WikiLeaks reveal: U.S. money-laundering blessing Clinton to deliver funding for organizations and Egyptian activists
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In a sudden development in the case of foreign funding for certain NGOs in Egypt, revealed WikiLeaks revealed many of the documents that prove that Washington resorted to the policy of ...
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|  WikiLeaks reveal: U.S. money-laundering blessing Clinton to deliver funding for organizations and Egyptian activists
In a sudden development in the issue of funding of some foreign NGOs in Egypt, revealed site WikiLeaks
revealed many of the documents that prove that Washington resorted to a
policy similar to money laundering in order to be able to continue to
fund these associations.
 Scooby and Hillary Through the adoption of a policy that allows the transfer of funds to some politicians and activists Egyptians organizations across the U.S. and Arab and international operating as fronts for financing U.S. government in order to avoid the legal control of Egypt. And move the location of the British Broadcasting Corporation me. Me. CNN site for WikiLeaks that many of the documents 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 site WikiLeaks cables that the U.S. Secretary of State Hliara Clinton agreed personally in 2009 to be allowed to provide funds for the Egyptian organizations in a manner akin to money laundering, including a secret telegram bearing the number STATE38618 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 the transfer of funding for American 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 at the State Department, 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, in addition to increased allocations for 2011 for these organizations. He revealed site WikiLeaks pro transparency of information, for another cable dated February 26, 2009 and bearing the number CAIRO353 stating that before the approval of Clinton six weeks, suggested the 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, mostly from the liberal opposition, secular or loyal to the neoconservative 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 CAIRO353 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 Labor, or Middle East Partnership Initiative, or directly from a dedicated new Congress. She Squia in secret telegram: money should go to an outside organization such as a professional National Endowment for Democracy, which has long-term vision for the promotion of democracy, will not bear the same burden endowment If you use political funds Economic Support Fund. The cables show the other followed the approval of the Clinton policy adopted entered into force immediately. It has reported a telegram issued by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 30 April 2009 and is rated a secret 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 on the 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), 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 chief 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 to connect 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 American as a member of the Committee for its guidance, it also serves as head of the Egyptian Organization Human Rights. And demonstrate the telegram leaked on the thread institutions funded U.S. in 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 the Egyptian against the branch of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Cairo and two of its employees, warned MPs Germans that this move by the German Bundestag 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 former president of the European Parliament Hans-Gerd Poettering of non-receipt of the German Foundation until now 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 said in press statements 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 a discussion about the 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 of the branch of the National Democratic Institute 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 is funding at the expense of other parties, 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 of Freedom House for North Africa and the Middle East, said that the campaign of the ruling military council in Egypt on the human rights organizations are not justified, pointing out 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 funding foreign Washington has threatened to cut off aid provided to Egypt, including military aid amounting to 1.3 billion dollars.
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