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Titolo: Egypt's former spy chief Suleiman dies

Povero "loro figlio di puttana". E' un peccato che sia morto: doveva 
essere una vera enciclopedia ambulante di informazioni sulle operazioni 
della CIA in M.O....
 
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Egypt's former spy chief Suleiman dies
July 19, 2012 08:54 PM
By Tamim Elyan, Tom Perry
 
CAIRO: Egypt's former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, the urbane and 
shadowy power broker who enforced Hosni Mubarak's rule, died in the 
United States of a heart attack on Thursday. He was 76.
 
General Suleiman symbolised the autocratic, military-backed rule which 
dominated much of the Arab world for the last half-century or more, now 
being challenged by restive populations.
 
Nicknamed "the black box" for his role as one of Mubarak's most trusted 
advisers, he was also a willing point man in the rendition of Egyptian 
fighters from Iraq and Afghanistan - in which the United States handed 
over prisoners to Egypt for interrogation. Rights groups said he was 
involved in the widespread torture of detainees.
 
According to state news agency MENA, he died of a sudden heart attack 
after suffering heart and lung problems. Preparations were under way to 
bring his body home for burial, his assistant, Hussein Kamal, told Reuters.
 
Egypt's interim government paid tribute to Suleiman, calling him a 
"patriotic, honest figure" in a statement carried by state news website 
Al-Ahram.
 
But to his critics, he was at the heart of a system that brutally abused 
anyone who opposed it; a system which with the election of the Muslim 
Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi as president in June is now being replaced 
by the very Islamists it sought to contain.
 
In one of the more widely quoted tales of Suleiman's alleged 
ruthlessness, Ron Suskind, a journalist and expert on the George W. Bush 
government, said when U.S. intelligence officials asked him for a DNA 
sample from a relative of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri - he offered 
to send the man's arm.
 
In the end, it fell to Suleiman to announce the end of Mubarak's 30 
years in power on February 11, 2011.
 
Having spent most of his career in the shadows, he moved firmly into the 
public eye in the last days of Mubarak's rule when the president 
appointed him as his deputy, part of efforts to defuse the uprising 
raging in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
 
In his 13 days as vice president, Suleiman held unprecedented talks on 
political reform with opposition forces, including the then-outlawed 
Muslim Brotherhood.
 
But the youthful revolutionaries who spearheaded the uprising were 
incensed by his suggestion that Egyptians were not ready for democracy, 
and the man credited with having saved Mubarak's life during a 1995 
assassination attempt in Ethiopia was not able to save his presidency.
 
ISLAMIST THREAT
 
As Egypt's top man on national security , he was the mastermind behind 
the fragmentation of Islamist groups who rose up against the state. In 
the year before his death one of those groups, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, 
moved into the political mainstream and won seats in parliament.
 
Following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Suleiman 
brought his expertise combating militant Islam to the West's fight 
against Al Qaeda, whose top leadership has included numerous Egyptians, 
including Zawahri, who replaced Osama bin Laden after he was killed by 
U.S. forces in Pakistan last year.
 
Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark Side", says Suleiman was "the CIA's 
pointman in Egypt for renditions - a covert program in which the CIA 
snatched terror suspects from around the world and returned them to 
Egypt and elsewhere for interrogation, often under brutal circumstances."
 
Suleiman's public remarks and comments in diplomatic cables released by 
WikiLeaks showed his strategy in dealing with the West and with Israel 
was to portray the Egyptian government as a bastion against Iranian 
influence and militant Islamists.
 
Having said in a 2011 interview that Egypt did not yet have a culture of 
democracy, Suleiman entered the country's first free presidential 
election a year later at the eleventh hour, citing the threat of a full 
Islamist takeover as his motivation.
 
His sudden re-emergence in the public eye angered those Egyptians for 
whom he represented all they had risen up against. But he also found 
support among those worried by the rise of the Islamist movement, which 
had swept parliamentary elections earlier in the year.
 
"Many people felt that the state is going to the Muslim Brotherhood - in 
parliament, in government and now the presidency," Suleiman told Reuters 
in an April 14 interview.
 
But he also acknowledged the role assumed by the Islamists, describing 
them as "a very important segment" of society.
 
Suleiman's presidential hopes were cut short by an apparent 
administrative failure by his campaign team, which failed to secure 
enough voter endorsements for him to qualify for the election. 
Conspiracy theorists argued he had never intended to run but had entered 
the race so the army-backed authorities could disqualify Islamists 
without causing a major backlash.
 
POINT MAN
 
Suleiman was born on July 2, 1936 in Qena, in southern Egypt. He 
enrolled in Egypt's premier military academy in 1954 and received 
further military training in the then Soviet Union. He also studied 
political science at Cairo University and Ain Shams University.
 
His full role in the opaque Mubarak administration is likely to remain a 
mystery. His role extended well beyond the remit of an intelligence 
chief, including tasks more akin to those of a foreign minister, 
managing relations with the United States and Israel.
 
Some called Suleiman "The Conductor" for the way he appeared at times to 
manage attempts to reconcile the Palestinians and Israelis like an 
orchestra.
 
His fiercest critics branded him an agent for Israel and the United 
States and said he was at the heart of Egypt's participation in the 
Israeli-led blockade of the Gaza Strip.
 
But they conceded that Suleiman had spared Gaza from some deadly Israeli 
offensives by appealing to Israeli leaders and pressuring Hamas - the 
Islamist movement ruling Gaza - and other factions to restore calm.
 
Suleiman left the country after his failed presidency bid, initially 
travelling to Abu Dhabi with relatives.
 
He will take many of the secrets of the Mubarak era to his grave, his 
death depriving Egyptians of the opportunity to put him on trial.
 
"There is sorrow for all those who hoped for his punishment on earth, to 
see him a convicted criminal in the prisons where he put them for so 
long," said Facebook user Ibrahim el-Houdaiby.
 
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Jul-19/181149-egypt-former-spy-chief-omar-suleiman-died-in-us---suleiman-aide.ashx
 
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 della CIA in M.O....
 
Mah..'ste morti  "ad orologeria" sono sospette.
Probabilmente ora sta in qualche villa hollywoodiana sorseggiando Martini
e circondato da conigliette di playboy dentro una Jacuzzi.
Una morte inscenata chiude molte questioni e fa godere la pensione al
fedele "dipendente"
 
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 fedele "dipendente"
 
Una volta perduto il contesto protettivo del regime di Mubarak Suleiman 
non serviva più a nulla ed era diventato oggettivamente una mina vagante.
 
Non penso che l'Agenzia valuterebbe più importante mostrare la propria 
gratitudine per i servigi resi da Suleiman rispetto al rischio che le 
informazioni da esso detenute potessero far saltare in aria la sua rete 
mediorientale e sputtanare gli USA urbi et orbi.
 
Ma sono soltanto supposizioni.
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 Mah..'ste morti  "ad orologeria" sono sospette.
 
essere figli di puttana non rende immortali. Crepano anche loro, ogni
tanto...

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Incredibile come nel contesto del Cirque persino un Bombacci riesca a
svettare
 
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Io non gufo l'Inter. Le spacco le corna.

 Ma sono soltanto supposizioni.
 
Certo
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 tanto...
 
Certo, ma o il tipo era talmente grave da avere i giorni contati oppure
non lo era al punto tale che si era candidato alle elezioni (e non come
appoggio morale).
Subito dopo � scappato negli emirati... avrebeb comunque dovuto fare la
spola negli Stati Uniti ed essere "imbarazzante" sia per loro che per gli
emirati. Cosa di pi� comodo che inscenare la propria morte?
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Ma sono soltanto supposizioni.
 
anche piuttosto deliranti...