Omar Suleiman-Dead or Killed
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/omar-suleimandead-or-killed
For many Egyptians, Omar Suleiman was a symbol of evil incarnate. For twenty years he was the head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, aka the mukhabarat. Under him, arbitrary detention and...
U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html
The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.
Le rapport peut être lu ici ▻http://detaineetaskforce.org/read
John Glaser du site « Antiwar » l’a lu et relève un passage absolument extraordinaire :
La relation personnelle d’Omar Suleiman avec les États-Unis a été cité par le DOS [Department of State] comme étant « probablement l’élément le plus réussi de la relation [US-Egypte] » 41. À une occasion rapportée, lorsque la CIA « a demandé un échantillon d’ADN d’un parent de Ayman Al-Zawahiri d’Al Qaïda, Suleiman a offert tout le bras de l’homme à la place. »
En donnant ce lien ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04diplomacy.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Glaser écrit :
Rappelez-vous, Suleiman est l’homme que l’administation Obama avait choisi pour succéder à Moubarak après que des manifestations populaires ont détrôné le dictateur pro-américain de longue date.
▻http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/16/new-report-on-torture-extraordinary-rendition/print
Ok, I have to share this and it is long due: Omar Suleiman, formerly the CIA’s man in Egypt, actually died in a US HOSPITAL from amyloidosis, which in his case involved multiple organs failure. How convenient is that? All wrapped and clean.
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/19/world/meast/egypt-suleiman-dead
#Oma_Suleiman #CIA
À l’époque, j’avais signalé qu’Al Jazeera mettait des guillemets à “Oscar Suleiman ‘dies’ » :-))
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/79583
Depuis, je vois qu’ils ont retiré les guillemets du titre.
Hehehe, je voulais mettre cet article ça fait un bout de temps ; mais sérieusement, j’aimerai bien savoir ce qu’il avait fait, notre bon bougre, entre sa candidature manquée aux élections à la présidence égyptienne et sa mort à point chez les ricains.
Admire ce titre : Egypt’s former spy chief Omar Suleiman ’dies’. Oui, ils ont mis « meurt » entre guillemets.
►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/07/20127199229920277.html
Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s former spy chief and Hosni Mubarak’s vice president, has died in the US while undergoing medical examination, an aide has said.
‘Arabs are not ready for democracy’: the orientalist cravings of Arab ruling elites
Hasan Tariq Alhasan, 8 May 2012
►http://www.opendemocracy.net/hasan-tariq-alhasan/%E2%80%98arabs-are-not-ready-for-democracy%E2%80%99-orientalist-cravi
Scrambling to adjust to the new reality of the Arab revolts, Arab regimes have fallen back on Orientalist stereotypes. Portraying the Arab peoples as unready for democracy, the sole goal of these remaining regimes is to prolong their people’s subjugation.
About the author
Hasan Tariq Alhasan is currently pursuing a Masters in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, UK, having obtained an undergraduate degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. He can be contacted on twitter @HTAlhasan
It is ironic that scarcely more than a year prior to announcing his candidacy to the presidential elections on Saturday, April 7, former Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman had confidently declared that, “Egypt is not ready for democracy” ↑ . Suleiman’s last-minute application for candidacy in Egypt’s presidential elections, handed in only half an hour before the 2pm deadline on Saturday, is perhaps a reminder of the fact that Arab anciens régimes and western governments are, themselves, the ones not ready for democracy in the Arab world.
Scrambling to adjust to the new reality of the Arab revolts which they rightly deem threatening to their own hegemony, these Arab regimes, Israel and their Orientalist chums advising western governments have dug once again into their vast repertoire of nonsensical Orientalist stereotypes to portray the Arab populations in a fashion similar to that in which their former British and French colonizers had portrayed them in the past; all this for the sole purpose of prolonging their subjugation. To the colonizer, quoting Edward Said, “subject races did not have it in them to know what was good for them.” (Orientalism, p. 37) Clearly, this very same tautological, performative belief that Arabs – for some occult, essentialist reason - are not ready for democracy is still perhaps one of the greatest barriers standing in their way to emancipation and self-government.
Suleiman merely echoed a discourse characteristic of most of his Arab counterparts in other countries struck by last year’s protests. Despite their struggle against despotism, Arab populations were deemed unfit for self-government by the same despots they were trying to overthrow. The assumption underlying the discourse is that almost despite themselves Arabs were predisposed to extremism and tyranny. As such, the naïve, passionate Arab has to be disciplined and tamed; his anger is to be vented. Although it is quite unclear how the Americans and the French were ‘prepared’ for democracy before overthrowing their despots in 1783 and 1789 respectively, Arab populations are almost automatically compared to their western counterparts, seen as better disposed to governing themselves.
The Political Economy of the Egyptian Uprising | Stephen Maher (Monthly Review)
►http://monthlyreview.org/2011/11/01/the-political-economy-of-the-egyptian-uprising
Not long after Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Hosni Mubarak would resign his post as President, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Egypt to congratulate the Egyptian people on a job well done. The revolutionaries had accomplished their goal, she said. Everyone could go home and feel proud of their historic achievement and leave the cleaning up to the responsible adults—the United States and the closely allied Egyptian military, which has ruled Egypt since 1952. To prove that there were no hard feelings against the Egyptians for overthrowing one of the closest and most important U.S. allies in the Arab world, the IMF, World Bank, the G8, and the United States itself—the very entities responsible for supporting Mubarak’s thirty-year rule and imposing draconian neoliberal programs on Egypt—have extended as much as $15 billion in aid and credit to Egypt and Tunisia to assist in their transitions to democracy. This generosity begs the question: why are Western governments, and the international financial institutions (IFIs) that are closely linked to them, falling over one another to show their generosity to the revolutionaries and to display their support for progress in the Middle East? Source: Monthly (...)
Suleiman: The CIA’s man in Cairo - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201127114827382865.html
Just for the record.
#Omar_Suleiman #CIA #Israel
World Blog - Essentially a military coup?
►http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/10/6024926-essentially-a-military-coup
The head of the High Military Council is President Hosni Mubarak, yet the Military Council has met in his absence.
So #Israel is doing a military coup to transfer power to its dream man #Omar_Suleiman
BBC News - #Egypt protests: Hosni Mubarak to make TV address
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12421000
A senior member of Egypt’s governing party, Hossan Badrawi, told the BBC he “hopes” Mr #Mubarak will transfer power to Vice-President #Omar_Suleiman.
The country’s military, meanwhile, has said it will “support the legitimate demands of the people”.
There you go, so the legitimate demand of the people is giving more power (if possible) to terrorist Omar Suleiman
Israël ❤ Suleiman
Cables say Israel favours Suleiman - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112882543596708.html
Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s recently appointed vice-president, has long long seen by Israel as the favoured successor to Hosni Mubarak, the current president, according to a leaked diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website, and published by the UK daily, The Telegraph.
The August 2008 cable said David Hacham, a senior adviser at the Israeli ministry of defence (MoD), told US officials the Israelis expected Suleiman, spelt Soliman in some cables, to take over.
“Hacham noted that the Israelis believe Soliman is likely to serve as at least an interim president if Mubarak dies or is incapacitated,” the cable sent from the US embassy in Tel Aviv said.
“We defer to Embassy Cairo for analysis of Egyptian succession scenarios, but there is no question that Israel is most comfortable with the prospect of Omar Soliman,” the memo cited US diplomats as saying.
The cable said Hacham was full of praise for Suleiman, even noting that “a ’hot line’ set up between the MoD and Egyptian General Intelligence Service is now in daily use”.
#WikiLeaks Cable Shows Close US Ties With New Egyptian Vice President
►http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23040
Another cable, prepared in May 2007, discusses the possibility of #Suleiman succeeding Mubarak as president, placing him second after Mubarak’s son, Gamal, in the list of candidates. It refers to Suleiman as Mubarak’s “consigliere,” who “was often cited as likely to be named to the long-vacant vice-presidential post.”
What’s with #2007? The US was probably already preparing the ground by receiving AND funding Egyptian dissident groups. In parallel, they were also grooming Mubarak’s succession or ’transition’ #Omar_Suleiman. Worth some digging...
OpEdNews - Article: The Torture Career of Egypt’s New Vice President: Omar Suleiman and the Rendition to Torture Program
►http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Torture-Career-of-Egyp-by-Stephen-Soldz-110129-181.html
Shortly after 9/11, Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured by Pakistani security forces and, under #US pressure, torture by Pakistanis. He was then rendered (with an Australian diplomats watching) by #CIA operatives to Egypt, a not uncommon practice. In #Egypt, Habib merited Suleiman’s personal attention. As related by Richard Neville, based on Habib’s memoir:
Habib was interrogated by the country’s Intelligence Director, General #Omar_Suleiman.... Suleiman took a personal interest in anyone suspected of links with Al Qaeda. As Habib had visited Afghanistan shortly before 9/11, he was under suspicion. Habib was repeatedly zapped with high-voltage electricity, immersed in water up to his nostrils, beaten, his fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks.
Egypt: Anonymous poster campaign backing intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to take over the presidency
►http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23009
“Omar Suleiman is in all likelihood Egypt’s next president after Hosni Mubarak,” Qassem said. “He is the most suitable figure to rule from the military.”
I wonder what they pay the likes of pseudo-journalist Hisham Quassem to openly promote the US/Israeli interests. The guy is suicidal.
SpyTalk: The CIA’s complicated relationship with Egypt
►http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/01/the_cias_complicated_relations.html?goback=.gde_1784957_membe
The CIA’s man to see in Cairo was Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian intelligence boss whom Hosni Mubarak nudged from the shadows Saturday to be his vice president.
“Omar Suleiman negotiated directly with top [CIA] officials” on the renditions, Jane Mayer wrote in “Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.”
Edward S. Walker, the American ambassador in Cairo at the time, described Suleiman as “very bright, very realistic,” according to the account of Mayer and others. The envoy said that Suleiman was aware of the flap potential of “some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on.”
Walker added that Suleiman “was not squeamish, by the way.”
At the same time, diplomats in the American Embassy were critical of CIA-funded Egyptian security projects, Walker told the British journalist Stephen Grey, including a "program to train Egyptian special operations forces in counterterrorism arrests.”
The trouble, though, was that "too many people died while fleeing...It got to be a little too obvious, and the agency got very nervous about this,’” Walker told Grey.
Factbox - Omar Suleiman, new Egyptian vice-president | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/uk-egypt-suleiman-idUKTRE70S2JL20110129
Et voilà!
About Omar Suleiman:
He has been the director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services (EGIS) since 1993, a role in which he has played a prominent public role in diplomacy, including in Egypt’s relations with Israel and with key aid donor the United States.
Omar Suleiman, maître tortionnaire. #Cablegate, #Égypte, mai 2009 :
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/05/09CAIRO874.html
EGIS Chief Omar Soliman and Interior Minister al-Adly keep the domestic beasts at bay, and Mubarak is not one to lose sleep over their tactics.
The most likely contender is presidential son Gamal Mubarak (whose profile is ever-increasing at the ruling party); some suggest that intelligence chief Omar Soliman might seek the office, or dark horse Arab League Secretary-General Amre Moussa might run. Mubarak’s ideal of a strong but fair leader would seem to discount Gamal Mubarak to some degree, given Gamal’s lack of military experience, and may explain Mubarak’s hands off approach to the succession question. Indeed, he seems to be trusting to God and the ubiquitous military and civilian security services to ensure an orderly transition.
Egyptian protesters fill the streets - latimes.com
►http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-protests,0,3322228.story
“When you end the Mubarak regime, you’ll need a powerful man during the transition, and this is a powerful man. Omar Suleiman is the best option,” Kassem said.
On Tuesday, September 18, the National Endowment for Democracy honored the courageous efforts of journalists, publishers and press freedom advocates when it presented its annual Democracy Award to three individuals and one organization working to preserve press freedom in Egypt, Russia, Venezuela and Southeast Asia, where authoritarian regimes increasingly seek to silence the voice of independent media. The honorees have shown bravery, determination, and passion as they stand up for journalistic integrity in the face of harassment, censorship, violence, and even death.
* Hisham Kassem was honored as one of Egypt’s most prominent publishers and democracy activists. Until recently he was the publisher of Al-Masry Al-Youm (The Egyptian Today), Egypt’s first independent daily paper.
Ok, so this is the CIA’s NED guy Hisham Kassem recommending Omar Suleiman, the Israelis’ dream choice, for Mubarak’s replacement. La boucle est bouclée.
it’s curious how a bit of surface scratching reveals it all
Israelis Nervous About Upheaval in Egypt
►http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/29/israelis-nervous-about-upheaval-in-egypt/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter
“If there is anyone who is more cooperative with Israel than Mubarak, it’s Omar Suleiman,” former senior Mossad official Joseph Alpher told AOL News. “He knows us and he’s worked with us for years. The best scenario for Israel is that Suleiman succeeds in restoring order.”