US secretly backed Egyptian protest leaders

US secretly backed Egyptian protest leaders

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For the last three years, the US government secretly provided aid to the leaders behind this week's social uprising in Egypt aimed to topple the government of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.

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Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador in Cairo, said in the memo to the US Secretary of State in Washington D.C. that she questioned the likelihood that such an action would happen.

Other cables revealed, however, the US diplomats had sought out the opposition groups, one of whose members attended a youth summit in Washington organized by the State Department.

This week's protests in Egypt were instigated by a group of young, educated Egyptians known as the "April 6 youth movement," which has a presence on the social network site Facebook.

The Scobey memo was labeled "April 6 activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt."

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Sorry but I think this cable is a fake. I have all the cables downloaded and I cannot find any of the phrases in a search of all cables.

I wrote a program to download all the cables and it has a search function so this is not just me not spotting something.

Same thing? www.abovetopsecret.com...

Oh well that does not surprise me, check out this article i just posted on what the CFR had to say about the opposition leader...ATS Article