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U.S.A. ACCUSED OF RUNNING OVER EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS
By Raymond Ibrahim
THE CURRENT MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN EGYPT: EVIDENCE THAT THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY RAN ARMORED VEHICLES OVER EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS --
THE U.S.A. AS THE LATEST VICTIM TO BE SCAPEGOATED FOR THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY'S CRIMES AGAINST ITS OWN CITIZENRY
FULL STORY:
How many are the lies that Egypt's military regime has forwarded concerning its role in attacking and killing Egyptian demonstrators since it usurped power a year
ago?
There were, for instance, the lies concerning the Maspero massacre, where the military slaughtered Christian Copts who were protesting the constant attacks on
their churches.
Despite all the video evidence that the military ran armored-vehicles over Copts [apparently now removed by YouTube], the military regime insisted that it would
"never, never" run over civilians; that the very idea was "impossible, impossible!" It even showed a video of a military-vehicle running amuck, claiming it was
hijacked by Coptic protesters (it was later revealed that an Egyptian soldier was, in fact, inside driving).
More recently, Mohamad Tantawi, the head of the military — and de facto head of Egypt — said that the widely circulated video of soldiers beating, stripping,
and kicking a female protester is "entirely fake" — a ludicrous assertion, even if Jimmy Carter supports it.
Who is the latest victim to be scapegoated for the military's crimes against its own citizenry? None other than the U.S.A.
Ongoing accusations that American officials were involved in killing Egyptian civilians have prompted the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to deny it through a January 27
press release:
"As we have stated in previous press releases, there is absolutely no
truth to reports that U.S. Embassy employees or diplomats were
involved in hit-and-run incidents using U.S. diplomatic vehicles,
injuring or killing protestors in January, 2011 in Cairo. There is also
no truth to statements alleging that the keys inside U.S. diplomatic
vehicles are coded and can only be used by U.S. Embassy
employees. On January 28, 2011, however, a number of our U.S.
Embassy vehicles were stolen. After these vehicles were stolen, we
heard reports of their use in violent and criminal acts. If true, we
deplore these acts and the perpetrators. Egyptian authorities have
conducted an investigation that has led to the recovery of some of
these stolen vehicles."
Who is behind these accusations? The military? As mentioned, it did make similar accusations against Coptic protesters, saying they hijacked and manned the
military-vehicles that ran over fellow Copts at Maspero — only to be exposed as lying by Al Dalil.
While it is not altogether clear who is behind these accusations — this report indicates a lawyer of a former Egyptian official being tried, while older reports
mention "communiqués" — it is, of course, the military regime that stands to gain by this latest case of blaming the other.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Egypt, Arabs, & the Middle East
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
North Africa -- The Arab States of Islamic North Africa
The Middle East & the Arabs
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Raymond Ibrahim, a historian of Islam, Islamism and the Middle East, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center, an Associate Director of the Middle East Forum, a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College, and
the editor of The Al-Qa'ida Reader, a collection of tranlations of key texts and documents of the Islamist movement.
Ibrahim's translations of the religious texts and political propaganda comprising this collection help readers comprehend
the origins, development, history, and serious danger of the Islamist war doctrines of Usama bin Laden and Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the Founders of Al-Qa'ida.
The foregoing article by Raymond Ibrahim was originally published in Jihad Watch, February 2, 2012, and
can be found on the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum, a foreign policy think tank which seeks to
define and promote American interests in the Middle East, defining U.S. interests to include fighting radical Islam,
working for Palestinian Arab acceptance of the State of Israel, improving the management of U.S. efforts to promote
constitutional democracy in the Middle East, reducing America's energy dependence on the Middle East, more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia, and countering the Iranian threat.
(URL: http://www. meforum.org/3168/running-over-egyptian-civilians)
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
February 2, 2012
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