Arabs Revolt: Change for the same? Umberto Mazzei http://alainet.org/active/44884&lang=es

Another evidence of some linkage of the riots with Washington is that the CIA director, Leon Panetta, acknowledged in testimony before Congress that the CIA was to identify possible "triggers" for uprisings in countries like Egypt[1]. The same note informs us that President Obama ordered in August 2010 to investigate the possibilities of uprisings in the Arab world and especially in Egypt. The result was a 18-page report.

It is also known that the State Department, Freedom House and National Endowment for Democracy – NED- are inviting, since 2008[2], groups of young members of the Egyptian opposition, to impregnate them with "American values" and train them to create networks using social media tools like twitter and facebook , which Big Press says have served to articulate the riots.