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Egypt’s state news agency: Former spy chief and vice president Omar Suleiman dies in US
Source: Washington Post
CAIRO Egypts state news agency: Former spy chief and vice president Omar Suleiman dies in US.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypts-state-news-agency-former-spy-chief-and-vice-president-omar-suleiman-dies-in-us/2012/07/19/gJQAhvEHvW_story.html
Headline missed out CIA's man in Cairo and torturer - not sure why.
More here :
Suleiman was ranked the most powerful intelligence chief in the region by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2009, ahead of the Mossad chief at the time, Meir Dagan. His legacy lies in his ruthless war against Islamic militants through the infamous extraordinary rendition program in partnership with the CIA that was initiated with a joint agreement between Egyptian intelligence and the CIA in 1995. Suleimans bureau was responsible for identifying and receiving suspected militants from around the world rendered to Egypt by the CIA.
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/state-news-agency-former-intelligence-chief-omar-suleiman-dead
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Egypt’s state news agency: Former spy chief and vice president Omar Suleiman dies in US (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Jul 2012
OP
Naw,....he was the guy who came out and announced the President was resigning.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#8
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. Here's another article/link below
Egypts former vice president has died after medical tests in U.S.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/19/227231.html
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)4. Medical test ?
Waterboarding ?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)8. Naw,....he was the guy who came out and announced the President was resigning.
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He also ran and lost for President. He represented a continuation of the old regime.
http://www.euronews.com/2012/04/06/egypt-ex-vp-omar-suleiman-to-run-for-president/
He was (is?) a BIG TIME Western Asset.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. And here is a CNN link
DCKit
(18,541 posts)3. He's off to prepare Hell for Dick Cheney. nt
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)5. He needs somewhere worse than that.
Florida comes to mind.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)6. Only as long as pRick Scott remains governor and the (R)s hold the statehouse. nt
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)7. How convenient.
Am I the only one to smell a black bag job?
Javaman
(62,500 posts)9. Octamom is dead?
oh wait.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)10. Why do Human Rights criminals die at such convenient times? Why in the USA?
Not to mention, why in the United States? Is the United States the best place for Human Rights criminals to hide from justice?
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)11. hmmm