Addiction

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Addiction, arguments, cure, demonstrations, Egyptians, excitement, placid, violence

Over the past three years the Egyptian people have become addicted to quite a few traits that never seemed to register before the revolution of 25 January 2012. Before that date Egyptians were thought of as being placid, fatalistic people, reconciled to their fate, accepting every adversity as part of Gods will. The change in the Egyptian character after January 2011 is really significant. The peace loving, rather laid back traits of the patient people who work in agriculture, what are called, the valley people, suddenly evaporated. Like an easy going half asleep giant suddenly opening his eyes and waking up.
The first addiction was that of demonstrating. Before that only a very, very few used to demonstrate in protest against the government or against anything. The only time that happened was when the Mahala workers rioted against conditions in the spinning and weaving industry, a few years before. But generally all was quiet, but for a new fledgling movement, Kefaya. Still the demonstrators were usually just a few dozen. After January 2011 that changed completely. It looked like the people got infected by a very fast moving virus. The virus of dissent. Of revolt. Of getting together as one man and taking to the streets and shouting their anger and rejection of certain conditions at the top of their voices. Going on marches, getting together with other like-minded people that they didn’t know and going to squares and sitting-in seemed to take over the Egyptian imagination and a fire was lit in the Egyptian soul.
This was seen as a very effective means to reach the goals set by those demonstrating. So this continued into the rule by SCAF then with better reasons during the rule by Morsi and the Brotherhood, and is now continuing as an unbreakable habit. One of those early demonstrators wrote something on his account on twitter just yesterday, that was very indicative. He is now all for demonstrating against the law regulating demonstrations. He wrote, in essence,that even if the best President was elected, if the most fantastic Constitution was written, if the most efficient government took office, he would still demonstrate against the law regulating demonstrations. The young man is manifesting a trait that has now become prevalent among the youth, that of the addiction to demonstrating.
Another addiction suffered by Egyptians is, the high derived from a swift pace of changing and drastic events taking place all the time. Most people have set up one system or another of being immediately notified by SMS or e-mail of any breaking news. This addiction is even more difficult to break, and its withdrawal symptoms are quite violent. A nervous tension, accompanied by impatience and sometimes violent outbursts of temper. Addiction to the high of excitement has taken hold of the once placid, easy going people, who had the patience of Job. Now, if there is a lull in events, or a quiet period, we are nervous and become suspicious and angry that things are happening but no one is telling us about them!
A third addiction is one of political analysis. Now when you have two people arguing, you have three political experts. Every person in Egypt now has his own theories, his own assessments and his own predictions. Needless to say, not a lot of those agree. So arguments and a great deal of pontification takes place on talk shows and in any social gathering.
A fourth and rather sad addiction is one that had been totally alien to the Egyptian character. Violence. Some of the young people, and even some of the not so young, have now found a great satisfaction in violence. Those who do not act out the violence, usually speak it out. The extent of vitriolic speeches is horrendous. The number of court cases for liable are legion. But worse still is the acts of violence. Stone throwing has become practically a must with every demonstration or march. But more than that, and especially with those who belong to the MB, their supporters and those hired by them, the use of arson and weapons has become the norm. If it is not a club, it is a knife or even a sword, and then escalating to all types of guns and rifles, up to automatic weapons, finally reaching hand grenades and even rocket propelled grenades. This addiction to violence is really very frightening, because violence breeds violence. Although up till now the official forces have not retaliated in kind, I don’t know how long that will continue. Worse still is the fact that it is the people now who are retaliating in kind against the MB and their supporters.
A final kind of addiction, and maybe as a result of all the previous ones, is an addiction to jokes and having fun. Even if the jokes have a somewhat cruel edge to them and the ensuing laughter a note of hysteria, yet this is another addiction that we are holding to very tightly, like a saving raft in a stormy sea.
All these addictions are making life rather difficult in Egypt now, but I am hoping that with a little bit of firmness on the part of the executive branch in the application of the law, people will start getting licked into shape and taking care not to break the law. It will take some time, and probably a few stiff sentences, then people will sit up and take notice that now they will be accountable for their actions. Starting today a much stricter application of traffic laws is going to take place, hopefully this will lick us all into abiding by the rules. Once traffic is under control, the habit of abiding by the law will slowly start seeping back into our daily lives, and hopefully we’ll get back to a normal rhythm with mostly law abiding citizens. We have some tough times ahead, but at least we are starting on the right path to detox our Egyptian spirit and cure it from its debilitating addictions.

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A Country at War

الوسوم

Cabinet Directives, demonstrations, Egypt, hope, MB, political relations, Sinai, sovereignty, Turkish Ambassador, USA

Finally we are seeing the Cabinet catch up with what General Al Sisy had announced a few days ago, that Egypt now is in a state of war, and that all entities of the government will act accordingly.
The first indication was the cabinet issuing several directives, one of which was that any foreigner entering Egypt and carrying out a terrorist act, will be pursued, even if outside Egypt. In other words, if terrorists from Gaza come into Egypt for terrorist acts then run back home, they will be followed there and brought back to justice. A long overdue decision.
Another directive was to review all naturalizations and pardons issued during Morsi’s rule. One of his first acts in office was to issue Presidential pardons to all convicted terrorists of Hamas or The Brotherhood, and even to some hardened criminals who were his cell mates when he was imprisoned. These pardons will be reviewed, and already some have been revoked and warrants for their arrest issued. Especially as most of them have been active in terrorist activities since the removal of Morsi. Another decision was to review all those who were naturalized and were given the Egyptian nationality especially to Palestinians who were planned to settle in Sinai and own land there. This was part of the Brotherhood’s larger plan for Sinai. According to some of the leaked documents pertaining to one of the court cases against Morsi he was planning to repatriate the Gaza residents into Sinai as per an agreement with the US whereby it paid 8 billion dollars for North Sinai for this purpose. The naturalization was systematic so that these people would come and settle naturally into North Sinai and would then eventually be given title deeds to the land.
Another directive was to permit the police to go into university campuses without awaiting orders from a judge, and this in cases where teaching is deliberately disrupted by disgruntled students, or if vandalism is taking place. This was a sensitive issue for some time, but now, no nonsense is tolerated and like in any normal country the police goes in when needed.
Yet another decision taken was the setting aside of special fast circuits for the legal cases trying terrorist cases. This means that terrorist cases will not have to go into the highly overloaded roster of the Egyptian courts and which then might take years to be reviewed. When being assigned to special fast circuits, this means that they will still be tried according to normal rules, but that the cases would be tried faster.
Then we had the President sign the law regulating demonstrations. This has shaken up all strata of society. But at least it started waking people up.
Another decision was taken by the Elections Committee. This decision was in stopping the 6th April organization from monitoring the referendum on the Constitution. Other NGO’s have also been banned, mainly those that were set up by the Brotherhood to influence voting for Parliament and the Presidency. This is an excellent step in the right direction, an attempt at controlling fraud that was prevalent in the previous elections.
Finally there was the decision to reduce political representation with Turkey once it was proven that Turkey had sent some agents to assist the Brotherhood in terrorist acts of bombing within Egypt.
At the first attempt to test the new law regulating demonstrations, it was feared that the government would crumble, but they gave us a pleasant surprise and came out with a firm statement that the law is the law and will be applied. There were requests for the amendment of this law, but in a brief statement by the President, this was categorically denied. The law stays as is, and will be applied.
Last but not least, a statement by the Prime Minister addressing the American President, that if his ambassador does not toe the diplomatic line he will be the one to follow the Turkish Ambassador.
Long live Egypt!
Finally, we are back to being a sovereign country that deals with the World from a position of strength, that does not brook interference by others in our internal affairs, and that is independent enough to draw its policy to its own benefit. This is especially welcome in light of all the International Muslim Brotherhood Organization’s plans to set up a parallel government in exile in Paris. Also their attempts to take Egypt to the International court and try it in the persons of the interim President Judge Adly Mansour, Prime Minister Dr. Hazem Al Biblawy and Minister of Defense General Abdel Fattah Al Sisy. I am hoping that we continue in our trend of getting back our country by being proactive instead of reactive and we take the fight into their yard. We have already started a page on FB where we want to compile all atrocities and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt at the instigation and through the monetary and technical support of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. Once this is done we want the government to take this evidence to the International Court and declare this organization a terrorist organization.
The first rays of real hope are breaking through the very thick black clouds that have been enveloping Egypt for the past three years. Hope is lifting its head and a vey cautious breath is being drawn for a better future and a slight improvement of the present. It will not be a continuous course, it will suffer setbacks, but once we have a confident, firm government at the helm, problems can be tackled head on and we can hope for a better future. Soon.
God bless my beloved Egypt.

A Controversial Law – Demonstrations

الوسوم

application, checks and balances, controversial, demonstrations, Egypt, Government, MB, Oppression, police force, Rule of law

It looks like we are now in a state where we are just looking for something to split us up and over which we can fight. Has Morsi and his terrorist organization succeeded so well? Are we now so enamored of the idea of taking to the street, shouting slogans and even fighting and dying for something we have not thought through? To my way of thinking that is exactly what is happening with this newly ratified law regulating demonstrations
This ill-fated law came into being as an embryonic idea by the MB during Morsi’s rule. The idea was to curb demonstrations and lessen the effect of the opposition. It was mainly a tool of oppression in the hands of a terrorist organization that had a dedicated curbing machine in the police force.
This problem is so compounded, it is mind boggling. So many factors go into it, it will take a lot of effort, thought and education, ON ALL SIDES, to unravel this knot. Or it should be cut by one clean sharp blade. Let me explain.
The elements of the problem are legion. First is the perception of this law as being one initiated by the MB for oppression purposes. This has already settled into the subconscious of the people. Eradicating it needs education and proper, widespread education of the meaning of the law, its philosophy and it also needs CHCKS AND BALANCES in the application.
The wording of the law must be very accurate, it should specify that demonstrations are to take place through advising the authorities, and not through asking permission by the authorities. The irony is that the new Constitution specifies the former, whereas the interpretation of the police authority tends towards the latter meaning. All activists rose in protest at what they perceived as a curbing of their hard earned right to protest, and the behavior of the police in dispersing last night’s demonstrators, compounded the problem.
More seriously is now the splitting of the people in two camps. Those who have reached their boiling point against the hooliganism of a large part of the demonstrators and would like to see all demonstrations dealt with very harshly, ACCORDING TO THE LAW; and those who see this as an attempt to legalize oppression through a new/old regime, with the same tool of the old police force with its oppressive, violent mentality.
There are elements of truth in every point of view, and to bring these closer to a unified view is going to take some very clever mental footwork. Unfortunately the government and its leader do not seem to have this ability. They are in a position where they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. They want to apply the law, but they saw what a disaster the first attempt at this application was. They want to mitigate the effects of this disaster, but in doing so are accused of not applying the law. On one side they have the demonstrators accusing them of turning into another Mubarak oppressive regime, on another side the majority of the people sick of all the chaos and insecurity of the past three years want all demonstraters to be dealt with very strictly by the law, and finally those who look to the principles of things, divorced from application on the ground, protest the law in principle.
Which faction of those three will prevail, is a toss-up. I don’t think any one faction will. They are all losing, and so is Egypt. By being split over this one law, by being unable to discuss, explain and even tailor the application to every given situation, we are all tearing our beloved Egypt apart. If the government was stronger, more assertive, it could have come out and clearly stated that the law is the law and will be applied. That some mistakes were made in its application by a police force that has not yet been re-trained. That said mistakes will be taken into consideration when applying the letter of the law to those already arrested. This way they show that they uphold the law, but are aware of the shortcomings in its application, and are dealing fairly with those arrested, without breaking the law.
Although this is exactly what happened, it is unfortunate that it was not clearly explained to the people in general. So the demonstraters now see that they were right as they are being released one by one. They do not understand that they broke the law, but are being released because the police applied the law incorrectly. The people in general are very loud in their condemnation of the government in breaking its own laws, not seeing that a really higher form of justice is being served when a law is wrongly applied then it is justice not to apply it. Finally the few members of the Committee of fifty have frozen their participation in protest of this application, which has brought the wrath of the people on their heads because most do not see that a law, misapplied is even more unjust than actually breaking said law.
To unravel all that needs a great deal of firmness, clarity, and education. The Minister of Interior must publicly acknowledge the mishandling of the police, the PM must give a firm and assertive statement about the rule of law, and why in this case it was tempered by justice, and the media should ensure that these two statements are interpreted correctly. If this did not happen, the the only thing that would save the situation from spiraling into complete chaos is a sharp, clean cut, which would be totally dictatorial and might really return us to a dictatorial oppressive state.
There are no easy answers, but if people are sincere in their love for Egypt, then it is about time we started using our brains more than our feelings. We should break the habit of taking to the streets at the drop of a pin, we should use words and not fists in getting our point of view across.
God save my beloved Egypt.

The Game of Nations Part 2

الوسوم

American Administration, armaments deal, demonstrations, Egypt, Iran, Russia, sphere of influence, Turkey, UUA

After the unprecedented numbers of Egyptians taking to the streets on June 30 , 2012, protesting against Morsi and asking him to step down and asking for early presidential elections, world media went overboard with their initial coverage. Even CNN called it a Guinness World Record for the number of people coming out in political protest. But it was not long before the American Administration and the MB scrambled to contain the effect and to begin putting a different spin on it. The stance decided upon between the American Administration and the MB was one of labeling it a military coup d’état and waving the stick of sanctions and stopping American military aid. All media outlets were given this official view, and all reported it religiously and with enthusiasm. Except for Fox News that stuck to its guns and kept reporting things as they really were on the ground in Egypt.
Where America goes, so follows Europe. This was the case. The sphere of influence was widening and all opinions were getting more and more negative about the new state in Egypt. Not only was public opinion mobilized against the fledgling Egyptian administration, but active steps were taken to disrupt the actual formation of an interim government. Al Nour the Salafi Part was the instrument used to try to stop the formation of the government with every means possible. So outside pressure and internal pressure were at their highest point. Yet the government was formed and a committee of ten constitutional experts set up to try to amend the 2012 (MB) Constitution as per the road map outlined by Al Sisy after Morsi’s removal and the swearing in of an interim president, the Head of the Supreme Court, Judge Adly Mansour.
From that date on the games were at their fiercest. The American Administration with all its weight, pressured countries all over the world to its point of view of what was happening in Egypt as a coup. The MB also played a very strong role in this instance. Their practically unlimited funds and their loyal people strategically placed, were utilized to the utmost. Qatar and Turkey, as well as Israel, of course, were all part of the front attacking Egypt at every turn. Not only did we have to contend with fifth columnists within Egypt, but we had the whole world coming down on our heads.
The government was trying to hold its own both internally and externally, while being constantly stabbed in the back by sleepers within it, or through outright violent acts by members of the MB and their terrorist allies like Hamas. Also the funds being dispersed to carry out such terrorist acts were being funneled though both Qatar and Turkey. The fight on our hands was very intense.
It is during those days that Al Sisy’s true metal became apparent. With all the noise made by the world that what had taken place was a coup by the military, he again stepped forward and asked the people, directly, for support and a mandate to fight future terrorism. He asked for this mandate in the form of the people again taking to the streets, in a couple of days. His PR group then set it up for all foreign news correspondents in Egypt to be taken up in army helicopters and given a tour of the country when nearly half the population of 85 million were out on the streets. Not only did these correspondents film the demonstrations, they were filmed by the army’s PR group while filming the demonstrations.
To counteract this very obvious popular response by the people to Al Sisy’s request, the MB took out a paid ad in a well known – half Qatari owned – newspaper, saying that these were demonstrations for the return of Morsi! Also the same was done with France 24 television channel – bought time. To anyone who is paying attention or following closely what was happening, this would have seemed ludicrous, but unfortunately a great many people take the news they are fed at face value, without question or thought.
Another effect that the popular surge of July 26 accomplished, was the total shock it left Israel in. That one man, by just a simple request can, within forty eight hours, mobilize half the population of Egypt, was a very rude awakening indeed. The fact that the people rose so promptly in response to the call of duty for Egypt, forced the Israelis as well as the Americans to pause, think and re-assess all the players on the field. Al Sisy was put under a microscope and everything about him that they knew of was investigated and analyzed. Even down to a paper he wrote while going through military training in the States. There was an attempt to put a spin on it that he was really an MB sleeper. But that, in the light of his actual actions, did not really make sense.
By that time America’s name was mud on the streets of Egypt and slogans against its president and its ambassador to Egypt showed a great deal of animosity. While this was happening, another element was introduced into the scene. Russia. While Obama’s picture was reviled and described as a supporter of the MB terrorists, Putin’s picture was put up along with Nasser’s as symbols of heroic freedom fighters. This again should have given pause to the American administration, but with the continuous drumming of the international MB organization, through their people strategically placed within the White House, the American foreign policy stuck to the same line.
Despite this adherence to a policy that was quickly starting to integrate because of the very obvious terrorist acts perpetrated by the MB within Sinai and in several urban spots in Egypt, yet a very slight split within the Obama Administration started appearing. A split between the White House and the President’s Security Advisor Susan Rice on the one hand, and the State Department, headed by John Kerry, and the Pentagon, on the other hand. This would later become more obvious and would reach unprecedented clashing statements by both entities.
In the meantime the world situation was slowly turning in favor of the change that took place in Egypt on June 30. The behavior of the MB was beginning to turn the people away from them in disgust. Their obvious lack of respect for human life and their flagrant utilization of women and children as dispensable “cannon fodder”, turned many an advocate for human rights and the “democratically elected President” against them in disgust. People the world over started listening to all the Egyptians in Egypt who were telling a totally different story of what these barbarians were really doing.
In the meantime Russia started moving towards a closer relationship with Egypt. Not only did Putin categorically refused to have the ‘Islamic influence’ infiltrate Russian society, he came out and said it very plainly in a speech to the Duma, which was highly publicized on social media, and very welcomed by all. Also secret negotiations were rumored to have begun about armament deals. While the US was ‘temporarily’ suspending its military aid to Egypt, the kingdoms of Arabia and the Gulf came out in full support of Egypt and its interim government. The first to openly give support was The King of Jordan who personally came for a lightning visit to show public support. Though the mighty PR machine of the MB tried to turn it into a negative, it did not work, the Egyptians were now more aware of these lies and were questioning a great deal of what was being said, even the sources of a lot of information were now being investigated and questioned.
While this was happening, a very brief announcement made by Al Sisy that the US was advised that from now onwards it will have to give a 14 day advance notice before any of its ships pass through the Suez Canal. This meant no preferential treatment for rights of passage. All these are the moves of the games played by nations. Their sphere of influence and what advantages they could get for themselves, politically and economically.
While this was going on in Egypt, the Syrian crisis was coming to a head, with the poison gas allegedly used by the Assad forces on his own people. Though the US tried to make a case of it within the UN and through world public opinion, again the interference of Russia put a stop to American threats, and the whole tempest in a teacup fizzled out.
Egyptian Russian relations were getting closer and finally it was announced that a 2 on 2 visit was to take place. This expression was explained to mean a very high delegation indeed headed by the two most important Ministers in both countries to meet together. These being the Ministers of Defense and of Foreign Affairs. The two Russian Ministers came on their announced high profile visit to Egypt in mid November. The result was talk of arms deals running in the billions.
Immediately after that visit came a lightning visit by John Kerry to Egypt, after which on the 18th November 2013 while addressing the State Departments’ Overseas Security Advisory Council he stated that the Egyptian revolution of 2011 started by tech-savvy young people with no ideological aims was “stolen” by Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood who behaved autocratically after winning parliamentary and presidential elections.
Needless to say that this is scrambling by a professional diplomat to contain the damage caused by the Administration’s previous handling of the situation. Yet the White House and its Advisors seem to be still in opposition. It is interesting to watch this situation unfold and raises questions about the old game of “good cop/bad cop” being played by the US.
On the other hand, while many an Egyptian would like to see a closer relationship with Russia take root and cement, a balancing note, and a very pragmatic outlook is given by Al Sisy’s remarks that a nation’s relations with other nations are not built on changing situations.
So while there seems to be a renewed attention to Egypt’s position in the world, and an attempt by the different spheres of influence to attract Egypt to one camp or the other, it looks like we are now holding our own, with a balanced view of the world at large. An indication of Egypt’s return to its previous world standing is the fact that it was an Egyptian that was voted as the Head of UNESCO’s Executive Board.
Since writing this article, more development in this situation. An “agreement” was reached in talks between six countries headed by Iran and the US whereby Iran halts its nuclear enrichment process for the easing of sanctions against it. This will change the balance in the Middle East and will marginalize Turkey’s role in the region. Also relations between Turkey and Egypt have reached an all time low where Egypt recalled its Ambassador and declared Turkey’s Ambassador “persona non grata”.
Awaiting with bated breath for further developments and what the next moves of the game will be.

The Game of Nations Part 1

الوسوم

Abdel Fattah Al Sisy., Egyptian people, Iraq, Muslim Brotherhood, New World Order, SCAF, the Arab Spring, US ally

Interesting times we live in. The games nations play remind me of those that are played in microcosm by humans. Unfortunately, when it is nations that are playing, the destiny of so many people is in the balance, I wonder at the temerity of those playing the games.
To my way of thinking the beginning of all the “Arab Spring” was a few years back when the economy of the US started spiraling downwards. Something drastic had to be done to balance this. So with a few think tanks, a few “visionaries”, economists, strategists and dreamers, they came up with the idea of a “New World Order”. How to achieve that took a bit longer and the actual implementation started with the demolition of Iraq. The invasion “to establish democracy” ended up by achieving exactly what was planned from the very beginning, a failed state in Iraq. OK, one done, two to go. With three strong armies in the region, the plan was to take them down. The armies of Iraq, Syria and Egypt. With Iraq down there were just Syria and Egypt left. It was easy to get Syria into trouble. A fairly controllable number, where population is concerned, and many different factions that made it easy to start a split and a fragmentation of the whole. With an unpopular leader at the helm, it was easy to start a “revolution” to get rid of the dictator. So they started applying the 4th generation war of imploding the state. This was not enough though, the army was very strong, and even though the “rebels” were provided with the latest equipment, still the Syrian army had supremacy. So drastic measures had to be taken and Al Qaeda was called in.
Egypt was another kettle of fish. The plans for Egypt had been brewing for quite some time, and the alliances worked on and cemented over the years. It was decided that the only way to subdue Egypt was to have the very strongly organized and extremely well heeled Islamic fundamentalist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, rule Egypt. This organization, with its headquarters for the International office in London, managed to convince the over-eager American decision makers that they were the right group which can run Egypt and control it with an iron fist.
So the “Arab Spring” touched Egypt on 25 January 2011. Mubarak who had been in power for 30 years was easily removed after a “popular uprising” by the galant youth. Euphoria was the reaction, and many a vicious and criminal act were swept under the carpet of the newly gained freedom. Even older veterans who should have known better, were swept away on a high wave of patriotism.
The Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) was named by Mubarak to run the country after his removal. Big question mark. How could a deposed leader name his successor, when the constitution had succession clearly defined, till another president is elected? But these questions were drowned in the clashing cymbals of victory. SCAF was made up of a few tired old men who had not seen war in 30 years and who had become fat cats on their own through setting up many an industrial and agricultural enterprise, and by lining their pockets very generously, both from the income of said enterprises, as well as the annual American military aid. All these men wanted was to retire with full honors and keep all their businesses intact. So when suddenly they were in the limelight and had to step up and take over, they panicked and turned to the one entity they thought could help out in “controlling” the masses.
The Brotherhood, on its part, to prove to those in power that they are an entity to be reckoned with, and to prove to the Americans that they were a worthy partner, put their plans into overdrive. From the very early days of the revolution, they contacted their counterpart in Gaza, Hamas. They facilitated Hamas’ entry into Egypt and they started the terrorizing of the people. First they broke into the prisons where the Hamas and Brotherhood members were held, let them out, and partially demolished the prisons, threatening the rest of the prisoners with death if they did not take off. At the same time all main police stations were attacked and the officers and personnel in these stations killed, their weapons stolen. Chaos ruled. The American plan was working. But the Egyptian people did something that gave all other parties pause. Automatically, without any leadership or coordination, but through word of mouth, then through FB, Egyptians organized themselves into civil home watch groups, each entity responsible for the buildings on one street. They took shifts, and carried out their duties religiously. After the first flurry of looting, while the police stations were being attacked, crime went down drastically with the home watch groups in place. This was the first hint that should have given America pause for thought. But they were so happy with the success of their plans, the Brotherhood was doing an excellent job in demolishing the police once and for all, and the doddering old men were in their pockets. All looked well with the world. In due course they acknowledged the “glorious revolution” heaped accolades on the heads of the youth of Egypt who should be taken as shining examples of peaceful freedom fighters, and the rest of the plan was being implemented. With the Brotherhood in an uneasy alliance with the army, the roadmap leading to the ascendancy of the Brotherhood to the throne of Egypt was being executed, step by step.
What came next is history. Morsi took over through a huge operation of fraud and intimidation, and the Brotherhood showed its true colors as an international terrorist organization that had Egypt by the throat. The people started revolting again to get rid of a worse dictator than ever Mubarak was, because this one was bringing in foreign, armed elements to subdue the people. The army was neutralized by removing all those doddering old men and by bringing in new blood in the person of Abdel Fattah Al Sisy.
In April 2012 a little known group of Egyptian youth started a peaceful movement called Tamarod or Rebel. Very little attention was given to it. But when it started firing the imagination of ordinary Egyptians who had become totally disillusioned by the Brotherhood and its methods, some in the Brotherhood started taking notice. The usual thuggery was practiced at first, several volunteers were beaten, offices looted and burned, but the Tamarod movement had taken such a hold of the Egyptian people’s imagination as their only salvation, that the people, again, for the second time, without coordination or leadership, formed themselves into voluntary protective groups to the Tamarod movement, its workers and its offices. This should have been the second thing that should have given America pause for thought and re-assessment. But no, they were still reassured by the Brotherhood that they had full control of Egypt and the Egyptians.
The full shock to the world at large, and America and the Brotherhood in particular came on June 28 when Tamarod announced the number of petitions signed by the people asking for the deposition of Morsi. Over twenty two million Egyptians had signed. Shock on the part of the Brotherhood, who just denied this and accused them of fraud. But when a call went out to the people to take to the streets on a June 30, the one year anniversary of Morsi’s becoming President, things started to look more serious.
Up to April the people were not sure where Al Sisy’s sympathies lay. The Egyptian people felt that they were on their own. If they wanted to get rid of that gang that took over Egypt, they would have to do it on their own. An unarmed, peaceful people, taking on a fully armed terrorist organization, who probably had the army on its side as well. These were very, very dark days for most Egyptians. Depression, gloom and worry were at their most intense, but so was the determination to do something about it.
Some time in April, Al Sisy took the opportunity of the graduation of a military class and gave a speech that was televised. I had not seen it that day, like most people I did not think that anything interesting would be said. But by next day it went viral. The man just stood there, very low profile, in a calm low voice, got the message through to the people that the army had their back. Like many others, when I heard this I broke down and cried. We were not alone. Now we really had a chance in fighting those terrorists.
When on June 30 millions of people took to the streets, America and the Brotherhood started scrambling to put a lid on the situation. But then Al Sisy stepped in to tell Morsi that the situation was serious indeed and that he either steps down of his own accord, or calls for early presidential elections. That the people were on the rampage and nothing short of that would satisfy them.
It is here that the game of nations begins in earnest.
To be continued.

Sexual Harassment and Abuse

الوسوم

crime of violence, Education, entitlement, legislation, political weapon, sexual harassment, upbringing

Until this is understood to be a crime of violence, dealing with it will be useless. This is not a crime of passion, or even of lust, it is not a sexual crime, it is not a moral problem, it is a problem of upbringing, of circumstance. To think that this can be cured by preaching or teaching morality is so off course it is ludicrous. It is like trying to teach a murderer the error of his ways by telling him to pray. OK, he can pray for forgiveness, but prayer did not stop him from murder. With sexual harassment the motivation is mostly because they could. It is opportunity, it is a strong feeling of entitlement, the degrading light in which women are portrayed, and just the sheer confidence that he can get away with it.
Part of the problem is the penal code that does not recognize this as a crime of violence. Not only is there no definition of harassment, the only mention is of rape. If the act is not complete, then the perpetrator can get away with it completely. The law does not recognize harassment.
The best way to combat sexual harassment is to focus on the law. The law must be changed to ensure that this act is considered a crime and not just an act of high spirits that should be just frowned upon. It should be very clearly defined as a CRIME that deserves PUNISHMENT. To ensure this happens, all elements in society must unite in pressuring the new Parliament for proper legislation.
There are many differing opinions as to why such a phenomenon is raging throughout Egypt now, and as to how to combat it. I am no sociologist, but common sense tells you that there must be something drastically wrong for such a phenomenon to develop and accelerate to such proportions in a relatively short period of time. From my personal observations as a layman, I would say that a combination of socio-economic factors lay at the root of this problem. It is not a psychological aberration, it is just a manifestation of certain deprivations that have resulted into a tamped down smoldering anger that reaches a flaring point and manifests itself in violence against a perceived weaker adversary.
A young man, brought up in a humble household, where there is very little to go around, yet with the prevailing male dominated culture, is given preferential treatment over the females of the household, grows with the belief in his entitlement at the expense of any female. When he sees that his every whim is catered to by the females in the household, this then becomes the normal world. Then when he is met with frustration in achieving his economic dreams, his frustration turns to anger and the natural outlet for this anger is the one he was brought up to think of as normal, the subservient, second class human being, the female. To me that is why when a man is caught red handed in the act of harassing a female on the streets, the general reaction is apathy. The worst part of the problem is the female role in bringing about this situation, it is the already defeated mother at home who gives her son that feeling of entitlement, and her daughter the feeling of subservience. When these women are educated in self worth, this problem will automatically be reduced from the source, which is the home.
Some of the proposed short term solutions for this violence is a shaming system. To shame the perpetrator into stopping, by public humiliation. In one of the countries in the Far East, cannot remember which, a man caught harassing a woman would be tied to a tree for a full day and would be humiliated by all those coming and going. This might be quite effective if it were not turned into a badge of honor and machismo achievement in our currently warped culture. If it is perceived as a humiliating punishment, it might give any potential hassler pause. To my way of thinking, the whole concept of male/female dominant/subservient relationship has to be uprooted and redefined to one of equality of human beings. The effect of the semi ignorant “sheikhs” who take it upon themselves to preach such sick ideas are probably at the root of this evil, as they give it a facade of religious sanctity. Whereas proper religion has preached equality and has given women the rights that are still being sought by women in the west through legislation.
There are now many a group and an organization that have taken up the fight for the rights of hassled or molested women, as well as those of sexually abused children. But from where I stand it looks like uphill work without the proper legislation, and proper education of the individuals of the enforcing police being in place. Once the law is in place which criminalizes sexual harassment, then the individuals on the police force who are called upon to implement that law have to be educated into changing the attitude they were brought up with. Many an enlightened young man has come to see the light, and they became a force to be reckoned with when protecting the female protesters during the huge demonstrations held in Tahrir against the MB. That was when the MB started using sexual harassment and abuse as a political weapon against the people in general. They harassed or raped the women and shamed their men with the fact. But these brave young men formed cordons of human shields to protect the women protesters. This was a defensive action. To combat this phenomena a much more aggressive plan of attack needs to be put in place, with the combined efforts of legislation, education and religion. Only then can we reduce such a plague to the minimum, as with human nature being what it is, this cannot be totally eradicated.

Burning the Flag

الوسوم

4th generation war, betrayal, Bin Laden, brain power, Burn the flag, Egypt, Egyptians, Khairat Al Shater, Mohamed Abu Shakra, Mohamed Mabrouk, Muslim Brotherhood, Presidential spy, USA

I understand you burn your enemy’s flag as a symbol of belittling your enemy and showing contempt, but burning your own country’s flag?
This is what happened in Tahrir Square last night. The MB and their supporters burned Egypt’s flag. I am in deep shock.
Though I shouldn’t be. I have been writing about them and their treacherous behavior, their atrocities and their viciousness. Yet somehow I still thought of them as Egyptians. With this one act, they have now relinquished all claim to that. I do not think I am alone in thinking that they have now shown their true colors, and that they have not an iota of love or loyalty to this country. I really think that their citizenship should be revoked and that they be exiled out of the country.
The extent of their alienation was never more obvious. But I should not be surprised. If one of them when in the position of President of the country, consorted with enemies of said country and plotted against it, this is beyond belief. If a fiction writer thought of such a plot, it would be laughed out as too far fetched. Well, fiction writers, now you have a precedent in history.
We are always proud to be the first in anything that would get us registered in the Guinness Book of World Records, but this is one time when it will be with great shame. Ours would be the first President in history to be convicted of espionage on his country WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT!!!
Nothing speaks louder than those two facts, a Presidential spy and the burning of the flag. Those two incidents alone should be enough to damn this organization as a terrorist, rogue organization with loyalty only to itself and its own advancement. The US in allying itself to this organization has left itself wide open to retaliation once they turn on it. And turn they will. If they have no loyalty to the country where they were born and where they have lived all their lives, do you think they will give a second thought to a foreign ally if this ally is no longer useful, or is perceived to have turned its back on them? Watch out America, you are about to be stabbed in the back by your ex- allies.
Treachery is a strong vein running throughout their history. Not only have they allied themselves to each and every ruling party in Egypt over the past 80 years, but they have also betrayed each and every party they had allied themselves to. Even as individuals, betrayal is the rule, if there is any sort of gain. After Morsi was removed, many a name surfaced from members of the brotherhood as police informants. Those especially adept at that were the Salafis, who are on the same platform as the Brotherhood, but even more extreme in their views.
With the assassination of the National Security officer, Mohamed Mabrouk, many more details are being revealed. It seems that Mabrouk, as well as another National Security officer, Mohamed Abu Shakra, were two of the officers closely involved in tracking, surveilling and finally arresting the a Deputy Morshid, Khairat Al Shater. Officer Abu Shakra was assassinated by being riddled with bullets a few months ago. The same method was used on Mohamed Mabrouk. Both officers are seen on the tape showing the arrest of Khairat Al Shater. So it seems that the wave of assassinations had already started a few months back. Neither officer was high profile, nor was he known to the public. With the assassination of Mabrouk, there are definite overtones of the involvement of foreign intelligence forces.
Assassinations, bombings, arson and every criminal behavior is the MB’s modus operandi. They would sleep with the devil if it was to their advantage. This I think, is the main reason they were so attractive to the US as their tool in Egypt to implement for them the 4th generation of asymmetrical war. They have absolutely no principles whatsoever, are not inhibited by a conscience, and are desperately ambitious and hungry for power. Their loyalty does not extend to their followers, who, they think are there to further their cause, and are therefore dispensable. Witness the people they killed in the Rabaa sit-in and kept the bodies to try to make the world think that they were killed when the police dispersed the sit-in. But strongly ingrained habits were their downfall. Their strict death rituals that necessitate the shrouding of dead bodies gave the game away. How could the police have shot these people on the spot and they ended up in shrouds? Also they did not reckon with forensic examination of the bodies. They had intended to burn them, but were not given the chance. The bodies were collected and a forensic examination revealed that they had died a few days before the dispersal day, and that they were shot by the same type of bullets which the MB had used in shooting at the police. Add to that the confessions, and crime scene re-enactment of one of the MB captured snipers, and you have a full case of crimes against humanity against the leaders of that sit-in.
The more these people are left to continue on that path, the more they reveal themselves for the terrorists that they are. Hopefully this will reach a point where they will be completely ostracized by the Egyptian people and would be forced into self exile.
A final word of warning to the United States: remember Bin Laden? He was an ex-Muslim Brotherhood member. Remember what he did to you after you had helped him and he achieve notoriety in fighting the Russians in Afghanistan for you? Well, Bin Laden was a junior player in the Muslim Brotherhood. You have now managed to very successfully open Pandora’s box. My only regret is that those of your people who will take the brunt of the Brotherhood’s retaliation, and retaliation there will be, are the ordinary, innocent American taxpayers. Though the same thing happened in 9/11 yet the American people have not learned their lesson. If they do have such a wonderful, working democracy, how come they still have people in office whose stupid policies are laying them open to a great deal of harm? I should have thought that in their own democratic way they would have been able to clean up their government and bring in people whose primary concern is the welfare of the American people.
If the MB push the Egyptian people any further, I think they will get the surprise of their lives at the reaction and the people’s revenge.
It is now a very vicious war that is being waged by the US using the MB as their tool, and it is the duty of each and every Egyptian to fight back. This is a different kind of war, and the conventional weapons are no longer used. We have to fight back through knowledge and ‘brain power’. We have to ensure that as many people as possible are educated in the methods used in this 4th generation war, and in the means of how to combat them. Spreading the education is the key. So it is the duty of every individual who reads this, to take up the thread and continue in spreading the word about this war we are in.
God bless my beloved Egypt.

Reconciliation Now is Treason

الوسوم

4th generation asymmetrical war, economy, Egypt, Fifth Columnists, media, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, treason, United States

If you ‘reconcile’ with your enemy, you are surrendering. The MB has proven itself a treacherous organization which has allied itself to an outside enemy. Actually SEVERAL outside enemies. The first and most important enemy is the United States. The second is Palestinian Hamas. Qatar and Turkey being the chorus line.
We are currently in a state of war. The 4th generation asymmetrical war as outlined by Dr. Max G. Wanwaring, Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, is currently underway in all its aspects as outlined in his lecture (http://youtu.be/wflMq7DKvNc). It is very clearly defined what methods are used and more to the point WHO to use in implementing this type of war. It is very clearly stated that as this is a “trans-national” problem, it should have a “trans-national” solution. My understanding of this is that the way to wage this war is through the people you want to defeat. If you are trying to defeat Egypt, you use Egyptians to do it. Preferably an organized entity that has a great thirst for power, and a delusion of grandure and a dream of influence beyond conventional national borders. The Americans found a tailor-made organization in the Muslim Brotherhood. The resultant secret alliance started several years ago. Most of the leaders of this organization were ‘educated’ in the United States. In other words, most were recruited by the CIA. The most flagrant recruitment was that of a poor unsophisticated farmer, who, through circumstances and the enormous pressure and work of the CIA, managed to gain the position of President of Egypt. This played right into their hands.
Last night the National Security officer responsible for Morsi’s case where he is accused of being a CIA agent, was assassinated through several bullets to the head. This comes on the heels of Morsi’s threat, through his lawyers, that assassinations had not started yet. The fact that the case this officer was handling involved the United States throws shadows on the involvement of the CIA in this assassination. It is now clear that we are entering another phase of the 4th generation asymmetrical war.
As destabilization is the basic criteria for the success of this war, Morsi, the moment he became President, immediately set free all terrorists convicted and imprisoned, as well as many an ordinary criminal, through presidential reprieves. He then ensured the security of the underground tunnels linking Gaza to Sinai, to ensure the regular, unimpeded flow of Hamas personnel and weaponry inside Egypt, and the regular, unimpeded flow of gas from Egypt to Gaza. This act alone is one of treason. He gave preferential treatment to a foreign state contrary to the interests of Egypt. This is one of the definitions of treason in the Egyptian law. The penalty for treason is death by hanging.
The flow of all the arms and personnel of all terrorist organizations like Hamas and Al Qaeda into Egypt was very well planned and executed, to the extent that at one point Angela Merkel, of Germany, was making noises about declaring Egypt a country that harbors terrorism. She was not much off the mark. With a treasonous terrorist in the top position in the country, what else was expected? But what none of those who are not Egyptian could not understand was the way ordinary everyday Egyptians felt about what was happening to their country. The country was hijacked by a terrorist organization that came to power while most of the people were unaware, and a large number misled by the religious facade worn by this terrorist organization. Suddenly people woke up to the fact that the rulers belonged to a secret, terrorist organization that had international ties to world terrorism and did not have the interests of Egypt at all at heart.
The objective of the 4th generation asymmetrical war was destabilization and the creation of what is now called ‘alternately governed territories’. This means territories where the State has no control, but what is in control are belligerent, violent, rogue groups who compound the chaos and destabilization of that territory. Sinai has been long targeted for that. This goes back to the days of the Peace Accords with Israel, where Egyptian military presence was greatly curtailed there, to give rogue elements the freedom to grow. The ground was laid for the implementation of the 4th generation asymmetrical war that is being waged now.
One of the very dangerous aspects of this war is the use of what they call the non-uniformed military personnel who could be men, women or children. So what they are saying is that they will recruit everybody to help their cause. In the Muslim Brotherhood they found a most cooperative tool. The Brotherhood saw all their dreams of a Muslim Caliphate coming true, without taking into consideration the penalty of cooperating with an untrustworthy foreign political ally with ulterior motives. For the sake of this dream, the Brotherhood had no compunction in using its members and its supporters and followers in the most ruthless, immoral way. The epitome of that came when women and children were used as human shields in demonstrations and during the sit-in at Rabea, and with the dispersal of that sit-in, many were shot by what now appears to be the same type of ammunition that killed the police. So here again we have a practical translation into facts on the ground of the use of a ‘trans-national’ solution, and the ‘non-uniformed military personnel’ be they men, WOMEN OR CHILDREN’. The 4th generation asymmetrical war is waged in all its aspects on Egypt now.
The part about brain power, or smart power, as opposed to fire power is used very subtlety and very well indeed. The ferocious attack of all worldwide media outlets against the people’s revolt against Morsi, trying to tarnish it by calling it a military coup, waving the threat of withholding Aid, and even hinting at sanctions and the threat of NATO interference. The movements of the American fleet near our nautical borders, the financial pressure of withholding the IMF’s loan were other aspects of the brain or smart power used in waging this war. Another aspect of this brain power being used against Egypt is the ability to turn well known figures, and sometimes quite popular figures, into ones that adopted the opposite point of view. This was a two pronged attack, for not only did it cause many people to feel insecure and suspicious of everybody, but also added to the chaos, or destabilization by spreading the word about the fifth columnists who were everywhere, infiltrating all aspects of the Egyptian scene.
There seem to be ongoing attempts to pressure ‘compel’ a few of those in government to the will of the United States. The demand for reconciliation with the MB and to include them in the road map to the future is nothing but another attempt at derailing the one thing standing in the face of successful implementation of this war, it is the will of the Egyptian people and their determination to have their country back as they know it. As long as Egyptians hold on to their dream of a modern, prosperous country where we can live well and with dignity, where we take our natural place in the world community and where we protect our territorial sovereignty, none of those attempts at turning Egypt into a failed state will succeed. An Egyptian trait which has not been taken into consideration by the United States in its plans is that Egyptians are extremely patient people. As a basically agricultural community, patience is a strongly ingrained trait that could outlast all the ‘slow, subtle, quiet’ attempts at destabilization leading to a failed state. They are also intuitive and can instinctively discern dishonestly or any double dealing, therefore they are not duped for long. Even with the very strong card of religion played by the MB they could not pull the wool over the people’s eyes for long.
The more this plot is exposed, the more Egyptians who are informed of this type of the war waged against us, the better we are equipped to combat it and eventually win. The plan to cause friction with the army will not work, for the army is made up of the people, each family has a son, husband, brother or uncle in the army, there is no ethnic difference, no cliques or cabals. The people and the army are one homogeneous entity. With knowledge and constant vigilance this 4th generation asymmetrical war will be defeated by Egyptians who love their country.
God bless my beloved Egypt.

RED ALERT – WARNING – WAKE UP!

الوسوم

4 generation asymmetrical war, Al Qaeda, compel, Egypt, failed state, Hamas, Middle East, military war, Muslim Brotherhood, nation states, new Nazi, Sinai, Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, trans-national

This is NOT a conspiracy theory, this is a REAL conspiracy. Below I have transcribed a few minutes of a speech given by Dr. Max G. Wanwaring, Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College. This is as close a transcript as I could get.
He started off by talking about the characters in Harry Potter and that the main evil character, the “antagonist” as opposed to the protagonist is a horrible, scary person. This is a way of introducing the 4th generation asymmetrical war. He goes on to say:
Whether we like it or not, are prepared for it or not, it is here with us, we are dealing with it, we are in a 4th generation asymmetrical war.
What is war? War is the compulsion to accept the enemy’s will – compulsion. In the past, under the traditional Westphalian Treaties, the idea was that war was between to nation states, maybe an alliance of nation states against another alliance of nation states, but it was a nation state sort of thing. Furthermore, it was a military sort of thing, flags flying, uniforms resplendent, crossing the sovereign borders of another country to take a province, a market, or maybe the whole thing. But under the current experience, particularly over the last twenty or so years, we found that this is becoming more and more obsolete, and what is becoming more and more vogue is the 4th generation asymmetrical war. We do not apparently want to admit that we are engaged in such a war, but if we don’t do that, then we don’t have to worry about it.
Mr. Chavez in 2005 gave a charge to his officer corps in the Military Academy in Caracas to learn the 4th generation asymmetrical war and develop a doctrine to deal with it. We are still stuck with Westphalia and our own thinking when we talk about defense, we talk about uniformed forces crossing a sovereign border. But today that is not happening. The last big confrontation of that nature in Latin America took place around a hundred years ago. But Er have been engaged in, whether we like it or not, whether we admit it or not, engaged in a 4th generation asymmetrical was.
What is the objective of a 4th generation asymmetrical war? It is not to crush another military organization or destroy a nation’s capability of fielding a military force abroad, the objective is to wear down, slowly but surely, the will of the targeted country with the purposes of gaining influence, and eventually, beyond gaining influence, and probably not just eventually, but in reality the real objective is to compel that enemy to your will; and whether that type of war is as bloody as the traditional “shock and awe”, whether it is not as bloody as WWII was or the Korean War was, or some of the other wars that we were engaged in were, the fact is that compulsion, whether it is non-benign or not, is still compulsion. This is something we should give some thought to.
Now, if an objective is to control or influence another entity to your will, the common denominator in all this is the thing we call destabilization.we don’t run uniformed forces across the borders any more, or not very often anyway, and military forces are not all uniformed, they are not all male, they are also female, they Re not all adult, they are also children and we’ve got to understand these things and we’ve got to deal with them, and the only way we can deal with them effectively, since they are transport-national problems, what kind of solutions do we need? Transport-national solutions!
Ambassador N. suggested , not only do we go in that direction, but that we take it a step further, we have to use brain power. Brain power is the main weapon in this context. Brain power, smart power, not fire power. What took down the Berlin Wall? Tanks? Artillery? aero planes? No, the German Deutsch Mark!
Destabilization can take many forms, and usually it is relatively benign, but again we have the problem of compulsion, and co pulses us to where? The idea of the creation of a failing state. The other word that we don’t dare to use: war and failing state. We don’t want to use the word because it might not be politically correct enough, we don’t want to offend anybody, but the fact is, that in some of these states we’ve been talking about in Central America and elsewhere, a good portion of the country is not controlled by the State and that is a definition of sovereignty a definition beyond what has been talked about here: sovereignty is the control of the territory and of the people of a given recognized political entity. If the State doe not control all of its territory, the question is, who does? We use the term up governed territory quite often, we have sophisticated that a tad, and now we are calling it alternately governed territory. The point is, it is not the State that is doing this, it is non-State groups, belligerent, violent and kind of nasty – and over a period of time you create a failed State, and then you can step in and take control of that State, not only take control of it, but maybe go a little beyond that perhaps, and then what happens to that State? It doesn’t wither away, it still exists, somebody will have to take care of it, if no one comes in and takes care of it and runs away with it. Haiti comes to mind.Letting Haiti fail had been a terribly expensive process for the West. Other countries have been known to become “Criminal States”, “New People’s Republics”. In a situation like this, it is the last man left standing, no matter how badly he’s been beaten, the last man standing is the victor. This is a little dicey, and there might be some problems with this.
I am taking up too much time in this case.
But here are a couple of words for a our vocabulary for the next while: war is compulsion, whether it is non-lethal or lethal as we’ve known in the past. Another word is failed StTe or failing State. It is not an event, it is a process. Slowly and quietly enough, people will go to sleep, if you do it well enough, quietly enough, slowly enough, your enemy will wake up dead.
End of clip. You can find this clip at the following link: http://youtu.be/wflMq7DKvNc
It is subtitled in Arabic.

This is a very revealing lecture, it has stated categorically the type of thinking and planning going on in the United States to subdue and then complete the Middle East to submit to its influence and control. It was clearly stated what the objective was: to compel these states to the will of the US, and maybe take them over completely. All this without the use of regular uniformed personnel. Here we come to a very dangerous statement where he defines the military forces as not being all male, they could be female, and even children. That is a shocking concept, and he admits to that by saying they have to get used to it. All these statements can now be translated into actions on the ground.
First the problem is trans-national and the solution has to be trans-national, means that we use their own people to defeat them. Then the military forces not uniformed, so civilians are to be used. Not all male, so as we see now women and children were used in demonstrations and as human shields, to try to alienate world opinion when they were harmed. Brain power, or smart power is the use of any means, such as the economy, media, public opinion, even the threat of trials for war crimes, to coerce, intimidate or “compel” the target country to knuckle under and do the bidding of the aggressor, in this case the USA.
It is no longer a theory, it is now stated plainly in black and white, very clearly explained and defined, and when closely examined, very easily followed in what is taking place on the ground in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and what has already been successfully implemented in Iraq and Somalia.
It is probably thought that Sinai is now one of those “alternately governed territories”, but, fortunately, we have a great army, and young, intelligent military leaders who are now cleaning up this mess. It is an out and out military war, where America has used the Muslim Brotherhood to bring in Al Qaeda and Hamas into Egypt through Sinai, to work towards their goal of making Egypt a failed State. Once a large number of Egyptians are made aware of this plan and how it is still being implemented, the whole people will rally around their leaders in defense of our beloved Egypt. The purpose of this article is to spread the word and alert, not only Egyptians, but the world at large, to the evil plans being set in motion to destroy an ancient civilization, a peaceful country and one of the kindest people on this earth, Egypt and the Egyptians. This is the new Nazi world order that has been planned and is now being carried out in the area. Today it is the Middle East, tomorrow it might be you. Wake up!

Second Anniversary of Mohamed Mahmoud Massacre – November 19

الوسوم

Al Kassam militias, Al Qaeda, chaos, Egypt, International Organization of MB, massacre, MB, new plot, treason

As per a report by Al Watan newspaper.
There is a conspiracy against Egypt which is supposed to take place starting with the anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud Street massacre on November 19. This conspiracy is primarily between the MB, Qatar and Turkey.
The plan is for mobilizing all MB Members and their supporters to demonstrate all over Egypt, to close all governmental offices, to start civil disobedience and to target the army and police personnel for assassination.
The International Organization of the MB had held meetings, after the first session of Morsi’s trial on November 4, to prepare for their new wave of attack. These meetings were held in Qatar, London and Turkey and were attended by Mahmoud Hussein, the MB member and a fugitive from justice, as well as by Ibrahim Mounir a member of the Irshad Office of the International Organization of the MB.
These meetings focused on the means by which they can mobilize their people for November 19, while holding a dress rehearsal for this next Friday. The plan is to start demonstrations with the maximum amount of disruption on November 19 and continue into the new year up to January 25, 2014. Special groups are assigned for special demonstrations and attacks on the court where Morsi’s second session of his trial is to be held on January 8, 2014.
One facet of the plan is the mobilization of university students against the government, trying to cause friction between the army and the revolutionary demonstrators who will be celebrating the Mohamed Mahmoud anniversary. They will also attempt to add these students to the MB and also attempt to spoil the referendum on the Constitution which is scheduled for some time during the second half of December, by spreading rumors of fraud to show that Egypt is not on the right road towards democracy.
Another aspect of that plan is to mobilize all MB supporters abroad, to demonstrate in front of the Egyptian Embassies, in protest, on November 19 and on January 25, 2014.
The International Organization of the MB was tracked as meeting with officers working for Turkish and Qatari intelligence, to agree on the means to paralyze Egypt economically and to spread chaos through elements belonging to Al Kassam militias and through Al Qaeda. Egyptian intelligence said that they have uncovered a plot to bring about the downfall of the government on 25 January 2014. Also planned was a repeat of the scenario of attacking police stations, invading the prisons, assassinating high profile army and police officers and targeting the different security installations; this, as well as attacking the court where Morsi’s trial will resume on January 8.
It has also been pointed out that a media team, headed by Al Jezirah’s anchorman Ahmed Mansour will be spreading the word about what is to take place on the upcoming date of 25 January 2014.
On the other side, the revolutionary forces have put in place the final touches for celebrating the anniversary of Mohamed Mahmoud, this coming Tuesday. This includes a plan to safeguard Tahrir Square and the formation of popular committees to ensure that none of the MB members infiltrates their lines, and to warn their demonstrators against going into side streets to avoid any clash with the police.
The head of the 6 April movement, the Democratic Front, announced that slogans against the previous SCAF will be chanted, but that Morsi’s supporter were not going to be included.
In my personal view, if the people are forewarned they are forearmed and can combat the latest plan of attack by the International Organization of the MB. The biggest problem would be controlling the different crowds that will be demonstrating on Tuesday 19 November. I hope the police and army have a plan in place to ensure that neither of the clashing factions gets a chance to meet. If they do, that will be playing right into the hands of the MB and facilitating the implementation of their plans for chaos. Having passed the date of Morsi’s trial peacefully on November 4, I am hoping that the same will apply on November 19. Unfortunately the curfew would no longer be in place, so that might make the job of peacekeeping more difficult, but I am starting to have more confidence in the ability of the police and army to protect Egypt and the Egyptians from this international terrorist organization, the MB.
Interestingly enough, last night on a television program called The Black Box, the presenter, a long time scholar of the MB, revealed the acquisition of a document from the meetings held by the International Organization for the MB, outlining their plans, as stated above, but with more in-depth analysis, but taking it a step further and revealing the motivation behind these plans. This was said to be their ultimate goal, to reach the point of negotiating for sharing the rule of Egypt. They clearly state which portfolios they want and which they will give to the opposition. The wording, when analyzed, reveals that although they are willing to initially compromise with the “liberals”, whom they had previously described as infidels, yet the ultimate goal is complete domination of Egypt and its “Islamization” as per their views. The details found in that document are shocking, and the presenter was very emphatic about what its effect should be on those members of the Government, naming a few. These members proposing reconciliation are either naive or traitors, for with such an agenda by the MB revealed, there is no possibility of compromise with these terrorists.
From all previous experience with the MB and from a study of their history, this falls in line with their pattern of behavior. They have never had any loyalty to any of their temporary allies, they have a long history of betrayal and even treasonous behavior where their personal advancement comes in, both as individuals and as an Organization. With knowledge comes understanding, and people who still insist on reconciliation with, and inclusiveness of, the MB in the governance of Egypt, are now under a very strong negative light that is more likely than not to end their political careers rather badly. The people in general have become quite disillusioned by the MB and we are now starting the process of socially ostracizing them, which is far more drastic and effective than any political banning.