Egyptian Military Junta Using Old Stalinist Trick

The military rulers of Egypt are "disbanding" the secret police. ("Security Service" in the euphemistic parlance of U.S. propagandists and their foreign fellow travelers.) But of course they say they're going to create a new "security service" to fulfill its so-called legitimate functions. And who do you think will be staffing this "new" organization? Why, the same torturers and murderers and professional oppressors who staffed the old secret police. In other words, old wine in new bottles.

Stalin employed the same trick. Lenin's secret police, the Cheka, went through various name changes under Stalin, like NKVD, NVD, etc. until finally becoming the KGB. (Which is now the FSB.)