Thank you, Jane Mayer. I read both "The Dark Side" and "Ghost Plane" but I didn't remember Suleiman's name in particular, probably because it a version of "Jack Smith."

I hope other news outlets, eg NY Times and the networks pick this up. It's a very dirty and nasty business we're involved in. Of course, the US likes dictators. They're compliant. We talk out of one side of our mouths about "democracy" and out of the other about "friendly" gov'ts.

The Nobel Peace prize recipient should take command, if only temporarily. To enlist someone from the old regime is ludicrous, and too often done.

As a true patri-rot, I am just delighted to know that the iron fisted Hamerican friend, Omar Suleiman, will make very sure nothing good happens for the Egyptian people. Unless, of course, the Muslim Brotherhood succeeds in converting the Hamerican nurtured Egyptian military into supporting the people. Hey, sometimes, against all the bluster of the Hamerican "we gotta destroy them to save them" Obermeisters, the people sometimes decide to end their exploitation by whatever means necessary and the equally exploited military joins them.

Thank you Jane for unravelling more unholy partnerships between the US government and Hosni Mubarak's gang. The US has done and continues to cause irreparable damage to the Middle East. Wonder when America's people will revolt like the Egyptian citizens, against the US government for nurturing dictatorships around the world, for plundering nations's wealth through wars, and for fooling its hardworking common people while preaching democracy on paper? Obama seems to have got the Nobel Peace prize for his capabilities to deliver feel-good speeches. How much more damage needs to be done by the US governments and institutions to the people of the world and to America's own people before a democratic uprising takes place in the US?