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@Gema..
Well...leave your confusion,put your cap on,
..and let's get going already then lol :lol: .
 Can't possibly just sit to the side, and  let you beat up on a "verified,bonafide, everydayregularrrr " old Hero. ;)   :lol:  .
. :lol:
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MissG

Where to start with this man?

[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTltNNT9Fzs&feature=related[/youtube:evyam51m]

[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSTru7pA70&feature=related[/youtube:evyam51m]


Up to 7 parts.....
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XQtVyeuf8[/youtube:evyam51m]
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5IOPeAbc0&feature=related[/youtube:evyam51m]


His latest speech
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-u6cppZ1as&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube:evyam51m]
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrZRpkiMpg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube:evyam51m]
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ71B5LU-DU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube:evyam51m]

And the reality
[youtube:evyam51m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFpfyJK2kk&feature=related[/youtube:evyam51m]
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("Minkin güerveeeee")
Michael pls come back


"Why a four-year-old child could understand this hoax. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it"

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everlastinglove_MJTopic starter

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts.

Here's some news from Amnesty International:


Security Council and Arab League must act decisively on Libyan crimes today
22 February 2011

AI Index: PRE01/073/2011


Amnesty International has today called on the UN Security Council and the Arab League to launch an immediate mission to Libya to investigate events that have left hundreds of protesters dead.

The call for the investigation, which could lead to prosecutions at the International Criminal Court (ICC), comes as both the UN Security Council and the Arab League meet today for special sessions to discuss the spiralling violence in the country.

The organization also called on the UN Security Council to impose a total arms embargo on Libya, amidst reports that security forces are continuing to deploy a range of weaponry, munitions and related military and police equipment to use lethal force against protesters.

“Colonel al-Gaddafi and his government appear to be prepared to kill as many people as it takes to stay in power. The international community needs to act now to put a stop to this.” said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary-General.

Amnesty International said that the UN and Arab League should send representatives to Libya immediately, either jointly or separately, to investigate the situation on the ground and report rapidly to the Security Council.

The organization said that the recommendations should include a judgement as to whether the scale of the crimes being committed in Libya warrants a Security Council referral to the Prosecutor of the ICC.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay yesterday said that the Libyan authorities’ actions against protesters may amount to crimes against humanity.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, Colonel al-Gaddafi’s son, said in a televised speech on 20 February that the army would “play a big part whatever the cost” to end anti-government protests and that the Libyan authorities will “fight to the last man and woman and bullet”.

“It is an outrage that al-Gaddafi’s son feels able publicly to announce the readiness to massacre Libyans in order to maintain his father’s hold on power.

“The international community must immediately make it clear to all those in the Libyan government, military and security apparatus that they and those carrying out their orders will be held to account for crimes under international law, such as those now being reported,” said Salil Shetty.

Amnesty International warned that reports it had received from hospitals in eastern Libya indicated that some 200 people had been killed by security forces up to 20 February. Hospital staff told Amnesty International that they were struggling to cope with the number of casualties.

The true number of deaths could be much higher as this sample represented only the major hospitals. Some families are also likely to have buried their dead without taking the bodies to hospitals.

“The Security Council must also put an immediate end to the export or transfer of all arms and military equipment to Libya. People are being killed in their hundreds with intent.

“Other states must not be complicit in further killing. All military and police supplies and cooperation with Libya must stop now until the risk of such serious human rights violations is ended,” said Salil Shetty.

In addition to the United Nations and Arab League, Amnesty International also called on the African Union to take action.

“All international bodies that Libya holds membership of need to recognise the gravity of this crisis. The African Union must urgently address the gross human rights abuses being committed in Libya in a special session of its Peace and Security Council,” said Salil Shetty.

Background

The UN Security Council has the authority to refer to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court situations that would not otherwise fall under the court's jurisdiction, for example when the state in question is not a party to the statute.

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diggyon

Well Supervision, let me tell you some facts about Gamal Abd El Nasser, since you have mentioned his name, saying he was Mr. G's no. one!!!
Gamal Abd El Nasser was the Egyptian President after a revolution in 1952. He was a socialist. He promised the Egyptian people freedom after the Kingdom that was in Egypt before the revolution was exploiting the people as usual. This man had good intentions at first. He was following the Communist model as he was a socialist himself. He started to let the government build the factories to give hope to the people. Everything belonged to the country. The Russians were his friends. So we have seen what happened in Russia to the Communism! That's exactly what the people in Egypt were suffering from durig that time. Plus: those who were opposing his regime were brutally tortured and murdered. People were spying on each other. Family member where spying on each other. People were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night to secret places and disappeared forever. This is the time of Abd El Nasser, Mr. Ghaddafi's no. one!!May be at the beginning of the revolution his intentions were good. But time changes people!!! Power changes people as well. Power is a curse in my opinion!!! Even Nasser's  followers in Egypt became his enemies because he tortured them psychologically!!!!
Let's come to Mubarak. He was a general in the army. He took part in the war between Egypt and Israel in 1973. He was a hero to the Egyptians like all army generals were, when Egypt defeated Israel and gained back the Sinai that was invaded by the Israeli army during that time. Mubarak's time was different. He was more into Capitalism! He saw that the people were suffering from Nasser's time because the government owned everything! So he started to sell everything to the businessmen!!!!! Even the national factories, the Egyptian lands... just everything. He Americans were his friends. At the beginning the people liked him!!!!! But then the =y felt the corruption everywhere in the land. After years from selling the national properties the country became a private property of the businenmen. People started to hate him. Elections were forged. Those who wanted to speak were  also tortured and murdered. In the middle of the night people were dragged from their homes and disapperd without a trace!! Just like in Nasser's time!!! Is this a life??? Mubarak ruled for 30 years!!! Which European president ruled for 30 years?? The police was also very aggressive. They had orders to shoot people directly if they just start to open their mouth!!!! Didn't we talk about Mubarak, the war hero??? Now we are talking about Mubarak, the dictator!!! And as I said before: Time changes people and power changed people as well. And even money changes people!!!!!!His good history is forgotten now, just like Nasser's good history ... just for what he did to his own people....
May be Ghaddafi was one day a good leader who wanted a better life for his people after a revolution he  lead in his country. But what can we say after 42 years?? He is doing exactly what the leader before him was doing to his own people and made him lead the revolution against him!!!!In the news we can see people saying he is the decision maker in his country!! No one has the right to oppose him. Those who oppose him go to prison.
The people are poor.... and so on and so on. No he is killing them with canons because they oppose him!!!! Is this normal??? Canons???????????????????????????????????
The history repeats itself. Power changes people!
Peace


peace
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Together we are strong

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Thank you Michael for letting me discover the truth!

I lost the bet, Sarahli won it! ! ! loool


Whoever started it...  whichever leader is in the right or in the wrong....   at the end of the day, i dont suppose it matters.

What matters is that innocents will suffer.

I am reminded of Michaels words and music,  yet again.

So i will let Michael remind us all.....     :)

[youtube:2r3rkwwo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvjy6MQr6fE[/youtube:2r3rkwwo]
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Quote from: "DancingTheDream"
Whoever started it...  whichever leader is in the right or in the wrong....   at the end of the day, i dont suppose it matters.

What matters is that innocents will suffer.

I am reminded of Michaels words and music,  yet again.

So i will let Michael remind us all.....     :)

[youtube:f31ligq6]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvjy6MQr6fE[/youtube:f31ligq6]

I entirely agree!
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Thank you Michael for letting me discover the truth!

I lost the bet, Sarahli won it! ! ! loool


Athens:

Police officer set on fire.

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(This is what i do not like.  People against people like this.  Its like the World has been wound up to a point of no return now)
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everlastinglove_MJTopic starter

@DancingTheDream
The song and video We've Had Enough fits very well here in this topic. Thank you.

Quote
When innocence is standing by
Watching people loosing lives
It seem as if we have no voice
It's time for us to make a choice

It is a strong and intense song of Michael.

We've Had Enough by Michael Jackson

Love was taken from a young live
And no one told her why
Her direction has a dimlight
From one more violent crime
She innocently questioned why
Why her father had to die
She asked the men in blue
How is it that you get to choose
Who will live and who will die
Did god told you you could decide?
You saw he didn't run
And then my daddy had no gun

In the middle of the village
Within a distant land
Lies a cool boy with his broken toy
To young to understand
He's awaken, ground is shaking
His father grabs his hand
Screaming crying, his wife's dying
Now he's left to explain
He innocently questioned why
Why his mother had to die
Why did these soldiers come here for?
If they're for peace why is there war?
Did god say that they could decide
Who will live and who will die?
All my mama ever did
Was try to take care of her kids

When innocence is standing by
Watching people loosing lives
It seem as if we have no voice
It's time for us to make a choice

Only god could decide
Who will live and who will die
There's nothing that can't be done
If we raise our voice as one

Did god hear it from me?
Did god hear it from you?
Did god hear it from us?

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Did god hear it from me?
Did god hear it from you?
Did god hear it from us?

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Thank god I care for me
Thank god I care for you
Thank god it came from you babe

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Deep in my soul baby
Deep in your soul and by your side
Deep in my soul
It's so big and i'm still alive
Did god hear it from us?
We can't take it
We've already had enough
It's going down baby
Just let god decide,
It's going on baby
Just let god decide
Deep in my soul baby
We've already had enough
Did god hear it from me?
Did god hear it from you ?
Did god hear it from us?
We can't, we can't
We've already had enough

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curls

This is an incredibly powerful song - I don't know why it never made it to one of his main albums. I hope you won't be offended if I alter some of the lyrics that I think aren't quite right:

Quote from: "everlastinglove_MJ"

We've Had Enough by Michael Jackson

Love was taken from a young live (life)
And no one told her why
Her direction has a dimlight
From one more violent crime
She innocently questioned why
Why her father had to die
She asked the men in blue
How is it that you get to choose
Who will live and who will die
Did god told you you could decide? (Did God say that you could decide?)
You saw he didn't run
And then my daddy had no gun (And that my daddy had no gun)

In the middle of the village
Within a distant land (Way in a distant land)
Lies a cool boy with his broken toy (a poor boy)
To young to understand
He's awaken, ground is shaking
His father grabs his hand
Screaming crying, his wife's dying
Now he's left to explain
He innocently questioned why
Why his mother had to die
Why did these soldiers come here for? (What did ....)
If they're for peace why is there war?
Did god say that they could decide
Who will live and who will die?
All my mama ever did
Was try to take care of her kids

When innocence is standing by (We're innocently standing by)
Watching people loosing lives
It seem as if we have no voice
It's time for us to make a choice

Only god could decide
Who will live and who will die
There's nothing that can't be done
If we raise our voice as one

Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Thank god I care for me (They've gotta hear it from me)
Thank god I care for you (They've gotta hear it from you)
Thank god it came from you babe (They've gotta hear it from you baby)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Deep in my soul baby
Deep in your soul and by your side (Deep in your soul and let God decide)
Deep in my soul
It's so big and i'm still alive (It's up to me and I'm still alive)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)
We can't take it
We've already had enough
It's going down baby
Just let god decide,
It's going on baby
Just let god decide
Deep in my soul baby
We've already had enough
Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you ? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)
We can't, we can't
We've already had enough

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everlastinglove_MJTopic starter

Quote from: "curls"
This is an incredibly powerful song - I don't know why it never made it to one of his main albums. I hope you won't be offended if I alter some of the lyrics that I think aren't quite right:

Quote from: "everlastinglove_MJ"

We've Had Enough by Michael Jackson

Love was taken from a young live (life)
And no one told her why
Her direction has a dimlight
From one more violent crime
She innocently questioned why
Why her father had to die
She asked the men in blue
How is it that you get to choose
Who will live and who will die
Did god told you you could decide? (Did God say that you could decide?)
You saw he didn't run
And then my daddy had no gun (And that my daddy had no gun)

In the middle of the village
Within a distant land (Way in a distant land)
Lies a cool boy with his broken toy (a poor boy)
To young to understand
He's awaken, ground is shaking
His father grabs his hand
Screaming crying, his wife's dying
Now he's left to explain
He innocently questioned why
Why his mother had to die
Why did these soldiers come here for? (What did ....)
If they're for peace why is there war?
Did god say that they could decide
Who will live and who will die?
All my mama ever did
Was try to take care of her kids

When innocence is standing by (We're innocently standing by)
Watching people loosing lives
It seem as if we have no voice
It's time for us to make a choice

Only god could decide
Who will live and who will die
There's nothing that can't be done
If we raise our voice as one

Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Thank god I care for me (They've gotta hear it from me)
Thank god I care for you (They've gotta hear it from you)
Thank god it came from you babe (They've gotta hear it from you baby)

We can't take it
We've already had enough

Deep in my soul baby
Deep in your soul and by your side (Deep in your soul and let God decide)
Deep in my soul
It's so big and i'm still alive (It's up to me and I'm still alive)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)
We can't take it
We've already had enough
It's going down baby
Just let god decide,
It's going on baby
Just let god decide
Deep in my soul baby
We've already had enough
Did god hear it from me? (They've gotta hear it from me)
Did god hear it from you ? (They've gotta hear it from you)
Did god hear it from us? (They've gotta hear it from us)
We can't, we can't
We've already had enough

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Thanks and no I don't feel offended, I copied&pasted it from lyricstime.com. I agree this song deserves much more attention. In fact it should be rereleased again.
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paula-c

The key to African: Gaddafi and the "oil blow" CIA Libya

In Libya, the key objective of attempting to overthrow Gaddafi is petroleum. Great mobilizing dynamics of military invasions, wars and regional conflicts, and internal shock of the CIA worn leaders and Presidents who already not "closed" hegemonic strategic control of the imperial power of the capitalist system is the seizure of the markets and natural sources of "black gold". A resource key (and endangered) for the future survival of the central powers.
By Manuel Freytas
IAR News - February 23, 2011

African oil key
The Libya was sung. It is the Grand Prize on the Board of the "popular revolts" armed and organized by the CIA, Mossad and services "allies" in Africa and the Middle East.
After starting a "democratic" remodeling project expelling their worn dictators allies in Egypt and Tunisia, U.S. goes by Libyan oil and a strategic location on the device of military geopolitical control in Africa.
For U.S. and global imperial power centres, Africa is a continent safe oil supply that contrabalancea conflict instability of an explosive Middle East, and a Central Asia in ongoing dispute between Russia axis and the "Western" block EU-USA.

Within the "cold war" energy with China and Putin Russia, American imperial power and its multinationals try to turn Africa into a sort of security against an explosive energy mattress Iran and the Middle East crossed by military conflicts.
The importance of Africa as a supplier of oil to the central powers is key. Already produces around 12% of consumed worldwide and 25% of what consume us, most of the latter imports from Saudi Arabia.
From the geopolitical and strategic framework of the "war on terrorism" USA, locomotive power of the capitalist system and its partners in the major European powers, advance in their conquest of Africa project to position in control of their energy and mineral reserves.
This project responded Bush create Administration decision the "The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), a command of"counter-terrorism war"which began to operate actively in the region in 2008"


Geopolitical and military control of the African continent, which produces between 12 and 14 million barrels per day of oil (estimates by 2012), gives us the room for manoeuvre and sufficient security which justify the military in these countries interventions.
African Governments controlled by oligarchs and "warlords" funded and protected by Washington, are increasingly more powerless to control armed nationalist movements that hinder looting of TNCs, as it is the case of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
In this scenario, and following the new doctrine in the quadrennial defence February 2006 revision, the Pentagon began to develop military operations in high level throughout Africa, mainly in their energy regions and key Southern and northern mining, creating specialized units dedicated to education and training of local in the "fight against terrorism" troops.

Operational strategy includes meetings between staffs of regional countries with official and Pentagon officials, maneuvers and joint exercises of the troops, systematic flights of aircraft recognition, location of photos taken by U.S. military satellites and provision of arms and technology of high precision to the forces involved in the "war on terror".
The Pentagon on Africa strategy responds to a double objective, geopolítico-militar and economic.
In addition to the business that provides the armamentistas and the service contractors from Pentagon increased military operations against "terrorism" in the region, it is estimated that Africa and its regions will provide, in just one decade, 25% of the crude oil which will consume us in 2015.

Control access to these sources has become a central strategic goal for Washington and its corporations protected by the Pentagon.
The role and mission of new military command USA for Africa, is the monitor and control African energy sources, as well as its global distribution (pipelines, tankers, and routes) systems.
And that is what American troops and Government puppets "associated" such as Nigeria and Yemen (among others) using justified rebels and population mass extermination under the argument of the fight against "terrorist groups" are doing.
This primary mission of the imperial troops was stated in the beginning, by President Jimmy Carter in January 1980, when he described the oil flow from the Persian Gulf and Africa as a "vital interest" for the United States.
Carter, then selected Nobel "paz" award, said us should use "any means that would be necessary," including military force to deal with and neutralize any attempt by a "hostile" power to block these strategic resources.
With the creation of the new unified command for military operations in Africa (AFRICOM), announced by Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates in February 2007, Washington and its oil corporations, behind the façade of the "counter-terrorism war" began a totalizado scheme of control and seizure of oil and the strategic resources of the black continent.
In this scenario you have to read the events of "popular revolts" organized by the CIA in Africa and the Middle East, and the bloody internal coup running against Gaddafi in Libya.
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The "oil coup" in Libya

Unlike the rest of the processes of "popular in the Arab World Islamic protest" infiltrated by the CIA and "Allied" intelligences, Libya falls in operating patterns of the "Orange revolutions" in the Soviet space or "Buddhists in Tibet and Burma, shock" or "reformist" rebellion to overthrow the ayatollahs in Iran, framed in the new "cold war" areas of influence (military and commercial) that keeps the capitalist axis Russia with the capitalist axis USA-EU-Israel.
The coup against Gaddafi is seizure of Libyan oil, whose control (as happened with Iran in 1979) lost with the advent of Gaddafi Libya leadership in 1969.
Libya, Member of the Organization of producers of petroleum countries (OPEC), is the fourth largest producer of oil in Africa, Nigeria, Algeria and Angola, with about 1.8 million barrels per day and has reserves evaluated in 42,000 million barrels.
American (EIA) energy information agency Libya was in 2009 the fourth largest producer of oil in Africa with a production of 1,789 million barrels per day, behind Nigeria (2,211 mbd), Algeria (2,125 mbd) and Angola (1,948 mbd).
Libya also wants to develop its natural gas production, sector which has reserves estimated at 1,540 trillion cubic meters, according to the Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC).
The country has doubled nearly exports of natural gas annually, according to OPEC statistics in three years of 5,400 million m3 in 2005 to more than 10,000 million m3.
Libya exports most of its oil to the countries of Europe, including Italy, Germany, Spain and France, and although they participate in the business, American oil companies have hegemony in extraction and marketing of crude oil in that country.
This data is key to understand the internal blow that CIA released mounted Libya in the facade of the "Arab riots" against "dictatorial regimes in Africa and Middle East"
In the same way as trafficking to destabilize Iran with the same operational methodology for infiltration and political orientation of the "outcry" Washington takes this scenario to launch an internal movement oreintado to overthrow Gaddafi, an "unstable" ally that favors relations with Europe and bankrupt countries within the "axis of evil".
The arrival of Colonel Gaddafi to power in 1969, oil, mainly American companies extracted Libyan soil more than 2 million barrels per day.
But very quickly, the Libyan leader nationalized oil, limited production, stripped the hegemony of extraction and marketing at American Octopus and created the national carrier of petroleum (NOC), which launched ventures with minority participation of foreign companies.
After over twenty years of isolation, Gaddafi regime reopened the energy resources and oil Libyan West, to the voracity of the oil companies mainly from the European Union.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the first to shake hands with the "old enemy" of the West in Tripoli. In doing so, he began to lead Libya outside of financial marginality and releasing it into the arms of Royal Dutch/Shell and BAE Systems, listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Visit Blair to Libya in 2004, the first of a British leader since 1943, was marked by a partnership established between Shell and the Libyan State oil company, some 30 years after the Anglo-Dutch firm produce modified in Libyan soil.
Since 2003 Libya installed the Italian company ENI, French TOTAL, Spanish REPSOL YPF and angloholandesa Royal Dutch Shell. Usamericanas Chevron and West had to wait three years for us to lift their trade sanctions login in Libyan oil cake.
In 2010, from January to November, the European Member countries of the Organisation for co-operation and economic development (OECD) bought an average of 1.06 million b/d of Libya, said the International Energy Agency (IEA).
In this scenario on "postponement" (participation in Libya isn't hegemonic) American oil consortia in relation to Europeans brand Central leading line of current operations destabilizing and coup against Gaddafi in Libya.
The current repressive scenario in Libya, checks the presence of well-known international actors and coup USA operations repeated as a calque globally with different names, like "Orange revolutions" in the former Soviet countries, "Buddhist rebellion" in Tibet and Southeast Asia, and the recent so-called "revolts Arab Islamic" which propagate through Africa, Middle East and threaten to spread to China, Russia and former Soviet countries.
On the one hand Gaddafi and his regime more than 40 years closed its borders to international press and suppressed in bloody form with military force to "opposition" groups armed and funded by the CIA and the "Western services".
And on the other, "democratising" block with USA, EU, UN and NGOs in the CIA creates internal and international conditions to finish with Gaddafi and install a "democratic Government" controlled by Washington.
Old strategies, old operations, and old well-known actors. The strategic objective is always the same: control geopolitico and regional military, Government control, control of strategic resources and control markets.
In Libya, the key objective of attempting to overthrow Gaddafi is petroleum.
Great mobilizing dynamics of military invasions, wars and regional conflicts and internal shock of the CIA worn leaders and Presidents who already not "closed" hegemonic strategic control of the imperial power of the capitalist system is the seizure of the markets and natural sources of "black gold".
A resource key (and endangered) for the future survival of the central powers.


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Hello all you guys, thanks for all your  feedback, I wish I could answer each one of you separately, but, lol, I am still cleaning my computer ...makes it kind of cumbersome..

But anyway, "all I got to say is" ... a la the beautiful MISS Paris.. :lol: .
"The Peoples'  Revolution" was a more than a bit of a  farce people.

Wake up people,....
 and don't forget , we on this forum are to look deeper into the Media reports to see what is fact and what is lies
..well, I already had a good idea what was really going on, but now I am in the know for real..check it out for yourself...

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Lies , Lies and more Lies LOL. :roll: .

I really recommend, for all who are interested on this subject, to read to the finish.
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New America Media, News Analysis, Yoichi Shimatsu, Posted: Feb 23, 2011
America's Next War Looms in Libya

In what country have Americans fought more wars than in any other?
The runners-up include the two wars in Iraq; a pair for Germany; Britain twice in the Revolution and 1812; and Cuba, a double-header if the covert Bay of Pigs operation is included.
The invasions of Canada don't count since it was still a British colony. These worthy foes fall short by half. The U.S. Marine Corps ditty about the "shores of Tripoli" provides a clue.

The answer was given away by Muammar Gadhafi in his defiant comeback speech on Feb. 22, accusing the U.S. of instigating the current rebellion against his regime.

His head wrapped in a saffron turban, he gave a rousing, if rambling, account of surviving dozens of U.S. bombs that blasted his desert encampment, wounding him and killing more than 40 aides in 1986.

The correct answer then is Libya, with four wars and counting. The two Barbary Wars of 1805 and 1815 were the first expeditionary campaigns for the newborn American republic.

Storming across the Sahara in 1943, Gen. George Patton led the Allied attack on Rommel's Afrikacorps. Libya was then a colony of Mussolini Italy, one of the Axis powers.

Later in 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes against Gadhafi's tent in a near-miss assassination attempt.

Now a chorus of human rights activists are calling for the U.S. military to impose a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace, as was done over Kosovo during the NATO campaign to partition Yugoslavia in the late 1990s.

 In the Balkans case, the no-fly policy led to shoot-downs followed by an invasion of ground troops.

Gadhafi's fiery pledge "to die as a martyr" is a signal that he is anticipating the Fifth American-Libyan War.

 President Barack Obama, with ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and his own record of civilian casualties, has so far not escalated beyond covert support for America's newfound allies among Islamic extremists and terrorists.

Triple-Dealing in Tripoli

Libyan exiles and defectors deem Gadhafi to be out of touch with reality. Diplomats at the United Nations are shocked by his use of abusive language, with outright threats to kill rebels.

 They're not the first to be outraged. Reagan, in a fit of righteous anger, called Gadhafi a "mad dog,” a term traditionally used for Englishmen.

Yet in 1993, Gadhafi was hailed by the West as a model of virtue and sanity in the Mideast for his pledge to forsake weapons of mass destruction. The Rabta chemical weapons facility was converted into a pharmaceutical plant.

Relations with Washington and London were normalized and soon Western oil companies including Chevron, Occidental, ConocoPhillips, Marathon and BP were exploring and drilling for oil and gas in Libya.

Following the 9-11 attacks, Libya became a key ally in America's war on terror, particularly in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, who escaped to the Saharan region at the start of the Afghan War, as I was told by sources from the Taliban while war reporting at that time.

The Pentagon has since established a special forces base in the southwestern region of Fezzan. Under a $165 million contract, General Dynamics provided high-tech communications for Libya's mobile elite forces.


Thus for the Libyan strongman to renounce his new ties with the U.S. and accuse Washington of instigating protests cannot be mad ravings but must have some basis in fact.

As shown in U.S. diplomatic cables, the U.S. intrigues against Gadhafi involve covert ties with religious extremists, including the Islamic Fighting Group, or al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya al-Muqatilah, which is on the State Department list of terrorist groups.

Most people around the world assume that the war on terrorism since the 9-11 attacks definitively ended any American and British support for Islamist insurgents. It didn't. Washington isn't just double-dealing; it's been triple-dealing in Tripoli.

Oil and Religion

In possibly his last televised speech, Gadhafi described himself as a child of the desert, a "Bedouin revolutionary" who dared to challenge the colonial powers and their regional puppets. He disparaged the protesters as "greasy rats" and "terrorists" who aim to divide the country into "emirates" under the flag, not of revolutionary Libya, but of the old colonialist-backed monarchy.

His words are something more than a dictator's rant.
They ring true in the light of the Libyan revolution of 1969, which established the principle of Jamahiriya or the State of the People.


Libya sits on a reserve of more than 30 billion barrels of light sweet crude, remarkably low in sulfur, acid and tar. Libyan petroleum, with its low refining costs, is premier grade as Petrus is to wine. Americans have always desired that oil, and in World War II, planted Wheelus Airfield on Libyan soil to claim those reserves for Esso (today's Exxon-Mobil).

The U.S. backed the 1951 enthronement of Libya's first and last monarch, King Idriss. His claim to royalty arose from his prior position as the Emir of Cyrenaica, awarded to him by the Italian colonialists and affirmed under the British occupation of eastern Libya, which lasted through World War II to 1951.

In 1969, the young Colonel Gadhafi launched a military coup to oust the puppet king. His first decision, as recalled in the recent speech, was to "expel five American military bases," including the Strategic Air Command's Wheelus Airfield, closed in 1970.

In the late-1960s, Gadhafi created the National Oil Corporation, which wrested control of exploration away from Esson (EXXon today) (.

The deposed king's base in Cyrenaica, or Barqa in Arabic, with its major cities of Benghazi and Derna, is at the center of the current "democracy" rebellion.

Also known as Sheikh Sidi Idriss, he was leader of the Senussi sect, which was affiliated with the ultra-orthodox Salafi movement in the Arabian Peninsula and, more recently, with the Muslim Brotherhood in next-door Egypt.

Fanaticism Posing as Reason

Given the orthodox climate in Cyrenaica, it is not surprising then that the senior cleric of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has just issued a fatwa against Gadhafi, urging Libyan soldiers to fire on their commander in chief.

This is not the first time that the 84-year-old Egyptian scholar has been involved in such threats against secular political leaders. Following an assassination attempt against Egypt's first president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the cleric was prohibited from speaking in public.

After the murder of President Anwar Sadat by Brotherhood-linked assassins, Qaradawi gave his last Friday sermon in Cairo in praise of the killers and then went into exile in Qatar.

Just prior to the outbreak of the Libyan riots, Qaradawi finally revisited Egypt to a joyous reception by more than 1 million supporters at a victory celebration in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

This aged religious scholar is promoted by human-rights groups as a voice of democracy and pluralism. Yet in the next breath, this "democrat" advocates "defensive" suicide bombings and the mandatory death penalty for homosexuals.

Qaradawi owes this popularity among an audience of 40 million Muslims to his televangelism over the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, which is also the main international news source out of North Africa.

Not by coincidence, when confronted by Libyan officials, Al Jazeera producers admitted to broadcasting faked tapes, for example, of jets flying (in daylight) over protesters (in nighttime darkness). That admission of falsified images could back the regime's claims of atrocities against civilians were exaggerated and sometimes fabricated.

Al Jazeera is financed and owned by the royal family of Qatar.

Just two weeks prior to the first Cairo protests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spend three days in Doha, Qatar, to establish a special "partnership" with Qatar. She spoke at the Forum for the Future alongside Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani

Gadhafi in his televised address appealed to Qatar, saying that he could not understand how a "brother could turn against one of his brothers."

Fratricide is not uncommon, not since Cain and Abel.

Cyrenaica, the center of the "democracy" protests, remains a hotbed of Islamist extremism ripe for turning against the Gadhafi regime with a bit of guidance from the US, according to a confidential Embassy cable, dated June 2, 2008.

 In the message titled "Die Hard in Derna,” Charge d'Affairs Chris Stevens described his visit with a Libyan subordinate to eastern Libya to meet with Islamist radicals who, like the Bruce Willis character, "stubbornly refused to die quietly."

Unofficially in the east for a visit t an American-sponsored archaeology dig, Stevens’s actual mission was to retrace the trail of foreign jihadists in Iraq. "A large number of Libyan foreign fighters (were) identified in documents captured during September's Objective Massey operation in Iraq."

A local activist confirmed those military intelligence findings. "(He told us) it was well-known that a large number of suicide bombers—invariably described as 'martyrs'—and foreign fighters in Iraq hailed from Derna, a fact in which the town 'takes great pride.’”

The informant showed the embassy intelligence official "a number of small, discrete mosques tucked away in side alleys, noting the profusion of 'popular mosques' complicated effective monitoring by security forces."

Following the 1993 thaw in U.S.-Libya relations after Gadhafi pledged to cease production of weapons of mass destruction, "many easterners feared the U.S. would not allow the regime to fall and therefore viewed direct confrontation with the government of Libya as a fool's errand.

At the same time, sending young Libyans to fight in Iraq was 'an embarrassment' to Gadhafi. Fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq represented a way for frustrated young radicals to strike a blow against both Gadhafi and against his perceived American backers."

As the cable indicated, the government was well aware that the Cyrenaica-based Islamist movement is led by "afghanis,” veteran jihadists who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Despite the cover story about visiting ancient ruins, Libyan security had picked up on the surreptitious contacts with terrorists in Derna and later Benghazi.

 At least five "emboffs,” jargon for embassy officials, were later prevented by airline security and police from traveling to meet dissidents in Benghazi, Berber areas west of Tunis and to the southern Fezzan district populated by Tuaregs.

American spies must have gotten around the travel bans since by March 9, 2009, as indicated in another cable, U.S. Ambassador to Tripoli Gene Cretz was quite upbeat about the prospects of Gadhafi's imminent political demise.

 The sharp rivalry between the al-Gadhafi children could play an important. . . . role, in whether the al-Gadhafi family is able to hold on to power after Muammar al-Gadhafi exits (one way or another) the political scene." In hindsight, the term "one way or another" has dire consequences.

Causes of Clandestine War

The insurgent's use of weapons in the Benghazi and Derna uprisings should put to rest the media myth of "peaceful protests."

In Cairo as well, foreign residents have told me that insurgent squads cut off electrical power and torched nearly every police station in the city center.

 The physical beating and sexual assault on a female ABC reporter was not done by the police but by the "peaceful protesters" who controlled Tahrir Square.

 Asian domestic workers fleeing Cairo reported that many foreign women were gang-raped in public view.

What is happening across the Magreb, or North Africa, is a U.S.-sponsored Islamic uprising, similar to the bloody Muslim coup against Indonesian independence leader Sukarno.

Barack Obama spent his formative years in the tutelage of his stepfather, an Indonesian military intelligence official involved in the massacre of 2 million supporters of the ousted president.

The covert alliance between the White House and religious extremists, including the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group is not a local affair in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia.


 The secret pact s are part of a regional strategy for North Africa on an issue important enough to allow Islamic radicals who supported the 9-11 attacks to gain state power.


The issue in one word is uranium.

Hosni Mubarak was pushing for a crash program for Egypt to develop a nuclear capability to restrain Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.

The obvious supplier of uranium is Libya.

Gadhafi has in the past obtained uranium ore in the Aozou Strip a , disputed territory between Chad and Libya.

In 1987, French paratroops disguised as Chadian soldiers drove the Libyan army out of the area.


That source of uranium could again become available due to a French-Libyan agreement to jointly build a civilian nuclear power plant, proposed during President Nicholas Sarkozy's visit to Tripoli in July 2007.

A European-approved nuclear facility would give Gadhafi the green light to resume his role as a uranium supplier while maintaining his claim of renouncing weapons of mass destruction.

 Meanwhile, Libyan-Chadian uranium could be quietly routed to Egypt via BenAli's Tunisia.

 Thus an Arab nuclear capability to deter Israeli adventurism could be realized through North African cooperation.

Washington, as the protector of Israel's nuclear monopoly over the Mideast and Africa, went for a takedown of all three regimes.

Beyond presidential resignations, however, this task could prove daunting.

In Algeria's counterinsurgency campaign in the 1990s against jihadists led by returnees from Afghanistan, up to 200,000 people were killed.
 
The other problem is that a Brotherhood -led government in Egypt cannot be trusted not to build atomic bombs, since Qaradawi's daughter is a nuclear physicist.

Instead of managing a transition to a regional deterrence system, Washington has opened the gates of a historic catastrophe.

Yoichi Shimatsu, a former associate editor of Pacific News Service and editor of the Japan Times Weekly, reported on the rise of the Islamist extremist movement in North Africa in the 1990s.
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Did U.S. Help the Egyptian Military Stage a Coup?
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New America Media, News Analysis, Yoichi Shimatsu, Posted: Feb 18, 2011


While television cameras focused on Cairo these last few weeks, the U.S. military was busy redeploying four Navy carrier strike forces and sending Marine landing assault crafts into the Red Sea—thus reinforcing what was, in fact, a military coup in Egypt
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The redeployments were ostensibly for the rescue of American citizens if the protests in Cairo were to turn violent. But the actual objectives were quite different: first, to back up the White House's unsubtle hints for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak and his budding nuclear program, and second, to seize the Egyptian military's chemical and biological weapons in the event of a general uprising.

After the overthrow of Tunisian leader Ben Ali, the USS Enterprise moved away from Carthaginian waters, past the shores of Tripoli and toward the Suez Canal.

 But as protests spread to Cairo, this behemoth of the 5th Fleet halted its progress to stay in the Mediterranean off Alexandria.

Meanwhile, the nuclear supercarriers Carl Vinson and George Washington broke away from the 7th Fleet's exercises with Japanese destroyers against North Korea and rushed to the Gulf of Aden. The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled back from the Iranian coast and moved into the Arabian Sea. Marine landing assault craft—each carrying dozens of helicopters—headed into the Red Sea.

This significant deployment of U.S. military might wasn't just a response to the recent demonstrations. It was rooted in the long relationship between the U.S. and Egyptian militaries —

 a relationship whose true nature has been obscured by Western media representations of Mubarak as a despot and cooperative underling to the U.S. government's demands.

In reality, Mubarak was a nationalist who pursued investment in civilian infrastructure and economic development projects.

His son Gamal was behind a drive to liberalize the Egyptian economy
. And the rampant corruption in Egyptian military circles was rooted in U.S. aid stipulations that all military investment in Egypt be in American defense contractors, rather than homegrown industries.

Nuclear Fishing


President Hosni Mubarak was never comfortable with chemical or biological weapons, according to an Egyptian nuclear physicist who served as a technical adviser to him.

"Chemical weapons are a poor man's deterrent, " the physicist explained recently over lunch in Dubai. "Mubarak wanted nothing to do with these, since he strongly believed that Egypt should be second to none when it comes to technology."

Another, more practical problem is that nerve gas must be periodically replenished.

This gives rise to the temptation to either sell the stuff or to use it, as happened in Saddam Hussein's wars with Iran.

As "an Air Force manMubarak considered a nuclear capability and ballistic missile program as the only appropriate deterrence between equall.

Mubarak's nuclear quest was kindled at the end of the 1990s by the NATO drive to partition the Balkans.

 "The president had a premonition that the Western powers would soon do the same to the Arab world," spurring destabilization to gain control of the region's oil resources, the scientist explained. Mubarak's instincts were soon proven correct by the U.S. effort to partition Iraq into weak Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni nations.

Mubarak approached leaders in Moscow and Beijing but was met with gloomy silence.

 "The president smoldered inside from those rebuffs; he took things personally," the physicist said. Russia and China were preoccupied by NATO's eastward expansion into the oil-rich Caspian Sea region, and neither wanted to give Washington a pretext for a second invasion of Iraq.

Contrary to the Western media's Orientalist cliche of Mubarak as a despot, the physicist's portrait revealed a technocrat who aimed to reform and modernize a stagnant economy and overhaul a backward social outlook.

 Mubarak’s early commitment to technological innovation, quite unorthodox in a bureaucratic military, won favor from President Anwar Sadat.

The mainstream army's Frontier Corps, in contrast, is firmly based on the now-conventional desert-warfare tactics pioneered by the German general Arwin Rommel in North Africa. The romance of battle tanks whirling in the sand was, in turn, rooted in the long tradition of cavalry.

Chemical Trails

The chemical weapons in Egypt are among the stockpiles the Pentagon secretly provided to Arab states to counter Iran, ,..
as told to me by a Marine who uncovered a trove of American-made nerve gas bombs during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

On the first platoon to enter the gigantic warehouses at an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad, he discovered "20-foot-long rectangular bombs, each with three flaps." The contents, he recalled, were identified as "VX" produced by "ConocoPhillips." VX is an organophosphate nerve gas similar to sarin but longer lasting.

The bomb casings bore a delivery date soon after the first Gulf War of 1991-92, indicating their role in a covert deal between the administration of George H.W. Bush and a defeated Saddam Hussein. Hussein was to resume his role as guardian of American petroleum interests in the Arabian Peninsula against Iranian expansionism.

The missing VX payload was mentioned in a 2003 report by the UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. The Marine inspector said that an Army disposal team eventually arrived to load the chemicals weapons onto trucks for air shipment to "another Mideast country." The only trustworthy ally with sufficient technical expertise outside of the immediate Iraqi theater was Egypt.

Colin Powell and his critics were therefore both correct: There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and then there were none.

The American origins of the weapons of mass destruction prevented disclosure to Congress, much less to the press. George W. Bush was put into serious jeopardy by his father's sins.

A Desert Fox

Mohamad Hussein Tantawai, the general who deposed Mubarak and is now the acting head of state, is quite the opposite in temperament from his former commander, according to an embassy cable from then Ambassador Francis Ricciardone.

 Dated March 16, 2008, and titled "Tantawi resistant to change in Egypt," the U.S. envoy asserts: "He is frozen in the Camp David paradigm and uncomfortable with our shift to the post-9/11 GWOT [global war on terror]."

Following Anwar Sadat's near-victory in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Washington brokered the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

 The Egyptian tank corps shifted from deep-penetration mobile warfare into dug-in positions to defend the recaptured Sinai Peninsula. Sadat and later Mubarak pursued a policy of limited military expenditures, investing instead in civilian infrastructure and economic development projects.

Ricciardone, who has a background in foreign intelligence, then discussed a major shift away from peacekeeping.

"We nonetheless should urge Minister Tantawi towards a broader and more flexible partnership based on shared strategic objectives, including border security, counter-terrorism…. Egyptian effectiveness in preventing arms smuggling into Gaza is essential to stopping Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. When the Secretary (of State Condaleeza Rice) pushed hard on smuggling in October 2007, the Egyptians finally got serious…."

Brother Against Brother

The cable indicates that the United States was quietly supplying the Egyptian military with seismic monitors and acoustic receivers to detect cross-border tunnel-boring.

The U.S. insistence on proactive Egyptian intervention against fellow Arabs was obviously grating the nerves of the Frontier Corpsmen, whose sole priority was holding their own territory of Sinai. The prevalent attitudes, besides sympathy for the beleaguered residents, was: "What happens in Gaza stays in Gaza." Palestinian matters are ultimately up to the Palestinians.

"EGIS Chief Omar Suleiman has the lead on negotiations with Hamas but Tantawi will also likely urge that Rafah [border crossing] be opened to ease humanitarian pressures in Gaza," the cable continued.

Ricciardone expressed concern that Tantawi's emotionalism was putting civilian lives in Gaza ahead of suppressing Hamas.

In contrast, the intelligence service boss Suleiman— later to become Mubarak's vice president—is presented as a hard-nosed professional. As disclosed by Seymour Hersh, Suleiman's special operations team in 1998-99 provided home addresses in Gaza of the more radical Hamas executives to the CIA, which in turn targeted the buildings for Israeli air strikes.

The U.S. envoy's conception of "reforming" the Egyptian military, then, was to prod it away from peacekeeping and toward becoming spotters and assassins for Israel.

"We should broaden the discussion to maritime interdiction efforts and also addressing the weapons trail, which starts in Yemen and Sudan," the cable continues. A year later, Israeli drones bombed a truck caravan in northeast Sudan, apparently to interdict rockets being smuggled to Gaza. Among the hundred victims killed were some 60 migrant workers from Ethiopia and Somalia.

The embassy cable also suggests a covert American role in the ongoing clashes inside Yemen.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

"On economic reform, Tantawi believes that Egypt's economic reform plan fosters social instability by lessening GOE [Government of Egypt] controls over prices and production," the cable continues.

Herein lies the dilemma for Washington's Egypt policy: The so-called "revolution" was actually a reaction against market reforms.

The drive to liberalize the Egyptian economy was led by Gamal Mubarak, a Western-educated investment banker. His coterie of upstart capitalists pushed to privatize and upgrade state-owned and military-run factories. The young tycoons were motivated by the dramatic modernizing efforts of the Gulf States, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia.

Gamal Mubarak urged an end to consumer subsidies to fight inflation and prompt Egyptians to adapt to a market-based price system, which then would stimulate farmers and industries to raise efficiency, output and quality.

The reformers, as is so often the case in the developing world, angered consumers who had grown soft on subsidies, workers accustomed to wages delinked from profit, military officers protective of their privileges, and mullahs intent on preserving the old ways. The whirlwind of globalization has been stopped cold by the sheer weight of tradition.

As for corruption on a large scale, it arose from a U.S. aid package that requires Cairo to purchase solely from American defense contractors, including GE, Lockheed Martin, L3 and Raytheon.

Kickbacks are nothing exceptional when it comes to defense contracts. In the private sector, “consulting fees” for telecoms and Internet-providers to obtain licenses are also an omnipresent feature of global operations, regardless of Google's posturing as the political spark for the youth movement.

What about the youth movement and its demands for change? A couple of young activists, along with a spokesman for the Kefiya party, which is favored by Washington, stated flatly to Al Jazeera that an independent youth movement never really existed.


The initial protesters on Tahrir Square mostly came from the youth wings of long-established political parties. Now that the protests are winding down, the politicians are back in the smoke-filled rooms, haggling over thumb-sized cups of coffee. The media myths out of Cairo were as humongous as the towering statues of Ramses.

The Last Act

As his enemies gathered like foxes around a wounded gazelle, Mubarak was thrown a lifeline from Riyadh on day 17. In counter-thrust to a congressional threat to cut off U.S. aid to Egypt, Saudi King Abdullah offered Cairo a dollar-per-dollar subsidy. Behind the scenes, Gamal Mubarak had pulled out all stops for a bailout from Arab oil producers, which were finally awakening from the dizzy dream cast by Al Jazeera.

Instead of announcing his resignation as planned for a late-night speech, Mubarak showed defiance against the treachery of his Western allies. By then, it was too late.

A Saudi-Egyptian partnership independent of the West is, of course, intolerable for a Washington fearful of genuine Arab power. With four U.S. carrier strike groups closing in, the Egyptian military had to pull the carpet out from under their war hero and patriarch, Hosni Mubarak.

What remains is not a libertarian democracy, just the pyramids — the institutional hierarchies of Egyptian society — and perhaps with the coming elections, an Islamic order.

Yoichi Shimatsu, former associate editor with Pacific New Service and with the Japan Times group, has reported extensively on North Africa and the Persian Gulf region.

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