Page 139 - Agitators News Today

With -- theres a phone call recording discussing the possibility -- considering the possibility of bringing in agitators or even the possibility of trying to trick democrats to coming back for a vote. >> for us i think its real simple. first i want to say i take phone calls all the time. took phone calls with small business owners earlier. this individual ive taken phone calls from -- ive actually talked to one of the senate democrats over the weekend hoping that they might be interested in find...

Im doing this for him. >> the iranian government is saying you are agitators, that you are being influenced by foreigners, that is not a real movement for freedom. what are you saying? >> im talking for myself. i know my own notions, my own motivations. this is totally self-initiated. im just someone ordinary, i went there, i voted for the person i thought was right, and then it came out that, i dont know, im not an expert, but that sounded like a fraud. >> sara? we lost connection with her. as ...

I mean, he was shot randomly and i was trying to go to the square where he was shot, and i just didnt get there. i was stopped by the guards. i mean, im kind of identifying with him. >> you feel like that could have been you? >> yes. and he was out then. theyre not letting -- its a persian expression ive translated to english because i dont know how the equivalent. but we are not allowing his blood to go to waste. i mean, my friends knew him personally, and he was one of us. one of the green mov...

With him. >> you feel like that could have been you? >> yes. and he was out then. theyre not letting -- its a persian expression ive translated to english because i dont know how the equivalent. but we are not allowing his blood to go to waste. i mean, my friends knew him personally, and he was one of us. one of the green movement, and thats why im doing this. im doing this for him. >> the iranian government is saying you are agitators, that you are being influenced by foreigners, that is not a ...

They did just the reverse and it put them behind the crisis and it also narrowed dramatically the options that are available now to the mubarak administration going forward. >> they also, the vice president suleiman, president mubarak continue to propagate these lies, which they have been spreading for more than two weeks now, saying these are outside agitators and agents of israel or hamas or hezbollah, that theyre being paid, that its foreign media and satellite news channels. and it was inter...

Now to the mubarak administration going forward. >> they also, the vice president suleiman, president mubarak continue to propagate these lies, which they have been spreading for more than two weeks now, saying these are outside agitators and agents of israel or hamas or hezbollah, that theyre being paid, that its foreign media and satellite news channels. and it was interesting, because vice president suleiman had talked in previous days about these protestors and the media belittling egypt and...

Mubarak handing power to his vice president, and instead of stepping down, digging in, claiming credit for resisting foreign pressure, claiming his regime was trying to end chaos and help the economy, even though he shut down banks and the internet and shut down the trains. the man who has tried to manufacture a crisis so he could be hailed as a hero of stability continues to lie at this hour to his own people. in liberation square, those people erupted in anger as their president seemed to dism...

September. he also continued to blame, he basically started setting up this idea that somehow these protesters had fallen prey to foreign influence to, agitators, perhaps to islamic extremists. and thats a narrative we have heard ever since then from various representatives of the mubarak regime. the vice president has continued to come out on egyptian television saying that egyptians are not ready for democracy, saying these are foreign agitators, that its news media, its foreign reporters. its...

Trying to shut the internet. its a tactic theyve used for 30 years, trying to make egyptians and the world believe that there are only two choices, mubarak or chaos. but there are not just two choices, there are other lies to tell you about. the government continues to hide the truth about how many people have been killed or detained in the demonstrations. they continue to claim 11 people have died. according to human rights watch, that number is closer to 300. they got that number by canvassing...

To blame reporters and extremists and agitators. watch. >> translator: i actually blame certain friendly nations who have television channels, theyre not friendly at all, who have intensified the youth against the nation and the state. >> translator: there is a great number of people who have infiltrated them and there are countless poisonous thoughts that are entering the thoughts of these youths and many of these youths are actually good. maybe there are foreign agendas, the muslim brotherhood...