Anderson Cooper Exposes The Brutal Egyptian Dictatorship's Lies About How It's "Reforming"

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Nearly 300 people have been killed in the last 14 days, according to Human Rights Watch, most of them not videotaped, their deaths not recorded. And according to "The Wall Street Journal," nearly 1,300 people have been injured. They're citing figures from the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.

Some of those 1,300 people have been released, but others still held, and we don't know where and we don't know what's being done to them. According to several "New York Times" personnel who were held by the secret police a few days ago, they could hear captured Egyptians being beaten, tortured, crying out in pain.

That is the truth of the Mubarak regime. They have blood on their hands. And the question tonight, are they really going to change for themselves?

You are going to hear from our reporters on the ground in a moment, also in Washington, and we will talk to Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure. But we begin as always tonight "Keeping Them Honest." And tonight we begin by focusing on the lies the Egyptian government continues to tell.

Now, I know lies is a strong word; it's one we rarely use. We have talked about different facts, but we can't think of another word right now to describe what the Egyptian government has been saying, because what they have been saying is the direct opposite of what they have been doing. The lies go back years, decades, of course. But we want to just focus on some of the ones we have heard in the last few days.

The new vice president of Egypt, this man, Omar Suleiman, has for years been Mubarak's closest henchman, running his intelligence service. Now, he says his government has accepted many of the protesters' complaints. He says they're reaching out to opposition leaders.

But while he was saying that, literally, while his lips were moving and saying those things on Egyptian television and on ABC News, his secret police were still arresting opposition figures. Thugs burst into the offices of human rights organizations, trashing the places, arresting a number of human rights monitors.

And there's been absolutely no transparency about what the Egyptian government is doing right now, other than a few awkward photo-ops on Egyptian government-controlled television. The Egyptian government has denied any involvement in these kind of attacks by mobs on peaceful demonstrators and reporters. They say they have no idea how these things happened.

Full transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/07/acd.01.html

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[privatezib]

حسني مبارك هو فرعون الحديثة. نحن في حاجة الى النبي موسى الجديدة لقتل هذا ابن العاهرة وعائلته وجميع مؤيديه. آمل أن يكون هذا القرف الكلب حروق في الجحيم.

[Naskeleng]

@privatezib Is this a good quality tarnslation? (I copied and pasted it into Google Chrome & chose translate) Hosni Mubarak is the modern Pharaoh . We need a new Moses to kill this son of a bitch, his family and all his supporters .I hope that this will dog shit burns in hell.

[asherpowers]

thanks for the 4 minutes... more coverage more often would be nice!

[Naskeleng]

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[AJvolocity34]

I'm not real big on CNN but Anderson kicks ass! He's not only good looking but he also has the balls to expose the truth!

[LunarSunny]

@sassoborro2

Done !

[LunarSunny]

@Naskeleng

I could understand it but I could tell that it is Google translation right away!

I use Google translation too and encounter such problems !

I rephrased the subtitles so they can be easily understood by Arabs

Thanks for that video !

[LunarSunny]

@privatezib

Let me rephrase that properly

حسني مبارك هو فرعون العصر الحديث نحن في حاجة إلي موسي جديد لقتل ابن العاهرة هذا و جميع مؤيديه .آمل أن يحترق هذا الكلب المقرف في الجحيم

[LunarSunny]

Here is an Arabic subtitle :

أندرسون كوبر يكشف أكاذيب الدكتاتورية المصرية الوحشية وكيف تقوم بعملية الإصلاح

I just translated the English one

[Shelby596]

@m0renachula704 I know. Even when he's reporting on horrible, or important things, I can't stop just looking at him!!!

[m0renachula704]

Anderson Cooper is freaking hot. I cant get over how hot he is lol. 

[TriniArabGirl]

Bless Anderson Cooper. x

[frozenimran]

The TRUTH: Mubarak has been a USA and ISRAELY ally for 30 years, a murderer, a tortuerer of his own people. FOX news is trying to make him look like a good guy becasue he did the USA dirty work in that region. The reality is the media is being pressured to make Mubarak look good, and the revolution look bad. This is why Cooper is being criticized for calling out Mubarak the USA puppet

[mumageed]

@mumageed cool!

[mumageed]

@TomAraya23 Yup, it's good!