Interviews Available: Roots of Terrorism

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> Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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> Roots of Terrorism
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> Interviews Available
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> ABC News reports that "President Obama convenes a meeting of > national security officials in the Situation Room today."
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> AHMED SALAH, asea1009@yahoo.com, http://6aprilmove.blogspot.com/
> A leader of the pro-democratic movement in Egypt, Salah said > today: "I see the threat of groups like Al Qaeda growing by the day > and much of it is the result of the actions of the Egyptian > government. Egypt has been in a state of emergency since 1981. When > Mubarak took over that year, Egypt was 44th in terms of economic > development according to the UN. Now we are 113th. We have millions > of street children who will grow up to be full of hatred and anger. > We have a tiny elite around the government that is making billions > of dollars from corruption. All this eventually will come crashing > down and the rich will flee the country to their villas in Europe, > the U.S. and the Caribbean."
> Salah, who has testified before U.S. congressional committees, > added: "The American activists and others beaten in the last week > trying to march to Gaza got a taste of how much collusion there is > between the Egyptian dictatorship and the U.S. and Israeli > governments. They also got a taste of the enormity of the police > state apparatus here. It has gone from 200,000 when Mubarak took > over to more than 2.5 million. Meanwhile, the army has shrunk from 1 > million to 300,000. The enemy as far as the Egyptian government is > concerned is its own people and anyone calling for democracy in the > Mideast.
> "We are now receiving reports of 2,000 Egyptian riot police > surrounding the Viva Palestina convoy at [the Sinai port of] Al > Arish. This convoy has been held up by the Egyptian government for > weeks, having to go from one port to the next. It shows that the > Egyptian president is helping to suffocate Gaza because that's what > Israel wants. I believe he is ingratiating himself to the Israelis > and the U.S. so they will support him and help arrange for his son > to become the next president of Egypt."
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