Egitto: dichiarato sciolto intero parlamento

Egitto, sciolto parlamento. E' il caos.

17:04 14 GIU 2012

(AGI) - Il Cairo, 14 giu. - A due giorni dalle elezioni presidenziali e' caos in Egitto. La Corte Costituzionale ha dichiarato "incostituzionali tutti gli articoli della legge elettorale" con la quale era stata eletta l'Assemblea del popolo (la Camera bassa del Parlamento egiziano) solo qualche mese fa, tra il 28 novembre e l'11 gennaio scorso. La notizia e' stata confermata da Farouk Sultan, nominato da Hosni Mubarak nel 2009 a capo della Corte Costituzionale, dopo che si erano susseguite voci, prima di scioglimento di un terzo del Parlamento e poi dell'intera Assemblea. In una conferenza stampa il vice presidente della Corte, Maher Sami, ha chiarito che il verdetto comporta lo scioglimento di tutta l'Assembla anche se le leggi fino a ora approvate rimarranno in vigore.
La decisione della Corte ha intanto scatenato un putiferio nel Paese: immediato e' giunto il commento del vice presidente della Camera, Ashraf Thabet, che ha precisato che "lo scioglimento del Parlamento e' prerogativa della sola Corte di Cassazione". Il Consiglio supremo delle forze armate (Csfa) che guida l'Egitto dalla caduta di Mubarak che si e' quindi subito riunito e ha fatto sapere di aver preso atto "del giudizio della Corte ma di non avere al momento preso nessun provvedimento". Una fonte militare ha rivelato poi all'agenzia Mena che il giudizio della Corte ha dato di fatto ai militari il potere legislativo. "Non vogliamo il potere - ha spiegato la fonte sotto anonimato - ma secondo il verdetto della Corte e per le leggi vigenti, il potere torna nelle nostre mani". Per il movimento rivoluzionario del 6 aprile invece "il giudizio della Corte, riabilita il vecchio regime e rischia di spazzare via le conquiste della rivoluzione".
La questione della legge elettorale sulla quale si e' espressa la Corte costituzionale riguarda la modifica della legge che ha consentito, che nel terzo dei seggi attribuiti col maggioritario, a candidarsi non fossero solo indipendenti ma anche candidati dei partiti. Gli occhi ora sono tutti puntati sul Csfa, e sul voto di sabato e domenica prossimi che, secondo alcuni analisti, potrebbe anche essere sospeso.

http://www.agi.it/in-primo-piano/notizie/201206141704-ipp-rt10256-egitto_sciolto_il_parlamento_e_il_caos

What revolution? Mubarak’s growing support for Iran and against the U.S. is the real reason why he is out
Posted: February 23, 2011 in News Events
Tags: CIA, Egypt, freedom, Iran, Mubarak, revolution, Suleiman, twitter, USA
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I’d like to take a look at the US mainstream media’s near-unanimous declaration of a “revolution” in Egypt – the view that Mubarak was a dictator who was forced out of power by an uprising of the Egyptian people against him. According to the media, his uprising was initiated by the Egyptian people and the result is triumph of the people and freedom from oppression.

Let’s take the camera to a different angle and look at some other less-discussed points of past and recent events. Mubarak was a dictator who had served the interests of the USA and their allies for decades. When he began to make overtures of alliance with Iran, and refused to join a nuclear umbrella with the USA and Arab countries against Iran, he was deposed by a coup initiated by the CIA1 (aka the “2011 Revolution” but it was not a revolution, see below). The result is that Egypt is currently ruled by a military junta and the constitution has been dissolved. The Egyptian military received 1.3 billion dollars from the USA in 20092 and nearly $40 billion in American aid over the last 30 years3. The former and temporarily suspended vice president of Egypt is Omar Suleiman, who is a member of the Armed Forces Supreme Council4. “Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran – and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo”.5

So where is the revolution? A revolution, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is “a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system”. What is the new system? An ousted USA puppet who started to turn against his masters is replaced by… an American-supported military. The next president of Egypt will likely be Omar Suleiman, the new USA-supported puppet who will join the nuclear umbrella and embrace war with Iran (for more on Suleiman, please see the paragraph at the end).

This is the real reason why Mubarak is out now. The Twitter Revolution in Iran failed, which caused a lot of headaches in the west, because now the only possibility for “regime change” in Iran is war. Mubarak is the first of many Middle East leaders to go. All of the successors, unless plans can be foiled as they were in Iran, will be puppets of the west, which will push war for Iran as soon as all pawns are in place. The “fundamental US-UK strategy for the Middle East is to assemble a block of Arab and Sunni countries (notably Egypt, Saudis, Gulf states, and Jordan) which, formed into a front with the participation of Israel, would collide with the Iranian Shiite front, including Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and various radical forces1.”

Yes, Mubarak opposed war with Iran. According to the following report published in one of the semi-official Cairo papers, and made available through the Israeli Ynet: “Al-Gumhoria newspaper says Egyptian president strongly objects to American proposal to Israel, Arab states to create nuclear umbrella against Iranian attack. The United States has offered Israel, Egypt and Persian Gulf countries to be part of a nuclear umbrella against an Iranian attack, Egyptian newspaper al-Gumhoria reported Thursday. According to the idea, Israeli and American aircraft would be deployed in those Arab countries in preparation of a response against any expected Iranian strike. Everyone knows, the editor wrote, that those bases would be used to launch a war on Iran if the American diplomatic dialogue with Tehran were to fail6.”

In addition to rejecting the nuclear umbrella, Mubarak was also initiating a more open relationship with Iran. On October 3, 2010, Egypt and Iran signed an agreement allowing direct flights between Cairo and Tehran for the first time in over 30 years1. “Hamid Baghaei, an Iranian vice president and the head of culture and tourism, said the agreement was ‘one of the most valuable economic agreements that have been signed between Iran and Egypt over the past 30 years,’ according to Iranian state TV. He suggested it could be a first step toward issuing visas to Egyptian and Iranian citizens and otherwise furthering ties between the two usually hostile states.”1

Is it a coincidence that Mubarak was toppled only months after signing this agreement? This “revolution” in Egypt has succeeded in doing nothing more than getting rid of one dictator and installing another – temporarily the Egyptian military, which will follow US orders, and with an election in the fall, we’ll see just how much the regime has changed…if there are elections. With a suspended constitution nothing is guaranteed.

For anyone thinking that I support Mubarak, I’d like to say for the record that I don’t. He was a corrupt dictator who ruthlessly suppressed dissent and had little concern for the Egyptian people. Yes, he was a dictator, but one who served a purpose to the US, at least until recently, and that is why he was deposed – because he displeased the USA by moving towards Iran, and peace, and away from the USA, and war.

More about Suleiman (all from Wikipedia). For an interesting article on Suleiman, see Mubarak’s new deputy linked to CIA rendition program.

Suleiman became deputy head of military intelligence in 1986, and its director in 1991.[20] Suleiman has been directly implicated in the controversial CIA “rendition” program.[19][28] Journalist Stephen Grey in his work, Ghost Plane, states that after taking over as intelligence director, Suleiman oversaw an agreement with the US in 1995 that allowed for suspected militants to be secretly transferred to Egypt for questioning.[29] He has been accused of complicity in the torture of Al-Qaeda suspects in Egypt,[30] particularly the case of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who was captured and handed over to Suleiman. The information al-Libi gave under torture was cited by US officials in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Al-Libi later retracted his confession.[29] Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said Suleiman might be named to an important position “in the coming period.”[8] Millions of Egyptian citizens[9] involved in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 opposed Suleiman or Mubarak remaining in power without elections taking place.[10][11] Human rights groups tied Suleiman’s career to a regime marked by widespread human rights abuses,[12][13][14] and asserted that many Egyptians “see Suleiman as Mubarak II.”[12] Torture victims and human rights groups charged that Suleiman oversaw the systematic use of torture on detainees and that in at least one instance he personally tortured a detainee during his career in intelligence.[15][16][17]

1 http://tarpley.net/2011/02/18/mubarak-toppled-by-cia-because-he-opposed-us-plans-for-war-with-iran/

2 http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/05/09CAIRO874.html

3 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=global-home

4 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121185311711502.html

5 http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201127114827382865.html

6 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3765075,00.html

Fonte:
http://jenniferclaro.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/mubarak%E2%80%99s-growing-support-for-iran-and-against-the-usa-is-the-real-reason-why-he-is-gone/

Egypt's Mubarak rejects US "defence umbrella" over Iran
Mubarak rejected any participation of so-called extended U.S. "defence umbrella" what Clinton says against Iran's nuclear programme.

Mubarak rejected any participation of so-called extended U.S. "defence umbrella" what Clinton says against Iran's nuclear programme.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Washington for talks with the U.S. administration told an interview with the state-controlled daily al-Ahram on Monday said Egypt would not be part of it as it would not allow foreign troops or experts on its land.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was prepared to "upgrade the defence of our partners in the region."

Clinton made the comments before heading to Asia's largest security forum in the Thai resort island of Phuket.

"If the US extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even more to support the military capacity of those in the Gulf, it is unlikely Iran will be any stronger or safer," Clinton said.

Additionally, such an umbrella would imply a tacit recognition of a regional nuclear power, which Mubarak said Egypt was opposed to, whether it was Iran or Israel.

Mubarak also dismissed speculation that he was planning to dissolve parliament. Independent Egyptian newspapers have suggested Mubarak could dissolve the assembly to remove the more vocal opponents of his government as a first step to engineering a succession that would bring his son Gamal, 45, to power.

"I have no reasons today that would raise the necessity for dissolving parliament," Mubarak said.

A handover to Gamal, a senior official in the ruling National Democratic Party, is not a done deal and is not the only possibility, but analysts see it as a likely scenario and it is frequently mooted in the independent press.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/index.php?aType=haberArchive&ArticleID=46074

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N0kWXgRcFY