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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 3-Jun-2012
3-Jun-12 World View -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is 'shocked and dismayed' by Mubarak verdict

Web Log - June, 2012

3-Jun-12 World View -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is 'shocked and dismayed' by Mubarak verdict

Increasing crime by 'Chinese Mafias' in Latin America

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak gets life sentence, avoids death sentence
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is 'shocked and dismayed' by Mubarak verdict
Fierce battles spill over from Syria into northern Lebanon
Arab League demands deadline on Kofi Annan 'peace plan' for Syria
Increasing crime by 'Chinese Mafias' in Latin America
Russian warship participates in Nato naval drills in Baltic Sea

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak gets life sentence, avoids death sentence

Hosni Mubarak and Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1982

Hosni Mubarak and Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1982

Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday night and Sunday morning, protesting the sentence handed out to deposed president Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak got a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of some 900 protesters last year in Tahrir Square. But protesters chanted: "A farce, a farce, this trial is a farce" and "The people want execution of the murderer." Mubarak's ex-security chief Habib el-Adly was also convicted, and also received a life sentence. But Mubarak, his sons, and el-Adly were all found innocent of corruption. The corruption charges were related to the purchase by the Mubaraks of five villas built by a family friend, Hussein Salem, a fraction of their price and Mubarak's decree to allow a Salem company to export natural gas to Israel. AP

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is 'shocked and dismayed' by Mubarak verdict

With the June 16-17 presidential runoff election just a couple of weeks away, the two candidates were quick to comment on the Mubarak verdict. One candidate is Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's longtime friend and last prime minister, who said that the verdict showed that no one was above the law in Egypt. His opponent is Mohamed Morsi from the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The FJP issued a statement saying that the group was "shocked and dismayed" by the "ridiculous" sentences. The FJP said they would re-try the defendants, and they promised to cooperate with all revolutionary and political players for "the completion of the revolution, retribution for slain and injured protesters and the dismantlement of the former regime, which still weighs heavily on the shoulders of the Egyptian people and desperately wants to stage a comeback so as to take revenge on the revolution." Al-Ahram

Fierce battles spill over from Syria into northern Lebanon

Fights with assault rifles, machine guns, grenades and mortar bombs between have been escalating in residential neighborhoods of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, near the Syrian border. The sectarian battles are between Alawite supporters and Sunni opponents of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. The latest round began on Saturday, and by Sunday morning, 12 people had been killed and 49 were wounded. Almost all international figures are expressing the fear that the Syrian conflict will spread to a broader sectarian Sunni versus Shia war throughout the region. However, interestingly enough, different parties draw different conclusions from that fear. The West takes the position that something has to be done to stop the further violence in Syria. Al-Assad's allies, Russia, Iran and China, take the position that any outside interference would only make things worse. Daily Star (Lebanon)

Arab League demands deadline on Kofi Annan 'peace plan' for Syria

Arab League meeting in Doha on Saturday

Arab League meeting in Doha on Saturday

The Arab League, meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, demanded stronger United Nations measures against the Syrian regime. So far, Kofi Annan's "peace plan" has only made the violence in Syria worse, as it provided a fig leaf Syria's president Bashar al-Assad to say that he was implementing the peace plan, while at the same time he conducted massive genocidal slaughter and torture of innocent civilians. Nabil al-Arabi, secretary-general of the Arab League, said:

"We request Mr Annan to set a timeframe for his mission because it is unacceptable that massacres and bloodshed continue while the mission is ongoing indefinitely."

In fact, nobody has the stomach to take any action in Syria, and al-Assad knows that he can continue his policy of extermination as long as he pleases, with the active support of his allies in Iran, Russia and China. Gulf Times

Increasing crime by 'Chinese Mafias' in Latin America

Because Chinese communities have historically been reluctant to report problems among their own members to non-Chinese authorities, the substantial increase in Latin American crime by "Chinese Mafias" has remained largely unnoticed. Currently, smuggling of persons from Asia through Latin America to Canada and the United States is the largest visible transnational criminal linkage between the two regions. It is highly lucrative for the groups involved, generating $70,000 or more per smuggled person for the criminal organizers. Other kinds of criminal activity include: extortion of Chinese communities in Latin America by groups with ties to China; trafficking in persons from China, through Latin America, to ultimately smuggle Chinese into the United States or Canada; trafficking in narcotics and precursor chemicals; trafficking in contraband goods; and money laundering. China-Latin America criminal ties are likely to become greater with the expanding commerce and investment between the two regions. Jamestown

Russian warship participates in Nato naval drills in Baltic Sea

The Kaliningrad amphibious assault landing ship from Russia’s Baltic Fleet has set sail for the Baltic Sea to take part in the BALTOPS 2012 naval drills on June 1-16. The Kaliningrad will join over 20 surface ships and some 20 aircraft from Nato countries in a variety of training missions, including anti-submarine warfare, sea rescue and counter-terrorism. Warships from Russia’s Baltic Fleet previously took part in BALTOPS exercises 19 times. Ria Novosti (Moscow)

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