Congrats to the people of Egypt - the voices of the people have been heard. To the extent that President Morsi failed to heed the voices of the people demanding that he govern equitably and not as the Dictator he believed that he was , then shame on him......
What is fascinating to ponder though is why did the US go to the mat to try to save Morsi - even threatening to put Egypt's foreign aid in question unless Morsi was retained ? Kind of a head scratcher at first glance , just Obama being politically tone deaf once again , right ? Obama on the wrong side of history again , right ? Or just odd ......Well , maybe not as odd as we make think - consider the following ....
http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2013/07/01/the-muslim-brotherhoods-connection-to-benghazi-n1631660/page/full
What is fascinating to ponder though is why did the US go to the mat to try to save Morsi - even threatening to put Egypt's foreign aid in question unless Morsi was retained ? Kind of a head scratcher at first glance , just Obama being politically tone deaf once again , right ? Obama on the wrong side of history again , right ? Or just odd ......Well , maybe not as odd as we make think - consider the following ....
http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2013/07/01/the-muslim-brotherhoods-connection-to-benghazi-n1631660/page/full
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On Wednesday June 26, 2013 reports began to pop up across the Arabic world citing an internal Libyan government memo that has not yet been acknowledged in the American press.
*Photo Courtesy of Raymond Ibrahim
http://godfatherpolitics.com/11566/could-obama-morsi-have-conspired-on-benghazi/
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-03/obamas-releases-first-public-statement-egypt
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2013 19:06 -0400
The memo is pictured here:
*Photo Courtesy of Raymond Ibrahim
Multiple sources have confirmed this document details several confessions of the six Egyptians in Libyan custody for the 9.11.12 bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
The document details the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as being involved with and in the funding, support, planning, and execution of the attack.
What is unique about this document is that its content wasn't leaked to the press in some sort of salacious move. This is simply an interdepartmental memo from the Libyan National Security offices in Tripoli to the Ministry of the Interior. Written solely as a perfunctory after-action report as the results of the Libyan investigation in the events of that night.
It was prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, the Director of National Security of Libya.
In his report Sharif conveys that the Libyan investigation unearthed an Egyptian (terror) cell that had been involved in the planning and execution of the attack. Six confessions from those arrested at the scene--all of them Egyptian--and all connected to the U.S. terror watch listed group Ansar al-Sharia.
Concerning the most important claim of the Libyan memo, Raymond Ibrahim, (an American research librarian, translator, and author, whose focus is Arabic history, language, and current events) indicates that "during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members 'confessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi...'"
The investigation also seems to have unearthed a video taken the night of the attack in which members of the jihadists identify themselves as being sent personally by "Dr. Morsi."
If in fact Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was even remotely involved, tacitly aware, or even seen giving nodding approval, why on earth did President Obama turn around and deliver 16 fighter jets and 200 tanks to the Egyptian regime roughly three months later?
Why was Morsi invited to the White House in September 2012? Then invited for December 5, 2012? Then February 2013, then March? Why does his visit get continually postponed as though the White House seems to know something about him and his visit that they are not comfortable with?
Why was the President so thoroughly unreachable when the attack took place, and for a period of six to eight hours, incapable of accounting for where he was as the worst of it played out?
Why did Hillary Clinton give her support to the Brotherhood's pet project at the United Nations--to declare blasphemy of Islam a global crime?
Why did the Obama White House and the National Security Council meet with and host a Muslim Brotherhood radical on June 13, 2013? (Who is the personal assistant to a terrorist so extreme his presence is not even allowed in the U.S.?) And only confess to it when it finally is reported by the press?
And why does the current administration have as many as a half dozen mid to upper level appointees that have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood--either directly or through Brotherhood member organizations?
If you thought the answer the White House gave us on the IRS targeting of conservative groups was lame, wait till we get answers to these questions!
This document was merely a finding of the internal investigation of the Libyan investigators the Libyan internal authorities, but its findings should be printed on the front page of the New York Times.
The very sad reality of this Libyan memo, may be something too harsh for the average American to grasp.
Is it possible that something even more sinister was playing out on the night of 9.11.12, and the rationale for all the lies about the incendiary video, and Dr. Susan Rice, and the changing of the story during a Presidential debate, was in fact to keep us from having the bigger story told?
Was Egypt part of the intentional set-up with the out-of-the-blue protest at the American embassy initiated by the Morsi government to help give the Obama administration the cover for the narrative about "the video?"
There is no doubt that when Obama had the choice to assist Hosni Mubarak--who while far from perfect--kept a tight leash on the extremist elements under his rule, chose instead to push Mubarak aside in favor of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi.
And the questions persist... "why?"
Another question that also now rises: “Will the White House press corps do its job and press for answers on Egyptian involvement in 09.11.12?”
Will Congressional committees re-evaluate aid to Egypt in light of this finding? Will ANYONE in Washington take a step to do what is right, to make amends to a slain ambassador's family, the families of two Navy Seals, and a retired Airman who all lost their lives trying to serve the country they believed in?
There are a lot of questions to be answered just from the revelation of this report.
Does anyone care to do what is necessary for justice in light of it?
and more on the subject....
Could Obama, Morsi Have Conspired on Benghazi?
Members of the foreign press may have peeled back yet another layer of the coverup in the Benghazi, Libya, attack on September 11, 2012.
The Kuwaiti paper Al Rai reported, in a story picked up by several major Arabic papers, that a Libyan intelligence report implicates Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and other Egyptian leaders in funding the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
The report prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, director of national security for Libya, cites confessions from terrorists arrested at the scene of the attack that killed four Americans, including an ambassador and two SEALs.
It says, “among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheik Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Ismail."
There are no details available about how the confessions were obtained or if the prisoners confessed under duress. However, a video purportedly taken at the scene in Benghazi shows a jihadist saying in an Egyptian Arabic dialect, "Mahadesh, mahadesh yermi, Dr. Morsi ba`atna," which means, "Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, Dr. Morsi sent us," according to FrontPage Mag.
Egyptian media have asked why Morsi's name was mentioned in the video, but the Egyptian government has not offered an answer.
An Egyptian government connection might suggest an explanation why the U.S. embassy in Cairo was attacked on the same day as the mission in Benghazi and why Egypt would not allow U.S. officials to interview suspects it had in custody.
The attack in Cairo, during which the American flag was torn down and replaced with an al-Qaeda flag, was initially reported by the Obama Administration to have been the result of protests over an unknown anti-Islam YouTube movie. The Administration also tried to link the Benghazi attack to the same video.
The video excuse was a blatant lie, although the Administration and President Obama kept peddling it for several weeks.
The attack in Cairo, in fact, had been advertised in advance in Egyptian media as a demonstration for the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheik," who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his role in planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His son, Abdallah Abdel Rahman, had publicly said in July 2012 that he would organize such a protest at the Cairo embassy.
The very day of the demonstration, September 11, CNN interviewed Abdallah Abdel Rahman, who said explicitly that the protests were about freeing his father. A banner calling for the sheik's release is seen in the background of that report as CNN's correspondent walks toward the embassy.
Morsi has made the release of Rahman one of the major issues for his administration, and he had called for Rahman's freedom just a week before the Cairo protests.
Leading up to the attack in Benghazi, a group calling itself the Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades was implicated in a June bombing at the U.S. mission. It also had targeted the convoy of a British ambassador in Benghazi. The same group has been connected to the January seige at the Algerian natural-gas plant that left 38 dead.
Tying all these bits of circumstantial evidence together strongly suggests that Morsi and other Egyptian leaders may have been involved in a plot to kidnap the ambassador in Benghazi so that he could be exchanged for the Blind Sheik's freedom, but that something went wrong, resulting in the ambassador's death and the other deaths during the attack.
Since Benghazi, the Administration's coverup, the firing or reassignment of personnel with knowledge of the attack, the hiding of witnesses and the continued favored treatment of Morsi's government and the Muslim Brotherhood suggest other sinister possibilities.
Although the U.S. media have tried to ignore the Benghazi story, a picture nonetheless has emerged from the work of a few intrepid journalists and from stories in foreign media of an Administration that long before publicly supporting the Syrian "rebels" was using the Benghazi facility to smuggle arms and al-Qaeda-linked fighters to Syria.
That may have been one possible reason for the coverup, because the Administration didn't want the information about its underhanded funding of the Syrian war getting into the New York Times.
But this latest information -- combined with what we know about the high-level refusal to tighten security in Benghazi or to send in troops to stop the attack on the day it happened -- raises more disturbing questions.
We must also be aware of President Obama's global support for the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the several highly placed officials in his Administration with ties to the Brotherhood, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's right-hand aide Huma Abedin, and we must ask:
Did President Obama give approval or assist in any way with a plot by Egyptian President Morsi to kidnap the U.S. ambassador to use as a bargaining chip to free the Blind Sheik?
It is a bone-chilling question to ask. It's not a question Americans should have to ask, much less answer. But to date, it seems to be one of the most plausible explanations for what happened in Benghazi and why the Administration has so feverishly worked to cover it up.
We must recognize that the idea is based only on circumstantial evidence. There may yet be a simpler, less heart-wrenching explanation. Let's pray there is.
Ironclad: Egypt
Involved in
Benghazi Attacks
Here is the report we promised (linked at bottom).
While it’s far too early to predict what’s going to happen in the wake of reports that the Egyptian military has suspended the Constitution and ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Mursi, Americans have an additional reason to cheer for Mursi’s ouster. Evidence that both Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government and Mursi himself were involved in the attacks on the U.S. Special Mission Compound (SMC) and C.I.A. Annex is becoming rather incontrovertible.
As we reported, evidence implicating Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government in general, President Mohammed Mursi in particular, in the Benghazi attacks on 9/11/12 is corroborated by a Libyan Intelligence document and a cell phone video. However, as we further analyzed the document, we found that it aligned with other reporting we had done soon after the attacks.
In particular, the selection of the Innocence of Muslims video as a source of outrage for Egyptians was a very calculated and premeditated effort. We reported about this in the days and weeks after 9/11/12 but additional information gleaned from the Libyan Intelligence document corroborates our findings and even further implicates Mursi and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in the attacks.
This additional information made it necessary for us to include additional findings that fit perfectly. Instead of writing an entirely new report, we thought it best to incorporate these findings into our June 30th report and present it as an entirely new report. We did not add these findings as an addendum. Instead we inserted them into the existing report without deleting anymore information.
The report that used to be entitled, Hostage Crisis: The Blind Sheikh, Benghazi and Smoking Guns…
…has just become the far more comprehensive report entitled, IRONCLAD: EGYPT INVOLVED IN BENGHAZI ATTACKS
As the future of Egypt hangs in the balance, the evidence against Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Benghazi attacks is astonishingly conclusive.
Well , that was interesting - wonder if its true that the Muslim Brotherhood has any connections to the White House .......
Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration
by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm
An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.
The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood."
The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers.
The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood "subsidiary." It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood.
Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administration's counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim.
According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi.
He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza.
Regarding al-Marayati, who has been among the most influential Muslim American leaders in recent years, the magazine draws connections between MPAC in the international Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure.
Magid heads ISNA, which was founded by Brotherhood members, was appointed by Obama in 2011 as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security. The magazine says that has also given speeches and conferences on American Middle East policy at the State Department and offered advice to the FBI.
Rose El-Youssef says Patel maintains a close relationship with Hani Ramadan, the grandson of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and is a member of the Muslim Students Association, which it identifies as "a large Brotherhood organization."
and then there's this item.....
FLASHBACK: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION GIVES $1.5 BILLION TO EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
1 Jul 2013 131POST A COMMENTThe BBC is reporting that the Egyptian opposition is claiming “millions” of anti-Morsi protesters have taken to Cairo’s streets demanding his resignation. Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, was swept into office and assumeddictatorial powers after a contentious election following the country’s ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Protesters are not only angry with Morsi but also President Barack Obama for supporting the Egyptian leader.
The Obama administration attempted to discourage protests earlier in the week. Ambassador Ann Patterson said at a seminar on Tuesday organized by a Cairo research center, "Some say that street action will produce better results than elections. To be honest, my government and I are deeply skeptical," adding, "Egypt needs stability to get its economic house in order, and more violence on the streets will do little more than add new names to the lists of martyrs."
Questions about the relationship between the United States and Morsi’s Islamist government began to surface when Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood first visited the White House in the spring of 2012.
After publicly solidifying diplomatic ties to the Egypt’s long banned Muslim Brotherhood during the Brotherhood’s visit to the White House in April of 2012, White House Spokesman Tommy Vietor told Politico at the time, "The meeting Tuesday with working-level [national security staff] officials is just one in a series of meetings between US officials, members of Congress, and representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood,"
"Senators Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and others have met with members of the MB during their visits to Egypt, and US officials, as part of their routine diplomatic outreach, continue to meet with representatives as well," Vietor said.
The White House later announced it would give $1.5 billion in American taxpayer dollars to the Egyptian government that would be dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Andrew McCarthy at National Review reported. McCarthy later noted another report from the Investigative Project on Terrorism. According to IPT, the State Department “broke with normal procedures” and ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) not to conduct a secondary inspection on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) delegation that were en route to the United States.
This happened despite the fact that one member of the delegation had been implicated – though not charged – in a U.S. child pornography investigation, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned.According to senior enforcement sources and documents reviewed by the IPT, investigators had information tying Abdul Mawgoud Dardery to the pornography investigation that was based in Pennsylvania. He was the senior member in the four-person FJP delegation which held court with academic groups and met with senior officials at the White House and State Department last week. (For more on what they said, click here.)
It was not the first time the Obama White House opened its doors to controversial foreign visitors. In December of 2012 former Iranian Guard Commander reportedly Hadi Farhan al-Amiri visited the White House with Iraq’s Prime Minister leader, Nouri Al Maliki, when President Obama touted the end of the war in Iraq. According to the FBI, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps played a role in a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, the Washington Times reported.
If you still don't think more is going on between Muslim Brotherhood an the US government , consider this.....
Obama Releases First Public Statement On Egypt
From President Obama:
As I have said since the Egyptian revolution, the United States supports a set of core principles, including opposition to violence, protection of universal human rights, and reform that meets the legitimate aspirations of the people. The United States does not support particular individuals or political parties, but we are committed to the democratic process and respect for the rule of law. Since the current unrest in Egypt began, we have called on all parties to work together to address the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people, in accordance with the democratic process, and without recourse to violence or the use of force.
The United States is monitoring the very fluid situation in Egypt, and we believe that ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people. Nevertheless, we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsy and suspend the Egyptian constitution. I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters. Given today’s developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the government of Egypt.
The United States continues to believe firmly that the best foundation for lasting stability in Egypt is a democratic political order with participation from all sides and all political parties – secular and religious, civilian and military. During this uncertain period, we expect the military to ensure that the rights of all Egyptian men and women are protected, including the right to peaceful assembly, due process, and free and fair trials in civilian courts. Moreover, the goal of any political process should be a government that respects the rights of all people, majority and minority; that institutionalizes the checks and balances upon which democracy depends; and that places the interests of the people above party or faction. The voices of all those who have protested peacefully must be heard – including those who welcomed today’s developments, and those who have supported President Morsy.In the interim, I urge all sides to avoid violence and come together to ensure the lasting restoration of Egypt’s democracy.
No transition to democracy comes without difficulty, but in the end it must stay true to the will of the people. An honest, capable and representative government is what ordinary Egyptians seek and what they deserve. The longstanding partnership between the United States and Egypt is based on shared interests and values, and we will continue to work with the Egyptian people to ensure that Egypt’s transition to democracy succeeds.
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Obama, in Situation Room, meets with national security team to discuss situation in Egypt, via NB
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Meanwhile, in simpler days:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Egypt on Saturday for meetings with its newly elected Islamist president and the chief of its still-dominant military council, declaring that the United States “supports the full transition to civilian rule with all that entails.”But after weeks of internal debate across the Obama administration over how to respond to the ongoing struggle between the president and the generals, Mrs. Clinton touched on it only lightly, saying she looked forward to working “to support the military’s return to a purely national security role.”State Department officials said the meeting itself sent a historic message. Seated in an ornate room in the presidential palace, Mrs. Clinton smiled for cameras and traded pleasantries with President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist jailed more than once by the American-backed autocracy overthrown 18 months ago. She became the highest ranking United States official to meet Mr. Morsi since he was sworn in two weeks ago as Egypt’s first democratically elected president.* * *The generals, who seized power last year after the ouster of the strongman Hosni Mubarak, have repeatedly rebuffed American pressure. The new president, Mr. Morsi, and the other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood still harbor deep doubts about Washington’s agenda and have repeatedly surprised American officials in Washington with the accelerating pace of their moves to take power.Implausibly, some of the Brotherhood’s secular opponents have even accused the United States of conspiring with the Islamists to push them to power. By nightfall Saturday, hundreds of protesters had gathered outside Mrs. Clinton’s hotel to protest against the claimed conspiracy. Using a transliteration of the Arabic word for the Brotherhood, one sign read: “If you like the Ikhwan, take them with you!”“In some ways, all the talk in Washington about what to do in Egypt is incredibly inefficient,” said Peter Mandaville, a political scientist at George Mason University who until recently advised the State Department on Islamist politics in the region. “At a time of virtually zero U.S. influence, we don’t need to waste so much time figuring out how to try to get the Egyptian people to like us.”The Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi, meanwhile, remain deeply wary of Washington’s goals even after a year of mutual outreach, diplomats say, while Brotherhood leaders appear still convinced American policy makers see Egypt exclusively through the prism of Israel’s security.* * *“Every bone in the body of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is going to feel more comfortable with the idea that there is still a strong military looking over these guys,” said Mr. Mandaville, the former State Department adviser, “and looking out for U.S. interests in Egypt and the region.”
Obama Inc Threatens to Cut Military Aid to Egypt if Morsi is Overthrown
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