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Egypt's Clinton-Backed Former President Jailed For 20 years
Deposed former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison today in connection with a crackdown on protesters during demonstrations against his rule in late 2012. Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has been branded as a terrorist organization by now-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, assumed the Presidency in 2012 after Hosni Mubarak was toppled a year earlier during the Arab Spring. Morsi would himself become the target of mass protests after issuing a decree granting himself special powers — the unrest would ultimately end in the military assuming power in July of 2013 in an infamous (maybe)-coup.
Here's Al Jazeera:
A Cairo court has sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 12 other defendants to 20 years in prison.
Morsi was convicted on Tuesday of ordering the arrest and torture of protesters in clashes outside the presidential palace in December 2012. The court acquitted the former president of murder charges that could have seen him face the death penalty.
Morsi also faces serious charges in three other cases, including an accusation that he passed intelligence to Qatar.
Mohammed Soudan, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and an official within its affiliated Freedom and Justice Party, told Al Jazeera that the trial was a "political farce".
And a bit more from BBC:
It is the first verdict he has received since his ousting and is one of several trials he faces. Morsi was deposed by the army in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule.
Since then, the authorities have banned his Muslim Brotherhood movement and arrested thousands of his supporters.
Morsi and 14 other Brotherhood figures escaped a more serious charge of inciting the killing of protesters, which could have carried the death sentence.
Most of the other defendants were also given 20-year prison sentences. Morsi's legal team have said they will appeal.
Morsi's trials
This verdict is just one of several Mr Morsi faces. They include:
- Colluding with foreign militants in a plot to free Islamists in mass prison breaks during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak
- Espionage and conspiring to commit terrorist acts in Egypt with the Palestinian movement Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards
- Endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar via the Doha-based Al Jazeera network
Perhaps the best way to sum up how “successful” the US was in terms of foreign policy over the course of the political turmoil is to quote former Obama adviser Vali Nasr, who described the situation as follows in a 2013 interview with the Wall Street Journal:
"The Mubarak people are unhappy with the way he was shoved off without a thank you. The military thinks we coddled the Brotherhood and didn't intervene to control them. And the Brotherhood thinks that we never supported them when they needed support, and then gave the green light to the military."
Sounds like par for the US foreign policy course.
Now, with Morsi sentenced to nearly a quarter century behind bars, we thought it as good a time as any to resurrect the following Morsi-era quotes from Hillary Clinton who, like Egypt’s democratically elected former President, just wants what’s best for “everyday” people:
“The United States [strongly supports] the Egyptian people and their democratic transition".
"We want to be a good partner and we want to support the democracy that has been achieved by the courage and sacrifice of the Egyptian people.”
A “democracy” that lasted all of four months before Morsi, in an irony of ironies, granted himself sweeping autocratic powers in the interest of safeguarding the transition to democratic institutions.
And of course there was this:
The wife of former Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi is the latest Muslim Brotherhood “insider” to threaten to expose the special relationship between Morsi and the Obama administration—a relationship the latter insists never existed.
Nagla Mahmoud, Morsi’s wife, is reportedly angry at some statements recently made by Hillary Clinton, including that Morsi was “naïve” and “unfit for Egypt’s presidency,” as reported by Arabic media.
In the words of El-Mogaz News, Morsi’s wife “is threatening to expose the special relationship between her husband and Hillary Clinton, after the latter attacked the ousted [president], calling him a simpleton who was unfit for the presidency.
Sources close to Nagla confirmed that she has threatened to publish the letters exchanged between Morsi and Hillary.”
The report continues by saying that Nagla accuses Hillary of denouncing her former close ally, the Brotherhood’s Morsi, in an effort to foster better relations with his successor, Egypt’s current president, Sisi—even though, as Nagla laments, “he [Morsi] was faithful to the American administration.”
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So. Egypt arrests and jails white-collar / political criminals. China executes them. Russia disappears them in the night. Spain arrests and investigates them.
(http://wolfstreet.com/2015/04/18/don-quijones-rodrigo-rato-former-imf-pr...)
US lets them run for president, and yawns when Diebold 'elects' them.
Maybe 'First World Problems' need a few 'Second World Solutions', before they turn into 'Third World Problems'. Worth a try, maybe?
"Maybe 'First World Problems' need a few 'Second World Solutions', before they turn into 'Third World Problems'. Worth a try, maybe?"
You are at least 30 years late with this idea.
At least. 102 years, by some counts.
But hey, a century ago I was still posterity, and 30 years back I was but wee. I had a learning curve, grandad!
Hillary Clinton Had Direct Role In Iraq Meltdown
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Critical NATIONAL SECURITY Questions Regarding Clinton’s Illicit Email Practices At State
morsi beau coup?
We came, we saw, he died....
ohno, that was somewhere else.
"HUMA! pls call JPM to make sure his check cleared already!!!"
sure, set up the muslim brotherhood to lure them all out, then kill and imprison and demonize. Where there is power, betrayal is just part of the game.
It's not who you know, it's who you blow.
And then there's this:
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Advisor And Former Clinton Employee Gets Life In Prison
"Gehad El-Haddad, the the son of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Haddad, was a Senior Adviser on Foreign Affairs to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ‘s Freedom and Justice Party, a position he held since May 2011. His resume also says that he was is a Senior Adviser & Media Spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood as well as a Steering Committee Member of the Brotherhood’s Renaissance (Nahda) Project. Mr Haddad was also the Media Strategist & Official Spokesperson for the presidential campaign of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Gehad El-Haddad’s resume reports that he was the City Director for the William J. Clinton Foundation from August 2007 – August 2012. Among his duties at the Foundation were representing the Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative in Egypt, setting up the foundation’s office in Egypt and managed official registration, and identifying and developing program-based projects & delivery work plans."
http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2015/04/14/egyptian-muslim-brotherhood-advi...
Actually the two are the same campaign. Who in the US has the balls to go after Clinton? None. If the Establishment wants someone in the White House, who in the "law enforcement" (owned by the Establishment) will dare challenge the decision? Nobody is bullet-proof / accident-proof / suicide-proof.
I can think of another president I'd like to see thrown in jail for 20 years.
That'd be President Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama, yes?
Let's save time and talk about the ones we'll spare instead.
Ummm....Carter?
You're funny.
Let's talk instead about how long we'll let them live.
Perhaps we might insist they utter "safe words" no self-respecting bankster would say in any other circumstances before we acquiesce to putting them out of their misery?
May I suggest:
"Hear O Israel, the God of Israel is the one God!"
Bullet in the head. Body saturated in gasoline and burned. Ashes "interred" in nearest convenient landfill. Anything short of that is too good for them.
Um... I'm confused !!! Is this guy our ruthless puppet or the one who jailed him ????? Oh, well. The Livingston Texas walmart is still closed. I got bigger fish to fry !!!!!!!!!!!
What is Dear Leaders take on one of his best buds 20 years(not enough) behind bars..
Get in bed with an American politician.........and you WILL be fucked.
SHUT UP and do as you're told! Vote Hillary in 2016 and keep your mouth shut!
Okay, but only if she puts Robert Reich on her back like MasterBlaster.
When Morsi became a 9/11 truther, he sealed his fate. Truth is the ultimate treason against the hegemon. Here is the Washington Post's take on Morsi's view of 9/11:
But Morsi, a longtime leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, has not only evinced sympathy for the embassy attackers, he has also embraced some of the most vile conspiracy theories about 9/11.
Morsi has not been shy about airing his odious views. In a May 2010 interview with Brookings Institution scholar Shadi Hamid, Morsi dismissed al-Qaeda’s responsibility for the attacks. “When you come and tell me that the plane hit the tower like a knife in butter, then you are insulting us,” Hamid reported Morsi as saying. “How did the plane cut through the steel like this? Something must have happened from the inside. It’s impossible.” Similarly, in 2007, Morsi reportedly declared that the United States “has never presented any evidences [sic] on the identity of those who committed that incident.” In 2008, he called for a “huge scientific conference” to analyze “what caused the attack against a massive structure like the two towers.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-egypts-morsi-to-give-up-9...
A serious point and observation, JO. Thanks.
Good point. Never knew that. Yes, pointing out the 'odious' facts about the 9/11 false flag is a sure path to perdition.
Exactly, JO. You can tell all the lies and kill as many people as you want and everything will be just fine and dandy between you and the USSA. But don't you dare speak any truth. Thats not to be tolerated.
It's also reported that Ray Charles made similar comments after "watching" the events on 9-11.
Apparently Morsi sided with the 2,000+ accredited experts over at ae911truth.org
Then why was Barack backing him circa 2011/2012? :/
Morsi got overthrown because of Egyptian internal politics. Any neophyte can realize this. The Egyptian army and the brotherhood have a long history of violence.
Because they had to make Morsi part of the establishment so they could analyze him and his organization's weaknesses in preparation for Mubarak 2.0. They gave him a shot to be their tin-pot dictator but he was ultimately unwilling to give up his independence and by extention Egypt's sovreignty, as Mubarak had done. Because of his unwillingness to play ball, the cabal ruthlessly deposed him and the Muslim Brotherhood.
morsi a tool for the mi6 uk intel muslim brotherhood.
even friends stab each other.
confused yet.
morsi like erdogan like sisi in the closet yahudi
purveyors of talmud kaos
deconstruction controlled demolition
numb skull fighting fighting numbskull
erasing of history
zero now
oded yinon
a simple idea run to perfection zero rabbi casualty
dumb yank and brit and nato goy doing the lifting
muslim apes killing each other for 50 soros dollars a day
when israel is mighty
is it not already
my life
yes sir
saturnic symetry an engine that sucks in
child innocent blood energy flow
forgive the spelling im demented
from temporal illusions
and infinite gladio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSy6ENVAJlY
"If you see two fish fighting in the sea, look for the British guy that started it."
Good riddance.
So when do we go back for Huma Abedin and her "mommy?"
What a big looking dope that one on the left.
Good. Now send that "Irish" student who went over there for jihad to join him for the duration.
Too bad he wasn't president here in the U.S. We would have built him a presidential library and he could have made millions from speaking engagements. We love our criminal politicians here in the U.S.S.A.
Bread Helmets: 1
Fat Assholes: 0
Jihadwatch.org is your source for the email release....ummm okay. Wake me when this info comes from something other than a lunatic that is typing.
Dam I thought it was Clinton...either one going to jail for 20 years!
I take it Morsi forgot the donation to the Clinton Initiative?
Funny, I bet that’s exactly what he was thinking to himself about her when they first met, and what he is saying about her now. Sisi too, just not publically or to her face, yet.
Wow... a muslim nation taking out it's own trash.
Good for them.
Can't wait to see the D.C. trash discarded on the curb.
>Sources close to Nagla confirmed that she has threatened to publish the letters exchanged between Morsi and Hillary.”
Note to Hillary:
That's the problem when trying to destroy evidence, someone else usually has a digital or hard copy. It will be interesting to see if these letters contain the following e-mail header: hdr22@clintonemail.com
WTF jhappened to Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri?
You remember he was Osama's Egyptian counterpart and I haven't heard anything about this guy bfor many years.
If Al-Qaida took down the WTC, and not Mossad, then why is this guy still breathing?
Is the American public so f-ing gullible to tolerate this guy walking around in Egypt somewhere?
That's why I think it was inside job. This guy is so dangerous yet they stopped looking for him or they know exactly where he is but, are terrified of ewhat he might say to implecate Mossad and CIA in the WTC demolition.
Does anyone else have a question like this? Does anyonde else wonder why the NSA is spying on us instead of finding
Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri?No leader dares speak truth about 911.
Political death or actual death follows.
RIP Paul Wellstone
...perhaps more wannabe Middle Eastern Militants/Terrorists turned *cleaned up* Political Animals seeking a "Presidency" in their native country will heed the warning of Mr. Morsi before being seduced by the United States Empire Building Ambitions (aka U.S. Security Interests) in the middle east.
Its even better in Libya. Obama/Clinton try to install Muslim Brotherhood-led rebel group. They allow arms to flow into Libya from Shiite Qater. They have Gadaffi assassinated, at which point the country collapses. $6.5 Billion in gold disappears from the Libyan Central Bank. They turned Libya into a failed state, and when Al Qaeda there murders US Diplomats in the chaos, Obama sends out his stooges to tell America it was all due to an internet video, and Clinton says "what difference does it make?" Now Libya is battleground for ISIS, AL Qaeda and the M.E. Sunni powers. War refugees flee the country only to drown when their boats sink
Well done Obama and Clinton.
I'm still banging my head on my desk over that one.
In a just world, the Clintons would be awaiting lethal injections.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al ...............
Exactly what did the Arab spring into? I was never very clear on that paticular piece of propaganda.
Arab Spring was totally co-opted by the Muslim Brotherhood, the umbrella org for Al-Qaeda and all the other Sunni radical Islamist groups. With the help of Obama and Clinton they seized control of Egypt away from the young liberal and moderate Egyptians who started the Arab Spring, and then Morsi started doing things like checking the virginity of young girls and lynching members of the 10% Coptic Chrisitan population when he came to power. MB is so radical even the other muslims can't stand them.
Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most, if not the most, frequent visitors to the Obama WH. And Clinton's special friend and helper, "Huma's" mother and some other immediate family members are very high ranking inside the MB organization over in MENA. Obama and Clinton totally sold out the Egyptian people for the MB before the people rose up again -- with 19 million people deomnstrating in Cairo, the largest ever human gathering in history -- and threw out Morsi.
There is no despot in the world, large or small, that Obama or Clinton wouldn't to kiss on the mouth and then brag about it.
nothing stick to the teflon tampon
Morsi's skin must have been crawling sitting beside that thing.
Egypt’s current president Sisi is a murderous criminal, that should sit behind bars -
He is the one that killed the protesters, that were mostly Mosi supporters,
during the Arab Spring. Then Sisi staged a coup and ousted the first democratically elected government of Egypt.
The US supported the Sisi Regime in this unlawful coup, financially and with military armsdeals straight to the murderous Sisi Regime.
Sisi in return promised to keep the Arab Spring Revolution down and cooperate with the US and Israel in their mideast masterplan that
includes Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Yemen, Sinai, Golan Heights, Gaza and Palestine, well the whole middle east,
since most of the worlds zionist jews live not in Israel, but in the USA.
Egypt’s current president, Sisi is just a criminal stooge used by Israel and the USA to keep the middle east and its oil
under Israeli and US control. They pay Sisi's murderous Regime with US Taxpayers money for his services.
most main stream media is hiding these facts, but then what can you expect from a demented media 80% controlled by
ex-australian zionist Rupert Murdoch Fox news ?
WR;)