I Get To Be The Next President
Exclusive intervew: Robert Fisk meets Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt’s saviour-in-waiting
Mohamed ElBaradei: The man who would be President
Man of the moment? Of course Mohamed ElBaradei is. But man of the people, I have my doubts. He doesn’t claim to be, of course, and sitting in his garden easy chair near an impossibly blue but rather small swimming pool, he sometimes appears – even wearing his baseball hat – like a very friendly, shrewd and bespectacled mouse. He will not like that description, but this is a mouse, I suspect, with very sharp teeth.It’s almost a delight to dissect the bigger mice who work in the White House and the State Department.
“Do you remember how on the second day, all we heard was that they were ‘monitoring the situation’. On the second day, Secretary Clinton said: ‘We assess the situation as stable’; it was funny yesterday, too, to hear Clinton say that ‘we have been urging the Egyptian Mubarak for 30 years to move on this – and he moved backward – how on earth can you still ask him to introduce democratic reform?
Be Careful Of The Dark Side Of The Force Bob
The chief executive of BP blamed his new business partner, the Russian deputy prime minister, for backing a “black” campaign that forced him to go on the run for his own protection, according to secret US government files.
WikiLeaks: BP boss Bob Dudley blamed new Rosneft partner Igor Sechin for ‘black’ plot against him
Bob Dudley was ousted from his previous job as head of the oil company’s Russian subsidiary, TNK-BP, after a boardroom coup in 2008, and decided to “move around” from country to country “as a precaution”, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
Leaked US papers show that Mr Dudley believed the man behind the “war” against him was Igor Sechin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and chairman of the state-owned energy company, Rosneft. BP recently agreed a deal with Rosneft and the two men will now have to work closely together.
Angry? You Wouldn’t Like Us When Were Angry
Egypt’s Opposition
Revolutionaries United in Anger
Bilal can only speak in a whisper. At first he was just hoarse, then his voice turned into a croak and now he can barely speak at all. But that doesn’t stop him from mouthing the chant of the demonstrators: “The people want the end of the system,” over and over again. “The people want the end of the system.”And with each passing day Bilal spends on the street, the goal seems to come a little closer.
Bilal has been on the streets of Cairo for much of the last six days, even spending several days on Liberation Square wrapped in a wollen blanket in the glow of a camp fire. Demonstrators conquered the square in the city center last Friday after a battle with police — and they haven’t budged from it since.
His Underpants Weren’t About To Explode But They Could Have Been Sniffed
Congressman hid cocaine in underpants
Philippine congressman Ronald Singson has admitted he tried to smuggle cocaine into Hong Kong as a court heard the lawmaker hid the drug in his underpants to elude airport security.The colourful 42-year-old, who is from one of the Philippines’ most high-profile political families, admitted to bringing 6.67 grams of cocaine and two tablets of the narcotic Nitrazepam into the city on July 11, 2010.
Just Another Friedman Unit
Leaders set deadline to solve Côte d’Ivoire crisis
The two-day African Union summit was dominated by the continent’s latest crises including the uprising in Egypt and the popular revolt in Tunisia that ended the 23-year regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.The leaders appointed a five-member panel of heads of state tasked with finding a solution to the leadership crisis in Côte d’Ivoire within a month.
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will head the panel, which also includes his counterparts from Burkina Faso, Chad, South Africa and Tanzania.
Fire Gods Are Speaking
Ash and smoke erupted from the 4,662-foot peak of Shinmoedake, part of the Kirishima mountain range on the island of Kyushu, in southwest Japan
Japan volcano erupts with big blast of ash and rocks
A volcano in southern Japan erupted again today in its most powerful explosion since it roared back to life last week, sending ash over a wide area and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.The latest eruption felled trees, sent boulders hurtling on to roads and smashed hundreds of windows in hotels and offices five miles away.
Local media said one woman had been cut by shattered glass, but there were no reports of serious injuries.
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