Apr 02, 2014
Source: Press TV
Newly revealed documents show
senior Egyptian opposition leaders who called for the overthrow of
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, had the
financial backing of the US.
US President Barack Obama
had claimed that Washington did not take sides in the Egyptian political
crisis that ousted Morsi in July last year.
According to
Aljazeera TV channel, a review of dozens of US federal government
documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley
shows that Washington quietly funded opposition groups in Egypt that
worked against the Morsi government.
Washington channeled the
funding through a State Department program which is part of a wider
effort to try to stop the retreat of pro-US secularists and defeat the
Islamic movements in the Middle East.
The program was dubbed by US officials as a "democracy assistance" initiative.
The
move is in contradiction to the US government regulations that ban the
use of taxpayers’ money to fund foreign politicians and activists that
target democratically-elected governments.
The Egyptians
launched a revolution against the pro-US regime of former President
Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, which eventually ended the 30-year
dictatorship of Mubarak in February 2011.
In June 2012, Egyptians
voted in the country's first free and fair presidential election,
electing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi as their leader.
But
about a year later, the Egyptian army toppled Morsi, suspended the
constitution and launched a violent crackdown against the Muslim
Brotherhood.
On December 25, 2013, the military-appointed
government listed the Brotherhood as a “terrorist” organization over
alleged involvement in a deadly bombing, without investigating or
providing any evidence.
In January 2014, Amnesty International
criticized Egyptian authorities for using an “unprecedented scale” of
violence against protesters and dealing “a series of damaging blows to
human rights.”
According to the UK-based rights group, at least
1,400 people have been killed in the political violence since Morsi’s
ouster in July 2013, "most of them due to excessive force used by
security forces."
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Link: presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/30/356515/us-sponsored-coup-against-morsi-report/.
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