نشرتها "نيويورك تايمز" الأمريكية
أدلة تلقى حركة "سكس" إبريل تمويلا من منظمات أمريكية
المتحدث باسم الحركة يعترف بتلقى أعضاءها تدريبات في الحشد السياسي!!
منح للشباب المصرى لخلق قيادات تدافع عن مصالح أمريكا داخل مصر
كتب محمود خليل:
نشرت جريدة "نيويورك تايمز" الأمريكية تقريرا يشير إلى الأموال التى انفقتها أجهزة سياسية وأمنية غربية على منظمات مصرية وعربية ومنهم المنتمين لحركة "سكس" إبريل, لخلق جيل جديد من الشباب المصرى والعربى الذى لا يعادى إسرائيل, ضمن خطة "الشرق الأوسط الكبير" التى تتبناها أمريكا, ويتم خلالها تدريب الشباب المصرى, والعربى على آليات هدم مؤسسات الدولة وإثارة الفوضى فى المجتمع المصرى, والعربى حتى يتم إعادة بنائه بشكل جديد يضمن أن يكون الشعب المصرى والعربى صديقا لإسرائيل, ومتقبلا للتدخل الخارجى فى شئون مصر الداخلية, وإقامة نظام حكم يكون تابعا لها ويدور فى فلكها.
يذكر أن مخربى التحرير لم يتفوهوا بأى لفظ ولم يشيروا إلى إسرائيل بأى سوء, ولم يهتفوا ضدها, ولم يطالبوا على سبيل المثال بالإفراج عن المسجونين المصريين فى سجونها, بل تعاونوا مع الجاسوس إيلان أثناء وجوده فى التحخرير, وقدموا له المعلومات والدعم الذى طلبه!!.
كما أن الصحفية اليمنية التى حازت على جائزة نوبل للسلام حصلت عليها بعد تأكيدها على وجود إسرائيل وتأييدها لحقوق اليهود فى فلسطين, ودعمها لهجرة اليهود اليمنيين إلى إسرائيل, وتوليهم مناصب فى الحكومة اليمينة!!.
يذكر أن وزارة الخارجية الأمريكية تقدم منحا لشباب الدول العربية والإسلامية تحت اسم "كينيدي- لوجر" وتشترط أن يكون عمر الطالب المتقدم بين 15 و19 عاما, بشرط أن يتمتع المتقدم بشخصية قيادية, حيث يتم استضافته في منزل أسرة أمريكية مقابل إعفاء تلك الأسرة من نسبة من الضرائب عن كل شهر استضافة، ويحصل الطالب خلالها على مصروف جيب شهري يغطي نفقاته الضرورية من طعام وانتقالات وغير ذلك, ويخضع خلال فترة وجوده لتدريب مكثف بهدف تنمية المهارات القيادية لديه, وتعريفه بالمجتمع الأمريكي وقيمه التى يؤمن بها لخلق جيل من الشباب العربى والمسلم يؤمن بتلك القيم خاصة بعد تفجيرات الحادي عشر من سبتمبر 2001, التى اكدت وجود فجوة وكراهية بين شباب العالمين العربى والإسلامى تجاه أمريكا, ولذا تفتق ذهن الساسة الأمريكيين وقادة السى أى أيه عن تنفيذ تلك المنح منذ عام 2002 لخلق جيل جديد من الشباب ليكونوا قادة المستقبل فى بلادهم, ومرتبطين فى ذات الوقت بأمريكا ويحافظون على مصالحها فى بلادهم, بل يعملون كجواسيس لها, لوأد اى تحرك يستهدفها أو يستهدف مصالحها فى أى دولة من الدول.
كان عبد القادر شهيب، رئيس مجلس إدارة دار الهلال السابق, كشف أنه حصل على تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق الحكومية كاملا، وفيه أسماء ثمانية نشطاء من أعضاء وعناصر وقيادات حركة 6 إبريل مؤسسين لمنظمات مجتمع مدني تلقوا أموالا دون إخطار أو موافقة الجهات الرسمية, موضحا في لقاء له مع جيهان منصور، فى برنامج "صباحك يا مصر" على قناة "دريم"، أن التقرير تضمن الكشف عن مبالغ هائلة تدفقت على مصر بشكل سري ودون علم السلطات، من دول أمريكية وأوروبية وعربية، وأن بعض منظمات المجتمع المدني المرخصة وغير المرخصة حصلت على تلك الأموال الطائلة.
كشف شهيب أن تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق الحكومية الذي تم تحت إشراف وزير العدل وجار التحقيق فيه من قبل النائب العام لم يتهم حركة 6 إبريل صراحة بتلقي تلك الأموال، إنما ورد فيه 8 أسماء بعضهم أعضاء وقيادات في الحركة تلقوا أموالا بصفتهم مؤسسين لمنظمات أهلية، من بينهم مؤسسو المعهد المصري الديمقراطي وهم: إسراء عبدالفتاح، وأحمد علي راشد، وحسام الدين أحمد، وباسم سمير عوض، حيث تلقوا 522 ألف دولار من جهات خارجية دون موافقة السلطات.
أضاف شهيب أن مركز دراسات المستقبل للاستشارات القانونية وحقوق الإنسان ومؤسسيه وهم: أحمد ماهر، وأحمد صلاح الدين عطية، وخالد محمد إبراهيم طه، تلقوا مبلغ 262 ألف دولار من جهات أمريكية منها "فيردم هاوس"، و"هيئة الوقفية الأمريكية"، دون علم السلطات المصرية.
أشار شهيب إلى أن التقرير كشف حصول جماعة أنصار السنة على 181 مليون جنيه من جمعية قطرية، و110 ملايين من جمعية كويتية، ولم يتم إثبات مصير إنفاق تلك الأموال، وهو ما يتعارض مع القانون الذي يسمح بتلقي تمويل أجنبي بشرط إعلان أوجه إنفاقه مع أن تكون الجهة المتلقية مرخصة.
من جانبه إعترف محمود عفيفي، المتحدث باسم حركة 6 إبريل، بسفر بعض أعضاء الحركة إلى الخارج، منذ عام 2009 فى دورة تدريبية، حيث سافر محمد عادل مع 14 صحفيا وناشطا سياسيا بصفتهم الشخصية، بعلم وزارة الخارجية، وحصلوا على الدورة التدريبية التي كانت تتعلق باستخدام شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي في الحشد السياسي وليس التدريب على قلب نظام الحكم، كما أن سفر أحمد ماهر إلى أمريكا مؤخرا كان بدعوة من المصريين في الخارج، وليس لتلقي أموال.
أشار عفيفي، إلى إنه لم يتم استدعاء أي أحد من قيادات الحركة بشأن تلك التهم حتى الآن نافيا أن يكون أي من الأسماء التي ذكرها شهيب أعضاء بالحركة سوى "أحمد ماهر"، مؤكدا أن إسراء عبدالفتاح، كانت من الداعين لإضراب 6 إبريل الشهير، لكنها لم تكن من مؤسسي الحركة أو أعضائها, مشيرا إلى أن الحركة وأعضاءها على استعداد لأي تحقيقات، كما لم يستقل أحمد من الأعضاء بسبب اتهام الحركة بتلقي أموال من الخارج، مؤكدا أن حركة 6 إبريل تعتبر تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق دليل براءة وليس إدانة!!.
كان سامى عنان أكد أن المجلس العسكرى سوف يكشف عقب إنتهاء الانتخابات عن المؤامرة التى تعرضت لها مصر من قبل بعض السياسين وبعض الدول التى تعمل ضد مصر مشيرا إلى أنه سوف يتم تقديم عدد من الأشخاص الى القضاء لتورطهم مع بعض الجهات الأجنبية بالمستندات منهم رجال أعمال وسياسين بارزين.
أكد عنان أن الأحداث التى شهدتها مصر منذ يناير وحتى اليوم ليس له علاقة بالنظام السابق, مشيرا إلى أن هؤلاء يريدون أن يترك الجيش مصر ويرحل حتى تعيش مصر فى فوضى.
يذكر أيضا أن اللواء حسن الروينى أكد أن التحقيقات مع أعضاء حركة 6 أبريل مازالت مستمرة, مشيرا إلى أن النيابة العامة والعسكرية لم تبرىء أحدا, مشيرا إلى أن كل ما يقال عن أن جماعة 6 إبريل بريئة من الحصول على تمويل من الخارج غير صحيح لأنه يتم حاليا جميع باقى الأدلة, وسوف يتم بعد انتهاء الانتخابات, الإعلان عن النتائج وتقديم المتورطين إلى المحاكمة الجنائية.
كانت صحيفة "نيويورك تايمز"، نشرت تقريرا أكد إن بعض الجماعات السياسية النشطة فى مصر والعالم العربى تلقت تدريباً ودعماً مادياً من بعض المنظمات الأمريكية، من أجل بناء الديمقراطية فى البلدان العربية، ومن بين هذه الجماعات حركة 6 إبريل فى مصر.
قالت الصحيفة تحت عنوان "جماعات أمريكية ساعدت فى تغذية الانتفاضات العربية" إنه على الرغم من أن الولايات المتحدة تخصص مليارات الدولارات للبرامج العسكرية الأجنبية وحملات مكافحة الإرهاب، إلا أن بعض المنظمات الأمريكية الممولة حكومياً كانت تقوم بدعم الديمقراطية فى الدولة العربية ذات الأنظمة الاستبدادية، ورغم أن الأموال التى أُنفقت على هذه البرامج كانت ضئيلة مقارنة بالجهود التى قادها البنتاجون، إلا أن مسئولين أمريكيين وغيرهم حينما ينظرون إلى الانتفاضات العربية يرون أن حملات بناء الديمقراطية التى رعتها الولايات المتحدة لعبت دوراً أكبر فى التحريض على الاحتجاجات أكثر مما كان معروف سابقاً، حيث تلقى قادة الحركات الاحتجاجية تدريبات من قبل أمريكيين فى كيفية القيام بحملات والتنظيم من خلال وسائل الإعلام الجديدة، وأيضا كيفية مراقبة الانتخابات.
أضافت الصحيفة، أن عددا من الجماعات والأفراد الذين كان لهم دور مباشرا فى الثورات ومن بينهم حركة 6 أبريل فى مصر والمركز البحرينى لحقوق الإنسان تلقوا تدريباً ودعماً من منظمات أمريكية مثل المعهد الجمهورى الدولى، والمعهد الوطنى الديمقراطى -ذوى صلة مباشرة بالحزبين الجمهورى والديمقراطى-، ومؤسسة فريدوم هاوس.
أشارت الصحيفة إلى حضور عدد من الشباب المصريين مؤتمراً تكنولوجياً فى نيويورك عام 2008، تعلموا خلاله كيفية استخدام الشبكات الاجتماعية وتكنولوجيا الموبايل للترويج للديمقراطية, ونشرت على لسان باسم فتحى، مؤسس حركة الشباب التى قادت الاحتجاجات فى مصر، وحصل على تدريب من مؤسسة فريدوم هاوس قوله: تعلمنا كيفية التنظيم وبناء التحالفات، وقد ساعدنا هذا بالتأكيد خلال الثورة.
وهذا هو نص المقال كما نشرته الجريدة:
WASHINGTON — Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in authoritarian Arab states.
Michael Simon, who worked on targeting for the Barack Obama presidential campaign of 2008, spoke last week to members of the Egyptian Democratic Academy in Cairo .
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The money spent on these programs was minute compared with efforts led by the Pentagon. But as American officials and others look back at the uprisings of the Arab Spring, they are seeing that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning, organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.
A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Instituteand Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
The work of these groups often provoked tensions between theUnited States and many Middle Eastern leaders, who frequently complained that their leadership was being undermined, according to the cables.
The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department.
No one doubts that the Arab uprisings are home grown, rather than resulting from “foreign influence,” as alleged by some Middle Eastern leaders.
“We didn’t fund them to start protests, but we did help support their development of skills and networking,” said Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, a Washington-based advocacy and research group. “That training did play a role in what ultimately happened, but it was their revolution. We didn’t start it.”
Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting inNew York , where they were taught to use social networking and mobile technologies to promote democracy. Among those sponsoring the meeting were Facebook, Google, MTV, Columbia Law School and the State Department.
“We learned how to organize and build coalitions,” said Bashem Fathy, a founder of the youth movement that ultimately drove the Egyptian uprisings. Mr. Fathy, who attended training with Freedom House, said, “This certainly helped during the revolution.”
Ms. Qadhi, the Yemeni youth activist, attended American training sessions inYemen .
“It helped me very much because I used to think that change only takes place by force and by weapons,” she said.
But now, she said, it is clear that results can be achieved with peaceful protests and other nonviolent means.
But some members of the activist groups complained in interviews that the United States was hypocritical for helping them at the same time that it was supporting the governments they sought to change.
“While we appreciated the training we received through the NGOs sponsored by the U.S. government, and it did help us in our struggles, we are also aware that the same government also trained the state security investigative service, which was responsible for the harassment and jailing of many of us,” said Mr. Fathy, the Egyptian activist.
Interviews with officials of the nongovernmental groups and a review of diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the democracy programs were constant sources of tension between theUnited States and many Arab governments.
The cables, in particular, show how leaders in the Middle East andNorth Africa viewed these groups with deep suspicion, and tried to weaken them. Today the work of these groups is among the reasons that governments in turmoil claim that Western meddling was behind the uprisings, with some officials noting that leaders like Ms. Qadhi were trained and financed by the United States .
Diplomatic cables report how American officials frequently assured skeptical governments that the training was aimed at reform, not promoting revolutions.
Last year, for example, a few months before national elections inBahrain , officials there barred a representative of the National Democratic Institute from entering the country.
InBahrain , officials worried that the group’s political training “disproportionately benefited the opposition,” according to a January 2010 cable.
InYemen , where the United States has been spending millions on an anti-terrorism program, officials complained that American efforts to promote democracy amounted to “interference in internal Yemeni affairs.”
But nowhere was the opposition to the American groups stronger than inEgypt .
Egypt , whose government receives $1.5 billion annually in military and economic aid from the United States , viewed efforts to promote political change with deep suspicion, even outrage.
Hosni Mubarak, then Egypt’s president, was “deeply skeptical of theU.S. role in democracy promotion,” said a diplomatic cable from the United States Embassy in Cairo dated Oct. 9, 2007.
At one time theUnited States financed political reform groups by channeling money through the Egyptian government.
But in 2005, under a Bush administration initiative, local groups were given direct grants, much to the chagrin of Egyptian officials.
According to a September 2006 cable, Mahmoud Nayel, an official with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, complained to American Embassy officials about theUnited States government’s “arrogant tactics in promoting reform in Egypt .”
The main targets of the Egyptian complaints were the Republican and Democratic institutes. Diplomatic cables show that Egyptian officials complained that theUnited States was providing support for “illegal organizations.”
Gamal Mubarak, the former president’s son, is described in an Oct. 20, 2008, cable as “irritable about directU.S. democracy and governance funding of Egyptian NGOs.”
The Egyptian government even appealed to groups like Freedom House to stop working with local political activists and human rights groups.
“They were constantly saying: ‘Why are you working with those groups, they are nothing. All they have are slogans,’ ” said Sherif Mansour, an Egyptian activist and a senior program officer for the Middle East andNorth Africa at Freedom House.
When their appeals to theUnited States government failed, the Egyptian authorities reacted by restricting the activities of the American nonprofit organizations.
Hotels that were to host training sessions were closed for renovations. Staff members of the groups were followed, and local activists were intimidated and jailed. State-owned newspapers accused activists of receiving money from American intelligence agencies.
Affiliating themselves with the American organizations may have tainted leaders within their own groups. According to one diplomatic cable, leaders of the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt told the American Embassy in 2009 that some members of the group had accused Ahmed Maher, a leader of the January uprising, and other leaders of “treason” in a mock trial related to their association with Freedom House, which more militant members of the movement described as a “Zionist organization.”
A prominent blogger, according to a cable, threatened to post the information about the movement leaders’ links to Freedom House on his blog.
There is no evidence that this ever happened, and a later cable shows that the group ousted the members who were complaining about Mr. Maher and other leaders.
In the face of government opposition, some groups moved their training sessions to friendlier countries likeJordan or Morocco . They also sent activists to the United States for training.
A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Instituteand Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
The work of these groups often provoked tensions between the
The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department.
No one doubts that the Arab uprisings are home grown, rather than resulting from “foreign influence,” as alleged by some Middle Eastern leaders.
“We didn’t fund them to start protests, but we did help support their development of skills and networking,” said Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, a Washington-based advocacy and research group. “That training did play a role in what ultimately happened, but it was their revolution. We didn’t start it.”
Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting in
“We learned how to organize and build coalitions,” said Bashem Fathy, a founder of the youth movement that ultimately drove the Egyptian uprisings. Mr. Fathy, who attended training with Freedom House, said, “This certainly helped during the revolution.”
Ms. Qadhi, the Yemeni youth activist, attended American training sessions in
“It helped me very much because I used to think that change only takes place by force and by weapons,” she said.
But now, she said, it is clear that results can be achieved with peaceful protests and other nonviolent means.
But some members of the activist groups complained in interviews that the United States was hypocritical for helping them at the same time that it was supporting the governments they sought to change.
“While we appreciated the training we received through the NGOs sponsored by the U.S. government, and it did help us in our struggles, we are also aware that the same government also trained the state security investigative service, which was responsible for the harassment and jailing of many of us,” said Mr. Fathy, the Egyptian activist.
Interviews with officials of the nongovernmental groups and a review of diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the democracy programs were constant sources of tension between the
The cables, in particular, show how leaders in the Middle East and
Diplomatic cables report how American officials frequently assured skeptical governments that the training was aimed at reform, not promoting revolutions.
Last year, for example, a few months before national elections in
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But nowhere was the opposition to the American groups stronger than in
Hosni Mubarak, then Egypt’s president, was “deeply skeptical of the
At one time the
But in 2005, under a Bush administration initiative, local groups were given direct grants, much to the chagrin of Egyptian officials.
According to a September 2006 cable, Mahmoud Nayel, an official with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, complained to American Embassy officials about the
The main targets of the Egyptian complaints were the Republican and Democratic institutes. Diplomatic cables show that Egyptian officials complained that the
Gamal Mubarak, the former president’s son, is described in an Oct. 20, 2008, cable as “irritable about direct
The Egyptian government even appealed to groups like Freedom House to stop working with local political activists and human rights groups.
“They were constantly saying: ‘Why are you working with those groups, they are nothing. All they have are slogans,’ ” said Sherif Mansour, an Egyptian activist and a senior program officer for the Middle East and
When their appeals to the
Hotels that were to host training sessions were closed for renovations. Staff members of the groups were followed, and local activists were intimidated and jailed. State-owned newspapers accused activists of receiving money from American intelligence agencies.
Affiliating themselves with the American organizations may have tainted leaders within their own groups. According to one diplomatic cable, leaders of the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt told the American Embassy in 2009 that some members of the group had accused Ahmed Maher, a leader of the January uprising, and other leaders of “treason” in a mock trial related to their association with Freedom House, which more militant members of the movement described as a “Zionist organization.”
A prominent blogger, according to a cable, threatened to post the information about the movement leaders’ links to Freedom House on his blog.
There is no evidence that this ever happened, and a later cable shows that the group ousted the members who were complaining about Mr. Maher and other leaders.
In the face of government opposition, some groups moved their training sessions to friendlier countries like
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