Friday, July 12th, 2013 at 1:49:23 pm
Sahwa Net - Sana'a:
Says U.S.
President Barack Obama said his country is not biased to one party or
another in the political crisis in Egypt, which reached a peak of
isolating the army of President Mohamed Morsi, the first civilian
president elected. But a review of
dozens of U.S. government documents confirm that Washington has funded
opposition politicians called for the overthrow of Marsa.
The documents
obtained by the investigative journalism program at the University of
California at Berkeley channels appear to pump money through the U.S.
State Department to promote democracy in the Middle East.
The program
supports the "promotion of democracy" activists and politicians who
emerged during the unrest in Egypt, after the overthrow of President
Hosni Mubarak, ousted in a popular uprising in February 2011.
The program of
the U.S. State Department, which he calls U.S. officials Initiative "to
help democracy," part of an effort the Obama administration, which works
on a large scale in an attempt to halt the decline of secular
pro-Washington, and to regain influence in the countries of the Arab
Spring, which saw upwards of Islamists, who are opposed to the end Large
U.S. interests in the Middle East.
The documents
show that one of the activists who are funded by Washington police
officer Egyptian exile plotted in the coup violent on Mursi, and
political anti-Islamist who had called for the closure of mosques and
pull preachers force, in addition to a group of opposition politicians
who pushed for the overthrow of the first democratically elected
president in the country.
According to a
report aired by Al Jazeera English exclusively, the information that has
been obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, and
public records reveal that "assistance for democracy" provided by
Washington may have violated Egyptian law, which prohibits foreign
political funding. They also a
violation of the United States government regulations that prohibit the
use of taxpayer money to finance foreign politicians, or financing
subversive activities aimed democratically elected governments.
Taxpayers' money
The decline in
several agencies in the U.S. State program "assistance for democracy for
the Middle East", where the distribution of hundreds of millions of
taxpayers' money for roads, "Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor," and "Middle East Partnership Initiative," and the U.S. Agency
for Development ", as well as for a quasi-governmental organization in
the "National Endowment for Democracy," the Washington-based.
In turn,
organizations are re-send money to other organizations such as the
"International Republican Institute", and "the National Democratic
Institute," and founder of "Freedom House", and others.
And appear in
federal documents, that these organizations sent money to some Egyptian
organizations, where the management is mostly by politicians, prominent
anti-Morsi also present themselves as activists in non-governmental
organizations.
According to
databases of federal that about nine hundred million dollars spent on
"projects of democracy in the region", in the framework of the "Middle
East Partnership" launched by the administration of former U.S.
President George W. Bush in 2002 in an attempt to influence policy in
the Middle East in the wake of attacks Sept. 11.
And spend the
U.S. Agency for Development (USAID) to about one billion four hundred
million dollars a year in the Middle East, including 390 million for the
"promotion of democracy," according to "Project Democracy in the Middle
East," the Washington-based.
The "National Endowment for Democracy," the main channel, which is funded through Washington "democracy in Egypt." The documents
show that a federal organization that awarded $ 118 million from
Congress, gave $ 120 thousand during the years of exile colonel in the
Egyptian police Omar Suleiman Afifi years ago that incites violence in
his country.
Officer exile
Colonel Suleiman,
who served in the Department detective known notorious for human rights
abuses began to receive U.S. aid since 2008, and lasted for more than
four years. During the
Mubarak era was asked Afifi of his supporters to attack the government,
and after his fall and the rule of the armed forces with the latest
strategies adopted herself, before that in mind overthrow the government
of Mercy.
Sentenced to
Suleiman - who lives in America as a refugee - in absentia last year,
five years in prison for his role in inciting violence in 2011 against
the embassies of Israel and Saudi Arabia, and use social media to
encourage attacks violent against Egyptian officials, according to
documents and publications offered by the court.
Documents
released by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that "the National
Endowment for Democracy," he paid tens of thousands of dollars to
Solomon through its founding organization - based in Virginia - under
the name of "people's rights", where the federal files reveal that the
only employee.
After that
happened Solomon on "fellowship in human rights" in the "National
Endowment for Democracy" in 2008 moved to the United States, and
received a second grant for his organization's worth fifty thousand
dollars in 2009. In 2010 received sixty thousand dollars and ten thousand dollars again in 2011.
In an interview
with the program of investigative journalism at the University of
California at Berkeley, acknowledged Solomon "forced" by obtaining
funding from the U.S. government through the "National Endowment for
Democracy," and continued, "that 2,000 or $ 2,500 a month is not
enough," asked of being interviewed, "Is believes that this is too much?
Obama wants to give us peanuts, and we will not accept it. "
The block
"National Endowment for Democracy" from his Web site the names of the
recipients of the grant Egyptian in 2011 and 2012. Officials did not respond to interview requests for the organization repeated.
And mentions the
official site "for the National Endowment for Democracy" that the
message of Solomon does not call for violence, and was scheduled to get
it and his organization to serve the "Pro Bono legal advice instant
access through a telephone hotline and instant messages, and other
social networking tools."
But what the
website of the organization denies the facts, it is during his
interviews with Egyptian media, and means of social communication,
Solomon encouraged the overthrow of the Egyptian government-violent
ways, and then the leaders of inciting the Muslim Brotherhood and the
ruling Justice freedom.
And
demonstrations by June 30 for the opposition Mursi and which resulted in
the dismissal by the army, incited his followers on the site of Solomon
"Facebook" against pro-Mursi said, "You have to make them unable to
walk. Begin smashed their passengers first."
He continued in
his on Facebook "Cut off the road on the bus heading to Cairo using a
palm tree, and Agmarwa way around gas and gasoline., And slow down when
the bus with those set fire to burn until the bus including the inside
of the passenger ... God bless."
In late May / May
called Mtaatbaah's on Facebook Alpha 83 "for the beheading of those who
manage energy facilities, water and gas."
Dragged preachers
Solomon and
removed many of the messages on the pages of social networking sites
after it became aware of the authorities in Egypt to incite systematic
he was doing, as they appear to court documents.
In one of the
videos on the YouTube site gave the order in December / December 2012
failed attempt to storm the presidential palace Federal machine guns and
Molotov cocktails to overthrow Marsa.
It is also the
beneficiaries of government funding members of the FIS opposition to the
president isolated, and that some of its members called for the removal
of Mercy force. Where they
support campaigns street protests that turned violent against the
elected government, in sharp contrast with the guidelines for the U.S.
State Department.
One of the names
and the opposition has long been funded from the National Endowment for
Democracy and other democratic groups, the Egyptian activist Israa Abdel
Fattah, which emerged during the political battle on a new constitution
in December / December 2012.
Abdel-Fattah and
incited activists to besiege mosques and preachers dragged from the
pulpit and Muslim religious figures from those who supported the
proposed constitution of the country, so before submitting it to a
referendum.
And fell in the
campaign Abdel Fattah, "revealed Khatib from the pulpit" several dead in
clashes between Mhabar mosques and trapped inside.
The records show
the federal Abdel Fattah receive support from non-governmental
organizations, and academic Egyptian democracy, and other groups
supportive of democracy, is clear from the records that "the National
Endowment for Democracy" to grant her organization has 75 thousand
dollars in 2011.
Abdel-Fattah and
political activist travels over Egyptian governorates to drum up support
for her party, "the party constitution," which is led by Mohamed
ElBaradei, the interim vice president. And provided full support for the military takeover, and urged the West not called what happened "coup."
Abdel Fattah said
in an interview several weeks before the overthrow of Marsa "June 30 is
the last day of the judgment of Mercy."
Send raises funds
for the American taxpayer associations founded by wealthy Egyptians
also questions about the loss of these funds in the "program of
democracy."
Aid for the rich
The name of the
political activist Michael Mounir permanent guest on opposition media
for Mursi, head of the Party of Life, bearing the American nationality,
which received U.S. funding to his organization's non-governmental
organizations and other Egyptian.
The organization
founded Munir from a group of some of the characters fierce opposition,
including billionaire Naguib Sawiris, and Tarek Heggy Chief Executive
Officer oil industry, and Salah Diab partner Halliburton in Egypt, and
Osama al-Ghazali Harb, a politician closely linked to the Mubarak regime
and in constant contact with the U.S. Embassy.
Munir denied
receiving U.S. aid, but government documents show that the U.S. Agency
for Development in 2011 awarded its own organization, based in Cairo
more than 355 thousand dollars, and since 2009 he Munir on 1.3 million
dollars from the U.S. Agency.
Munir helped to
mobilize five million Christian Orthodox Coptic minority in the country,
who are opposed to orientation and reference Mursi Muslim, to come down
to the streets in demonstrations against the president June 30.
A new name on the
list of U.S. government support, a member of the Reform Party and
Development Mohammed Esmat Sadat, through the "Sadat Association for
Social Development", and received a grant from the "partnership
initiative with the Middle East."
The records show
the federal grants and databases that Sadat in 2011 received about
84,500 dollars from the Middle East Partnership Initiative "to work with
young people in Egypt after the revolution." Sadat was a member of the Coordination Committee, the Authority organized the main demonstration June 30 anti-Morsi.
Since 2008, Sadat
collection of more than 176 thousand dollars in funding from the United
States, and announced that he will run in the upcoming parliamentary
elections.
After the deaths
of more than fifty favor of Morsi before the House Republican Guard on
the ninth of this month, Sadat defended the use of force and blamed the
Muslim Brotherhood, saying that they have used women and children as
shields.
He said some politicians, backed by the United States that Washington encouraged implicitly inciting the protests.
American incitement
He revealed Saad
Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian political opposition to the Mursi and
pregnant nationality American and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center,
"he told us the Americans that if we saw street protests in bulk and you
were able to survive on the streets for a week, we will review all the
policies of the current U.S. towards the system of the Muslim
Brotherhood."
The center has
"Ibn Khaldun" in Cairo, U.S. funding, it is one of the biggest
beneficiaries of the money to promote democracy on the ground.
The remarks came
other opponents of Egyptian politicians claiming that the U.S. officials
urged them to stir up public sentiment against Mercy before it enters
Washington heavily and openly.
And defended U.S.
foreign and experts close to the program of "democracy assistance"
strongly for funding and political opponents of the government through
non-governmental organizations.
Valtdt on behalf
of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, David Linfield pointed out that there is a
"fine line" between politicians and social activists and Democrats in
Egypt. Others said that Washington does not take responsibility for the actions of organizations do not control them.
For his part,
U.S. State Department official - speaking on condition of anonymity -
that U.S. aid to foreign political activists consistent with U.S. laws.
He added that the
U.S. government provides support to civil society activists, democracy
and human rights, which is compatible with our standards, particularly
respect for the principles of human rights and freedom of expression and
peaceful assembly and human dignity. "
It draws expert
in Atlantic Research Council, Michel Dion to "difficult and vital
Egyptian political scene," and an Egyptian court convicted in absentia
on a pair debts of five years in prison for his role in the issue of
"political funding" in Egypt.
Dion defended her
husband, saying that "if you give someone some money, can not take away
his freedom or placed in the position that you want."
Immoral path
For his part,
denied the former official in the Bush administration Elliott Abrams
finance Washington politicians in Egypt or other countries, because U.S.
law is punishable by all U.S. agencies and law-abiding as well as
strictly controlling Congress.
The Egyptian
court last month convicted 43 Egyptians and foreigners working in
non-governmental organizations on charges of using foreign funding to
stir unrest in the country. And crossed Washington and the United Nations expressed concern about these provisions.
Most experts
believe that the payment of the Middle East and Washington for democracy
in Egypt aims to buy loyalties more than the deployment of human rights
and good governance.
Says Robert
Springborg and Sarah Stewart, who values "democratic programs," U.S.
State Department in Egypt that "the funding of politicians dilemma," he
continues that he "does not mind in the management of a program to
monitor the elections or develop the capacity of the media affiliated to
political parties, but the granting of a lot of money to politicians
raises many questions."
Some Egyptians
that Washington is out of context send money through "programs to
support democracy" in the Middle East to organizations run by
politicians.
The researcher
says Essam independent systems that instead of supporting democracy and
access to the Egyptian people, Washington chose a path "immoral."
It concluded that
Americans believe that they can fool the people in the Middle East, and
continued to say that Americans "were aggressive against the Egyptian
people, who have nothing but goodwill towards them."
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