Mubarak transfers power to vice president. Protesters enraged by Hosni Mubarak’s latest refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s central square Friday and took positions outside key symbols of the hated regime, promising to expand their push to drive the Egyptian president out. The standoff posed a major test for the military as protesters stepped up calls for the army to intervene against... 

It has been pretty clear from comments over the past few days that the Obama Administration is keen on Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s newly appointed Vice President and long-standing spymaster, as a successor for dictator Hosni Mubarak. WikiLeaks cables have suggested he has long been Israel’s favorite successor candidate as well. But while his decades near the head of Egypt’s torture-happy regime doesn’t... 

Egypt’s Vice President Omar Suleiman was long seen by Israel as the preferred candidate to succeed President Hosni Mubarak, secret U.S. diplomatic cables published Monday suggested. According to an August 2008 cable released by WikiLeaks and published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper on its website, a senior adviser from the Israeli Ministry of Defense told U.S. diplomats in Tel Aviv that the... 

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak recently appointed his first-ever deputy, Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, and Suleiman is now coming under fire for cooperating the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) . According to AFP, Suleiman has been linked to a program thought up by the CIA that saw terror suspects questioned using torture. Under the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program,... 

Ambassador Frank G. Wisner II (left) with US Iran expert Vali Nasr (right). Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has agreed to allow the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s top spy to take over his countries military and police forces in order to stamp out the growing threat to America’s most vital...