Sunday, January 30, 2011

Egypt, Wikileaks: "From a secret U.S. support leaders facing"

The United States, while supporting the allied government of Hosni Mubarak, at least three years secretly supporting dissidents who were behind the revolt of the square in recent days as part of a plan to promote a "regime change" in favor of democracy in Cairo in 2011: what is revealed today the site of the British newspaper The Telegraph, quoting a secret diplomatic documents published by Wikileaks site.

This document is dated 30 December 2008 and comes from the U.S. embassy in Cairo. In it, the ambassador, Margaret Scobey, said that a "young dissident Egyptian movement" April 6, whose name is omitted, was helped by the same embassy in Washington to attend a meeting of dissidents (Alliance of Youth Movements Summit), sponsored by the State Department, experts and U.S.

officials. On his return to Cairo, the Egyptian dissident has revealed that U.S. diplomats had been formed an alliance of opposition groups with a plan in 2011 to overthrow the government of President Mubarak and to install on the banks of the Nile a democratic government, before presidential elections scheduled for September this year.

The dispatch revealed by Wikileaks says that "various forces of opposition" Egypt had reached an agreement to "support a plan is not written for a transition to a parliamentary democracy, with fewer powers to the President (Republic of) and more to the prime minister and parliament , before the presidential elections scheduled for 2011.

" There is also added that the plan is "so delicate that it can not be put in writing" and that the identity of the dissident to be kept hidden to avoid reprisals on his return to Egypt. Ambassador Scobey, finally, asks whether the plan, calling them "unrealistic" to work.

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