What does the King of Saudia Arabia want?

After the Tunisian revolution and the flee of Bin-Ali outside of Tunisia,everyone wondered where would he resort to,which country will offer him refuge. I was astounded when I heard that it was KSA that offered him refuge. KSA offered a dictator who not only did he rob his own country in a systemic and organized way through out his years as a president and a ruler of Tunisia, but also killed his own people who refused his ruling and demonstrated in a peaceful way.

Some said they were helping a man in-need,said it's a noble thing to do as he resorted to Saudia Arabia. But I never saw that as enough reason or excuse to shelter a murderer and a thief.

After the Egyptian revolution, Hosni Mubarak didn't flee the country, even though I'm sure if he did, Saudia Arabia would have offered him refuge so, instead..they tried to push the SCAF in order to delay the trial, which was working until the people got fed up with the delay and kept protesting till the trials started.

Of course Saudia Arabia said it wasn't pushing against the trials but..politicians always speak the opposite of truth,a proverb says.

The success of two countries in toppling the regime was enough to get other countries with much fierce dictators to start protesting to topple their regimes as Syria and Bahrain.

And of course, the King of Bahrain faces the angry mob protesting peacefully the same way that Mubarak and Bin-Ali, fire in the hall..bullets in the head..but for some reason the King of Bahrain couldn't do it on his own so, he asked for help from his neighbour, King of Saudia.

Of course King of Saudia came to rescue, sending an Army battalion to Bahrain to help restore “peace and order” to Bahrain, slaughtering civilians who are simply demanding freedom and a better life.

And of course we shouldn't forget mentioning how Saudia Arabia “fought off” the protesters in east of Saudia..yes the King threw away money at people after he's done suppressing the protesters but,still...

Handling of Saudia Arabia to the Yemeni revolution is a whole other thing, when Saleh was injured in military operations he started against his own Yemeni people, he went to to Saudia Arabia to receive treatment, then he came back disappointing every one who thought he has left for good. Then Saudia Arabia helped him by sending in some Army units too.

I just would like to remind the rulers of KSA that the dictators you help will die, and they wont be back in power. What's left in the end will be the people..who will never forget how you helped their dictators against them. You can't help a man against a whole nation. And the history will remember every action you did. So you choose, do you want to be praised or do you want to be cursed for the rest of time.

I realize that there are differences between the desires of people and the desires and actions of their governments, especially if they are ruled by a dictator government,let alone a King who supports dictators.

الانفلات الامني

طبعا كله عارف مشكلة الانفلات الامني اللي مصر فيها..اللي فاضله شوية و يبقى الامن ماشي على حل شعره و مش بعيد يجيلنا ممسوك في قضية اداب بعد كده...انفلات بقى..!!

طب يا ترى ايه سبب الانفلات ده اللي يعزى اليه وقوف عجلة الانتاج اللي المجلس العسكري و مجلس الوزراء و مصر كلها بتفخ و تزق فيها عشان تدور و في الاخر مدارتش..و حتى المظاهرات و الاعتصامات ,اللي هي حق مشروع و منعها و التصدي اللي كان بيحصل ليها من امن الدولة و الامن المركزي هي سبب من اسباب قيام الثورة,منعوها عشان عجلة الانتاج دي..

هل ياترى الشرطة واخدة في نفسها و زعلانه من نظرة الشعب ليها؟طب مش هم اللي عملوا في نفسهم كده من الاول لما انسحبوا من كل المواقع حتى معبر صلاح الدين اللي مع اسرائيل..و هل حل النظرة دي انني اقعد في بيتي؟اخد مرتبي من ضرايب الناس اللي مفروض بحميهم..باخد مرتبي من مرتبهم عشان اقعد في البيت؟طب ما ده ههيخلي النظرة اسوأ..

ولا هل يا ترى هيبة البدلة راحت يا باشا؟انا اللي اعرفه ان في حاجة اسمها قانون و قوة بيتطبق بيها القانون...مسمعتش قبل كده عن تاجر مخدرات مثلا شاف ظابط ماشي في الشارع فقام سلم نفسه عشان خاف من هيبة البدلة..اما بالنسبة للشعب..فالشعب بيساند الظباط لما بيقوموا بواجبهم...و الدليل على كده..مأمور الموسكي لما جاب الالي بتاعه و داغع عن الحي ضد البلطجية..الناس وقفت وراه و ساعدته..ماوقفتش ورا البلطجية..

ولا البلطجية دلوقتي كتير و زي الرز؟طب ماهم لما بيحبوا يمسكوا حد فعلا بيمسكوه...و حصلت اكتر من مرة...حتى لو وصلت انهم يحددوا موقعه باستخدام موبايل المطلوب القبض عليه عن طريق القرية الذكية...و عندهم معظم,ان لم يكن كل,المعلومات المطلوبة للقبض على معظم المسجلين خطر...امال لما حد بيبلغ عن جريمة...بيعملوا عرض للمتهمين ازاي؟

يا اما حاجة تانية خالص غير الكلام ده...ان المجلس العسكري انشغل بحماية الثورة عن حماية الشعب..يعني الصراحة المجلس معذور برضه..مابين اعلان دستوري لم يلتزم فيه بالاستفتاء اللي حصل على الدستور..و لم يستشر فيه احد..و تحويل صحفيين و نشطاء للنيابة العسكرية..و تحويل مدنيين للمحاكمات العسكرية..اكيد هيتبقى شوية وقت و مجهود..عشان ينام قبل الخطوة اللي جاية..

المشكلة ان يكون المجلس العسكري يهدف لان يجعل الناس تشعر ان الثورة سلبياتها اكثر من ايجابياتها..خصوصا ان مفيش حاجة اتغيرت من قبل الثورة عن بعد الثورة غير ان مثلا..بدل ماكنت بتروح امن الدولة عشان رأي سياسي..بقيت بتروح النيابة العسكرية..و مصر نقصت 800 نسمة..و طبعا..الاحساس الزائف بالامن..راح.

طب و ليه يهدف المجلس العسكري لكده؟طبعا رغبة منه في الدفع بمرشح عسكري للرئاسة..و بالتالي الناس تتجه اليه بوصفه المخلص..عسكري و هيشكم البلد و حسب معظم الكلام اللي بسمعه من الناس..ده المطلوب..رئيس عسكري يرجع الامن..و لحظتها..هيبقى كأنك يا ابو زيد ماغزيت..ولا اتظاهرت لمدة 18 يوم..و عملت ثورة و مات منك 800 او اكتر كمان...

الافكار المقولبة

الافكار المقولبة هي شيئ بسيط جدا في تعريفه...هي ان سعادتك تحكم على واحد في حاجة من خلال صفة لا تمت الى الصفة دي في شيئ...لخبطتك؟

نجرب المثل ده...سعادتك ماشي في الشارع...بتتفرج على تليفزيون...او بتبص على صورة حد في الجورنال...هوب..لقيه لابس حظاظة او سلسلة او ما شابه...هوب..يبقى الواد ده ماسوني(الاتهام المفضل لمعظم الناس في الفترة الاخيرة) او عيل سيس (الاتهام الثاني من حيث التفضيل)...

هتقوللي:” لا و الف لا..انا مش بعمل كده..” هقولك مش شرط عشان مقولتش ماسوني او سيس تبقى افكارك مش مقولبة...انت اول اما بتشوف دكتور داخل عليك مثلا المحل..بتبقى عامل ازاي؟عينيك بيظهر مكانهم $.$ زي عم دهب اما يقع في ايده صفقة العمر...رغم ان في الحقيقة الدكتور ده زيه زيك..بالعافية و بالمجهود مستورة عليه..

طب ليه اتسمت مقولبة يعني؟عشان ساعدتك بتبقى جهاز..اول ما ندوس على زرار(بمعنى انك تشوف حظاظة)..تقوم مطلع قالب (قايل عليه ماسوني او سيس او صايع)..

طب انا ليه ناحر في قلبي و بكتب في الموضوع ده؟عشان حرام نفضل بالصفة دي فينا حتى بعد الثورة..خصوصا ان الافكار المقولبة نشأت نتيجة الرضاعة من الاعلام المصري..و الكسل في انك تقوم بمجهود حقيقي عشان تقيم اللي قدامك...يعني ايه الاسهل؟حظاظة يبقى الواد ده سيس...ولا تقعد تسمعه..و تفكر في كلامه و تقيمه و تاخد قرار في الاخر؟

المطلوب ان كل واحد قبل اما يصدر قرار على حد..قبل اما تحكم على حد انه كويس او وحش..دور وراه..اسعى شوية انك تسمعه و انك تفكر في كلامه...شغل مخك قبل اما يصدي منك...ماتخدش اي كلام يتقالك على انه حقيقة...لأن هو ده اللي حصل ايام الثورة لما قالوا اجندات و كنتاكي..لو كان حد فكر في الكلام قبل اما يصدقه مكنش فيه حد صدق حكاية الكنتاكي دي و بالفعل اللي حاول يعرف الحقيقة و راح شا و سمع بنفسه..انضم للثوار في التحرير..

في نكتة سمعتها من واحد اعرفه...قالك ان انضف مخ في العالم هو مخ المصري...عشان لسه بكرتونته...يا ريت نغير ده...و نسعي لمعرفة الحقيقة قبل اما نقولب..

Amr Moussa in Tanta:could this be his end?

As Egypt moved on the new way of reforms and development after the revolution and while everyone started to talk politics, Tanta university decided it should play a role in spreading political awareness among student. As they said in this statement they handed to students who were going to attend Amr Moussa's session.



it started out as an event on facebook,the site that all the government officials started to use to get in contact with the people after the revolution, Amr Moussa is coming to Tanta to be celebrated as a famous person who grew up in Tanta as he said,also to talk about the "post-revolution phase" as people call it.

Problems started to happen when people find out 2 days before the event that whoever wants to attend has to register first,that wasn't a problem except that..some names,who were known to be against Amr Moussa or with too knowledge and political awareness to cause trouble,were striked out. Some had their names removed the minute they wrote it.

People already began to become sceptical about the meeting, especially that the head of our university was an NDP member before it got dissolved.
So,people agreed that if any one was denied entry,a sit-in will take place till everyone gets in.
The university administration tried to make a smart move, everyone was allowed to attend, no names were checked (though the bags were searched by the security of Amr Moussa)

then we were shown to another hall, where we were supposed to see Amr Moussa through a screen, mics were said to be handed later to those who want to ask, but we didnt buy it (which turned out to be the right thing to do since no mics were handed out to those who wanted to ask in the hall where Amr Moussa himself stayed, those who wanted to ask had to shout or take it to the stage after permission).



and of course, as we went inside (and even before we went inside the conference compound) signs welcoming Amr Moussa were all over the place






So,now we are in another conference hall where we realised that we, most probably, wont be allowed to ask questions, a debate started about what we should do that ended with a decision that we'll start a sit-in till we're allowed inside the hall where Amr Moussa himself was to sit.

As we started a sit-in we noticed some people flashing certain cards,papers being checked before security let anyone inside the main hall



while they were allowing few, selected people inside,these crowds started to show discontent with what they're seeing.



mean while, the wireless Internet suddenly gets closed, we cant tweet and definitely cant stream what's going on. Apparently, a security guard over heard us speaking about using the wireless to stream the event,5 mins later.it's down.

with all these elements working together, the students started to protest chanting :"where are you freedom, the state security is between us andyou" (rhyms in arabic)

and then the students start to push against the guards to enter the hall,after negotiations of groups of students with guards didn't work out.








and we finally manage to push against the guards, once I got inside I got stunned by those lovely people holding pictures of Amr Moussa the thing that reminded me of Gaddafi's hypocrites.



we then waited for like another 30 mins inside the hall itself till Amr Moussa came (which I personally think was a disrespectful thing a politician would do).
Then,along came the champ making a nice statement that he wants to be among the youth.and of course,who is better than the head of university?especially with the enormous objection of the students on her (whenever she was mentioned in the session she was booed, and well, Amr Moussa was booed by some people too when he came into the hall).


he got so mingled with the youth,I couldn't reach him!


then he spoke, I video taped the first 5 minutes of his speech.got greatly discouraged by people around me who said :"what are video taping?he's boring!".but that was what some people thought. yet I think there are some parts of the session that should be mentioned.




he then was asked a question about the Gaza war and why he didn't ask for a no-fly zone back in 2008.



want to know what he said as a reply?that the war on Gaza in 2008 wasn't a war,it was a blockade,and the Arab league succeed at breaking that blockade..
He didn't give an answer to a single question,even one as simple as how are you going to develop Egypt..he answered:"I promise I'll develop Egypt" but didn't give any further details about what he has got in mind to do so.

He also answered that he "supported Mubarak as a person but was against his policies" when he was asked about whether he supports or opposes the fallen regime

He didn't answer the question directed to him about his stance about protesters in Tahrir when he tried to convince them to leave.he simply said:"I support democracy"

click here and here and here for the 3 parts of the session that went on

I noticed this young man wearing this shirt during the session, he was the one who collected our questions and delivered them to Amr Moussa, apparently he was a member of the campaign as he stated so himself thus proving the session aimed as presenting Amr Moussa a presidential candidate not as the Dean of the Arab league and a famous person to talk about the "post-revolution phase"



finally, he stopped answering our questions and simply took off.but not without making a dramatic scene first.(click here if the video below didnt work)




now people ask why did we run after the car..I ran to tape the video,others ran to demand their right to be heard, some to demand the right of the lady who,even though you might think she wasn't assaulted , but she got humiliated,imagine she was your mum and someone kept pushing her like that trying to silence her up.

I let you be the judge of what I put before you. Read,think and decide

Disturbances in Tanta

After the revolution succeded at removing a 30years old regime,causing the tyrant to flee to Sharm El-Sheikh,everyone started dreaming of New Egypt.Among these dreamers were the students of Tanta University.They dreamt of a better education,better laboratories,of some respect from their Porfessors who treated them like garbage (not all of them though,but the majority were treating students badly).
The believe in changing these dreams from a mere dream to a fact,a reality on the ground grew bigger when Deans (some of the Faculties Deans not all of them) announced they're willing to hear out the students,see their demands.
So,students made their lists of demands, were very rational about it.made a list of demands that can be achieved now and other demands that would take time, effort and money to achieve it and they were willing to wait till these demands are executed. After all,rush in reforms can result in bad reforms.
The surprise was how the Deans reacted towards these demands.between procrastinating in carrying them out and threats of firing all students who came to the meetings to submit their list of demands,Deans varied in how severe they reacted but the result was the same...Nothing was accomplished!
It was normal that Students decide to protest for their rights and for the resignation of the Head of University who was appointed in her position only because she worked with Suzanne Mubarak at a time and she's a woman (or at least,so the students believe)
these pics are from one of the protests











it's worth mentioning that the University administration gave us a deadline by which we should have agreed, as students, upon an outline for the final exams schedule. Couple of days later,there was a white paper on the board...the final exams schedule. I think this showed us how committed they, the University administration I mean, are committed to our demands.

Constitutional referendums: YES or NO?

I can’t hide my happiness with the debate currently taking place all over Egypt about the constitutional referendum. This is a product of democracy. For the first time in 60 years Egyptians don’t know the result of a voting. All of this wouldn’t have been possible if we didn’t risk our lives for the sake of our freedom.

So, I’m writing this article mainly to help people make up their minds about the referendums. Stating what each “camp” has got to say to support their opinion and you make up your mind in the end. You can disregard my comments in between the brackets as it mainly reflects my personal opinion. I tried to be un-biased as hard as I can

If you still didn’t read the referendums yet try checking them out on here or here.

SAYING YES:

• Advantages:

1. it’ll contribute, somehow, to the return of stability, safety and security to the streets. This would contribute to the process of rebuilding our Egypt
2. this would help the Egyptians “get rid of” the military governing we currently suffer from.
3. when we have civic ruling we can have all the debates, protests and sit-ins we want.

• Disadvantages:

1. some people say that article 189 doesn’t really oblige the new government to make a new constitution. Law professors say that the article is obligatory, others say the new government may choose not to comply to such obligation, or stall (risky, because then we’ll have to resort to the streets to claim our rights)
2. time required to get rid of military governing is 12-18 months. This time is more than enough to make a new constitution. Instead of starting new Egypt with a temporary constitution, why not start off with a new, permanent constitution?
3. there will be too many elections and polls to be made during that time. That would disturb the education process
4. NDP might get a chance to jump back into the parliament either as a reformed NDP or a new “25^th January” party and the “freedom” party they are trying to found. New parties won’t find time to be found or establish and publish their ideas and policies.

• What would happen if we said yes?

1. Optimism: NDP, somehow, won’t be able to jump back in power. Everything goes smoothly. New constitution and thus a fresh new start for our Egypt (not that likely to occur and we’d still suffer from 8 elections: 2 parliamentary elections and one presidential before the new constitution. The new constitution plebiscite and the 2 parliamentary, 1 presidential elections after the new constitution)
2. Pessimism: NDP does manage to get back into power (either as NDP, or as 25^th January or the freedom parties, all three parties are NDP), enforcing their policies and candidates because they’ll be the most organized party on the political scene. So, we’ll have NDP government all over again (more likely to occur)

SAYING NO:

• Advantages:

1. the start of writing a new constitution that would provide a fresh start for Egypt
2. gives time for newly found and not yet found parties to get themselves organized and publish their ideas in order to get people’s support and attention.
3. once stability, safety and security are returned to the streets, it’ll be permanent because of the presence of a permanent constitution

• Disadvantages:

1. the state of chaos present in the country will last a while longer (may be till a constitution is made). But some political activists see that the main defense against chaos is the people themselves as they did on 28^th January after the police abandoned their posts. Quoting Benjamin franklin when he said: “he who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
2. the military governing will be continued (but as I said, it’d last either way for 12-18 months till a new president is elected if we accepted the referendums and it can be replaced by a presidential council made of 2 civilians and 1 military figures).

• Additional note on NDP (personal opinion) :

The only way to ensure that the NDP won’t participate in politics is by issuing a law preventing them from practicing any political activity for 4 years.

1. if we said yes: there won’t be enough time to pressure the Armed Forces council to issue such a law, especially with their slow responses to the revolutionaries’ demands they’re showed so far. Parties won’t be able to organize themselves to compete with the NDP too.
2. if we said NO: there would be enough time to pressure the council to issue such law. Also, it’d allow the other parties to organize themselves. Thus, even if the law wasn’t issued, there will still be powerful competition from other parties

Hope I was as un-biased as I wanted to be.

About the recent events I say

I’d like to state that I, as a Muslim, am not represented by the events that happened in the past days, carried out by a group of people who call themselves Muslims. They don’t understand anything about Islam and yet they act in its name.


First: The interception of women protests: it’s an absolutely outrageous thing, Islam orders us to respect women not to harass them and intercept their protests. Beside, we are ordered to give the women their right, whether they want more rights or they believe they’re receiving no rights or whatever their opinion is, and you don’t agree with them, simply argue with them. In a civilized, intellectual manner. Intercepting them, harassing them and yelling at them shows you know nothing of your religion (whether you’re a Muslim or a Christian).

Women’s role is noticed throughout the Islamic history, I just want to state one of these roles : the person who narrated most of Hadith (prophet’s saying, guidance and rules in Islam) was his wife Khadeeja.


Second: As for the incidents that have happened in Atfeeh: I couldn’t condemn it more. This is totally stupid, absolutely ignorant thing to do. The prophet said that if we hurt a Christian or Jew, it’s like hurting the prophet himself. To burn a church and kick Christians out of their homes is in total violation of what our religion asks us to do. This is terrorism. Terrorists are cursed in Islam and have punishments varying according to their crimes.

There are believes that all these incidents are happening because the “State Security” wants revenge from the people for what has happened (the breaking into the HQs of the SS and confiscating documents). I think that the SS used the most powerful weapon that the Mubarak’s regime has been using and strengthening it for 30 years…ignorance.
The educational system in Egypt teaches students not to think. It changes them to information receivers. Trains them to shut down their brain and just do what they are told. It wouldn’t be hard for an SS agent to convince people that those Christians should be exiled from the village, with the help of other SS agents (who would be among the people, show agreement with what the SS agent says and thus convince the people that what he’s saying is a good idea).

All of these incidents serve the SS, in my opinion, to achieve three goals:

• Distract the people from the constitutional amendments.
• Divide and conquer: make people long for the era of Mubarak, when people lost their dignity and had a false sense of security. Also that would make the revolutionaries mission to fight for freedom much harder since they won’t be fighting the loyalists to the fallen regime, but also they’ll have to convince the people that what they’re doing is for their own good
• Down Essam Sharaf government: since it’s a revolutionaries chosen government, showing it as a helpless government that can’t run things in Egypt would damage the revolutionaries image, people will suspect their choices and demands which will also contribute to making the mission of the revolutionaries harder.

We shouldn't let them have their way, we’ll show them that we are united. I have Christian friends, they were among the people who attended my grandma’s funeral. We are Egyptians first and foremost. Killing us won’t get them their regime back. We’ll not go back to the era before 25th January. We didn’t fight for freedom to lose it to a group of empty-headed SS agents. We’ll show them that we are one. And on Friday Christians and Muslims will protest together to show unity. They’ll chant together for freedom and dignity we longed for. And the SS agents will fail.

Elbaradei: traitor or a patriot?

What do we know about El-Baradei? As Egyptians,we know that El-Baradei was head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for 3 periods,Nobel prize for peace winner,and the person who has helped the US into Iraq after he wrote his filthy,full of lies report that the US used to invade Iraq,he was made and preserved by the US and a dual nationality citizen (has Egyptian and American citizenships),right?WRONG.

This is what the old regime told us about El-Baradei,that's what they want us to believe,but after a little ,yet exhausting,search I can tell you he's clear of all these “charges” (if you can call them that).

El-baradei never supported war on Iraq,he was against it,and the report he and Dr. Blix wrote was in favour of Iraq,yet the US (as they usually do) chose not to listen to the UN Security Council.

ELbaradei's work in Iraq was divided into two stages:

• reconnaissance phase: was aimed at re-establishing rapidly the knowledge base of Iraq's nuclear capabilities, ensuring that nuclear activities at known key facilities had not been resumed, verifying the location of nuclear material and relevant non-nuclear material and equipment, and identifying the current workplaces of former key Iraqi personnel.
• investigative phase: is achieving an understanding of Iraq's activities over the last four years, in particular in areas identified by States(countries who are member of the UN Security Council) as being of concern and those identified by the IAEA on the basis of its own analysis

the following are number of reports and documents acquired from the IAEA official website www.iaea.org:

Apparently Elbaradei was not in favour of war on Iraq even during the update reports he gave to the UN,here he states clearly in the conclusion of his report that:

• “As I have reported on numerous occasions, the IAEA concluded, by December 1998, that it had neutralized Iraq's past nuclear programme and that, therefore, there were no unresolved disarmament issues left at that time.”
• “We have to date found no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear related activities in Iraq”

This statement was made on 14 February 2003. The lines above are quotes from that statement.

In Elbaradei's statement to the UN Security Council in March 2003 Elbaradei clearly stated that the industrial capacity of Iraq has “deteriorated substantially” due to the departure of the foreign support that was often present in the late 1980s,the departure of large number of skilled staff of Iraq and the inability of Iraq to maintain sophisticated equipment.

1. No resume of nuclear activity in buildings that were there in 1998
2. No resume of nuclear activity at recently inspected sites
3. No import of Uranium since 1990
4. Aluminium tube import wasn't for centrifuge enrichment and it's difficult to use them for that matter

he also told told UN Security Council in March 2003 that documents purporting to show Iraq had tried to acquire Uranium from Niger were not authentic.

Click here to watch the first part of statement

Click here to watch the second part of the statemet.

Actually, Elbaradei and Blix were threatened to be discredited by the US if their report didn't provide the legal cover for the US war on Iraq. In the interview of Ms. Amanpour and Dr. Blix, Blix speaks about his book “Mass Destruction: Truth and Consequences” about his experience in Iraq about the disarmament. He described the situation like it was the medieval ages and he was supposed to prove that Iraqis aren't witches while everyone believed them to be,he also stated in his book that “the absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence”.

Blix said that the US ignored what they (he and EL-Baradei) said in their reports to the UN Security Council. He also mentioned that in summer 2002,the US started the build to invade Iraq (which happened in 2003) even thought by May 2003 it was obvious that there were no weapons of Mass destruction.

On the 25^th minute of the 58 minutes-long interview he clearly states that Dick Cheney said he would not hesitate to discredit the inspectors if their report wasn't in favour of “disarmament”.

Dick Cheney said in October 2002 that inspectors are useless at best. Blix mentioned in that interview that Chemical weapons aren't weapons of mass destruction since their effect is rather localized.

Click here to watch the interview.

It's worth mentioning that Elbaradei said if the US and other nuclear countries like the UK and France really had credibility,they showed dismantle their nuclear weapons in order to contribute to the world wide disarmament the IAEA wants to achieve

Click here to watch the interview of Baradei with Charlie Rose

And of-course, after all these reasons,the Der SPIEGEL (in an article written on 8 December 2005, 49/2005 Edition, page 78) was astounded when the US officials congratulated ElBaradei for winning the Nobel peace prize. Where it was written:” Phone calls also came from senior US staff - quite surprising considering that the Bush Administration had made every effort to push the IAEA Chief out of office because of his resistance to the Iraq war. And even had his phone bugged by the CIA, as the Washington Post revealed in December 2004”

The article also speaks about Colin Powell's attempt to find an excuse to war on Iraq saying:” In his (Colin Powell's) speech to the Security Council on 5 February 2003 he mentioned as evidence of Saddam Hussein´s nuclear programme the attempted import of aluminium tubes, even though ElBaradei´s UN inspectors had determined that they were not suitable for making centrifuges for bomb production.”

Also spoke about Condolezza Rice's stance towards the inspectors saying:” she(Condoleezza Rice) severely criticized the weapons inspectors and sounded off about threats of nuclear mushroom clouds that Saddam could unleash - one of the justifications for the invasion of Iraq that has long been refuted, like so many others.”

Click here to read the Article.

And to answer your questions that I believe buzz in your head. No,I'm 100% Egyptian and No,I wont vote for ElBaradei if he ran for presidency,I simply didn't make my mind yet,I'll wait to see who will have the best plan for his presidency period. I simply just think someone in his position desereves a little bit more respect from his own people while the rest of the world is celebrating and admiring him.

Further links about Elbaradei:

Click here for wikipedia

Click here for press conference on 9 February,2003

Click here for another press conference on 19 December,2002

Click here to watch Elbaradei's video recieving Indira Ghandi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development

Save our Revolution

First: Maximum respect to all the martyrs of the Egyptian revolution no matter what religion or believes they had, those people who sacrificed their lives so we'd get rid of a regime that stayed in power for 30 years spreading corruption and even make laws the punish people who try to fight off corruption.

I was one of the people who supported to revolution, not from the first day because I didn’t think that people would actually participate that much, but since I realised that this time was different, people were determined to down the regime I supported them (was the second day of the protests), lived through what every Egyptian lived through, the hope, the fear, the mixed feelings of joy, pride and worry. I was proud of being Egyptian for the first time since I can’t even remember. We gained the respect of the world, which we were on the verge of losing, it once again.

And on 11 February, 2011, round 7:30 pm Omar Suleiman made a statement, and we were free, the united, educated Egyptians, who dazzled the world with how civilized they were during the protests and how peaceful that revolution was, are finally free.

And the people started dreaming, better education, and better health-care better services. Simply, a better Egypt. Ideas came up about how we can improve our Egypt, every person vowed to change and everything was perfect, life was pink as Egyptians say.

But nothing can be perfect forever. everything turned black when an officer shot a microbus driver in Ma’adi, people had one rough day because of that incidence, the driver died, the police officer's condition is still unstable in hospital, I thought to myself: “well, one incidence isn’t much”, then noticed the horrible state of traffic in the city where I live, went on and checked why the sudden crowded streets, found out that cops don’t really want to work, want to spread Chaos so people would miss Mubarak days of oppression and the fake sense of safety (click here for my article on counter-revolution). But, people aren’t really doing their parts, people parking right next to no parking signs, people harassing cops and traffic police officers(the recruits not the officers of the academy), people who are victims of the regime themselves, living and working in in-humane conditions for less than 300-400 EGP per month (50.97-67.96 US dollars),we didn’t revolt just for us, the people, we fought for all the victims of the regime, the employees who had too little to get by per month, the political prisoners, the police officers who are honest yet not known and are looked to as corrupt and tyrants because of their fellow officers, I was never pro-generalization person, yes most of the cops are corrupt and killed some of us, no one wasn’t affected by police brutality and corruption no matter how "high-class" or "connected" you are.

So, what am I on about?

• people should keep their civilized manners: don’t drop them as soon as the revolution is "over" and Mubarak left, whether you participated in the revolution or not ,supported it or not, it's your duty towards your country to obey the laws, this is our country now, everything you do affects our Egypt, every law you break means that you disrespect the martyrs who didn’t die so you'd be able to double park or park in no-parking spots, they didn’t sacrifice their lives so you throw garbage on the street, they sacrificed for a better Egypt, the least thing you can do is give them what they fought for.
• Don’t harass cops: you don’t know if he's one of the good guys or the corrupt ones, and there are good cops, some even died defending banks, prisons, police stations against thugs unleashed from prisons by the corrupt ones, don’t assume all cops are bad. Gawad who was shot by a rubber bullet in the eye said he holds no grudge against cops, because he knows that not all of them are the regime's dogs
• Be a law-enforcer: if you saw a friend or a relative breaking the law, gently ask him/her not to, remind him/her of those who died for a better Egypt, don’t harass girls on the street, keep our Egypt  safe and sound and clean

if the police wants Chaos,we aren't giving it to them.

counter-revoultion

Counter-revolution

Is it true or we are just paranoid?

I had an argument with some people about the revolution and it’s after effect, and how the revolutionaries are worried about the counter-revolution, the only comment he had is that we destroyed the country and now we are paranoid group of people who would stay trapped in what happened and won’t start rebuilding what they destroyed. That was one of the reasons why I wrote this piece on the counter-revolution.

First: I’ll start mentioning why it’s more likely that the counter-revolution secanrio is more likely

1. I’d like to mention that the counter-revolution scenario was mentioned by Hasaneen Haikal who has lived most of his live with presidents and world leaders, wrote his own books and some people call him the “political fox” plus some Journalists as Belal Fadl.
2. When a person stays in charge of a country for over 30 years, the number of people benefiting from his ruling (and thus his followers and supporters) increase, those who prove themselves loyal get appointed as officials, some of these officials are still in their positions up to this moment
3. You’ll judge for yourself when you’re done reading with this article.

Second: who are the people leading this counter-revolution?

1. Police-officers who would be found guilty of violence against protesters, some of them would even be accused of murder (an officer called Wael Al-Koumy killed at least 5 people with his own personal gun)
2. Officials who are still loyal to Mubarak or his followers (like Ahmed Shafik and Omar Solieman)
3. People who are looking to benefit from the rise of a system like (if not identical to) Mubarak’s system (appointing people of trust rather than people of experience).
4. Basically any official who would be prosecuted and found guilty on any crimes of corruption.

Third: what’s their goal?

1. Save their neck: as I mentioned, some of them are accused of murder, others of crimes that would lock them away for life, some are expecting at least 3-10 years in prison, for officials that are used to spending millions per month, that would be worse that sentence to death.
2. Save their money: they believe they didn't work for 30 years just to give up their billions worth of assets when a group of people ask them to (Mubarak’s fortune is 70 billion dollars, others range between 8-18 billion dollars). They hope that counter-revolution would give them time to carry out these 2 goals.
3. Gain back the power they once had: if the counter-revolution was carried out as they plan, turned out to be as strong as they hope, may be it’d give them the push they need to be in charge again, not necessarily through Mubarak, some new face would do the trick.

Fourth: what’s their plan?

1. Lets forgive and forget campaigns: they are most obvious on the internet and facebook, claiming that we shouldn't waste time to prosecute the corrupt officials and focus on rebuilding on our country, some even went as far as trying to make the revolutionaries feel guilty about what they did to Mubarak. So, you’d find pages entitled “we are sorry Mr President” and “lets honour Mubarak, son of Egypt and it’s leader” and other provocative pages on facebook.
2. Sympathy with Mubarak: to support the point above, they start mentioning rumours in newspapers as facts and news, saying that Mubarak is in bad conditions, depressed, his sons are fighting, having health issues (at times I expected that they’ll say that Suzanne Mubarak filed for divorce from him). I believe this is also to try fight off people asking for him to be trialled and jailed by making them feel like they ruined Mubarak’s life, toying with people’s emotions knowing that the kind nature of the Egyptians would allow them to achieve this goal.
3. Sabotage the relationship between people and Army: by not releasing the political prisoner’s as the Army asked them to, then releasing some and saying they’ll only keep those who were involved in law violations (it’s worth mentioning that the police is an expert in framing people, they may even put drugs in a person’s wardrobe just to get rid of him or just put him in jail). I also believe what happened yesterday was part of this plan, the NDP has followers everywhere like a malignant tumour that already spread.
4. Workers protests and sit-ins: also to serve the previous points, of course when these protests and sit-ins start the Army will not find it hard to believe that the revolutionaries started it, and it’d be hard to try and convince them otherwise. It’s noticed that these protests violate the simplest rules of revolutionaries: peaceful marches, Aljazeera showed videos of workers protesting and throwing rocks at a building breaking its windows. It’s also worth mentioning that they have personal demands like a raise, some of their demands is un-achievable in the current times. I may sound paranoid but I also believe this is also NDP work (NDP has over 3 million member. So, it’s not that hard to imagine).
5. Spread Chaos: Lara Logan attack, the chaos you can easily notice on the roads, the relative lack of security, all aim to cause a massive chaos that would lead people to hate the revolution and actually long for the days of Mubarak. Even the traffic was turned chaotic, my city is now more crowded than ever, the cars that weren't allowed in the city can now enter freely without one police officer intercepting them. police is basically not working and aren't doing their job.
6. Change skins: like snakes and lizards do, this is the best way to describe them, NDP’s attempt to change names, logo and slogan is just a try to get back in political life in a more acceptable forms, Hossan Al-Badry (the ex-general secretary of the NDP) is calling for formation of a party called 25January party, the thing that made Ghonim ask people not to make such party because that day belongs to all Egyptians.Also, they didn't bother to make an anonymous group of people start such party, they asked to start such party themselves (my personal opinion is that they still treat Egyptians as a group of people who aren't smart enough to realize what the NDP is up to)
7. Make a leader for the revolution then take him down: that would help, along with spreading the chaos, the workers sit-ins and protests, and making people sympathize with Mubarak, destroy the image of the revolution. They made Ghonim the revolution leader (which he denied, said he wasn’t even a hero, he was in prison for 12 days while people protested and died for freedom, kept emphasizing the fact he's just a part in a machine called Egyptian), then tried to destroy his image, called him a Zionist, accused him of not being a patriot because he lived outside Egypt and married an American, even some accused him of working for Iran and many other contradicting opinions and accusations.
8. Divide and Conquer: policy they have been using against the Egyptians for a long time that Nawwara Negm said a Muslim told her they shouldn't protest because Christians would get the US to occupy Egypt while a Christian was afraid the Muslims would kill all Christians in Egypt, the contrary happened in Tahrir square where you found a Christian girl helping a Muslim guy to prepare for prayer, Christians protected Muslims while they prayed and vice versa, the Egyptian nation united regardless of religion or believes any one had, that made them furious. So, the next thing you know a priest is killed, Bahaes homes are burnt and a try to divide the nation again took place (also the church that was blown up at Chrimas eve turned out to be Habib Al-Adly’s work to help divide the nation so they wouldn’t protest)

We should beware of what the government is trying to do, the counter-revolution scenario has become more obvious and more noticeable than before. Egyptians shouldn’t let the government have its way and we should always be united. United we kicked a president. Divided we couldn’t even buy bread for dinner