President Hosni Mubarak will not leave office, as was indicated. Get ready for pandemonium in Tahrir Square.
Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak, after weeks of protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, announced today that he has no intention of removing his regime from power, as was previously indicated.
Mubarak, writes the Washington Post, “vowed late Thursday that he would follow through with his plans to transfer authority to an elected government after his term ends in September and would continue efforts to amend Egypt’s constitution in the meantime.”
“Your demands are legitimate and just demands,” he said, addressing the protesters—”I am speaking to all Egyptians in Tahrir and beyond.”
Mubarak is insisting he’ll hand power to his right-band man Omar Suleiman, until an orderly democratic election can be held in September.
This compromise has been rejected as disingenuous by the protesters, who counter that it’s a stall tactic during which the regime will re-fortify its power and prevent truly free elections.
Nonetheless, Mubarak’s decision to favor a gradual transition matches exactly with the Obama Administration’s stated wishes for Egypt. And, as has been widely reported, Omar Suleiman has worked directly with the CIA.
How involved the U.S. is in Mubarak’s decision is an unknown (what Donald Rumsfeld might refer to as an “unknown known”) and so far State Department spokesman PJ Crowley‘s Twitter feed has been silent on Mubarak’s announcement.
But the gigantic, furious protests to Mubarak’s recalcitrance surely about to unfold in Tahrir Square represent a mandate. After 17 days, with a populist mandate made clear, the U.S. should condemn Mubarak’s refusal to leave office if it wants to champion global democracy.
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February 10, 2011 at 10:31 pm, Satish Chandra said:
Egypt, like India, is under C. I. A. rule. After I showed in my press release dated January 30, 2011 that “a person of color cannot be the Americans’ legitimate president”, the U.S. vice president, Biden, who is white, called Manmohan Sigh about something rather than Obama because, as I showed, the word of a person of color has no value. The word of a white American is also worthless but in a different way; see my blog (see below) about the word of B. F. Skinner at Harvard University where “India’s greatest scientist and greatest living Indian publicly tortured in Harvard seminar, systematically and totally starved for up to 3 weeks at a time, made semi-starved and homeless and even blind for years, kept under 24-hour audio and video surveillance as well as surveillance of communications and electrical typewriter and computer use, document creation and photocopying, etc., by satellite for more than past 3 decades, systematically harassed and in poverty and neutralised and robbed of his work at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, robbed of crores in his money and property in India by C.I.A.-RAW, forced back into exile in the U.S., all with full cooperation and participation of India’s RAW and India’s C.I.A.-RAW-controlled prime ministers, politicians and media — to keep India poor, weak and enslaved” and how this means the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and then the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States. I am India’s expert in strategic defence, the father of India’s strategic program and the world’s greatest scientist and in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, I have written about the chamar-rajya in Uttar Pradesh but as I have also shown, at present India is under white rule and Indians are the Americans’ slaves. If India is to survive, this must end. Manu has shown the way: the votes of two, three or four shudras should equal one upper caste vote. This will also end the rule of the Untouchable white woman over India as its empress. Americans did not give women the vote until recently. Manu also shows the way regarding women’s vote. I have shown in my blog and recent press releases that “I am India’s sovereign”. Acknowledgment of this is a better alternative — in fact, a must if India is to survive.