| February 2012 |
| 11 |
Source: Al-Ahram daily
By Mazen Hassan
Scobey | ||
Washington and Berlin news agencies:
In a sudden development in the case of foreign funding for certain NGOs in Egypt, revealed WikiLeaks revealed many of the documents which prove that Washington resorted to a policy similar to money laundering in order to be able to continue to fund these associations, and through the adoption of a policy that allows the transfer of funds to some politicians and activists Egyptians Organizations across the U.S. and the Arab and international operating as fronts for financing U.S. government in order to avoid the legal control of Egypt.
And the transfer of the BBC website «me. Me. C »for WikiLeaks many of the documents that were leaked by the last of the existence of secret contacts involving U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey on how to fool the censors in Egypt.
It is incorporated WikiLeaks cables that the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed personally in 2009 to allow the provision of funds for the Egyptian organizations in a manner akin to money laundering, including a secret telegram bearing the number STATE 38618 appended to the name Clinton on April 18, 2009, was classified as a confidential document, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman says: The policy is now funding the transfer of U.S. groups Alsaaash Egyptian organizations across the interface and American non-governmental or international in the form of grants from the subconscious.
According to the Telegraph as well: The two programs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first Office of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and the second in the initiative to participate Middle East (MEPI) agreed to support this thesis new, and asked both of no less than 2.6 million dollars to organizations democratic, non-registered, and politicians in Egypt , as well as increased allocations for 2011 for these organizations.
He revealed WikiLeaks pro-transparency of information, for another cable dated February 26, 2009 and bearing the number CAIRO 353 stating that, prior to approval by Clinton six weeks, suggested U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, then Margaret static that Washington changed the course of the transfer of funds the U.S. government allocated to politicians Egyptians are not registered, most of them Opposition liberal and secular or pro-neo-conservative movement, so that the first pass through front organizations to hide the funding after Egyptian authorities accused Washington of interfering in the internal political affairs of the country.
Wrote Ambassador Scobey in the Telegraph secret number CAIRO 353 would like to find a way better and less clash for their support, and we suggest that instead of funding these organizations directly using the Economic Support Fund Egyptian, to offer instead of funding through other sources, for example from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and work or the Middle East Partnership Initiative, or directly from a dedicated new Congress.
She Squiy in secret telegram: should the money go to an outside organization such as a professional National Endowment for Democracy, which has a long-term vision for the promotion of democracy, will not bear the same burdens political endowment funds have been used if the Economic Support Fund.
Other cables show that following the approval of the Clinton policy, which adopted entered into force immediately.
It has reported a telegram issued by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 30 April 2009 and bear «classification series» that one of the major organizations, the Egyptian-backed funded by the veiled in Morocco is funded by other Americans.
She said the Telegraph, which carried the signature of Ambassador Margaret Scobey, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights received funding from the Moroccan organization to hold a conference in Cairo, freedom of the press.
SMT Ambassador Moroccan Organization Centre for Media Freedom, an organization immersed revealed U.S. Ambassador she also funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), which was launched by former U.S. President George W. Bush after the events of September 11, 2001 and is subject to the U.S. State Department.
As the National Endowment for Democracy to provide millions of dollars for associations, organizations and politicians Egyptians, including the Ibn Khaldun Center, which is managed by the activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and its director activist Nasser Amin, the center of al-Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence, and Cairo Forum liberal.
Gave endowment as the document says awards for politicians and journalists Egyptians in touch to over the years embassy supported the invasion of Iraq and striking Israel to Lebanon in 2006, such as the Egyptian publisher Hisham Kassem, who now works with an initiative of the National Endowment U.S. as a member of the Commission guidance, it also serves as president of the organization Egyptian Human Rights.
And demonstrate the telegram leaked the interdependence of institutions funded U.S. in the area of the Arab world, and coordination to avoid government oversight Arab funding, and showed a triangle of close collaboration combining one of the oldest civic organizations in Egypt, and foreign diplomats, and the interface to the fund in Morocco.
In Germany, after the conviction of German parties in the Bundestag unanimously to investigations conducted by the judicial authorities of Egyptian against Branch Foundation "Konrad Adenauer" in Cairo and two of its employees, warned MPs Germans that this move by the Bundestag, the German may be counterproductive and cause the complexity of the situation.
And many have expressed their belief that the real problem lies in the activity of American organizations, and not in the activities of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the German Foundation has been thrown out by intentionally or even without the charges is not limited to American organizations.
The Bundestag had demanded a unanimous parliamentary blocs of parties that the German authorities have stopped the Egyptian judicial investigations against the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, describing the charges as without her support, and ask the German government to work with all our strength to stop investigations against the institution.
For his part, complained Chairman Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the President of the European Parliament previously Hans Gerd Poettering not received the German Foundation yet any written documents containing the charges against her, describing them as "general" and refusing to say that his organization is working illegally in Egypt.
Said Poettering in a press statement in Germany that the employees Germans ACQUIRE since 1994 on a work permit, and the branch manager renews his residence on a regular basis, and there is an agreement for cooperation between the institution and the institution affiliated to the Egyptian government about the activity of the Konrad Adenauer in Egypt, which includes the words Poettering organizing conferences, seminars and cooperation with figures and civil society organizations to support democracy in Egypt and build a state of law, and also hold a debate on important societal issues such as gender equality and dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
It continued yesterday, many civil society organizations accused of illegal foreign funding in Egypt to defend itself against accusations by the Egyptian government have to work under the guidance of the U.S. government and funding.
For its part, confirmed Barry Freeman, Regional Director for the National Democratic Institute's branch in North Africa that the Institute does not have a hidden agenda, noting that the Institute trained thousands of people, who included people from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists.
Freeman denied that the Institute be biased to a particular party in Egypt, or the financing of political parties at the expense of the other, or provide financial support for the revolutions, saying that the institute has trained hundreds of election observers and graduated from the Institute of many international observers for the elections.
As Charles Dion Regional Director of the Institute, "Freedom House" for the region of North Africa and the Middle East, said that the campaign of the military council ruling Egypt on human rights organizations are not justified, noting that this campaign aims to shut down all of these organizations or subject entirely to the control of the military council, as he put it.
The United States has sent strong warnings to Egypt during the last period due to the strong campaign launched by the Egyptian government on the human rights organizations because of foreign-funded Washington has threatened to cut off its aid to Egypt, including military aid, which account for 1.3 billion dollars.
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