The US government had been planning to topple the Egyptian President for the past three years – that is according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Despite the imposed curfew, thousands of demonstrators remain out in the streets in direct defiance of it.
More than one hundred people have been killed and over 2,000 injured in the violent anti-government protests since Tuesday. Many of those are reporting they were beaten by police after being arrested. Mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate.
The famed Cairo museum is reported to have been looted, with mummies ransacked. People in different neighborhoods say their homes were broken into and goods stolen.
Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has tried to address the protesters’ demands by appointing, for the first time in 30 years, the country’s first vice-president – the intelligence chief and confidante Omar Suleiman . The new Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafik, has been tasked with forming a new government. However, protesters insist the President himself stepping down.
The files show Washington had secretly been backing leading figures behind the uprising.
Analysts have pointed fingers at the US, accusing them of trying to change the politics of this regime.
“It’s obvious that the U.S. and the UK are behind the recent events in Africa,” says Nikolay Starikov, an author and publisher. “They don’t care about destabilising the situation, the sufferings of millions of people, or any potential war that would make living in those countries impossible. We all know that a major transport oil artery is running through Egypt. The U.S. only benefits from high oil prices, as all global gas and oil trade is carried out in dollars. Thus, the dollar demand is only growing. I don’t believe in spontaneous revolutions – when hundreds of thousands, millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time, taking into account there’s been no serious or immediate change to their standards of living. For these demonstrations, they need co-ordination, money, support, leaders getting money from foreign secret services,” said Starikov.
And an investigative journalist Webster Tarpley thinks that the CIA is fuelling “mob rule” across the Arab world to change the power structure.
Unrest in Egypt comes weeks after a month of chaos in Tunisia, which saw 80 deaths and the president being toppled before fleeing into exile.
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