ICG And The Geo-Political Power Base...!!!

That's what the term "free elections" means in the Middle East.
It means that a radical terrorist organization will move in, intimidate the population, and make sure that its candidates are elected.
It's exactly what is likely to happen in Egypt, even if an "orderly" transition to free elections takes place.
First, it's very likely that even if the uprising against Mubarak in Egypt began spontaneously, it's no longer spontaneous.
Ahmadinejad applauded the insurrection loudly when it began, and there is no doubt that his agents are involved on the street and in the backrooms where strategies against Mubarak are being plotted.

To this point: One of the key figures in opposition to Mubarak is Mohamed ElBaradei.
He's the former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director.
In that capacity, he whitewashed Iran's nuclear energy program, essentially saying that Ahmadinehad was not pursuing nuclear weapons when it's clear to everyone that he is.
On January 18, before the uprising in Egypt had begun, AlBaradei, in what was a veiled call to action for Islamists, warned that a "Tunisia-style explosion" could occur in Egypt.
AlBaradei has emerged as a key figure in a "shadow parliament" that

has formed in Egypt.


The shadow parliament consists of opposition leaders who are trying to develop plans for a transition to a new regime through "free and democratic" elections.
Included in the group are representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Egyptian Premier Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the seed group for other Islamist terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda.
The Muslim Brotherhood seeks nothing less than a government based on Islamist principles, including the implementation of Shariah Law and waging jihad against the west.

AlBaradei, given the fact that he looked the other way when inspecting Iran's nuclear facilities, is very likely a puppet of the Iranian regime.
In April, 2009, AlBaradei told the press that "more U.S. engagement with Tehran's leaders would increase regional security"
Although many say he's unlikely to play a key role in the upcoming elections, he's nonetheless one of the agents seeking to give Islamist radicals a voice in the Egyptian government.
It's no coincidence that AlBaradei showed up in Cairo only two days after the uprising began and was immediately named a negotiator by the Muslim Brotherhood.
In fact, he had been waiting in the wings for quite awhile.



He's on the board of an organization headed by George Soros and Zbigniew Brzezinski called International Crisis Group.
Brzezinski is the same man who supervised the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979.
Another board member of the ICC is one Javier Solana.
Solana is one of the most powerful figures in the European Union.
Because of his Marxist sympathies and his support for the regime of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Solana was once on the USA's subversive list.
Former U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who once smuggled incriminating documents out of the Clinton White House by hiding them in his clothing is another Board Member, as is General Wesley Clark, once fired from his NATO command. Monamed ElBaradei also sits on the ICC's Board.

The organization's stated aim is "working to prevent conflict worldwide"
The group promotes itself as "the world's leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict"

The true purpose of the ICC is exactly the opposite of its stated purpose.
It seeks nothing less than the political downfall of moderate regimes in Muslim countries which maintain friendly relations with the United States, with the ultimate purpose of destroying our country and promoting Islamist regimes.

Soros continues to exert a strong influence on the policies and pronouncements of Barak Obama and his administration.
His influence includes promoting the Muslim Brotherhood to a position of power in Egypt.

To that end, Frank Wisner, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, met secretly with Issam El-Erian, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, at the Obama administration's request.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the fate of Egypt after Mubarak was deposed.
It is also reported that Obama himself met with members of the Muslim brotherhood in 2009.

While the situation in Egypt is still fluid, with Mubarak proposing to remain in power through the elections scheduled for September, the fact i that Egypt is the key player in what is almost certainly a larger movement to unseat current governments in the region and replace them with Islamistfriendly regimes.

http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/Egypt_Victim_of_Conspiracy_Obama_and_the_Shadow_Socialist_Group_Behind_Egypts_Fall_Article_by_Michael_Savage_and_Greg_Lewis,201135090.aspx

Look At The People Involved The ICG

Crisis Group's Board of Trustees

Lord (Christopher) Patten
Co-Chair, Crisis Group
Former European Commissioner for External Relations, Governor of Hong Kong and UK Cabinet Minister
Chancellor of Oxford University

Thomas R Pickering
Co-Chair, Crisis Group
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria
Vice Chairman of Hills & Company

Louise Arbour
President & CEO
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

Executive Committee

Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey

Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Member of the Board, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland

Yoichi Funabashi
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan

Frank Giustra
President & CEO, Fiore Capital

Ghassan Salamé
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po

George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute

Pär Stenbäck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland

Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN

Kenneth Adelman
Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)

Nahum Barnea
Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel

Samuel Berger
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor

Emma Bonino
Vice President of the Senate; Former Minister of International Trade and European Affairs of Italy and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid

Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Sheila Coronel
Toni Stabile, Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University, U.S.

Jan Egeland
Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator


Mohamed El Baradei
Mr. ElBaradei suspended his membership from the Board of Crisis Group concurrent with his January 2011 return to Egypt.

Director-General Emeritus, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Nobel Peace Prize (2005)


Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister of Denmark

Gareth Evans
President Emeritus of Crisis Group; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia

Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium

Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany

Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations

Carla Hills
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative

Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden

Swanee Hunt
Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security and President, Hunt Alternatives Fund

Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder, Celtel International

Igor Ivanov
Former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation

Asma Jahangir
UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief; Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Former International Secretary of International PEN; Novelist and journalist, U.S.

Lord (Mark) Malloch-Brown
Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UN Deputy Secretary-General

Lalit Mansingh
Former Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to the U.S. and High Commissioner to the UK

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.

Benjamin Mkapa
Former President of Tanzania

Moisés Naím
Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

Ayo Obe
Legal Practitioner, Lagos, Nigeria

Güler Sabancı
Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey



Javier Solana
Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO Secretary-General and Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain

Chairmen Emeritus

Martti Ahtisaari
Former President of Finland

George J. Mitchell
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Crisis Group’s reports, and the advocacy associated with them, have had a very significant direct impact on conflict prevention and resolution in regions across the world, as policymakers wrestle with how to handle Islamist terrorism, nuclear proliferation, local conflict and the multiple problems associated with failed, failing and fragile states worldwide.
We are generally seen as playing a major role in six main ways:
ringing early warning alarm bells, in the monthly CrisisWatch bulletin, and in specific ‘conflict alerts’, eg in
Ethiopia-Eritrea, Darfur, Georgia-Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan;
contributing, on both process and substance, behind the scenes support and advice to critical peace negotiations, eg in Sudan, Burundi, Northern Uganda, Zimbabwe, Aceh, Nepal and Kenya;
producing highly detailed analysis and advice on specific policy issues in scores of conflict or potential conflict situations around the world, helping policymakers in the UN Security Council, regional organisations, donor countries and others with major influence, and in the countries at risk themselves, do better in preventing, managing and resolving conflict, and in rebuilding after it: recent examples include Iraq (particularly the Kirkuk issue), Guinea, Colombia, Sudan’s Southern Kordofan, Haiti, Tajikistan and Bangladesh;
providing detailed information unobtainable elsewhere on developments regarding conflict, mass violence and terrorism of particular utility to policymakers, eg on the Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, the many jihadi groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Islamic Courts in Somalia.
offering new strategic thinking on some of the world’s most intractable conflicts and crises, challenging or refining prevailing wisdom, eg on the Iran nuclear issue, the role of Islamism worldwide, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the way forward in Myanmar/Burma, Cyprus, Kosovo, Iraq and the Western Sahara; and
strongly supporting a rules-based, rather than force-based, international order, in particular significantly influencing UN resolutions and institutional structures in relation to the new international norm of the ‘responsibility to protect’.

Crisis Group’s international headquarters are in Brussels, with major advocacy offices in Washington DC (where it is based as a legal entity) and New York, a smaller one in London, and liaison presences in Moscow and Beijing.
The organisation currently has regional offices or local field representation in Baku, Bangkok, Beirut, Bishkek, Bogotá, Bujumbura, Dakar, Damascus, Dili, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Kabul, Kathmandu, Kinshasa, Nairobi, Port-au-Prince, Pretoria, Pristina, Sarajevo, Seoul and Tbilisi, and with analysts working in over 60 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents.
These include in Africa,
Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe;
in Asia,
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China-Taiwan, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan;
in Europe,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Russia’s North Caucasus, Serbia, and Turkey;
in the Middle East and North Africa,
Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Gulf states, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen;
and in Latin America and the Caribbean,
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Guatemala and Venezuela.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about.aspx

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Look At The People Involved The ICG

Crisis Group's Board of Trustees

George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute

Standard Chartered yesterday condemned the Government bank levy as it reported record profits for the eighth year in a row on the back of soaring growth in Asia.
Chief executive Peter Sands warned the bank, which is focused on emerging markets, was “continually” reviewing whether to remain based in the UK, although he added there are currently no plans to move.
“The bank levy is clearly not an attraction to being in the UK,” he said. “We paid $180million (£110million) but more than 90 per cent of our balance sheet is outside the UK. London still has huge advantages as an international financial centre although those have diminished.”

"The reduction in corporation tax announced in the budget should signal that the British economy is 'open for business', the chancellor said.
The rate of corporation tax, the levy on business profits, is to be slashed by more than 14% over four years, costing £4.1bn a year in lost tax receipts according to official estimates.