Documents expose Egyptian regime as stooge of US imperialism

[Joanne98]

Over the past few weeks, the WikiLeaks Internet platform has published secret documents that shed a revealing light on the criminal cooperation between US imperialism and the Mubarak regime in Egypt. The leaked documents, personally despatched from Cairo by US Ambassador Margaret Scobey, expose leading Egyptian politicians as unscrupulous agents of the US.

One of the reports bearing Scobey’s signature was written around the time of the World Economic Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh in May 2008. It concerns a meeting between a US congressional delegation and the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. The congressional group was led by Rep. Brian Baird, Democrat from Washington state. Mubarak was accompanied by Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence, and Gamal Mubarak, secretary general of the political committee of the ruling National Democratic Party.

The meeting dealt with major issues, including the situation in Iraq, Iran’s role in the region, and the Middle East conflict.

With respect to US-occupied Iraq, Hosni Mubarak voiced concern about developments in the country, stressing that US troops would not be able to withdraw in the immediate future owing to the prevailing security situation. The only way forward, he said, was to establish a dictatorship: “Strengthen the armed forces, relax your hold, and then you will have a coup. Then we will have a dictator, but a fair one. Forget democracy, the Iraqis are by nature too tough”.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/muba-j04.shtml