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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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I knew that this story would be popular, so I put a watermark on the photo of the suit with his name on it to stop people from stealing it:

But I was not obnoxious enough….and my photo is being cropped by other bloggers without credit and are getting picked up in news stories again without any credit to me.

Alas, another scoop that got away from me.



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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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Bucking nearly 30 years of dictatorial rule, the Egyptian people peacefully compelled President Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power in early February. While many nations heralded the success of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, Israel’s right-wing government views “elections in Egypt [as] dangerous” and clung to the hope that its “close friend” and ally Mubarak would weather the democratic protests and remain in power. Despite the U.S.’s dismissal of this view, the Israeli government’s decision to side with a dictator over democracy found support among a wide array of right-wing figures.

For instance, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), GOP Conference Chair Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), former Ambassador John Bolton, likely presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK), and Fox News host Glenn Beck seemed comfortable championing the autocratic rule of a deposed dictator. However, the Bush Administration’s Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had a different word for it: “crazy.”

On Fareed Zakaria GPS yesterday, Wolfowitz pointed out that “Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt” instead of clinging to a “misplaced” nostalgia about an “irrelevant” regime. Wolfowitz also slammed the right-wing habit marginalizing Muslims as “dangerous,” adding “we shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.”

ZAKARIA: You have people on the right effectively saying that the Obama Administration junked Mubarak too soon, that they should’ve supported him more, that they are allying for the rise of an Islamic caliphate. And of course the Israelis who really do seem to have deep Mubarak nostalgia.

WOLFOWITZ: It’s crazy. The Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt. If only cynically, I mean, they — instead of associating themselves with a dead regime, they should try to find allies in Egypt. And I would assume there are millions of Egyptians who do not want to restart a war with Israel. And Mubarak wasn’t such a great bargain. He filled the Egyptian state-controlled media with anti-American junk, with anti-Israeli junk, even with violently anti-Semitic junk. So — but the nostalgia — I think the nostalgia is misplaced, but it’s completely irrelevant now. They and we should be thinking about the future.

ZAKARIA: What about the American right? Has it become so fearful of some kind of radical Islam that it is losing sight of the importance of democracy in your view?

WOLFOWITZ:…The view that I would like to associate with is the one I think of is Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan who believed that support for freedom, support for democracy is not only something that is morally important for the United States but equally, is strategically important that a freer, more democratic world is good for us….There is a dangerous argument I think that almost says if your a Muslim and you’re not an extremist, then you’re not a good Muslim. And that’s coming from people who aren’t Muslims at all….We shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.

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Unfortunately for Wolfowitz and other sober-minded national security experts, the GOP is committed to dragging Muslims through the mud. Dismissing Wolfowitz’s experience as “political correctness,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will begin his anti-American Muslim hearings on March 9 to prove that America’s “best allies” are somehow “the enemies within” — despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Bucking nearly 30 years of dictatorial rule, the Egyptian people peacefully compelled President Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power in early February. While many nations heralded the success of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, Israel’s right-wing government views “elections in Egypt [as] dangerous” and clung to the hope that its “close friend” and ally Mubarak would weather the democratic protests and remain in power. Despite the U.S.’s dismissal of this view, the Israeli government’s decision to side with a dictator over democracy found support among a wide array of right-wing figures.

For instance, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), GOP Conference Chair Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), former Ambassador John Bolton, likely presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK), and Fox News host Glenn Beck seemed comfortable championing the autocratic rule of a deposed dictator. However, the Bush Administration’s Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had a different word for it: “crazy.”

On Fareed Zakaria GPS yesterday, Wolfowitz pointed out that “Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt” instead of clinging to a “misplaced” nostalgia about an “irrelevant” regime. Wolfowitz also slammed the right-wing habit marginalizing Muslims as “dangerous,” adding “we shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.”

ZAKARIA: You have people on the right effectively saying that the Obama Administration junked Mubarak too soon, that they should’ve supported him more, that they are allying for the rise of an Islamic caliphate. And of course the Israelis who really do seem to have deep Mubarak nostalgia.

WOLFOWITZ: It’s crazy. The Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt. If only cynically, I mean, they — instead of associating themselves with a dead regime, they should try to find allies in Egypt. And I would assume there are millions of Egyptians who do not want to restart a war with Israel. And Mubarak wasn’t such a great bargain. He filled the Egyptian state-controlled media with anti-American junk, with anti-Israeli junk, even with violently anti-Semitic junk. So — but the nostalgia — I think the nostalgia is misplaced, but it’s completely irrelevant now. They and we should be thinking about the future.

ZAKARIA: What about the American right? Has it become so fearful of some kind of radical Islam that it is losing sight of the importance of democracy in your view?

WOLFOWITZ:…The view that I would like to associate with is the one I think of is Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan who believed that support for freedom, support for democracy is not only something that is morally important for the United States but equally, is strategically important that a freer, more democratic world is good for us….There is a dangerous argument I think that almost says if your a Muslim and you’re not an extremist, then you’re not a good Muslim. And that’s coming from people who aren’t Muslims at all….We shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.

Watch it:

Unfortunately for Wolfowitz and other sober-minded national security experts, the GOP is committed to dragging Muslims through the mud. Dismissing Wolfowitz’s experience as “political correctness,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will begin his anti-American Muslim hearings on March 9 to prove that America’s “best allies” are somehow “the enemies within” — despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Bucking nearly 30 years of dictatorial rule, the Egyptian people peacefully compelled President Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power in early February. While many nations heralded the success of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, Israel’s right-wing government views “elections in Egypt [as] dangerous” and clung to the hope that its “close friend” and ally Mubarak would weather the democratic protests and remain in power. Despite the U.S.’s dismissal of this view, the Israeli government’s decision to side with a dictator over democracy found support among a wide array of right-wing figures.

For instance, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), GOP Conference Chair Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), former Ambassador John Bolton, likely presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK), and Fox News host Glenn Beck seemed comfortable championing the autocratic rule of a deposed dictator. However, the Bush Administration’s Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had a different word for it: “crazy.”

On Fareed Zakaria GPS yesterday, Wolfowitz pointed out that “Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt” instead of clinging to a “misplaced” nostalgia about an “irrelevant” regime. Wolfowitz also slammed the right-wing habit marginalizing Muslims as “dangerous,” adding “we shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.”

ZAKARIA: You have people on the right effectively saying that the Obama Administration junked Mubarak too soon, that they should’ve supported him more, that they are allying for the rise of an Islamic caliphate. And of course the Israelis who really do seem to have deep Mubarak nostalgia.

WOLFOWITZ: It’s crazy. The Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt. If only cynically, I mean, they — instead of associating themselves with a dead regime, they should try to find allies in Egypt. And I would assume there are millions of Egyptians who do not want to restart a war with Israel. And Mubarak wasn’t such a great bargain. He filled the Egyptian state-controlled media with anti-American junk, with anti-Israeli junk, even with violently anti-Semitic junk. So — but the nostalgia — I think the nostalgia is misplaced, but it’s completely irrelevant now. They and we should be thinking about the future.

ZAKARIA: What about the American right? Has it become so fearful of some kind of radical Islam that it is losing sight of the importance of democracy in your view?

WOLFOWITZ:…The view that I would like to associate with is the one I think of is Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan who believed that support for freedom, support for democracy is not only something that is morally important for the United States but equally, is strategically important that a freer, more democratic world is good for us….There is a dangerous argument I think that almost says if your a Muslim and you’re not an extremist, then you’re not a good Muslim. And that’s coming from people who aren’t Muslims at all….We shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.

Watch it:

Unfortunately for Wolfowitz and other sober-minded national security experts, the GOP is committed to dragging Muslims through the mud. Dismissing Wolfowitz’s experience as “political correctness,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will begin his anti-American Muslim hearings on March 9 to prove that America’s “best allies” are somehow “the enemies within” — despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Bucking nearly 30 years of dictatorial rule, the Egyptian people peacefully compelled President Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power in early February. While many nations heralded the success of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, Israel’s right-wing government views “elections in Egypt [as] dangerous” and clung to the hope that its “close friend” and ally Mubarak would weather the democratic protests and remain in power. Despite the U.S.’s dismissal of this view, the Israeli government’s decision to side with a dictator over democracy found support among a wide array of right-wing figures.

For instance, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), GOP Conference Chair Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), former Ambassador John Bolton, likely presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK), and Fox News host Glenn Beck seemed comfortable championing the autocratic rule of a deposed dictator. However, the Bush Administration’s Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had a different word for it: “crazy.”

On Fareed Zakaria GPS yesterday, Wolfowitz pointed out that “Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt” instead of clinging to a “misplaced” nostalgia about an “irrelevant” regime. Wolfowitz also slammed the right-wing habit marginalizing Muslims as “dangerous,” adding “we shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.”

ZAKARIA: You have people on the right effectively saying that the Obama Administration junked Mubarak too soon, that they should’ve supported him more, that they are allying for the rise of an Islamic caliphate. And of course the Israelis who really do seem to have deep Mubarak nostalgia.

WOLFOWITZ: It’s crazy. The Israelis should welcome what’s happened in Egypt. If only cynically, I mean, they — instead of associating themselves with a dead regime, they should try to find allies in Egypt. And I would assume there are millions of Egyptians who do not want to restart a war with Israel. And Mubarak wasn’t such a great bargain. He filled the Egyptian state-controlled media with anti-American junk, with anti-Israeli junk, even with violently anti-Semitic junk. So — but the nostalgia — I think the nostalgia is misplaced, but it’s completely irrelevant now. They and we should be thinking about the future.

ZAKARIA: What about the American right? Has it become so fearful of some kind of radical Islam that it is losing sight of the importance of democracy in your view?

WOLFOWITZ:…The view that I would like to associate with is the one I think of is Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan who believed that support for freedom, support for democracy is not only something that is morally important for the United States but equally, is strategically important that a freer, more democratic world is good for us….There is a dangerous argument I think that almost says if your a Muslim and you’re not an extremist, then you’re not a good Muslim. And that’s coming from people who aren’t Muslims at all….We shouldn’t say anyone who is of that faith is a problem, they are our best allies.

Watch it:

Unfortunately for Wolfowitz and other sober-minded national security experts, the GOP is committed to dragging Muslims through the mud. Dismissing Wolfowitz’s experience as “political correctness,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will begin his anti-American Muslim hearings on March 9 to prove that America’s “best allies” are somehow “the enemies within” — despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Via the BBC:  Hosni Mubarak: Egypt’s former leader given travel ban

Egypt’s public prosecutor has issued a travel ban on ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family.

The order also freezes their money and assets, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said.

[…]

Egypt has already requested a number of governments to freeze the overseas assets of the Mubarak family.

Protesters and anti-corruption campaigners have been pressing for an investigation into the Mubarak family’s assets, put at anywhere from $ 1bn to $ 70bn (£616m-£43bn).




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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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Mubarak’s narcissism apparently knew no bounds.

I saw an Arabic news video that showed what appeared to be Hosni Mubarak wearing a suit that had his name sown in, repeatedly, as the pinstripe pattern:

So I went hunting for the original photo, and, sure enough…it’s there! HOSNYMUBARAK, over and over again.

Here is what the original photo looks like:

And here’s what it looks like up close:

Who knew we were spelling his name wrong all this time?

(The photo was taken in October of 2009.)



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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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All unpopular dictators are kept in place by a network of Secret Police. These people have no loyalty to the people they bully and spy on and will go to any lengths to do the dirty work of the person who pays their wages. More than foreign aid and more than weapons supplied by foreign aid it is the Secret Police which keeps the unpopular dictator in power.

In Egypt 80 million people have been kept under the thumb, poor and corruptly exploited by the Secret Police. In the hours leading up to Mubarak’s resignation what will the Secret Police be doing? Will they be working on a last attempt to thwart the will of the people or was their attack (when they were bussed in by Mubarak’s network) on the peaceful protesters in Cairo? 

Let’s hope that the Secret Police have also resigned and are now acting to cover their tracks so they will not be identified after Mubarak flees. There is a chance that vigilantes and others with just grudges against the Secret Police who have tortured and killed opposition members will more to avenge themselves. Let’s hope that the new regime in Egypt will not sink to the levels of the Secret Police.

Added After Mubarak’s Speech on Egyptian State TV 10th February 2011

Mubarak has now refused to leave and is still clinging to power. The crowds are angry. But what of the Secret Police? Mubarak said that any who have spilt the blood of protesters will be punished. It is possible that Mubarak is now setting his Secret Police up to take the blame.

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Quelle surprise.

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