'Egyptians aware of US hijack plan'

'Egyptians aware of US hijack plan'Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:25PM

The formation of a civilian government, configuration of a body to draft the new constitution, lifting the state of emergency, releasing political prisoners, disbanding military courts, allowing freedom of media, dissolving the cabinet recently appointed by Mubarak, suspending the Parliament elected in 2010 and prosecuting those responsible for the deaths of hundreds of protesters are among other demands of the demonstrators.

Press TV interviews a political analyst on the ground in Damascus, Sami Mobayez, to get a feeling of how informed the Egyptian public is about what is going on behind the scenes.

Press TV: It has been said that it is not in the Egyptian military's interest now to actually turnover power to a civilian entity or government or transition force. What is your take on that?

Mobayez: Even if there are ambitious officers within that group they cannot even think of the idea of staying in power. I think you have to differentiate here between what these officers would like - all of them would definitely like to be another Hosni Mubarak and all of them as we know are trained by the Mubarak regime and nourished by the Mubarak regime.


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