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Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

The media presented Mubarak’s unseating in Egypt as a spontaneous outbreak of democracy. This is the same kind of democracy that the Hezbollah benefited from.

This change in the Middle East is from a form of order to disorder. You can take that to the bank.

Muslim Brotherhood will run for half of Egypt’s parliament
By HANNAH ALLAM
McClatchy Newspapers

CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and best-organized Islamist faction in Egypt, announced Saturday the formation of its new political party and said it plans to contest half the seats in parliament in the first post-revolution elections scheduled for next fall.

The Freedom and Justice Party is the culmination of more than 80 years of struggle toward official recognition and full political participation for the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the group’s founding in 1928, successive Egyptian administrations have outlawed the group and arrested its members.

"This party will be independent from the Brotherhood, but will coordinate with it," Mahmoud Hussein, the secretary general of the Brotherhood, told a news conference in Cairo.

The party will be led by Mohamed Morsy, who served in the Brotherhood’s political bureau, along with other well-known figures: Essam el Erian as deputy chief and Saad Katatni as secretary general.

Under deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the Brotherhood was officially banned and continually persecuted, but its members could run for office as independents. The Brotherhood is riven with internal differences – most notably between the old guard and a reform-minded wing – and even senior members claim to represent no more than about 20 percent of the Egyptian public.

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Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

This is the second time a member of NATO has killed children of Qaddafi. The first time a smart bomb went down his chimney and killed a child about 25 years ago.

I don’t think this is how you calm the waters.

Son of Qaddafi Killed in NATO Airstrike
By REUTERS
Published: April 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM ET

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO airstrike on Saturday night that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren, a Libyan government spokesman said.

Mussa Ibrahim said Saif al-Arab was a civilian and a student who had studied in Germany. He was 29 years old.

Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.

A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house, which was in a wealthy residential area of Tripoli.

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