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Mubarak's end game - The military takes control of Egypt
Video by Tamer Shaaban
by Joseph Ernest February 11, 2011
Newscast Media CAIRO, Egypt --In a historic announcement, Vice President Omar Suleiman said President Hosni Mubarak had resigned and given power to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces Friday.
Tahrir Square erupted for the second time after last night's rumors that Mubarak would resign. The question everyone should ask themselves is: "Why did Hosni Mubarak resign abruptly? Just yesterday in a televised speech Mubarak said he intended to stay in power, then all of a sudden he resigned?
In this article I wrote last week and described a scenario regarding the quickest way the Obama administration could get Mubarak to resign(pop-up) I said if Mubarak were to be held financially responsible for the economic loss Egypt was incurring everyday, he would step down immediately. Obama and the international community must have taken this writer literally, even though it was simply a hypothesis.
It is reasonable to believe this was the same pressure tactic that was applied to Sudan's Omer Hassan Al-Bashir that led him to agree to secession of the South. US diplomatic cable published by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has revealed that the chief prosecutor at the ICC, Louis Moreno-Ocampo, told US diplomats on March 20, 2009 that president Al-Bashir had siphoned off as much as 9 billion US dollars into foreign bank accounts. The ICC has issued two warrants for the arrest of Al-Bashir on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Sudan's western region of Darfur, where a seven-year conflict between Al-Bashir's regime and rebels fighting against perceived neglect of the region has killed 300,000 people and displaced more than 2 million according to UN figures.
Bashir still has his billions because it would be safe to suggest that he was given the option: "Either you get tried by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, and have all your money and assets frozen, or you agree to South Sudan secession and you walk." It's obvious Bashir chose the latter.
It would therefore make sense to come to the inference that once again this tactic was applied to Mubarak and was told: "Either you face trial at the International Criminal Court for the deaths of the 200-plus lives that were lost as a result of you overriding the will of the people, in addition your wealth and assets will be frozen, or you step down and walk a free man."
Why would Mubarak step down when just this Friday morning the military had taken sides with him? Why would he abruptly step down when just last week he said if he stepped down, "the country would be in chaos." Ask yourself.
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