Posted on 08/19/2011 5:01:08 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
“Arab Spring,” as it has been portrayed by the Western media, is an illusion.
Virtually every element of the media narrative — it is a spontaneous revolt, that it is Internet-driven, that it seeks democracy or income equality — is wrong or misleading.
After extensive interviews across the region and two visits to North Africa in July, it is clear that Western media and intelligence services have played a “Jedi Mind Trick” on themselves and us.
They have produced a number of myths that cloud our understanding. Let’s clear the air.
MYTH: The Arab revolt is an indigenous, spontaneous reaction to the excesses of dictatorial rulers.
Analysts should be wary of assuming that the revolts in Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen are entirely internal in origin.
Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Soliman warned General Petraeus in 2010 that Iran was working with the Muslim Brotherhood (as well as Hezbollah and Hamas factions in Egypt) to bring down the Mubarak regime. Soliman was so angry that he phoned his Iranian intelligence counterpart, warning him that Iran faced retaliation from Egypt if it did not cease promoting revolution inside Egypt. All of this information is captured in a June 29, 2010 State department cable that was made public by WikiLeaks.
Is there only reason to believe that Iran severed its ties to radical groups in Egypt in mid-2010? Or is it more likely Iran continued its subversive work?
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
“Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Soliman warned General Petraeus in 2010 that Iran was working with the Muslim Brotherhood”
“Obamas partners. Israels and America’s enemies.”
Iran has been the only destabilizing force in the region outside it’s own borders in recent years. It didn’t take much thought to know precisely what was going on over there.
It’s way past time for Iran’s leadership to get the Khadaffy treatment, from the 80s.
Is Obama a Sunni or a Shiite?
... a shiite disturber,
ask Larry Sinclair.
Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Soliman warned General Petraeus in 2010 that Iran was working with the Muslim Brotherhood (as well as Hezbollah and Hamas factions in Egypt) to bring down the Mubarak regime. Soliman was so angry that he phoned his Iranian intelligence counterpart, warning him that Iran faced retaliation from Egypt if it did not cease promoting revolution inside Egypt. All of this information is captured in a June 29, 2010 State department cable that was made public by WikiLeaks.Iran sensed that it was an empty threat. Egypt's response should have been to round up all the M.B. members (and IMV, all the members of their families), give them a massive televised show trial for treason and sedition, and hang them all.
I’m with you.
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