El-Baradei Lashes Out at US & Urges Mubarak to Step Down Today
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 29, 2011, 11:59 AM
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called the U.S. position on the Egyptian crisis “a disappointment” and condemned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s early Saturday morning speech as “almost an insult to the intelligence of the Egyptian people.” Elbaradei is a friend of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian protesters chant anti-government slogans, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Saying Egypt’s president must go, thousands defied the government’s curfew and filled the streets and squares of downtown Cairo Saturday in a resounding rejection of the longtime leader’s attempt to hang onto power with promises of reform and a new government. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
Voice of America reported:
Egyptian activist and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei says President Hosni Mubarak should step down in order to end days of protests against his rule.
The former head of the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency told media outlets Saturday that President Mubarak’s speech Friday, in which he pledged to form a new government, was “disappointing” to Egyptians.
ElBaradei said Mr. Mubarak has failed to meet the people’s political, economic and social demands. He said they want to build a new Egypt that is free and democratic.
ElBaradei returned to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, from Vienna in time to join massive protests Friday. He has said he is willing to lead an opposition movement. Media reports said Egyptian authorities fired water cannons at ElBaradei Friday and temporarily prevented him from leaving a mosque where he had taken shelter.
Earlier Saturday, he expressed doubts about reports that he is now under house arrest. He said he believes the reports of his house arrest were meant to scare people.
Asked on Aljaeera about the United States and others, “These states who are preaching democracy and freedom need to support the people or the regime. They can’t do both.”
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 67 Comments
apodoca commented:
El Baradei is the IAEAA (whatever) inspector who facilitated the development of the Islamic nuclear bomb. He’s as much a terrorist as the rest.
StrangernFiction commented:
….condemned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s early Saturday morning speech as“almost an insult to the intelligence of the Egyptian people.”
Well join the club, our president actually does insult our intelligence……daily.
Neo commented:
El-Baradei Lashes Out at US .. in a strongly worded letter.
Charlie commented:
I’m sure glad we have the smarter diplomacy of the Obama administration to deal with this problem. Otherwise, the Egyptian people might lash out at the US… ahh….
Granny commented:
#1 January 29, 2011 at 12:03 pm
apodoca commented:
El Baradei is the IAEAA (whatever) inspector who facilitated the development of the Islamic nuclear bomb. He’s as much a terrorist as the rest.
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It is the IAEA. You hit the nail right on the head! It is El Baradei that kept telling us that everything was A-OK with Iran’s nuke development. Without Baradei facilitating and mediating I suspect Iran would not have a nuclear program today. He is the last person the world needs in charge of Egypt.
ebayer commented:
I think El Baradei needs to worry about what what Omar Suleiman is going to do and not what the US is saying.
Also I think El DeBarge has something to say: Who’s Johnny?
focked commented:
Sammy, the plant man, ain’t gonna like this post. U b harshin’ his mello. He ain’t down wit dissing da messiah.
donh commented:
To El Baradei a free Egypt is one free from any jews or christians. I caught some of his speech on the Al Jazeera feed and he was putting out jewish conspiracies about how pro Israel outside countries were trying to control the outcome. Having El Baradei as dictator of Egypt is the same as having Al Quaida Iman Zawahiri in charge. Our political class still seems to be oblivious as to how big a disaster this is.
retire05 commented:
El Baradei is a Tehran puppet and garners most of his support from the Muslim Brotherhood. There is nothing but a worst case senario in the Egyptian outcome.
a) Mubarak stands his ground and the military follows him turning on the Egyptian protesters. This means a further tightening of Murbarak’s opposition and a full fledged revolution
b) the military stands with the protestors, backs El Baradi and the Muslim Brotherhood steps in and takes over giving us, in a few years, Iran on the Nile.
Option (b) puts Israel clearly in the cross hairs and makes any peace in the Middle East tenuous. It also will give Iran and Palestine a strong ally in the destruction of Israel and the advancement of terrorism against the U.S.
There is no good resolution. And the fact that the Obama administration seems to have met with the Muslim Brotherhood, shows that unfortunately, we have an administration that seems to think that his glowing personality will win the day.
Someone needs to remind Obama of his abstract failures at the G-8 summits, with Merkel who publically told him she was not interested in what he was selling and the brutal bitch slapping he took from tiny Honduras.
Obama encouraged the Islamists by meeting with them. There is NO good outcome now for Egypt.
cutlers bad knee commented:
Wheres Hillary ? Must be dodging bullitts in Afganistan.
AAAHHH…..So many pantsuits so little time.
Wm T Sherman commented:
So the Obama regime is not going to be given any credit by the rebels for covertly supporting and instigating this uprising. We are still collectively the Great Satan no matter what we do.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html
Kenny Solomon commented:
So the Moose Limb half-crazies are getting swarmed by the Moose Limb 12th Imam full-on Shari’a lunatics.
Maybe we get lucky and take each other out, saving us the trouble down the road.
Real American Moron commented:
What the he!! is with these freaking muslim Nobelists prizes???
First Obama tries (November GOP take-over saved us) to destroy America and now this useless POS will to hand over Egypt to bin Laden/al Qaeda.
We WILL hold responsible Obama, Pelois, Reid, and the lying liberal media-jihadi complex.
cali commented:
I’m wondering- whould Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood taking over in Egypt have anything to do with Israel next door?
I wouldn’t put it past him to support it, he couldn’t get anywhere with Bibi, but he has better chances with the Muslim Brotherhood to fullfill his hate towards Israel.
Joanne commented:
There may be people who want freedom and democracy, but that is not what they are going to get with the Muslim Brotherhood – only a hard-line Islamic Rule under Sharia Law.
John Galt commented:
Notice they cannot say this man’s name without saying Nobel Peace Prize with it. We all know by this point it has as much meaning as hanging a shiny coffee can lid on a piece of twine around a baboon’s neck to identify the chief baboon.
Note this man has not lived in Egypt for decades.
He is a tool of the Internationalist Banker Elite.
Be quite sure that behind the scenes he is connected with Obama. The bankers have planned this. They caused the price of food to double. They experimented two years ago, they jacked up the Egyptian food prices and riots came on cue.
Nothing is happening by chance, this is totally manipulated. The people on the street are not supporting this outside provocateur.
Who is John Galt?
Chisum commented:
Ken Blackwell
Bowing and Kowtowing: Is This A Foreign Policy?
http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2011/01/29/bowing_and_kowtowing_is_this_a_foreign_policy/page/full/
Andreas K. commented:
Mohamed ElBaradei is a tool.
Right now he’s a useful idiot for the mullahs. The moment he stops being useful, he will have a tragic accident (if they’ll even bother with that.)
Islam and democracy are mutually exclude each other. They can not touch. If Mohamed ElBaradei is trying to push democracy, freedom and equal rights for all Egyptians, he’s breaking Mohammed’s “laws.” The koran and sharia law are 100% clear here: A non-believer and a mohammedan can’t be equal.
haybob commented:
Oh Yes, We can really trust the obamination to direct us on the right course. Grab your ankles
dunce commented:
What does he mean? You can not do both. Obama will do what he does best, vote present.