GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Iran strategy blamed for Mubarak fall

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SOURCE: G2 Bulletin via World Net Daily

24February2011 4:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Iran helped orchestrate the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak through its close Muslim Brotherhood ties because Egypt had strayed from a hard-line Islamic position – and a change of power would expand Iran's influence across northern Africa including the strategic Suez Canal, according to informed sources who talked with Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

According to those sources, Iran, which already wields significant influence in central Asia and the Middle East, has as its goal to exert its influence into the Arab countries, especially those with majority or increasing Shi'ite populations.

At the same time, Tehran wants to isolate Israel, because the leaders of the Islamic republic believe officials there greatly have mistreated Palestinians.

It's not the first conflict between Tehran and Cairo. In fact, the bad blood goes back to the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mubarak delayed exit in order to move secret funds, say intel sources

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SOURCE: Intel News

14February2011 12:59pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: One of the reasons why Egypt’s disgraced ex-president kept prolonging his rule amidst ferocious anti-government protests this month, was to transfer billions of dollars-worth of personal assets into bank accounts around the world.

British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph quotes a “senior Western intelligence official” who claims that Hosni Mubarak’s fund managers began transferring his extensive fortune to numbered bank accounts during the first days of the popular revolution in Egypt.

The intelligence official told The Telegraph that Western intelligence services were “aware of some urgent conversations” within the Mubarak family about how to best protect their fortune from Egyptian and international financial investigators.

The Mubaraks may have thus pre-empted the freezing of their accounts in Zurich, which was announced by the Swiss government on Friday. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Ahmadinejad calls for Mideast without Israel and US

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SOURCE: JPost

11February2011 7:45pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TEHERAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Egypt's popular uprising shows a new Middle East is emerging, one that will have no signs of Israel and US "interference."

The Iranian president spoke as the country marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His remarks came hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down, angering hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who have been demanding he relinquish his three-decade grip on power.

Ahmadinejad says Egyptians have the right to live in freedom and choose their own government.

Iran crushed opposition protests against Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 re-election and on Thursday, Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi was placed under house arrest because of calls for a rally in support of Egyptian protesters. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Muslim Brotherhood: It Looks Like a Military Coup

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SOURCE: Newsmax

11February2011 8:59amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked likely to step down on Thursday after more than two weeks of protests against his 30-year rule and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood said it looked like there had been a military coup.

The armed forces, which have provided Egypt's post-colonial rulers for six decades, announced that they were taking measures to safeguard the nation and the aspirations of the people.

Word Mubarak was going provoked loud cheers in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focal point for pro-democracy demonstrations, though there was also concern about the future role of the army.

Asked if Mubarak would step down, an Egyptian official told Reuters: "Most probably". State television said that Mubarak would speak to the nation from his Cairo palace on Thursday.

The BBC quoted the head of Mubarak's political party as saying that the president might go.

"I spoke to the new secretary general of the ruling National Democratic Party, Hossan Badrawi," a BBC reporter said. "He said: 'I hope the president is handing over his powers tonight'."

State television later showed Mubarak meeting new Vice President Omar Suleiman at his Cairo palace.

For the army, Major General Hassan Roweny told tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square: "Everything you want will be realized." (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt military officials: Mubarak expected to step down

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SOURCE: JPOST

10February2011 12:03pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Cairo — Egypt's military announced on national television that it has stepped in to "safeguard the country" on Thursday and assured protesters that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet their demands in the strongest indication yet that Egypt's longtime leader has lost power. In Washington, the CIA chief said there was a "strong likelihood" Mubarak will step down Thursday.

The dramatic announcement showed that the military was taking control after 17 days of protests demanding Mubarak's immediate ouster spiraled out of control.

Gen. Hassan al-Roueini, military commander for the Cairo area, told thousands of protesters in central Tahrir Square, "All your demands will be met today." Some in the crowd held up their hands in V-for-victory signs, shouting "the people want the end of the regime" and "Allahu akbar," or "God is great," a victory cry used by secular and religious people alike.

The military's supreme council was meeting Thursday, without the commander in chief Mubarak, and announced on state TV its "support of the legitimate demands of the people." A spokesman read a statement that the council was in permanent session to explore "what measures and arrangements could be made to safeguard the nation, its achievements and the ambitions of its great people."

The statement was labeled "communique number 1," a phrasing that suggests a military coup. (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Deep US-Saudi rift over Egypt: Abdullah stands by Mubarak, turns to Tehran

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

10February2011 11:27amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The conversation between President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdullah early Thursday, Feb. 10, was the most acerbic the US president has ever had with an Arab ruler, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report. They had a serious falling-out on the Egyptian crisis which so enraged the king that some US and Middle East sources reported he suffered a sudden heart attack. Rumors that he had died rocked the world financial and oil markets that morning and were denied by an adviser to the ruling family. Some Gulf sources say he has had heart attacks in the past.

Those sources disclose that the call which Obama put into Abdullah, who is recuperating from back surgery at his palace in Morocco, brought their relations into deep crisis and placed in jeopardythe entire edifice of US Iran and Middle East policies.

The king chastised the president for his treatment of Egypt and its president Hosni Muhbarak calling it a disaster that would generate instability in the region and imperil all the moderate Arab rulers and regimes which had backed the United States until now. Abdullah took Obama to task for ditching America's most faithful ally in the Arab world and vowed that if the US continues to try and get rid of Mubarak, the Saudi royal family would bend all its resources to undoing Washington's plans for Egypt and nullifying their consequences. (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt nears military coup. USS warships in Suez Canal

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

09February2011 8:53amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A fresh surge of popular anti-Mubarak protest ripping across Egypt Tuesday, Feb. 8 has brought the country closer to a military coup to stem the anarchy than at any time since the street caught fire on Jan. 25.

Vice President Omar Suleiman warned a group of Egyptian news editors that the only choice is between a descent into further lawlessness and a military takeover in Cairo. The distinguished political pundit of the 1960s and 1970s Hasnin Heikal saw no other way out of the crisis but a government ruling by the army's bayonets.

The arrival of US naval, marine and air forces in the Suez Canal's Greater Bitter Lake indicated that the crisis was quickly swerving out of control. (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt proclaims power transfer plan, protesters wary

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SOURCE: Reuters

08February2011 9:23amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egypt has a plan and timetable for the peaceful transfer of power, the vice president said on Tuesday, as protesters called more demonstrations to show their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak remains potent.

With signs growing that the government may be gaining the upper hand in the struggle for power, Vice President Omar Suleiman promised no reprisals against the protesters for their two-week campaign to eject Mubarak after 30 years in office.

However, protesters camped on Cairo's Tahrir Square accused the government of merely playing for time, and swore they would not give up until the current "half revolution" was complete. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Separate whirlwinds demolish two Middle East figures in one day

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

02February2011 12:49pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Close observation of the circumstances surrounding the seven-day popular uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year old presidency cannot avoid noticing the skillful choreography which brought it up to a well-judged climax Tuesday night, Feb. 2. In fact, the hands of the United States, Britain and the Egyptian army heads were plain to see at every stage. Their agents pushed the levers for speeding up the street action when it flagged and hit the brakes before it went too far.

Interestingly, the outburst of fury appeared to be leaderless and totally spontaneous, an apparent liability in a popular revolution. In fact it was an asset. Mubarak's dread security forces were bereft of the power to break up the protest movement by the usual means of grabbing the ringleader, figure or group at its head. They were also denied an object of penetration for finding out what the street had in store and when – and getting their blows in first.

Without these levers of control, Mubarak's week-long struggle to keep his head above water was doomed from the start. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israel 'hopes for early stabilization' in Egypt

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SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org

01February2011 5:14pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: MOSCOW – Israel hopes the situation in Egypt will stabilize soon, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Dorit Golender said on Tuesday.

"Egypt is Israel's foremost partner in the region," she said. "So it is, without a doubt, important for our country that the political situation in Egypt stabilizes as soon as possible."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier expressed hope that the political crisis in Egypt would not affect the peace accords between the two states, and also warned about the threat of radical Islamists coming to power. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: "Free Egypt" regimes planned alongside March of Millions

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

01February2011 2:56pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Certain opposition groups, backed by retired army and security forces officers are planning to take over a key delta city, proclaim it liberated territory and establish there a "Free Egypt" government, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report Tuesday, Feb. 1. The masses flooding central Cairo for the March of Millions are marching on the presidential palace in their biggest protest demonstration in eight days. President Hosni Mubarak is working there at present.

Opposition leaders have come to the same conclusion as most Western and Middle East observers that Mubarak; whose effigy hangs high from a noose over Tahrir Square, has no intention of leaving in the foreseeable future and all his maneuvers are a play for time.  (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Grad rockets fired from Gaza towards south Israel; Navy ships retaliate

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SOURCE: YNET News

01February2011 2:15pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

Tensions in Egypt appear to be spreading to Gaza: Grad rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled territory Monday night landed near the southern Israeli cities of Ofakim and Netivot. Also Monday, a Qassam rocket exploded in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council. No injuries or damage were reported

During the rocket attack on Netivot- the first attack on Israel since the mass protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began a week ago – four people suffered from shock, and damage was caused to a road and a parked car.

The rocket landed near a residential neighborhood.

Another Grad hit the Ofakim area a few minutes later, but there were no reports of injury or damage.

(read full report)

Israeli response to Qassam fire?

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Tuesday that Navy vessels bombed a post of the al-Quds Martyrs' Brigades, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, west of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was unaware of any attack.

(read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Netanyahu tries to play Egyptian military card – and gets Grad missiles

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

31January2011 6:25pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, Jan 31 he feared Egypt could end up with a radical Islamic regime as in Iran that would "grind human rights to dust" and go against the interests all the peoples of the region share for peace and stability.

"Our main care is to preserve the peace," he stressed in his first comment on the Egyptian crisis at a joint conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Israeli prime minister's words were widely interpreted as support for President Hosni Murakak, for three decades faithful defender of peace with Israel, rather than a reference to the tidal changes overtaking Egypt and potentially other authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.

He also made the gesture of allowing the first Egyptian 800 troops to enter Sinai since the military since the 1979 peace treaty demilitarized Sinai – as first disclosed by DEBKAfile.

The troops arrived Monday, Jan. 31, to back up Egyptian special police units under attack from Hamas intruders from the Gaza Strip, who were acting on orders from the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo.

The Israeli prime minister repeated the same old mistake of leaning on the Egyptian military, in the person of the former intelligence minister – now Vice President – Omar Suleiman to sort out the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip and Sinai. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israeli PM Says Peace With Egypt Must Be Preserved

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SOURCE: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

30January2011 11:51amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says that Israel's three-decade-old peace agreement with Egypt must be preserved — despite the chaos and lawlessness sweeping the country.

It was Netanyahu's first public statement on the turmoil in Egypt since antigovernment protests began six days ago.

Netanyahu said his "objective is to ensure" the preservation of peaceful ties between Egypt and Israel — a cornerstone for geopolitical stability in the Middle East.

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets since January 25 to call for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his regime.

Government buildings have been torched and more than 100 people have been killed in clashes with security forces. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Opposition leader ElBaradei calls for Mubarak to leave

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SOURCE: CNN

30January2011 11:27amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Sunday called for embattled President Hosni Mubarak to "leave today and save the country."

"This is a country that is falling apart," ElBaradei told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

Egypt is entering a period of transition, and a government of national unity is needed to fill the void and hold "fair and free" elections, ElBaradei said.

Mubarak continues to cling to power, though he sacked his government and appointed a new vice president and prime minister.

"I think this is a hopeless, desperate attempt by Mubarak to stay in power," ElBaradei said. "I think it is loud and clear from everybody in Egypt that Mubarak has to leave today, and it is non-negotiable for every Egyptian. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt riots: MKs fear more infiltrators

As uprising reaches Sinai near Gaza Strip, Knesset House Committee chairman fearful of flow of infiltrators from fenceless border

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SOURCE: YNET News

30January2011 11:16amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Is the spreading anarchy in Egypt going to cause a heavy price to Israeli demographic? Knesset House Committee Chairman David Azoulay expressed his concerns on Sunday that the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak would lead to a massive flow of infiltrates into Israel.

During a committee visit to Eilat, Azoulay demanded that the government instruct the IDF to survey the entire Egyptian border.

As part of a discussion on the worrying increase in infiltrators entering Israel illegally, the meeting's participants raised the need to establish a Border Guard unit to handle the fenceless border situation. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Tanks, Fighter Jets Enter Cairo

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SOURCE: Israel National News

30January2011 11:07amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egypt sent its tanks into Cairo over the weekend and its fighter planes soared through the skies overhead in an effort to persuade protesters to return home.

Military helicopters hovered over the crowds and trucks of soldiers appeared in the central square of the capital where protesters continued to call for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

State media reported that Mubarak held talks with top military commanders earlier in the day, as troops attempted to enforce a 4:00 p.m. curfew in a city of some 18 million people.

Hundreds of Muslim terrorists and thousands of other inmates were freed by armed gangs from jails across the capital just before dawn on Sunday. The former prisoners rushed into the city with guns, sticks and clubs, indiscriminately smashing cars and robbing people. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Hamas gunmen from Gaza battle Egyptian forces in Sinai

Muslim Brotherhood more active than it appears

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

30January2011 10:50amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Gunmen of Hamas's armed wing, Ezz e-Din al Qassam, crossed from Gaza into northern Sinai Sunday, Jan. 30 to attack Egyptian forces and push them back. They acted on orders from Hamas' parent organization, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, confirmed by its bosses in Damascus, to open a second, Palestinian front against the Mubarak regime. The Muslim Brotherhood is therefore more active in the uprising than it would appear.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hamas gunmen went straight into battle with Egyptian Interior Ministry special forces (CFF) in the southern Egyptian-controlled section of the border town of Rafah and the Sinai port of El Arish. Saturday, Bedouin tribesmen and local Palestinians used the mayhem in Cairo to clash with Egyptian forces at both northern Sinai key points and ransack their gun stores. (read full report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING (UPDATED): Egypt's President Names Deputy for 1st Time

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SOURCE: Newsmax / Bloomberg

29January2011 3:52pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president Saturday for the first time since coming to power nearly 30 years ago. It was a clear step toward setting up a successor in the midst of the biggest challenge ever to his rule from tens of thousands of anti-government protesters.

Mubarak named his intelligence chief of nearly two decades and close confidant Omar Suleiman, state television reported.

The president had been seen as grooming his son Gamal to succeed him, possibly even as soon as in presidential elections planned for later this year. However, there was significant public opposition to the hereditary succession.

The appointment of Suleiman, 74, answers one of the most intriguing and enduring political questions in Egypt: Who will succeed 82-year-old Mubarak? (read Newsmax report)

According to Bloomberg:

“The president appears to be trying to position the country in a way that if he leaves, the country is in the hands of the military and intelligence,” said Emad Gad, an analyst at the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, a Cairo-based research firm. “He has to leave or the protests won’t stop. But the army will not remove the president.”

Mubarak also named Aviation Minister and former air force commander Ahmed Shafik as prime minister to replace Ahmed Nazif, who resigned today at the 82-year-old president’s request.

Mubarak’s two appointments may not be enough to placate protesters as they put former military officers in charge of the top three jobs in the country. The president was a commander of the air force. Seventy-three people were killed and 1,000 wounded across the country in the past two days, Al Arabiya television reported, citing medical sources.

“The Egyptian government can’t reshuffle the deck and then stand pat,” State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in a message on Twitter. “President Mubarak’s words pledging reform must be followed by action.” (read Bloomberg report)

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egyptian-American leaders call for U.S. support of 'Lotus Revolution'

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SOURCE: CNN

28January2011 11:20pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: As public protests against the Mubarak regime spread from Cairo to New York City, Egyptian-American activists on Friday called on the Obama adminstration to back the "Lotus Revolution" to oust the authoritarian ruler.

They also called on President Hosni Mubarak's government to end its purported practices of detentions, torture and "extrajudicial killings."

"This day, I assure you, will be mentioned in history as a point of change all over the Middle East, said Mokhtar Kamel. "Gone are the old days where antiquated brutal regimes are controlling the area."

"To those in the United States and in the West who are quoting stability as an excuse for brutality. Guys, this is too late," Kamel said. "You have to change your mentality."
Kamel, vice president of the Coalition of Egyptian Organizations in North America, was one of several Egyptian-American activists to appear at the National Press Club in Washington Friday to talk about the protests. (read full report)