The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.
On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.
He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations and his identity is being protected by The Daily Telegraph.
I used to read a lot of middle eastern blogs. Most were pro-American/democracy blogs. They have just about all gone silent in the last year or two. I know of a couple of bloggers from Egypt that came to the U.S. back about that time and have since gone silent. I wonder if they were a part of this and are now under arrest?
