Yikes. Look who Mubarak has made Vice President

[cali]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman

First vice president in 30 years.

[whirlygigspin]

1. Spooky!

I hear he's a big opera fan...

and when will Mubarrak give back the 40 Billion he stashed away?

they will need a truth commission later on

[tekisui]

18. He puts the 'spook' in spooky.

[Enrique]

2. maybe that will calm the protests

:sarcasm:

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Oh, man... you didn't even need that sarcasm thing...

On second thought.... I was at an event (political) last evening, and based on the number of people who occasionally looked up at the tv screen and said, "no, I didn't hear, what's THAT about?", maybe you do!

[malaise]

3. People are suggesting that he's trying to avoid a military

coup so he's appointing military VPs - a 1st VP Suleiman and 2nd VP also from the military.

[DCKit]

4. From the link:

Omar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر سليمان‎; born July 2, 1936) is the current Vice President of Egypt, and was formerly a minister without portfolio and director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID), the national intelligence agency of Egypt. He has been in office since 1993. In his role as director of EGID, the British Daily Telegraph dubbed him as "one of the world's most powerful spy chiefs". Foreign Policy magazine ranked him the Middle East's most powerful intelligence chief, ahead of Mossad chief Meir Dagan.<1><2>

[Tatiana]

5. Looks like a U.S.-training intelligence chief to me.

Oy... this gets worse and worse by the day.

[IDemo]

6. Mubarak, I believe, has a perception problem

Rearranging the deck chairs is not what the population will accept.

[somone]

7. That ought to pacify the populace

This guy is going to be on the same last flight out of Egypt with Mubarak

[sufrommich]

8. Sickening. The US remains tone deaf to the world around us. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. He's linked to America's extraordinary rendition program & torture within Egypt

Frontline did a story on it and Suleiman's name comes up.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/rendition701/

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Nice find.

Thanks.

[Solly Mack]

17. Here's something else you might want to read

http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ghost-plane.pdf (Ghost Plane/US extraordinary rendition) - more on Suleiman)

If it won't load(the web page), just download and open in your Adobe reader.

[lonestarnot]

10. Appointments being rejected.

[BanzaiBonnie]

11. THe egyptian people are onto this

Mubarak is not speaking to the people, he's giving a wink and nod to the military. New Prime Minister is from the military. At least that's my understanding.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. "one of the world's most powerful spy chiefs"

... Hey, who would have thought?

I think a link to the Who's "We Won't Be Fooled Again" is in order by someone, please...

[UTUSN]

15. CNN said it-takes-a-thug "in that part of the world" and that he threw Al Quaida out in the '90s

and that he has been a frequent, no-profile visitor to (D.C.?) for years.

[jayfish]

16. Looks like he's getting the message.

:eyes:

[tavalon]

19. Yeah, that'a gonna work well

At least he'll have time to get out of the country before the people get finished saying "What the --------?"