Today’s speech may not have given the protesters what they wanted, the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak, but they did reveal that Mubarak has turned the day to day operation of his regime over to his newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman.
This is not entirely unexpected, as Suleiman has clearly been being groomed by the US and Israel as the next Mubarak when the aging dictator eventually leaves office, but it also isn’t a source of any great cheer for protesters, despite the viceral hatred for Mubarak.
Because if there is one person as distrusted as Mubarak in all of Egypt, surely it is Suleiman, who has spent a long tenure as Intelligence Chief for a regime that not only tortured domestically, but turned it into an outsourced product for nations like the US, who shipped detainees to Egypt for mistreatment by the experts.
Suleiman’s role in the Palestinian reconciliation talks is cited as a reason for his popularity in the West, but his apparent designs on being the new strongman and his constant threats and claims that the Egyptian people are not “ready for democracy” are not making him any friends domestically, and have him looking increasingly as just another dictator, something they’ve had their fill of.
Menacing Reputation? That's putting it mildly. They took the leather apron and butcher knives from the dungeon master and dressed him in a pin stripe suit.
Read Lisa Hajjar's excellent opinion piece in Al Jazeera: "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo" http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011…
Sulaman is a butcher as the Egyptians tell, worst than Hosni and all the others are also of same cadre i.e. murderer and torture.
A frienjd told me once a man is landed in the jail of Sulaiman will never come out as a living person.
I know a friend in Berlin with German passport landed on the airport was arrested after intervention from German embassy was released.
Undoubtedly Egyptians livin in Germany have nothing to do with Egypt or Mubarek but they hate like anything.
If Egypt is released and becomes free of all kind of corruptions, I mean political and economic, then people would hang these people by their bolls, which I think is a justified behavior wanting to know where the peoples money stolen by these thugs are, I think the tactics, hanging them by their bolls, is a good method , believe me they will answer any questions long before suggested tactic. In the other hand some of them might not have any bolls which creates a problem.
Thank gawd the Soiledman is out!