military as it tries to avoid regime change while also dealing with a potential constitutional crisis.
The above article was provided by STRATFOR.
“I did not know it then, perhaps I did not want to know? But it is clear to me now that the Americans wanted me out." - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." - Mark Twain
Is Middle Eastern history repeating itself or rhyming?
Time will tell.
The Islamist menace took over Iran 32 years ago.
Back then, the Carterites assured us it would all work out just fine for everyone, that the viciously anti-American, anti-Israel, antidemocratic Ayatollah Khomeini would eventually be hailed not as a Hitler but as a "saint."
The Shah, a staunch American ally, friend of Israel, and patriotic modernizer, who liberated Iran's women, educated and uplifted its impoverished masses--and dramatically reduced the power, privileges, and wealth of the mad mullahs--had outlived his usefulness, in the eyes of the craven Carterites and their friends in the media. His time was up, he had to go, the Useful Idiots explained, in order for the United States to be on the right side of history--meaning, the sword of global political Islam.
Today, another ally's time is up--Hosni Mubarak, who for three decades kept the peace with Israel following his predecessor's assassination by the fascist Muslim Brotherhood and, since 9/11, has provided invaluable assistance to the United States in the struggle against Al Qaeda. Mubarak is an evil Pharaoh, worse than Ahmadinejad, according to the Obamunists and their adoring media mavens.
For the Carterites, a medieval theocracy was preferable to, more progressive than the Shah's pro-Western, modernizing monarchy.
For the Obamunists, a Supreme Military Council is preferable to, more progressive than Mubarak's republican-style autocracy.
A military junta is on the right side of history, we are told. Military communiques are more ... democratic ... than Mubarak speeches and government press releases, we are instructed to think.
Media-fueled mobs are modern, we are assured.
The Muslim Brothers are peaceful and ... progressive ... we are ordered to believe ... men in "business suits" ... more "like Hamas" than Al Qaeda (NBC's Islamist-loving Cairo correspondent actually said this the other night) who deserve, need, absolutely must participate in, if not actually control, or dominate, Egypt's soon to be unveiled (unlike Egyptian women, for whom oppressive Muslim headgear and veils seem to be the wave of the future) Turkish-modeled "Islamic Democracy."
Time will tell.
MILITARY SAYS IT'S RUNNING EGYPT, NOT MUBARAK,
The military wants the demonstrations to end, life to return to normal, in order to allow a transition to take place ahead of multiparty presidential elections.
Thirty-two years after the (Carter administration-assisted) clerical fascist (Islamist) takeover of Iran, we learn that Tehran's turbaned tyranny paid its Stalinist/Kimist partner in nuclear and missile crimes $2 billion for enriched uranium. Click here for the story.
There will be blood, protesters predict, as mass mobilizations begin following Egyptian President Mubarak's refusal to resign.
Nobody knows what lies ahead. On the one hand, nothing quite like this has ever happened; on the other hand, the world has been to this movie before, too many times.
Related essential reading:
After 17 days of demonstrations that have rocked the region--and paralyzed Egypt's economy--the country's military believes the time has come for the chaos to end, a veteran analyst reports. Our correspondent adds that there is growing anger on the part of the military--and many ordinary Egyptians--against "foreign pressure," meaning, efforts by the United States and its European allies to force Mubarak's immediate resignation.
The specter of a Muslim sabbath showdown conflicts with rumors that a so-called younger generation of military leaders--men in their 50s--are secretly supporting the protesters. The theory is that the up-and-coming officers feel cheated by older members of the Egyptian military elite.
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT DEFIES DEMONSTRATORS,
DISAPPOINTS WASHINGTON, SURPRISES MEDIA
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak said in a national address Tuesday evening that he will not step down until a new president is selected in elections scheduled for September.
Saying a peaceful transfer of power is underway, Mubarak refused to give in to demands of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters who took to the streets for a 17th straight day.
It was the second time in two weeks that Mubarak told the nation he will stay in office until September.
The dramatic announcement came on state television shortly after 10:45 PM in Egypt.
Demonstrators in Cairo's main Tahrir Square had earlier danced and sang in jubilation in expecation that Mubarak would resign.
Earlier in the day, Egyptian military officials and members of the ruling party said Mubarak will "meet protesters' demands."
Earlier in the day, also, the military's supreme council met without the commander in chief, Mubarak. The military is due to issue a statement shortly on state television.
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MANY EGYPTIAN WORKERS STILL SUPPORT MUBARAK
Click here for the story, and here for a must-read essay.
Unfolding developments seem to reflect a generational split inside the military, with a younger generation (meaning commanders in their 50s) moving to take power from an aging elite that has enriched itself for decades.
Relations between the United States and Egypt, a key ally and major foreign aid recipient, are deteriorating dramatically. Click here for the story.
Fact is, the U.S. inflamed the situation in Egypt, fanned the protests, emboldened and encouraged the mobs--and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration's overtures to the MB recall the Carter administration's catastrophic attempts to align with the Ayatollah's forces against the Shah, a pro-U.S. modernizing monarch, who stood in the way of the Islamist onslaught.
Understand, as President Obama likes to say, that $4-plus gas would be disastrous for ordinary Americans but beneficial to the environmental extremists, climate change fanatics, and green energy hustlers and scammers bent on using U.S. taxpayer dollars to subsidize wasteful investment in uneconomic, inefficient--and non-existent--alternative energy sources.
The crazy dreams and corrupt schemes produce relatively few well paying, permanent jobs--in sharp contrast with the despised (by ignorant and naive people) "fossil fuels" industry. But left-wing zealots, liberal loons, and dumbbell Democrats are determined to lock up domestic oil and gas, and coal and shale, and natural resources in general, in the name of "saving the planet."
JIHAD-LOVING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD,
WHICH ASSASSINATED ANWAR SADAT
AND SPAWNED AL QAEDA AND HAMAS,
SPEAKS SOFTLY BUT CARRIES BIG STICK
Comments Support China Confidential Report
MB Plans to Copy Turkish Model and Create a
Crypto-Islamist Party to Indirectly Take Power
and Islamize Egypt, Including its Armed Forces
Radical Islam has attacked and is determined to destroy America. But American Islamists and their supporters, sympathizers, and dupes (useful idiots of appeasement) are pressuring a courageous New York Congressman to investigate everyone except Islamists. Click here for the story. That investigating Islamist penetration of the United States is even an issue for debate is itself sickening.
The road to Arab-Israeli peace runs through non-Arab Iran--meaning, the Islamonazi regime in Tehran must be removed in order for a genuine peace process to occur. Regime change in Iran would lead to the defeat of Hezbollah and Hamas and the isolation of Syria, after which, Israel would be in a better position to risk strategic concessions in the context of a comprehensive peace pact.
FOR CHRISTIAN CHARGED WITH BLASPHEMY
A Muslim mob clashed with police and burned two churches in Indonesia Tuesday to protest what they considered a too-lenient sentence given a Christian for blaspheming against Islam.
The U.S. ambassador in Jakarta expressed concern about the burnings and also deplored an earlier mob attack on a minority Muslim sect in which three people were stabbed and beaten to death.
The Christian, 58-year-old Antonius Bawengan, was given the maximum five-year sentence Tuesday on charges of distributing books and literature that allegedly spread hatred of Islam.
A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 people attacked police with stones outside the courthouse in central Java, saying the man should have received a death penalty. The mob then set two churches on fire, burning the roofs, and damaged a third.
A day earlier, international human rights and religious rights groups demanded that Indonesia investigate a brutal attack Sunday on members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect.
A mob set on the group with machetes and planks as they sheltered in the house of a sect leader in western Java. A video has appeared on the Internet showing the attack, in which three people were killed and eight received injuries requiring hospital treatment.
In a statement posted on the U.S. Embassy website in Jakarta Tuesday, Ambassador Scot Marciel said the United States "joins the vast majority of Indonesians" in deploring the violence. He encouraged the Indonesian government to continue to foster tolerance and protect the rights of all communities.
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