Egypt names American NGO workers facing trial

February 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Egyptian Cabinet minister Mohammed Amr said the government cannot interfere in
the work of the judiciary.

“We are doing our best to contain this but … we cannot actually
exercise any influence on the investigating judges,” he reporters at a
security conference in Munich, Germany on Sunday, before the announcement
that charges would be filed against the foreign activists.

The Egyptian investigation into the work of the non-profit groups is closely
linked to the political turmoil that has engulfed the nation since the
ouster a year ago of President Hosni Mubarak, a US ally who ruled Egypt for
nearly 30 years.

Protesters demand that the ruling military council speed up transfer of power
to civilians saying that they are an extension of the old regime and that
they have mismanaged the country’s transitional period. The military took
power after Mubarak resigned a year ago. It says it will hand over control
after a new president is elected in June.

The military rulers tried to deflect criticism by claiming “foreign hands”
are behind protests against their rule, frequently depict the protesters as
receiving funds from abroad in a plot to destabilise the country.

The downturn in US-Egypt relations comes as Egypt confronts a new wave of
violence.

A deadly riot at a soccer stadium in Port Said on Thursday, when 74 people
were killed, set off the latest disturbances. Protesters charged that police
did nothing to stop the violence, and some say the rulers deliberately
caused it to take revenge against soccer fans known as Ultras who joined
protests and to show the military must remain in power.

One protester was killed early on Monday in Cairo clashes, said Dr. Malek
el-Assal at a field hospital, bringing the five-day death toll to 13 in
protests around the country.

Starting at dawn, armoured vehicles with police swept through streets near the
downtown Cairo Interior Ministry, shooting at protesters with birdshot and
tear gas, he said.

At midday on Monday, volunteers formed human cordons at the entrances of
streets leading to the ministry, which the military had already blocked with
concrete walls to prevent renewed clashes. The Interior Ministry oversees
the police and has been a frequent target of protests.

Source: AP