The Telegraph claims WikiLeaks cables show US government backed dissidents who have planned 'regime'

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The Telegraph claims WikiLeaks cables show US government backed dissidents who have planned "regime change” for three years.



I have found no reliable source to confirm this claim. But, this article is making its rounds, including FR where this Freeper writes: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-bloggers/2665341/posts">Obama Secretly Schemed with Egyptian Opposition for "Regime Change" for Three Years! lol. Surprisingly, several posters respond:

To: Reaganite Republican
Basic math error: Obama has only been president for two years, not three.
And there's nothing in the article to suggest that Obama had any dealings with Egyptian activists before then.

Best you go back to the drawing board with this.

10 posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:52:13 AM by r9etb
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To: r9etb
It’s simple. The headline needs to be changed. Change the name “obama” into “Bush” and it becomes accurate.

I wonder why the left wingers aren’t all over this.

12 posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:57:44 AM by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)

From the Telegraph:

Exclusive: WikiLeaks cables show US government backed dissidents who have planned “regime change” for three years.

Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising

The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police. On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

The secret document in full

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The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.

In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.

The memo, which Ambassador Scobey sent to the US Secretary of State in Washington DC, was marked “confidential” and headed: “April 6 activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt.”

It said the activist claimed “several opposition forces” had “agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition to a parliamentary democracy, involving a weakened presidency and an empowered prime minister and parliament, before the scheduled 2011 presidential elections”. The embassy’s source said the plan was “so sensitive it cannot be written down”.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html

[emulatorloo]

1. A little quick on the "It is all Obama's Fault" trigger over there, aren't they . . . n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

2. I thought that Obama and Hillary were PRO-Mubarak

All the "true" Progressives here have been saying so for days.

--d!

[jwirr]

3. Planned for three years? Obama has not been in for three years.

So how can he be to blame. Of course he did not stop the plan but maybe at that point it could not be stopped anymore.