Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising

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more:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html

By Tim Ross, Matthew Moore and Steven Swinford 9:23PM GMT 28 Jan 2011


The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.

On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations and his identity is being protected by The Daily Telegraph.

...The disclosures, contained in previously secret US diplomatic dispatches released by the WikiLeaks website...

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1. Well this is confusing.