North Africa

Egypt: Cue the Dirty Tricks, False Flags To Discredit Pro-Democracy Movement

The looting of Cairo’s world-famous Egyptian Museum over the weekend seems to have engendered the desired news headlines.



‘Looters smash ancient treasures’, ‘Looters decapitate mummies’, ‘Looters rip off heads of artifacts’ etc., read a rash of headlines, following the apparent breaking into the country’s national museum, which is said to house the world’s biggest of Pharaonic antiquities.



However, it has since emerged, although with much less headline coverage, that some of the would-be looters apprehended by protesters outside the museum were identified as working for the state’s interior ministry.




http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23005

Originally posted by Soothfast
The American Empire's North African "Iron Curtain" is perhaps about to fall...? Whatever shall the U.S. do if its trusty autocratic client states were to actually be co-opted by the people?

Spot on.

Almost laughable hearing Clinton trying to get her mouth around the complicated syntax of her responses.

Originally posted by finnegan
Spot on.

Almost laughable hearing Clinton trying to get her mouth around the complicated syntax of her responses.

Edmund Burke would say that the people of the Arab world should be naturally inclined to "look with awe upon their monarchs".

A massive demonstration demanding Muburak's resignation is scheduled for tomorrow. The Egyptian army has pledged not to use force against demonstrators. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41347609/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/?GT1=43001

I give Mubarak another week tops before he heads for a villa in Paris or Saudi Arabia.

Just in: in Jordan, King Abdullah has sacked and replaced his cabinet.

Originally posted by no1marauder
I give Mubarak another week tops before he heads for a villa in Paris or Saudi Arabia.

Oh no -- surely all the people want is a game of musical cabinet chairs...

The whole spectacle is riveting. If Mubarak isn't going to order the army to carry out a slaughter (an order it would likely disobey anyway), he may as well pack up his "midnight raven" hair dye and bugger off.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Just in: in Jordan, King Abdullah has sacked and replaced his cabinet.

According to "Dictatorship 101", Mubarak should simply order the army to crack down. That's what is always done. Why isn't he doing it??? What is different???

Whatever the reason is, we have to add it to the drinking water worldwide.

Originally posted by spruce112358
According to "Dictatorship 101", Mubarak should simply order the army to crack down. That's what is always done. Why isn't he doing it??? What is different???

Whatever the reason is, we have to add it to the drinking water worldwide.

Sometimes that doesn't work e.g. 1776

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Sometimes that doesn't work e.g. 1776

Against an armed populace! Without arms, it is hard to stay defiant for very long.

The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.82 firearms per 100 people, while in Egypt it is 3.52. Also, long guns are prohibited to Egyptians.

Originally posted by spruce112358
According to "Dictatorship 101", Mubarak should simply order the army to crack down. That's what is always done. Why isn't he doing it??? What is different???

Maybe "U.S.-Backed Dictatorship 101" is a little different from "Dictatorship 101" and you're looking in the wrong manual.

Originally posted by spruce112358
According to "Dictatorship 101", Mubarak should simply order the army to crack down. That's what is always done. Why isn't he doing it??? What is different???

Maybe the difference is that the army itself has said it won't crack down?