Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Mubarak's propagandist

`Imad Ad-Din Ad-Dib, the chief propagandist for Mubarak, is on Al-Arabiyyah TV (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law), and he is saying that the lousy Egyptian Army (famous for its humiliating defeats at the hands of Israel) will now issue a statement to ban demonstrations altogether.  They sent goons to the square and now they will say that the clashes in the square require the intervention of the Army.  We have seen those scenarios in 1960s CIA coups in Latin America.  I did not enjoy the film the first time around, and doubt that Arabs will enjoy it now in 2011.