Egypt: color revolution symbolism recycling + wikileaks us involvement?

[jakeXT]

Do the Neolibs want a new stooge, while the Neocons and Israel are fine with the status quo?

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/blog/the-otpor-connecti...
Florian Bieber

When I was following some tweets on Egypt, I was struck when I came across the symbol of Otpor. Subsequently I noticed that a number of protesters also using the Otpor symbol.

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

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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”.

Ambassador Scobey questioned whether such an “unrealistic” plot could work, or ever even existed. However, the documents showed that the activist had been approached by US diplomats and received extensive support for his pro-democracy campaign from officials in Washington. The embassy helped the campaigner attend a “summit” for youth activists in New York, which was organised by the US State Department.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindi...

Crisis Group Condemns Detention of Mohamed ElBaradei and Violence against Demonstrators
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/media-re... -
Detention-of-Mohamed-ElBaradei-and-Violence-against-Demonstrators.aspx

Crisis Group's Board of Trustees

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Mohamed ElBaradei
Director-General Emeritus, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Nobel Peace Prize (2005)


..George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx

[jakeXT]

1. the website is down, but the fcebook page is still there

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9973986703



The movement began as an Egyptian Facebook group in 2008 to support workers in the northern industrial town of Mahalla al-Kubra and called for a national strike on 6 April that year.

Members, who include many young well-educated Egyptians, have shown a greater willingness than others to risk arrest and start public protests.

They have successfully organised pro-democracy rallies and a large welcoming party for the former United Nations' nuclear watchdog chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, when he returned to his home country in February 2010.

The group uses Facebook, Twitter and Flickr to alert its networks about police activity, organise legal protection and publicise its efforts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12290167