Wikileaks: Israel has long considered Omar Suleiman a suitable candidate to change Mubarak

Israel has long considered Omar Suleiman, who became Egypt vice-president, the most suitable candidate for the replacement of the current president Hosni Mubarak.

This is evidenced by the classified documents of the US State Department from the Wikileaks dossier, which were published by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph .

In one of the dispatch directed to Washington, an American diplomat from the embassy in Tel Aviv in August 2008, a conversation with the senior adviser to the Israeli defense of Ehud Barack David Haham is retold.

He stated that, according to the Israeli leadership, Suleiman, who at that time was the chief of Egyptian intelligence, will most likely become "at least the temporary president of the country in the event that Mubarak is or is not able to fulfill his duties."

According to the diplomat Luis Moreno, he also sent a copy of this message to colleagues to the embassy in Cairo for analysis.

“There is no doubt that Israel is very happy with” such prospects with the career growth of Suleiman, he emphasized.

Mubarak appointed Suleiman the vice president on January 29, reacting to the mass anti-government manifestations that occurred in the country.

Commenting on such a step in the Egyptian leader, the US State Department stated on the same day that we should not limit himself to “only a shuffling” of the cabinet, “real reforms” are needed, ITAR-TASS notes.

Earlier, The Daily Telegraph has released other secret documents of the State Department for Egypt, which fell into the hands of WikiLeaks. In particular, that the United States provided unspoken support to Egyptian dissidents. Back in 2008, one of the opposition activists informed Washington about plans to organize a "change of regime" in Egypt in 2011.