More bad news for Mubarak
3 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Wednesday, December 7 at Wednesday, December 07, 2005.
After having your nice little pretend-democratic fiefdom overrun by the Islamic Brotherhood in your first Washington-encouraged attempt at "free" elections, I cant imagine this news going public is going to come as a welcome development.
Mubarak is in a shitty position. There is 1.8 billion reasons why he is obliged to stick with the US on this one. And there is about 75 million reasons why supporting the US on this is popularity suicide in Egypt.
"Following the uproar in Europe over the alleged torture of CIA prisoners in prisons on European soil, Washington is reported to have moved the prisoners to "somewhere in North Africa" well ahead of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to Berlin and Brussels. While no concrete country is named, it expected that the CIA torture victims are now held in Egypt and/or Morocco."I wonder if the Islamic Brotherhood members of parliament will raise a bit of a fuss about this. It is an ideal opportunity, the perfect issue to frame themselves against the government - US torture camps! Within our own territory! It is like a gift from the sky.
Mubarak is in a shitty position. There is 1.8 billion reasons why he is obliged to stick with the US on this one. And there is about 75 million reasons why supporting the US on this is popularity suicide in Egypt.
i doubt anyone will hear about that in Egypt!
The government won't let it happen.
That was the other option that I was considering :)
Funny - it will probably the only "horrible US torture of Iraqi prisoners" story that does not get big coverage in the Egyptian media :)
I was talking with some friends here about media in the middle east and they laughed when I told them that newspapers in Egypt sometimes have whole pages of articles missing from them, like just blank pages in the middle of the newspaper.
I'd guess this topic would be on one of those blank pages.