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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 803170" data-attributes="member: 1940"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html" target="_blank">Egypt protests: America&#039;s secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising</a>&nbsp;The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.&nbsp;The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/" target="_blank">Egyptian</a> state police.&nbsp;The disclosures, contained in previously secret US diplomatic dispatches released by the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/" target="_blank">WikiLeaks</a> website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police. &nbsp;The protests in Egypt are being driven by the April 6 youth movement, a group on Facebook that has attracted mainly young and educated members opposed to Mr Mubarak. The group has about 70,000 members and uses social networking sites to orchestrate protests and report on their activities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 803170, member: 1940"] [B][URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html"]Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising[/URL][/B] The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/"][B]Egyptian[/B][/URL] state police. The disclosures, contained in previously secret US diplomatic dispatches released by the [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/"][B]WikiLeaks[/B][/URL] website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police. The protests in Egypt are being driven by the April 6 youth movement, a group on Facebook that has attracted mainly young and educated members opposed to Mr Mubarak. The group has about 70,000 members and uses social networking sites to orchestrate protests and report on their activities. [/QUOTE]

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