An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that removed him from power.
The court also cleared Mubarak and a former oil minister of graft charges related to gas exports to Israel.
in a word, good.
I agree. The MB friends of a certain world leader will not be happy.
Quite right, Ken. It’s just about the last remaining ruins of Obama’s ME foreign policy.
Do you miss Muammar yet?
I’ve always maintained that, as tyrants go, Hosni Mubarak was the nicest. I always had the feeling that the people he kept in prison deserved to be in prison, and evens subsequent to his ouster bore that out.
It looks as though the last traces of Obamism have been washed out of Egyptian politics.
The Reuters story is typical Progressive cant: Boo-hoo, Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s tool whom hundreds of thousands demonstrated against because of his dictatorial bent in imposing Islamism on the country was booted by a wildly popular coup, and now, all beauty is gone from the world.
Nice to see Egyptians recognize that the Muslim Brotherhood is the enemy of all decent people in Egypt, even if the western elites, starting with Barry the red, will not.
Arab Sprung.
Breathtaking. Wife laughed hard.
Can a book of thread titles with contextual backgrounds be far behind?!
Best blog thread titles on the planet.
glasnost “Do you miss Muammar yet?”
Damn right. And I think Assad is the best leader for Syria. Anyone who believes that the Middle-East is going to spring forth liberal democracies is a pathetic idiot.
Mubarak probably did order the killing of the protestors. That’s how he kept a leash on the Islamists. They needed killing.
That said, since Egypt is being run by a military junta now, no doubt the courts made a fair judicious decision based on all the available evidence./
And yes, I do miss Muammar. The guy did the same things and was just as necessary as Mubarak, only he did it with the style of a Bond movie villain.
Certainly true that everything we’ve involved ourselves in regarding Africa and the middle east has turned to crap. They may have been dictators, but you can work with dictators. The rabble that’s there now is unworkable and the USA has its own dictator that’s doing more harm than any of them ever did. All we really did was empower Russia , Iran and China.
Good news. The United States and their arrogant evangelical desire for democracy in places where the indigenous population is Islamic…was short sighted at best and outright STUPID at the worst.
Western Civilization will rue the day we cheered on those that tore down the Middle Eastern dictatorships while importing Islam into their countries.
All we have done is to help the Muslim Brotherhood with their “PROJECT”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/1882/muslim-brotherhood-reality
All one needs to know….
Why we import them by the legion into this country boggles my mind.