Sunday, February 6, 2011

Leaked cables reveal US faith in Suleiman


By Helen Warrell and David Blair in London

Financial Times

"Omar Suleiman, the new Egyptian vice-president championed by the Obama administration as central to an orderly transition, is a long-time ally of Washington, whose diplomats have repeatedly dubbed him President Hosni Mubarak’s "consigliere".

Dispatches from the US embassy in Cairo, obtained by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, consistently refer to the one-time general who until recently headed Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, as key to the bilateral relationship.

He is described as a man with "the full confidence of Mubarak" and commended by Margaret Scobey, the current US ambassador, as a "pragmatist with an extremely sharp analytical mind".[and an extremely painful electric shock when he administers it to the genitals of Egyptian prisoners]...."

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