The main purpose of the interview was to give Egyptian news something to report without having to mention the automatic gunfire and 10 confirmed killed that has been going on in streets of Cairo today. It also served the purpose of providing the reassuring glow of a functioning government in corner of any Egyptian households who might still be loyal to Mubarak.
Likewise I've heard but not seen that Mubarak himself has been appearing on ABC America to assure his supporters that he's still got the magic to wrap the Jews and the Americans round his little finger.
In Suleiman's interview he appeared to trying to filibuster the entire nation as he covered a vast range of topics including those "foreign elements who are trying to cause chaos in Egypt." While a name check is always appreciated the main topics he covered were;
- He promised to launch an investigation into who was responsible for ordering the thugs into Tahrir square although he ran into some trouble trying to explain why the fact that these thugs were plain clothes policemen didn't mean that mean that Egypt's noble police had been infiltrated by those nasty foreign trouble makers.
- He announced that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had been offered the chance to join in a dialogue about forming a new government. This was an attempt to further consolidate Mubarak's position with the international community because while the Muslim Brotherhood are not the Taliban by any stretch of the imagination they are an Islamist party so their presence in the Egyptian government would be problematic to many people, myself included.
- Mainly he played for time. He claimed that Egypt's government needed 21 days to sort this out, 70 days to sort that out and 3 months to sort the other out. Basically he was just shouting random numbers at people so the only thing I can say to that;
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