Wikileaks reveals that US conspired to train Egyptian opposition for revolution

From Israel Insider: 

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.
The Daily Telegraph from London published this explosive revelation a secret diplomatic document culled from the Wikileaks trove.
He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations and his identity is being protected by The Daily Telegraph. American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police.

The US government has been, publicly at least, a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering covert support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt.

In the secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.

The memo, which Ambassador Scobey sent to the US Secretary of State in Washington DC, was marked “confidential” and headed: “April 6 activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt.”

It said the activist claimed “several opposition forces” had “agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition to a parliamentary democracy, involving a weakened presidency and an empowered prime minister and parliament, before the scheduled 2011 presidential elections”. The embassy’s source said the plan was “so sensitive it cannot be written down”.

Ambassador Scobey questioned whether such an “unrealistic” plot could work, or ever even existed. However, the documents showed that the activist had been approached by US diplomats and received extensive support for his pro-democracy campaign from officials in Washington.