"Divide and rule" is the regime's modus operandi - and it's working wonders. The tactics are predictable; minimal concessions; accusing the protesters of being a tool of "foreign powers"; and also accusing them of being a threat to Egypt's "stability".
Crucial: the "foreign powers" slander came from the lion's (Suleiman's) mouth last Thursday, in a long interview to state television - exactly the same day that foreign journalists were being hunted, beaten, arrested or humiliated all across Cairo. Suleiman explicitly blamed "certain friendly nations who have television channels, they're not friendly at all, who have intensified the youth against the nation and the state".
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