The CIA's Shadow Hand in Egypt Is On A Killing Spree

Omar Suleiman is known as "Egypt’s top spy chief." Read Professor Lisa Hajjar's article called, "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo," for more information about this bad guy. The article was written on February 7, 2011. There has been a lot of bloodshed in Egypt since then.

Thomas C. Mountain, who is "the only independent western journalist in the Horn of Africa," says Suleiman is causing all the bloodshed. In his latest article, Omar Suleiman: Egyptian Blood and “The Silent Hand," Mountain writes:

Having been put in his post by “The Silent Hand” of Omar Suleiman, the “Secret Minister,” the real power in the Mubarak regime, Tantawi knows full well who is the trusted insider with his masters at the CIA; who can call the Israeli PM 24/7.

Tantawi knows that Omar Suleiman is “The Silent Hand” and is disobeyed at ones own peril.

When Egyptian blood flows in the streets, whether from “Ultra” football cadre or Coptic Christian, or both together, there is a silent hand behind it all, pulling the strings needed to create just enough murder and mayhem so as to legitimize continued military rule.

Suleiman is one of the Middle East's biggest murderers and thugs. He is a CIA strongman, but he remains in the background to avoid public ridicule and outrage.

Like all government thugs, Suleiman's business is death. And his base of operations is Egypt.

Washington and Israel justify their support for this killer by saying he maintains the peace and keeps the Islamists at bay, but this argument doesn't hold up because the CIA also props up the Islamists in Egypt. So it is a cunning game of power and murder that the psychopathic killers at the top of the political pyramid are playing. And the Egyptian people are the victims.

Here is an excerpt from Hajjar's article:

As people in Egypt and around the world speculate about the fate of the Mubarak regime, one thing should be very clear: Omar Suleiman is not the man to bring democracy to the country. His hands are too dirty, and any 'stability' he might be imagined to bring to the country and the region comes at way too high a price. Hopefully, the Egyptians who are thronging the streets and demanding a new era of freedom will make his removal from power part of their demands, too.

Also, read "Egypt's Next Strongman," by Issandr Amrani that appeared in Foreign Policy magazine in August 2009.