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Egypt Sentences Clinton-Backed Former President To Death
When it comes to spectacularly bad foreign policy outcomes, the US is on an incredible run lately even by its own lofty standards.
Take Yemen for example. Just last year it was trotted out by The White House as the shining example of how, with the help of puppet governments, Washington can effectively combat terror in the Arabian Peninsula. Fast forward to today, and the US-friendly President Hadi is holed up in Riyadh after Iran-backed rebels armed with $500 million worth of weapons the US “lost” swept across the country, sparking a war with Saudi Arabia and plunging Yemen into utter chaos. As for AQAP (the raison d'être for the US’ interest in the country in the first place), they’ve taken advantage of the turmoil by looting central bank branches and staging prison breaks.
Then there’s Syria, where Washington’s celebrated “brave freedom fighters” abruptly metamorphosed into the most brutal band of marauding Muslim militants ever witnessed in the modern world.
And don’t forget Egypt, where the US was effectively forced to abandon its long-standing support for the dictatorial regime of Hosni Mubarak when the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was “democratically” elected following mass protests. Washington initially praised the country’s “democratic transition” only to see Morsi pass a decree granting himself dictatorial emergency powers. That would mark the beginning of the end for Egypt’s experiment with “democracy” because six months later, Morsi was overthrown in a military coup. Late last month, Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Had that been the end of it, Egypt would still certainly qualify as an example of how poorly things can turn out when the US meddles in the affairs of sovereign countries, but this ridiculously bad outcome got infinitly worse on Saturday when Morsi was sentenced to death. Here’s Bloomberg:
Former Islamist Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi was sentenced to death following charges that he escaped from prison and collaborated with foreign groups to destabilize the nation during the 2011 revolt against his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
A judge announced the verdicts in a televised session on Saturday as Mursi, 63, watched from a soundproof cage in the courtroom. The sentence must be approved by the nation’s top Muslim theologian, or Mufti, a customary procedure when passing capital punishment in Egypt. The court also sentenced more than 100 other defendants to death, many of whom were tried in absentia.
The verdict will raise tensions in a country that has been racked by violence since Mursi was overthrown by the military in 2013, a year after he became Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president. He was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison in connection with violence near the presidential palace in Cairo during a protest against his rule. He remains on trial for other charges including insulting the judiciary and spying for Qatar.
“It’s a very inflammatory move that could perpetuate violence in Egypt,” Anthony Skinner, an analyst at U.K.-based consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, said by phone. “We have already witnessed negative dynamics including the rise in Jihadi groups in Sinai and increasing attacks by militant Islamic groups in urban centers, targeting the police force and state institutions.”
As for the US, the State Department is “deeply concerned.”
Via Reuters:
"We are deeply concerned by yet another mass death sentence handed down by an Egyptian court to more than 100 defendants, including former President Mursi," the State Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We have consistently spoken out against the practice of mass trials and sentences, which are conducted in a manner that is inconsistent with Egypt's international obligations and the rule of law," he said. The official, noted, however, that Saturday’s death sentence ruling was “preliminary.”
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Speaking of the State Department and Morsi:
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With friends like these...Funny thing is the Crown family- rabid zionists,are still selling Abrams tanks to Egypt hand over fist.
Poor fucker looks like a pound puppy. I wonder if Hildabeast puts money in his commisary.
The Crown family: investing in weapons, war ...and ObamaGeneral Dynamics, Henry and Lester Crown
One family stands out as playing exactly that role in the political career of Barack Obama: the Crown family of Chicago. The importance of this relationship in Obama’s career exposes some of the roots of his subservience to the government of Israel, his threats of aggression against Iran, his expansion of the JSOC/CIA targeted killing program, and his unswerving commitment to record military budgets in a time of economic and fiscal crisis.
The Crowns are the children and grandchildren of Henry Crown, who made a fortune in the building materials business, had reputed links to the Chicago Mafia, and discovered the armaments business as a military procurement officer during the Second World War. Henry Crown bought a controlling interest in General Dynamics in 1959 and developed it into the largest weapons maker in the world, building the Trident submarine, the Atlas rocket, the F-16 fighter, the Abrams tank and much of America’s Cold War arsenal. The General Dynamics board forced him out as CEO in 1966, but he bought back a 20 percent share in the company and regained effective control in 1970.
Henry’s son Lester succeeded him as chair of General Dynamics in 1986 and as president of Henry Crown & Co, the family’s private investment firm. Lester is 86 now, but still takes a keen interest in politics. He is chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and founded the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, which also received a $2.5 million grant directly from General Dynamics. He supports the arts in the U.S. and Israel—the Jewish Symphony Orchestra plays in Henry Crown Hall in Jerusalem. The Crown family is worth at least $4 billion, making it one of the richest families in America.
http://warisacrime.org/content/crown-family-investing-weapons-war-and-ob...
Egypt Cannot Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion'http://www.businessinsider.com/why-us-wont-cut-aid-to-egypt-2013-8#ixzz3aPVmw5Vs
Go further back to F-111 scandal. An insanely overpriced plane green lighted by LBJ with a huge scandal. Shortly after that. JFK problem goes away. A jet looking for a war.
This scum family were among LBJ and Obama biggest supporters. Pure evil.
Connecting the dots is always useful. Thanks!
The Henry Crown (formerly Krinsky) family of Chicago is connected to the cover-ups of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the terror attacks of 9-11, as I describe in my article "JFK and 9-11: Henry Crown and the Cover-Ups of Our Time". Most amazingly, the Crown family is also connected to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, which was owned by Myer Schine, the father of Renee Schine and father-in-law of Lester Crown. Schine also owned the Gulf Stream Hotel on Miami Beach where J. Edgar Hoover spent his winter holidays - free of charge. The Crown family of Chicago, the controlling family of the huge defense contractor General Dynamics, is connected to all kinds of things, but for the same family of war profiteers to be connected to the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and the terror attacks of 9-11, is either a remarkable coincidence or an indication of involvement in these mega-crimes. LBJ & THE TFX SCANDAL Henry Crown became the largest shareholder of Texas-based General Dynamics when he merged his sand and gravel (and cement) company, Material Service Corp., with the nearly bankrupt defense contractor in 1959. Crown's new company was in dire straits financially until 1962 when it was rescued by a $7 billion contract to produce a new fighter jet for the military. This became known as the TFX/F-111 scandal. In 1963, General Dynamics came under congressional investigation to determine exactly how Henry Crown had finagled this huge Texas deal. Peter Dale Scott, the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993), explains how Lyndon Johnson was tied into this crooked deal: This bit of history indicates that Vice President Lyndon Johnson was involved in a criminal way in the crooked TFX deal that gave Henry Crown's new company the largest military aircraft contract in U.S. history. As the recipient of a $100,000 payoff, Johnson would have been in a position in which he could be blackmailed by Henry Crown. Henry Crown's personal lawyer, Albert E. Jenner, who also served as a director of General Dynamics, was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to the Warren Commission where he was tasked with investigating the evidence of a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. He found none. J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, personally directed the FBI investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The House Select Committee on Assassinations issued a report in 1979 critical of the FBI investigation and the Warren Commission. The report criticized the FBI's reluctance to thoroughly investigate the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Committee's final report concluded that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/04/crown-crime-family-of-chicago.htmlYour first link is bad. Presumably this is the correct one.
http://www.bollyn.com/jfk-and-9-11-henry-crown-and-the-cover-ups-of-our-...
Sucks to be a FOO (Friend of Obama).
Not necessarily.
"$500 million worth of weapons the US “lost” swept across the country"
I don't think the US is "losing" weapons accidently. It is all with a purpose. Such as the billions in weapons and bullets that all these various branches of the US government have purchased for no apparent reason. You think they aren't being stashed in various places right here in the US so that in the future, a FOO, as you call them, will "find" them and use them in the war against the US and/or certain segments of its citizenry? I don't doubt this for a second. This administration is completely untrustworthy and is undermining US strength, relevance, and viability. Either the most completely incompetent or the most completely evil administration ever. Possibly both. I have my doubts there will even be an election in 2016. These fuckers do not want to cede power.
The Saudis are backing Sisi now and to make matters worse, look for Russia and China to set up bases there in the near future.
When do we put Hliary in jail?
"When it comes to spectacularly bad foreign policy outcomes, the US is on an incredible run lately even by its own lofty standards."
Er... Egypt was briefly run by the Muslim brotherhood but is now run by a AngloQuizling vassal state. If that's not a win for 'our' ziopaths, I don't know what is.
Nice to see Morsi behind bars. Just like Jon Corzine.
Oh wait...
Saddamized™.
Mubarak only got three years.
Mubarak and his family ( this does not count Mubarak's inner circle of ministers and advisors and military personel ) somehow managed to amass a fortune estimated at more than $40B over the 30+ year of period which Mubarak ruled during which the US sent an average of $2B a year to Egypt as 'foreign aid'...
You and your children are still paying interest -and will continue to do so unless this odious debt is defaulted and expunged- on US national debt which includes these mis-appropriated 'foreign aid' funds borrowed and gifted to Mubarak and his cronies..
Egypt is going down soon, real soon.
Now they just need to sentence the Clintons
"The Henry Crown (formerly Krinsky) family of Chicago is connected to the cover-ups of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy..."
It was Oswald and he did it for his own personal reasons.
Al-Sisi has to be pretty damn confident if he lets this sentence stand. Dayum!
Presedent Poroshenko -
In those immortal words of Santayana in The Life of Reason, 1905:
Dual shit-i-Zen Proky does not care. If he can get Western Christians in the Ukraine (mainly Catholics) killing Eastern Ukraine Christians (mostly Orthodox Christians) then the elites and Yat's boss Soros are happy along with Soros other stooge McCain.
Get both sides killing each other, steal the land, steal the coal, steal anything they can get their hands on.
That's exactly my point, Freddie. Poroshenko should care. The Ukraine plan is basically the plan used in Egypt after the U.S. installed Morsi:
Steal the gold, move parasitic Rothschild banks in, raid or privatize whatever resources the people have left, then sell them a bunch of worthless U.S. military junk.
It will end in Ukraine with Porky on death row at the hands of his new Zio-Nazi overlords.
Unless Poroshenko's Chief of Staff is Victoria Noodleman.
All Poroshenko has to do is read the words on the 3 X 5 card she gives him.
And let's not forget, because they are trying to shove it down the memory hole, that she was on the BOD of Walmart, during the time it was transitioning from Sam's USA-centric operation towards the Chinese slave labor mart we know today. Millions of tools would vote for her because she is a woman. Well folks, that ain't no woman!
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/04/crown-crime-family-of-chicago.html
Colonel told to stand down on protecting JFK at .34 seconds. One of the largest military contractor in Texas and today in Arizona. John McCain war head. He and Jeff Flake selling out Americans with open borders. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSw9sjqYK_I
Mr. X is Fletcher Prouty in real life.
Perfect. Now, if we could just get the Egytpian Military to investigate our President ?
That's nothing, the Greeks bought German Submarines; and no, I'm not joking. That's one of the items on their debt list.
Wouldn't be the first guy Hillary eliminated after she was done with him.
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He got his reward for kissing a cankled toad.
You'd think a good Moslem would have steered clear of the pig in a pantsuit.
What's the point of contributing to the Clinton's wealth if you have to die anyway?
Wasted contribution.
And you thought you would be saved by the Clintons during times of trouble.
What a delusion.
Sisi have a copy of "dead list" of Mursi and he is number one in it.
Whose our similarly situated "Ukrainian" again? I'm pretty sure he's actually from Brussels or Yale or something similar, but whatever. He better get sentenced for murder insurance, I here it's popular these days.
Mursi is lapdog of Erdogan and CIA
Yeah, I'm making a less than informed attempt at drawing similarities between Mursi and, Petro Poroshenko and Nuland in Ukraine. It does seem that he spent more time in Moldavia than in the Ivy League, but he's still a lapdog to US interests. Mobuto Sese Seko and the USA may have been the more fruitful comparison to Poroshenko, due to the Ukraine's involvement in ending his regime. Regardless of my being poorly informed on the details of his education I believe there are some useful comparisons to be made between the persons mentioned.
Looks like the Muslim Brotherhood is on the outs again...
Obama and Clinton are devoid of executive leadership skills prior to their stints in public service and now we see the results of that in so many US foreign policy flops.
I'd upvote you [at face value] for that comment, but the sad truth is that there is NOBODY IN EXISTENCE that is qualified for public service of any kind...
Come on guys and gals. All these people know and all they are there for is to steal, loot, enslave, murder, rob, kill and grab as much money and power as they can get for themselves and their elite bosses.
They are like a gang of murderers.
I am reminded of the similarities between the Midfle East today, and the Game of Thrones 'Khal Drogo'. Rule is only possible when there is a strong ruler who can literally crush his opponents. There can never be an opposition party because a strong leader will not tolerate it, and a weak leader will be deposed by his opponents. Stability is a relative term, as a strong leader will not be challenged, and will eliminate anyone who tries.
But is this really any different from the way democracy works in the Republic of the United States of America? About the only thing different is that instead of combatative duels we have elections.
If you doubt what I say - name ANY tolerant democracy that has EVER existed in the Middle East!
He's lucky, most of Hillary's friends are already dead
Proving, yet again, that those with the guns make the rules.
It is not the whims of the US, nor the result of Egyptian elections, nor a power grab by Mursi -- rather, the rules are being made by the Egyptian Army - the guys holding the guns!
The black widow.
Moar US hypocrisy.
The US doesn't object to mass trials, because they held their tongue when their (sometimes) puppets in Athens put 70 members of a political party on trial.
The US doesn't object to death sentences for political opposition, because they held their tongue when their (sometimes) puppets in Kiev eliminate political opposition that hasn't fled east.
The US only objects when their lapdog gets the death sentence he so richly deserves.
Death to USian-backed Zionist lapdogs everywhere.
I look forward to the day this starts happening in the USian vassal countries in the so-called 'west'. That will be the same day those countries begin reclaiming their sovereignty.
My heart bleeds for this POS. Classic dictator's over reach got him in the well deserved place he is in today. I wish our military was as efficient at dealing with would be dictators as Egypts. Of course they have had a lot more practice.
Obozo, you time is coming if the American people have any balls left after your catastrophic run.
"and the US-friendly President Hadi is holed up in Riyadh", ........what day was that?
....here is a #Asmara sighting.
http://www.madote.com/2015/05/tourist-spots-yemens-deposed-president.htm...
Leaders fear this ''We are here from the USA and here to help you''/
You've been USA'd!
Clinton backed, Obama backed and Muslim Brotherhood backed. Morsi is a murdering slimeball and is getting what he gave.
The largest human gathering in the history of mankind, 19 million people in the square in Cairo, was the gathering to demand Morsi vacate office after he started killing Christians and "bad" muslims. That was 25% of the population of Egypt showing up and the moderate muslims stood up to the MB, ISIS, Al-Qaeda types, and to Obama. The equivalent would be 75 million Americans showing up in Washington DC to demand Obama step down.
I don't call that a military coup, I call it a relatively bloodless revolution by the grassroot Egyptian people.
They learned the harsh lesson that most of us in the West learn as young hopefuls at the ballot box: When the current leader is so bad that you think electing anyone else couldn't possibly be worse, it is. Infinitely worse.
The only difference between team A and team B is the level of psychopathy.
I have a lot of respect for the Egyptian and Syrian people also East Ukriane akak Novo Russia. Americans live in a Wal Mart/NFL/Hollywood/TV dream world that they liver in a free country.
Peace on earth and angels sing, gory to the new born king.
Ah, el-Sisi certainly knows how to run the show. Like the presidential election, where he was one of only two candidates, and won a convincing 97% of the vote. LOL. Gotta love military rule.
Clinton-backed? Oh, HILDABEAST. I always forget about her.
Jihadis will not use Morsi's conviction as an excuse for violence. When you're an acolyte of the Religion of the Perpetual Umbrage no amount of groveling apologies or PC speech will mollify and any excuse for violence will do.
Either you have the courage to stand up to monsters or you don't. It's as simple as that.
Say 'Hello' to Vince Foster and Ron Brown and take your seat...somebody else will be along shortly, probably Stephanopoulis...kick him in the pills just on the principle of the whole deal if you feel so compelled...
if anyone thinks all this matters they have a screw missing...........the 1% have shit where they sleep. when they killed american productivity and the middleclass they took away their save haven. when the SHTF where are they going to run....and survive....! food line will be cut. china wont be shipping replacement parts. what are they going to recreate 200 years of industrialisation in a 'safe' country...right. aint gonna happen.
anyone that doubts the chaos that is coming just go back and reread the french revolution. we only have mass death and violence coming....buckle up.
Now there is a model for dealing with these people. Round up the traitors and politicians. Conduct a trial and sentence them all en masse. Broadcast it on pay per view.
...wonder what the chances are that we'll send in Seal Team 6 to rescue him, poor Clintonized Bugger.
Not much, 22 of them are dead (silenced)
Mursi was/is, "Muslim Brotherhood." Egyptian military ain't going have that.
Hmm - part of the DNC's throwing Hillary under the bus in order to save ??? who. How did Obama's name get left off? He is the one who had Morsi at the WH just before the Egyptian election and undoubtedly helped Morsi get "democratically elected". Obama's Mid EAst policies are in shambles. How is his name left out of all these discussions?
Its a start.