Back in the mid to late 70's the USSR decided it would invade Afghanistan for some reason. The west also decided to help "free" the Afghanis from the "Soviet" occupation. An "Islamic" revival was taking place in the Middle East where many young men were being recruited by fringe groups. "Arab" and "Islamic" leaders (like Egypt's Mubarak and Omar Suleiman) thought it would be nice to use Afghanistan to eliminate those kids instead of putting them in jail they agreed with their masters in the West to send them to help "Liberate" Afghanistan. What they forgot is the fact that this could eventually lead to the demise of the Soviet Union and that many of the kids were not going to die in Afghanistan.
Every diplomatic entity has a "special" set of employees (no one really knows who they are) but those people work for the intelligence services of that country and are seemingly "regular" diplomats. The Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad was instructed by the Egyptian Intelligence agency to start an office as a base to start collecting the names, passports, addresses and contact information of every person crossing into Afghanistan. They set up an office in Peshawar for that purpose and it started collecting this information in earnest under the guise of helping inform the families of those kids of their fate if they were killed in the war to liberate Afghanistan. Names, passports and contact information was collected for the duration of this "war".
So Americans and the West was arming and training the rebels (aka Taliban and "Freedom Fighters"). The Egyptians were tasked with controlling them by collecting their passports and contact information. All the fearless "Arab and Muslim" Leaders wanted is for those kids to DIE and never return and that was their hope. Soon after the establishment of this "office" the Egyptian SSIS took it over and now it became a regular intelligence gathering office in Peshawar.
That office was named "The Base" or "Al-Qaeda" and this is where the name of the enemy of the West came from, the Egyptian office in Peshawar. Every Pakistani guide taking people to cross into Afghanistan was instructed to take them to the "Base" first.
This work continued far beyond Afghanistan, this office was established in all conflict zones like Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Serbia and other areas to continue to collect the names of people now to arrest them as soon as they return home. Egyptian SSIS officers were ordered to join the UN Peacekeeping forces as a contingent to help but also to continue to grow this list.
The old Egyptian regime, that was removed by the January 25 revolution, sold the world a bag of goods and the biggest sponsor of terrorism was Mubarak, Qaddafi and the other fearless leaders of the "Arab and Muslim" world. For thirty years Egyptians lived under manufactured secular tensions by the SSIS. For thirty years Mubarak and his goons ruled with an iron fist and blew up churches, arrested innocent people, managed rendition programs for the west ...etc. Now the fearless leaders of the "Arab" world are threatening Egyptians with retaliation if they try this criminal Mubarak for his atrocities.
Egypt is rising and will rise. As a US Citizen of Egyptian origin I will do my best to have a stable and secular Egypt where all Egyptians can and will live in freedom and under a democratic state. I will fight to put Mubarak on trial and make sure he pays for his atrocities him and his cronies. Mubarak's trial is an internal Egyptian issue and all other parties MUST respect that. If the KSA or the UAE do not want Egyptians there because of that then ALL Egyptian expats in those two countries must leave. Egypt needs everyone now more than before there is a lot to be done at home.
