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The United States has been covertly preparing a regime change in Egypt for the last two years secretly assisting the leaders who were preparing a blueprint to bring representative government to Egypt now emerged as leaders or organizers of the mass uprising that the world is witnessing today.

The US State Department officials, US Congressmen and their immediate staff were engaged in having discussions with the Egyptian rebel leaders on US soil. The US embassy in Cairo was instrumental in organizing a summit in New York in 2008 to meet one of the young Egyptian activists. On his return to Cairo this activist was detained by the Egyptian intelligence unit.

All these and more are now revealed in a classified diplomatic cable sent from the American embassy in Cairo to Washington, dated 30 December 2008 disclosed by WikiLeaks which the Asian Tribune will place before its readers.

This young Egyptian activist was arrested and detained in this week’s uprising in Cairo, it has been revealed.

The name of this young Egyptian leader is withheld for obvious reasons. The WikiLeaks released Cairo US embassy cable is very clear that the United States government was overtly supporting the Mubarak regime, while covertly endeavoring to undermine it and replace it with a representative government.

Sensing some eruption in the future against the autocratic Mubarak regime and to safeguard U.S. interests in the region, the U.S. was forced, in the interest of its national security, to find an alternative, this diplomatic cable very clearly depicts the grand design of the super power.

A plan concocted by the Egyptian dissident groups to remove Hosni Mubarak from power before the scheduled September 2011 presidential election and replace his rule with a representative democratic government was relayed to Washington through the embassy in Cairo.

Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador in Cairo, said in the memo to the US Secretary of State, in that she questioned the likelihood that such an action would happen.

Other cables revealed, however, the US diplomats had sought out the opposition groups, one of whose members attended a youth summit in Washington organized by the State Department.

This week’s protests in Egypt were instigated by a group of young, educated Egyptians known as the “April 6 youth movement,” which has a presence on the social network site Facebook.

The Scobey diplomatic memo was labeled “April 6 activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt.”

if you'd like to see the content of the cable, go here:

http://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/us-covertly-aided-egyptian-protest-leaders-for-regime-change-secret-december-2008-wikileaks-cable-reveals/

for more links, google "2008 state department cable egyptian dissident"

looks like perhaps this wasn't as spontaneous as we've been led to believe.

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See how this Wikileaks thing can hurt?  This wasnt about the US killing innocent civilians.  This was about US efforts to help those who want democracy and freedom in their own countries.

But Assange felt the need to post all this stuff anyway.  See how his actions have undermined our efforts to help those who want fr4eedom in their own countries?

Sorry, but that Assange guy is a bastard.

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I was just thinking, seems these revolts are now happening all over the Muslim world.  There are protests now in Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, and Algeria I think.

Is it likely that our agents have been working covertly to help dissidents, and that these rebellions have been coordinated to all happen at the same time?

(Wish we could organize one in Cuba).

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i don't think so. first, you have to remember that the story in the original post occurred under the bush administration (2008). the same admin that publicly pushed for freedom and reforms in the region.  i think that if anything, we might have been trying to align ourselves with (what we viewed to be) moderate elements, in the event that such uprisings were to occur. but i don't think we've been pulling the strings here, and this admin has seemingly been caught completely off guard by all this

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and we sure weren't behind this.


The governor of a remote southern Iraqi province was forced to flee Wednesday when protesters stormed his headquarters during violent demonstrations that illustrated the potential for upheaval in Iraq's new, and still shaky, democracy.

The violence erupted after local police opened fire on demonstrators protesting poor services and corruption outside the governorate of Wasit province in the city of Kut, killing three and wounding more than 50, said Capt. Mahdi Abbas of the province's emergency police force.

The angry crowd then attacked the building as the governor escaped through a back door with his bodyguards, Abbas said.

Other members of the provincial council also reportedly escaped, and the Iraqi army was called in to quell the turmoil.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has clearly been unsettled by an upsurge of protests around the country in the weeks since the revolts in Egypt and Tunisia, declared an indefinite curfew in Wasit and promised an investigation into the actions of the police officers who opened fire.

Unrest was also reported in the small southern town of Afak, in neighboring Diwaniyah province, where demonstrators stormed a building housing the city council and set it ablaze.

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Funny.  I've been emailing a former high school classmate who is now teaching in Kuwait.  We're talking about this wikileaks stuff too.

Sadly, this former politically conservative Baptist Christian, caucasian girl that I grew up with, has completely turned her back on the USA and listens solely to Al Jazeera now.  Uses a lot of Islamic phrases now, etc.

Funny how propaganda works.