RIP Farouk Ibrahim

The Sheikh of Egyptian photographers 70 years old Farouk Ibrahim passed away today morning. Farouk Ibrahim who started his life as a teenage office boy at Akhbar Al Youm ended his life as the presidents and stars photographer.
Farouk Ibrahim with late Youssef El-Sabae in 1960s
He was the only photographer that worked with the three presidents “Nasser , Sadat and Mubarak”. One of his most famous photo collections is the one he took for President Sadat in his underwear and shaving. This collection made a huge controversy , a shock for the Egyptian people and President Sadat itself. Former first lady Jihan Sadat went ballistic when she saw the photos and wanted to punish Ibrahim yet Sadat stood in his side and consider those photos telling her that was an art she did not understand !!  By the way those photos online for President Sadat on the beach are not that collection.
One of the few shots of this collection I found online


Sadat praying
Sadat with his granddaughter
Farouk Ibrahim He was also the photographer and friend of Abdel Halim Hafez.
Halim and Farid , rare meeting 
He was the only Arab photographer who attended that unforgettable concert of Um Kalthoum in Paris in 1968.
Iconic shot for Thuma 
The memories of Farouk Ibrahim with Mubarak was not as rich like Sadat or Nasser or even Halim !! He took that photo of Gamal Mubarak’s graduation.

Last year he appeared on Mona El-Shazly’s show and spoke about his memories.
May Allah bless his soul.

Tomorrow Egyptians will return to Tahrir

There has been a rumor that strangely found its way in to mainstream media especially in radio stations and news websites. The rumor says the following :

     The coalition of January 25th revolution youth decided to postpone the million man protest in Tahrir square to next April 8th !!

  1. There is nothing calling the coalition of January 25th youth
  2. The protest will not be postponed , it will be held tomorrow in time !!

This rumor was heard in Nogoom FM and Radio Misr , Al Shorouk daily published it  then removed the news and then has claimed there are uncertain news about the protest.

The political groups that called for the day have already denied the rumor but unfortunately through the social media only !! Nevertheless this revolution was spread at the social media first.

The rumor shows that someone does not want “Saving the revolution” Friday and that someone has got a huge access to mainstream media !! Who is that someone !!? I will not ask why because we all know the answer in advance.

“Saving the revolution” Friday is a powerful message of its own to army , cabinet and the former regime as well that we have not forgotten our original demands of the revolution. We will return back to the square again so easily , we are not afraid anymore.

There are not less than 6 political groups that support “Saving the revolution” Friday like : The revolution Youth Friday , National association of change , 6th April youth, We are all Khaled Said and Kafiya.

Ironically when people welcomed the idea of having this “Saving the revolution” Friday , we find the army and cabinet taking decisions they should have done from weeks ago like for instance the historical decision to bar the trio “Sorror-Azmi-Sharif” from travel and freezing their assets !!

It seems that we have the square too fast.

Syrian Revolution : The Arab world is too small for you , lead the whole world then !!

Yesterday Bashar El Assad addressed the Syrian people from the Syrian parliament in his first public speech. a 40 minutes speech that was interpreted by hysterical applause and not less than 10 poems praising Bashar El Assad from members of the parliament aside from Bashar’s giggles from time to time for unknown reasons !!
Bashar El Assad's speech
This was by far the worst speech I have heard for Arab president during his country’s revolution. Bashar Al Assad as usual blamed foreign parties and reminded the people with Israel and Palestine again and again !!
Unlike what Farouk El-Shara’a claimed Bashar Al Assad did not announce any set of reforms in his speech . The only thing we know is that he learned more from the Tunisian revolution more than the Egyptian revolution because the Tunisian revolution is close to Syria because it happened due to economic reasons !! El-Assad revealed that he sent Syrian experts to Tunisia to learn from the Tunisian experience !!
At the same time Bashar El-Assad was speaking in his parliament in Damascus , a group of Egyptians were protesting in front of the Syrian embassy in Giza in solidarity with Mohamed Radwan.

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Mohamed Radwan’s family , friends and Egyptian activists had this protest in front of the embassy and they made ambassador Youssef Ahmed come out to speak to them. Nevertheless Ahmed spoke to them as he were speaking to 1st grade students !! It is enough that he called Mohamed Radwan  Mohamed Radi for three times !!!! Nobody asked him why Mohamed Radwan appeared in that interview on Syrian TV. The ambassador revealed that there are other Egyptians like Radwan detained there. A lady in the video mentioned another name “Mohamed Badawy”
Here is another video from Daily News Egypt

Ambassador Youssef Ahmed and his embassy organized today a pro El-Assad protest in front of the embassy led by popular pop singer Samo Zaen who supports Bashar Al Assad. Zein is the latest artist in Syria to join the shame list “Syrian version of the blacklist” , almost all the Syrians artists are in the list !! It is so déjà Vu from what happened in Egypt. News TV reader Zania Yazgy of Al Arabiya has resigned in objection to what she considered biased in the network against Syria and Bashar El Assad !! Strangely she did not resign when Al Arabiya was taking Hezbollah and Syria terribly !! Zeina is the wife of Syrian TV actor  Abad El-Fahd.
Back to Damascus there is unconfirmed news that a lady attacked Bashar El-Assad in his way out of the parliament, I am reading contradictory stories that the lady was actually turning to give him a complain so I am not that sure.

From what I saw she was not attacking the car.
The speech came after the so-called million man pro-Bashar El-Assad across the country organized by the Baath parties and governors across the country. The Syrian TV aired the pro El-Assad rallies after the president's speech across as usual as expected but it did not dare air what took place at Latikia yesterday after the speech. The people of Latikia protested against Bashar Al Assad and as usual the security forces opened their fires on the protesters killing not less than 6 and injuring many of them !!
The videos below are extremely graphic "as usual" from Latikia , they are also contain insults , terrible insults to the Syrian president.It started first with tear gas grenades and evolved to live ammunition.



The video below shows the people of Latikia chanting Freedom and later our famous "The people and the army are one hand" , of course in their case the it is the army and regime are one hand.

Another video from the massacre of  Latikia's train station !!


There was a MP who suddenly interpreted Bashar El-Assad while he was addressing the parliament and boldly told him that the martyrs of Latika say Yes to Bashar !!
The people of Daraa protested as well against Bashar Al Assad when he finished his speech.
Politically Bashar El-Assad is following Mubarak's footsteps more than Qaddafi and Ali Abdullah Saleh from empty political promises. Sadly enough there is a video that reminded me with January 28th in Egypt , in fact I thought it was that video we all saw and shocked on TV from Mohendessin. I do not know if that bus was following the regime or not thought
The pro-Bashar El-Assad pre-organised are continued inside and outside the country to show the people of Syria that the man got popularity and to fool the world. Of course nobody is fooled. This photo below is from protest held today in Lebanon , Syrian workers kiss the photo of Bashar !
Kissing Bashar El-Assad posters "Getty images"
This memo blow was from Tartous governor to all the official authorities in the governorate in order to organize a huge protest in solidarity with Bashar. The people must be geared with the flags and Bashar’s photos !!
A memo from Tartous "Via Nazem Sabor"

One of the honorable members of Syrian parliament interpreted Bashar’s speech to tell him that the Arab world was too small for him as a leader , he should lead the world !!
Tomorrow the Syrians will hold the "Martyrs Friday" across the country ,we all support them in Egypt , we are all with them
By the way Vogue create a controversy last month when it published this provoking profile of the desert's rose aka Asma El-Assad ,we should send these videos of protesters getting killed to Vogue !!

Libyan Revolution : The Kussa Day

last Wednesday was the Kussa Day in Libya , Qaddafi’s FM and former spy chief Mussa Kussa has defected in London in the biggest slap to Qaddafi politically. This is a very big blow to Qaddafi with no doubt. No one can ignore that Qaddafi has former Nicaraguan FM and former UN general assembly president Miguel Brockaman to represent him at the UN !! Oh yes Nicaraguan !!
The military operations in Libya have turned in to some sort of chess game. Qaddafi troops have gained control on cities that the revolutionaries controlled before and vice versa.  Of course there will be a new level in the game now with Obama’s order to CIA to start the covert operations. Needless to say I think the covert operations have already started from a long time , this is a psychological media warfare , you do not launch a cover operation and announce it publicly like that
There are news Khamis Qaddafi is still alive as the Libyan TV aired some footage for him at Bab Al Aziziya. I have seen the footage though , I only saw this screencap.
The return of war criminal !!
Eman Obeidy is still in the minds and hearts of many people of the world. Eman’s family is extremely proud of her and they even celebrated her engagement to her cousin in Benghazi in some sort of defiant move to Qaddafi. From their side I have seen last night Hala Misrati on national Libyan TV claiming boldly that Eman were a prostitute , a whore and that the Qaddafi regime was working on a website that would expose her in video and photos !! so Eman is not crazy anymore !! I wanted to punch Hala Misrati in her face , seriously especially with her disgusting attack on the people of Benghazi calling God to curse them. 
Hala Misrati has become the Hanaa and Sayid Ali of Libya technically , from two days ago she interviewed a Syrian journalist Rana El-Akabany accused of helping the enemies aka the revolutionaries !! Terrible interviewer but Rana was strong.
Hala Misrati interrogates Rana El-Akabany
I wonder if the Syrian ambassador will do anything to help this young lady.  Hala Misrati got FB pages now , but FB pages fan but rather Anti-Hala Misrati FB pages like “ How many person wants the execution of Hala Misrati !!? “ and “Egyptians demand the prosecution of Hala Misrati” .I googled Misrati and found out her FB page and her blog. I can call now Misrati is so so so so ignorant aside from the fact she is so so so rude.
There are still thousands of Egyptians stuck in Misurata who do not know when or how they will get back home. Qatar has offered its help to transfer the Egyptians back home but aside from the fact the ships will not come tomorrow , the Qaddafi troops are making it hard to ships already to reach to Misurata from time to time whether from Egypt or from Qatar. Here are videos , very sad pleas.
Egyptian Refugee camp in Misurata–Egyptians plea 1
Egyptian Refugee camp in Misurata–Egyptians plea 2
Egyptian Refugee camp in Misurata–Egyptians plea 3
Egyptian refugee camp in Misurata- Egyptian plea 4
Here are photos from refugees’ photos.





There are about 6,000 Egyptians in this refugee camp , they are complaining from the shortage of water , food and medical supplies. It is catastrophic by all measures.
About 260,000 Egyptians have reportedly returned back to Egypt from Libya , there are still hundreds of thousands stuck in the country. The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs denied the news that our embassy was being encircled by the Qaddafi troops in Tripoli yet it did not deny that our consulate in Benghazi was attacked by the Qaddafi troops during the shelling.
The position of Egypt officially was being criticized , people were shocked that Egypt was not at this conference in London about Libya when everybody was there , Libya is our national security , how can’t we be there ? Despite the good foreign policies Nabil El-Araby began to adopt , our absence reminded the people with the fiascos of Mubarak. FM Nabil El-Araby stated that Egypt was actually invited but the neighbor of Libya refused to go because it approved and pushed the No-Fly zone decision in League of Arab states and security council yet it disapproved the military operations against the Qaddafi regime !! I don’t understand our position , already some sources say that the army did not want to interfere there because we had nothing there !!!!! 
Many people across the Arab world wished that the Arab countries especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia would launch a military operation against the Qaddafi troops before Western military intervention. Of course some may understand the position of Egyptian army but I can’t make the Saudi position from what is taking place especially two GCC countries are deeply involved in the operations : Qatar and UAE.

Angry Birds : Arab Revolution Edition

Rovio should make a special edition from Angry Birds

Three big pigs

Wonderful and amazing video.

What are these pictures of Mubarak doing in this army building !!?

The Egyptian journalists were surprised to today to see the photos of Mubarak , the former president of Egypt at the army media center where Lt.General Mamdouh Shahin announced the second constitutional declaration.

Yes there are  photos of former president Mubarak  at the center. Here are quick shots by dear friend Mohamed Effat.

I think they are photos from the building’s inauguration during the Ganzoury’s cabinet. I do not think if every governmental or military building in Egypt keeps its inauguration ceremony photos like that all those years !!

I will not think in a bad way and consider it another sign of neglect , people got used to these photos till they forget that they exist !! Anyhow I hope that someone tells general Etman about these photos and how they should be removed ASAP.

The National dialogue’s biggest challenge

Several TV channels were transferring on air tonight the first session of the “National dialogue” and many Egyptians followed it , some understood what is going on and some did not. It is not the first time to hear this term of “National dialogue” in Egypt whether before the revolution or during it. Simply it is a dialogue between the different political groups and powers in a country that suffers from some kind of turmoil , this is what I know and saw in other countries.
Before the revolution the official opposition parties used to have from time to time as part from the fake political life the Mubarak regime used to support. During the revolution Omar Soliman had this national dialogue and he invited some political groups and parties , some agreed to go and some refused. Nevertheless the national dialogue of Soliman was a fiasco , it was just doomed like his political career.
Now after February 11,2011 during the second Shafik’s cabinet Yahia El-Gamal was delegated to have this file “The National dialogue” but he failed to start that dialogue then. Now he is a member in the Dr. Essam Sharaf’s cabinet in the same position and with the same responsibilities including the National dialogue.This is in nutshell the history of the National dialogue
Tonight was the first sessions of the dialogue , many intellectuals and prominent personalities from different political powers and groups were there. Among those who attended without any arrangement and any title : Amr Moussa, Naguib Sawiris, Hisham El-Bastawisi , Tahany El-Gabali , Sakina Fouad, Galal Amin, Abdel Galil Mustafa, Abdel Ghafar Shukar, Amr Hamawzy, Akram Lami, Hany Aziz, George Isaac, Hassan Nafae, Essam El-Airan , Essam Sultan, Moaz Massoud and Hossam Badrawy.
You can after the break a clip from the dialogue from Egyptian TV


These are the people I caught either speaking or sitting in the session. This is the first public and political appearance for the former NDPian reformist leader Hossam Badrawy.
I did not watch the whole thing but from the time I followed I think those who really spoke perfectly were : Sakina Fouad , Abdel Galil Mustafa , Galal Amin, Hisham El-Bastawisi and Moaz Massoud. Some are saying that Hamawzy and Nafae spoke well but unfortunately I did not get them fully. 
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei was invited but he could not come because he had other commitments , still he will attend other sessions according to what I understood.
Now here are remarks in points , some times I feel it is much easier for me to write in points.
  1. What do we really want from that national dialogue ? It seems to me that the delegates in tonight’s session were kind of lost. The national dialogue’s goals are so vague and board.
  2. Everybody in the session agreed that they are not representatives of Egyptian populations then how this will be a truly national dialogue !!?
  3. This is a national dialogue and yet it seems to me and to others that it is more of selective dialogue by having certain names.
  4. If there is a true national dialogue , then where the farmers and labor are ?? Where the Nubians , the people of Sinai and the people of Matrouh are !? You are speaking about national dialogue not Cairo dialogue !!?
  5. Some were speaking that the national dialogue includes a chapter about a conciliation with the former regime !!!? Is this why Hossam Badrawy was attending the session !!? What conciliation are they speaking about ? First of all we are not in a civil war , second of all how can we trust those men and women who destroyed not only our political life but rather our whole life for the past 30 years !!? For God sake these NDPians are still working in darkness to destroy our revolution.
This was the first session and there will be other sessions.
I wish all the success to this dialogue , many Egyptians tonight watched it in admiration , it is something that they have not seen before

And we have got a constitutional Declaration

The constitutional declaration has been announced from an hour ago by general Mamdoh Shahin after huge delay we do not understand.
The Constitutional declaration will replace the constitution of 1971 till we have a new constitution. I am highlighting this info because it is very important to understand it.
The constitutional declaration is made of 63 articles including the 7 articles of the referendum. Many people wonder why we have not been asked about the rest of this declaration in this referendum. Already the army made it clear that there will be additional articles added to 7 article because again this is our mini constitution till we have a new constitution. It will organize our political and representative life during this time.
Here is the most important articles in the declaration : 
  • Articles "1,2" : Egypt is a democratic state , it is based upon citizenship, its religion is Islam and its language is Arabic.  
  • The Shura council's powers were reduced. Its term will be 6 years 
  • The 50% labor and farmers in the parliament representation is still there. 
  • The parliamentary term will be 5 years. 
  • The president will be obliged to appoint a VP in 60 days of the start of his presidential term. 
  • Article "4" : The freedom of having unions , syndications and parties according to Law , parties based on racial or religious background are not allowed. 
  • Article "5" : All source of ownerships are supported in Egypt , our economy is based on economic activity and social justice. The rights of labor preserved. 
  • Article "7" : All citizens are equal in front of the law , equal in duties and rights regardless of gender , religion and race. 
  • Article "8" : Personal freedom is a natural right ,according to the law court order or prosecutor's order is needed for arrest or detention or inspection. 
  • Article "9" : If a person is detained or imprisoned , he or she shall not be abused physically or emotionally and anything he or she says anything in previous circumstances or under a threat will be null. 


  • Article "10" : Houses shall not be inspected without a court order based on legal reasons.  
  • Article "12" : The state protests and supports the freedom of belief and expression. Freedom of expression is allowed in the limits of the laws. 
  • In fact articles 8 to 17 deal with personal rights and human rights , they are great. 
  • The rest of articles deal with the presidential powers , parliamentary powers.
Here is the video of the announcement.
The constitutional amendments
This is the second constitutional declaration after February 11,2011.
I do have the full text of the constitutional declaration articles yet so I can’t speak about anything. People seem to be angry in twitter , I think we should keep our anger till we read thoroughly and understand these articles.
FYI this is not our constitution , our permanent constitution insh Allah will be put later , we can change and put anything we want in it.
The AFC FB page has published the constitutional declaration in details.
I am currently reading and taking notices about the new articles.
  • Article No.4 is good for unions and parties, of course the Muslim brotherhood will have a hard time because the parties law and also constitutional declaration make it clear : No for parties based on religious background. 
  • Article No.5 describes the economic nature of Egypt , I like the parts about labor rights and social justice.
  • Articles No.8 to 17 are great and we need to remind the AFC and police with articles day and night. 
  • Article No.21 makes it clear that civilians have their own civilian court so the military tribunals for civilians are non constitutional now. 
  • Article No.51 needs to be explained , it deals with the military law. 
  • Article No.54 speaks about a new security council : The defense security council , I do not know what difference between it and between the current the national security council we have now is!!
  • Article No.56 is quite controversial because it deals with the powers of the army council , the army council has got all the powers of the president. Some people will not like but let's be frank here that we will not be able to change these powers except when we have a parliament and constitution. The only way we can be sure that the army does not abuse these powers is to be very careful and to be awake for the army.
About 80% of these articles are from the old Constitution of 1971 , some people are shocked and I am honestly do not know why they are shocked !!? It is natural to have these articles from the old constitution. After 6 months we will have a new constitution and the army will not made up articles from air. 

ONTV Website is hacked !!

ON TV website has been hacked by some anonymous hacker called A-Alexand.
Here is a screen cap for the website from a while ago
ON TV when it was hacked
The message left at the website says :
The marriage of power and money produces corruption , no for money exploitation to control power and politics .. Yes for Egypt free from corruption.
The hacker says that he acts individually. The song or rather Nasheed is Islamic style one despite there is no reference to religion in the message.
This message is related to the channel’s owner businessman Naguib Sawiris , it seems the hacker believes that he is another icon of corruption and should be punished. Naguib Sawiris for sure will fire back.
I respect ON TV very much and I believe that it is from the only channel that passed the revolution test and used the freedom available to it as it should. “Not to mention ON TV is the best and the only channel that knows how to use social media and to communicate with its viewers”
Consider me biased but I do not considered ON TV as Sawiris’ TV channel more than it is Reem Maged , Yousri Fouda and even Jaber El-Armouty’s channel.
I do not tolerate any kind of corruption and I do not tolerate any attack on media , serious media like ON TV in that way. If you have anything against the Sawiris clan then please share it with the whole world , no one is above the law now. I do not think that Sawiris is stronger than Ahmed Ezz. Already Samih Sawiris , his brother is being investigated for corruption charges. " 1 ,2 "
The timing of hacking and that Nasheed MP3 make me wonder what is really going on !!?
If you have anything against Naguib or the Sawiris clan bring to the public , there are newspapers , websites and blogs but we will not turn against each other in this way. I do not understand why the anti-corruption hackers attack the websites of Ahmed Ezz and Maghrabi’s companies as well !!?
Update #1 : Omar Afifi says that the man behind the website hacking is none other than field marshal Tantawy who wanted to teach Sawiris a lesson for hosting outspoken Belal Fadl and Alaa Al Aswany !!
I will speak about this episode soon
Update#2 : It turned that there was an early message from the hacker posted on the hacked website before the message I posted before. "Thanks to dear friends on twitter and commentators here"
The first message
Despite the hacker insists that he is acting alone , the message was sectarian unlike the message above. It is warning for Naguib Sawiris and his family if they are going to launch campaigns against Islam !!
Why did he change the message ? Another question needed to be asked

The Kill team : A New war crime in Afghanistan

Rolling Stones published a report about war crimes committed in Afghanistan committed by U.S army soldiers.

I have seen a lot of graphic photos and videos from around the Arab world since the beginning of the year still these photos are so sick as they show some humans smiling over and beside mutilated corpses of other humans !! Not to mention that they are the ones who killed and mutilated these humans.

Egyptian X-file : The Sadat Assassination X-File is open again “1”

Mubarak and Sadat
On 6th of October 1981
When Mubarak stepped down , I wondered if the file of president Sadat’s assassination would be opened at all , this file is the mother of all Egyptian X-Files in time of Mubarak. I have opened couple of times this file here already whenever there is new information leaked from here and there during the Mubarak era. Despite the outside appearance makes it look like a solid straight assassination yet if you look carefully and begin to investigate it you will find a huge loop holes the official story can’t easily fill. 
Some people think that opening this file now is a distraction for files that matter . First of all this file is opened by the Sadat family who knows the truth and could not speak all those 30 years from fear. Second of all you can’t blame the media for covering this file , it is a gold mine for any investigative journalist.  Third I think it is not distraction up till now as the official media has not covered the case in its newspapers and channels except very shyly unlike private channels
I do not see any distraction , may be because I have followed this file very carefully and wished that it would be opened this way. The real distraction I believe is that talk about stability and economy using them to scare the people from any change.
Talaat Sadat , the president’s nephew paid the price heavily and spent a whole year in military jail for accusing Abu Ghazla in 2006 of involving in Sadat’s assassination because of the shady arms deals publicly on air. Despite Abu Ghazla left the service in a scandal , despite Sadat did not come from near or far then to the Egyptian army he was accused of insulting the Egyptian army !!
The outspoken lawyer and politician in the same year spoke in an interview with DPA correspondent then in Cairo Wael Abbas accusing Mubarak directly and demanding the ICC to investigate the matter as President Sadat is not less than former Lebanese PM Hariri. ‘Scroll to the English part’ Sooner Talaat found himself accused of insulting the army and Wael Abbas found himself without a job !!
Ayman Nour opened this file in 2008 and brought interesting stuff in our attention which he was in jail. The Sadat clan already hinted from near and far that there was something fishy about Sadat’s assassination.
Right after Mubarak’s step down , I was surprised to find Sakina Sadat , the half sister of President Sadat and famous Egyptian writer saying  that she was banned from attending any meeting with president Mubarak and her brother Essamt “Talaat’s father” was imprisoned because he dared and asked Mubarak 
“how did the president get killed ? You were sitting besides him ?”
Sakina Sadat and the #Jan25 revolution
Essamt El-Sadat was convicted in a some corruption case the Mubarak regime media loved to bring from time time to to defame the Talaat and Mohamed Anwar El Sadat , his sons. Sakina Sadat is a veteran journalist despite her down to earth style like her late president brother , she knows exactly what she is saying , how she is saying it and when she is saying it.
In 2009 Jihan Sadat said in Al Masry Al Youm’s interview that the she believed those who assassinated Sadat were a tool in a hand of unknown party and she did not speak for fear on her son’s life.
After the revolution of January 25th the first reaction of Jihan Sadat after the revolution shows that she really liked the Mubaraks !!
Jihan Sadat speaks in Cairo Today
The former first lady exploded in laughter in a very womanly way when Amr Adeeb reminded her that all the world knows that Suzanne Mubarak hated her !! It was not a secret that Suzanne Mubarak did not like her especially Jihan Sadat is widely known and respected abroad than her. She wondered then from where all these billion came in dismay.
From two weeks ago Egyptians were surprised by a clear accusation from Rakia Sadat to Hosni Mubarak of being behind her dad’s assassination. She even reported the matter to the general prosecutor and he will start investigating the matter this week.Of course you can expect the media frenzy following the matter , people began to speak and questions began to be asked about the incident that brought Mubarak to the chair. She went today to testify in front of the general prosecutor.
During Amr El-Lathy’s show Mrs. Rakia revealed that she saw Khaled Islambouli alive in Mecca in 1996 at Ajyad hotel to be precise. According to what we have been told and declared Khaled was executed on April 15,1982 in a military camp by a firing squad. Rakia Al Sadat is not crazy or looking for any publicity from any kind , yes she could have seen someone looking similar to Islambouli in 1996 especially after all those years but she got a point here : What happened to Khaled !!?
There was not a single photo for him as dead shown in the media where as we have seen the dead body of Anwar Sadat him at the morgue. Some ex-officer from that camp appeared last Thursday to insist that Khaled Islambouli was truly executed , but ironically he did not convince many people with what he said including me , in fact he made me ask several questions because of his hesitation , for example :
He said that the firing squad at military execution had fake and live ammunition , it is a system and no one knows which has which. When the squad fired on Khaled , his head did not move right or left as it is expected from someone being executed. The officers thought he was still alive as he got a very strong body , so the commander of the squad took his gun “full of live ammunition” to shot him in the head.  At the same moment his finger on the trigger , Khaled’s head moved to the right !!! A lot of drama , is not it !!? Well the assassination of Sadat is full of drama !!? Ironically that officer did not tell if Khaled got a blood or not  !!?
Amr El-Lathy : Who killed Anwar Sadat ?
Why I am raising this point , well I heard something interesting from one of the soldiers who were accompanied Khaled Islambouli and Hussein Abbas in handcuffs there during the execution. The soldier did not see the execution as it was behind a hill , he only heard the gun shots but he did not see any body at all. At that time he thought his body would be taken to the vehicle to its pre-burial preparation in another way then the one they came from.
Khaled Islambouli’s body was not given to his family to be buried in their cemetery , it was buried at the unknown charity cemetery like spies and traitors. The thing is that the family of Islambouli did not reject their son on the contrary they took  the same path as his !! 
Aboud El-Zomor in his iconic shot
Of course you end this debate so easily if you tell us where Khaled Islambouli was buried and show us his body , there is a nice DNA test that can make us assure this is Islambouli. I can’t believe that the Egyptian authorities do not where Khaled was buried ,it is an insult to them. When it reaches to this level of accusation then you must act in this way.  I can’t ask myself though that if Islambouli knew who was really behind it, he would be killed to keep it a secret like for example Lee Harvey Oswald.
Then Aboud El-Zomor was released and his interviews mania along with the fact that he did not show any remorse at all for Sadat’s assassination made many people angry , it led many people to remember the assassination and start ask questions. I have always thought that El-Zomor was kept all those years after his sentence jail because he knew what really happened at the podium. One thing I have realized from watching his interviews , the man really knows but he is playing dump !! El-Zomor was a military intelligence officer by the way.
On  the same show that Talaat Sadat accused Abu Ghazla of murdering his uncle in 2006 “Cairo Today” ,  he was back last week speaking about the matter again. He did not accuse Mubarak directly though surprisingly , in fact he defended him !! Still he defended his cousin’s position, brought up the Khaled Islambouli’s body thing and Aboud Zomor’s long time imprisonment !!
Talaat Sadat and the truth behind the assassination of president Sadat
There was nothing new for those who follow that file in what Talaat Sadat said except the big revelation that the bullet that killed Sadat was from behind which means the real killer was in the podium.
The autopsy report of President Sadat was modified and the doctor who made the report was afraid to say the truth. Already God knows that I have heard this before from my late grandfather may Allah bless his soul that the bullet that killed Sadat was from behind. The real killer was not Hussein Abbas nor Islambouli , the killer was from the podium.
Khaled firing at the podium
The killer in the podium theory was enforced more and more now with a viral video showing the podium after the attack when there was chaos and president Sadat allegedly alive trying to push the chairs over him. The video is showing VP Mubarak then throwing chair over Sadat as he wanted him to die. The video’s quality is more than terrible , I do not know if we can enhance it.
The video accuses then MJ. Ahmed Hatata of killing the president by spraying nerve gas from his watch to the face of the late president to make sure that he was finished. It also claims that former PM Mamdouh Salam helped Mubarak to escape to the presidential Cadillac car with the help of foreign men !! They do not look foreign to me.
The fact that Mubarak did not get a scratch , sorry got some injury in his finger raised many eye brows in Egypt then. Of course Egyptians made jokes about it that he got that finger injury while he was referring to Sadat besides him .
The video is by far very interesting.
FYI  :
  • All those who responsible of the security of the podium and President Sadat were promoted after this attack !!
  • The security forces knew that there were plans against Sadat and saw videos showing the Islamic Jihad wanted to kill him but did technically nothing.
  • It was very unorganized military parade , aside of the assassination it was by far the worse many army vehicles and motorcycle broke down so when the Islambouli’s truck broke down nobody suspected anything !!
  • The security vehicles on the right an left of the podium responsible for the president’s security suddenly disappeared !!
  • What Islambouli allegedly said to Mubarak : We do not want you , we want him !!
This is just the start.
Not only the Sadats or most of the Sadats believe that President Sadat was killed in a big conspiracy but they have found unlike ally in leftist politician Abu El-Ezz Hariri who was being imprisoned during the Sadat era !! Former MP and famous politician spoke about the assassination and its surrounding based on Joseph Trento’s book “Prelude to terror”. We mentioned this very interesting book before when we spoke about Hussein Salem. Oh yes all ways go back to Hussein Salem , Mubarak and Abu Ghazla along with their small partnership of Les ailes blanches , in fact Edwin Wilson was also there as well !!
Sadat, Abu Ghazla and Mubarak 
Rakia Sadat’s attorney Dr. Samri Sabry built his case upon what Hariri says and what came in Trento’s book. Abu El-Ezz El-Hariri , Talaat and Rakia Sadat believe that the States and Israel among those involved in the assassination.
All those responsible for the security in time of Sadat especially the security of the podium are sticking to the official story , there is no doubt that they are trying to defend themselves. Nobody thought the file would be opened in this way and they would be considered as accomplice. Yesterday Al Ahram published an interview with one of the Sadat’s bodyguards sticking to the official story.
Tomorrow Gamal Sadat , the son of President Sadat is going to speak about the matter at Mona El-Shazly’s show , I would expect him that he will deny the allegations despite the fact it seems all the Sadat clan seemed to be supporting Rakia and Talaat Sadat. Update : Al Masry Al Youm Arabic has just published an interview with him , he believes that his father was a victim of a big conspiracy and mentioned some of the points above that raise questions with no doubt. He did not accuse anyone and he believes that the fatal shots came from outside the podium not from inside.
Rakia testified today in front of the general prosecutor by the way and Anis Mansour as usual turned against Mubarak “it took a longer time than with Sadat” and said that former minister of interior Nabawy Ismail said that Mubarak was responsible of the podium’s security.
Probably you wonder now why Mubarak would be behind the assassination and why many Egyptians start to believe that there was something fishy in the Sadat’s , well this needs another separate post.

Good Late News From AFC

The AFC has just posted its 30th MSG in its FB Page and it is very promising. The AFC has decided to revise the trial of Egyptian artist Amr Eissa whom I mentioned in my post yesterday.

I hope that the 31st MSG from AFC on its FB says that the council will revise Amr El-Behairy’s trial. I hope that 32nd MSG from AFC will apologize from what happened at Cairo university , I hope that 33rd MSG from AFC will address what happened exactly for our women protesters in detention with an apology and clear statement on why it happened like that.

I do not ask much.

Syrian Revolution : Farouk El-Shara’a is fine and free but Latakia is not fine nor free !! “Graphic”

Syrian VP and famous former foreign minister Farouk El-Shara’a appeared today in Damascus to tell the Syrians and the world indirectly that he is fine and still Al Baath and Al Assad faithful man. Yesterday there was a powerful rumor in Syrian and outside that was confirmed by the famous Angry Arab. Farouk El-Shara’a is from Daraa.
Radwan
El-Shara’a said that the Syrian president is going to address the Syrian people soon either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or Thursday !! El-Shara’a reminds me with Amr Moussa.
The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs and also the U.S State department are following the case of Mohamed Radwan. His father is already in Damascus and he is trying to get any update about his son. You can follow more updates about Mohamed Radwan through his brother’s twitter account Tarek Radwan. The news talk shows have covered the case of Radwan airing interviews with his mother and his cousin Tarek Shalaby. The family swears that Radwan is not a spy , he has never been to Israel.
Based on what we learned from the Arab revolutions and also based on the intelligence mindset of the Baath regime , any foreign with a mobile phone or a camera will be arrested. Two Reuters journalists were detained already in Syria and have been released already.
The regime is trying to control the cities of Daraa and Latakia in vain as more people are being killed injured every day in both cities and other cities across Syria. The more blood spelled on the hands of the Bashar Al Assad , the faster it will go down. There is no doubt that the Syrians just like the Libyans have endured a lot and lot with Al Assad and his regime whether the father or the son. The protests have continued in Daraa and Latakia on Monday.
The protests of Latakia on Monday March 28th
Here is video clip form Latakia on March 28th ,2011 showing protesters being shot in the streets. “Extremely graphic”
A martyr from Latakia
The video below is from Latakia also on March 26th showing the injured.
The injured in Latakia protests
The Syrian regime is trying to make the clashes between protesters and security forces as sectarian. Officially 15 were killed in the past few days and 185 were injured, unofficially these numbers can be doubled. The Syrian official media claims that most of those who were killed and injured are from security forces !!
An injured citizen in Latakia "AP"
The Syrian people are reporting that all protests are peaceful but those who are attacking protesters and properties are the regime's thugs. "Sounds familiar !!"
Here is another graphic video clip from Daraa on March 27th ,2011 showing a protester shot down and killed at the ancient Omari Mosque , you can hear the sounds of live ammunition used.
A martyr video at Omari mosque on March 27th
Another video from Daraa but this time from March 25th, 2011 showing protesters shot down , killed and injured in the streets of the city by the security forces.
The massacre of Daraa
The people of Daraa were screaming : Those who kill their people are traitors.
Here is a comprehensive list of the Syrian detainees in Arabic
Now this is a plea to my dear Syrian brothers and sisters : Do not believe those two men.
These men already should prosecuted for the crimes they have committed against the Syrian people in front of ICC.
Rifaat Al Assad and Abdel Halim Khaddam

Abdel Halim Khaddam is accused by the regime of igniting the revolution which is completely untrue and I think the regime is trying to use reverse psychology to make the people hate the revolution because of him.From his side Khaddam claims that he supports the revolution , he is trying to get in to the wagon.
Rifaat Al Assad is a bloody war criminal who should be hanged in a public square for what he had done only in Hama !!
This video below can’t be ignored despite it was filmed in 2008 , it was filmed during the infamous Sadinaya prison massacre at the city of Sadinaya.
Sadinaya prison massacre-2008
Maher Al Assad , the notorious brother of Bashar Al Assad appears for a moment.
It is never too late to share these scenes no one ever imagined except the dreamers like me.
At the officers club in Homs
From two days ago the regime accused the protesters of being an armed militia that attacked and vandalized the club !! A civilian was reportedly killed in the city of Homs.
The people of Daraa have cleaned their city from the ugly statue of Hafez Al Assad
The fall of false idol at Daraa
Tomorrow the Baath party and regime will organize a rally throughout the country to support Bashar Al Assad.
The Syrian opposition groups are organizing next Friday April 1st the Martyrs Friday calling the Syrians to have an open strike.