Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Organization?
OR spontaneous street protests?
The army said on Monday [1/31/11] it would not use force against Egyptians staging protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down…
It said “freedom of expression” was guaranteed to all citizens using peaceful means.
Is that in Egypt’s constitution? Cuz it’s sure not in its history…
"The presence of the army in the streets is for your sake and to ensure your safety and wellbeing. The armed forces will not resort to use of force against our great people,” the army statement said.
“Your armed forces, who are aware of the legitimacy of your demands and are keen to assume their responsibility in protecting the nation and the citizens, affirms that freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed to everybody."
WTH did that come from?!?
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war.
IMF = “Social Justice” Hm… Learn something every day…
Overall, according to the IMF managing director, widening imbalances across and within countries were sparking tensions that threaten to derail the fragile global economic recovery—and could even spark armed conflict.
No ideology; no cries of “Freedom!”; no calls for “God’s Law”; no blathering about “rights of the people”—just economic disparity and lack of JobsJobsJobs.
Makes about as much sense as this:
The IMF boss [shouldn’t that be “Boss”?] called anew on China to adjust its exchange rate in its own economic interest, but said he disagreed with critics in the United States and elsewhere who want a rapid revaluation to the yuan.
He said the US government itself should not have a problem financing its massive debt, and downplayed fears over Japan’s debts after a downgrade last week by Standard & Poor’s.
erm… whaaa?
"These global imbalances put the sustainability of the recovery at risk, ...
oh. ...
Egypt’s armed forces chief of staff Sami Enan could be an acceptable successor to Hosni Mubarak because he is perceived as incorruptible, a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday.
...date and place of birth as 1948, in Cairo, and says he was trained in both Russia and France as well at a military academy in Egypt.
He held senior roles in air defence before being appointed to his current job in 2005…
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a telephone conversation with Enan on Sunday in which he urged restraint from Egypt’s military, but at the same time praised the “professionalism” of Egypt’s armed forces…
Enan and more than 20 other Egyptian officers were in Washington for long-planned talks when the unrest broke out in Cairo and other cities. They were attending the Military Cooperation Committee, an Egyptian-U.S. body that is chaired by Enan and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense Sandy Vershbow.
As a result of the situation at home, Enan cut short the mission and flew home.
Kamel El-Helbawy, a prominent overseas cleric from Egypt’s main opposition movement [has been a] member [of Islamic Brotherhood] since 1952, Helbawy has long been a prominent member of the Brotherhood’s overseas thinkers, working in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain.
In the mid-1990s he served as the Brotherhood’s spokesman in the West, and helped create the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain.
So he’s the IB spokes-imam.
["Kamel"?~? rly?]
Helbawy said new Vice President Omar Suleiman could be an interim leader but not a long-term successor to Mubarak.
So that’s IB’s timeline…
Helbawy said of the Brotherhood’s role: “The Brotherhood is now forming a part of this coalition led by ElBaradei, so they are no longer working for their own private agenda. They are working in a coalition with ElBaradei."
And then... ?
Aaaaand in other [completely unrelated, I’m sure] nooz:
King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, on Tuesday replaced his prime minister after protests over food prices and poor living conditions, naming a former premier with a military background to head the government.
Arsonists set fire to a synagogue in the southern Gabes region of Tunisia...
“What astonished me was that there were police not far from the synagogue,” added Perez, who is also head of the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba, the oldest synagogue in Africa.
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