Let’s put sports aside , yesterday the court has sentenced NDPian and MP Hani Sorror 3 years in jail. I know you miss this with all the buzz and anger following our humiliating night in Khartoum but you should not wonder because there is no news about Hani Sorror himself nor his sister in the country.
If you remember from last month I wondered if he was in the country or not, well rumor says that he is currently in Switzerland.
I hope that he is leaving for his son in law actor Karim Abdel Aziz some kind of compensation because Abdel Aziz has a film this Eid season in the cinemas ; a thriller action film called "The cousins" where he portrays "An Egyptian intelligence officer fighting Israel !!!!!!!!!!!!! Ironically the GIS did not approve this film and there was a big feud between the GIS and the production company and I have to say that they have all the right because the GIS had enough from Nadia El-Genndy's shit to find Karim Abdel Aziz , the spokesperson of Coke in Ramadan an Egyptian James Bond. Of course Abdel Aziz has a bigger issue now more than the GIS and his action film , he is the son in law of a NDPian runaway businessman who should be behind bars in a very big health scandal.
Hats off to Judge Mohamedi konsowah
Here is the photo of Sorror just in case you see him whether in UK or Switzerland.
Mona El-Shazely had to present a special episode from 10 PM on Dream TV2 last night , Mona was considered from the moderate voices that rejected the media escalation from both countries along with journalist Wael Al Abrashi who was there in Khartoum and was trapped in a restaurant for hours because of the Algerian thugs. Last night Mona was calm more than all the Egyptian TV hosts and hostesses. The TV show aired reports from Sudan itself and testimonies from people who were there including Wael Al Abrashi and Fardous Abdel Hamid who is by the way a proud Nasserite Pan Arab nationalist. I hope the world sees this episode and I wish I could translate it so the world knows that we are not fabricating anything.
I believe yesterday's protest in front of the Algerian Embassy was the first real angry protest the Zamalak island would witness ever. Thousands between 2000-7000 were reported protested in front of the Algerian Embassy at Brazil St. in Zamalak till the early hours of the day. You may remember that I spoke about Facebook invitations calling people to trash the embassy. Protestors who were mainly from young men held banners calling the Algerian Ambassador to leave the country "Get Out of Egypt" along with every single Algerian too ; of course it is unacceptable to say this , the Algerians in Egypt are most welcomed and safe ; hopefully the same thing can be said about our poor community in Algeria which lives in horror.
I think there were a considerable time of Egyptian hooligans because of the smearing cheers
There have been clashes between the protesters and the anti-riots forces in front off the Embassy ,the area surrounding the Embassy and it was badly damaged. You must know that last night protest reached to the Sakkia ceneter.
Currently there is a huge security tension in Zamalak for fear of new protests, there are blocks in the way. Already there will be a new protest soon at 2 PM.
Amr Moussa at last has spoken , he is calling the two countries to calm down. By all accounts the Presidential Statement issued last night was very moderate comparing to the public fury.
The Algerian press is attacking Alaa Mubarak calling him the teenager and the son of the real president of Egypt "Suzanne Mubarak" and that he wants to become the President of Egypt and using the defeat !! "This shows you how ignorant those reporters are because all the world knows that it is his brother not him"
Strangely no Arab country like Saudi Arabia is trying to mediate between Egypt and Algeria
It was supposedly to be a game but after it was over the game turned in to a Political regional crisis by all measures.
Egypt has summoned again the Algerian Ambassador who boldly from couple of days warned us from playing with fire !!??
President Mubarak met with the minister of foreign affairs today
Egypt has summoned our Egyptian Ambassador in one of the strongest move up till , one of the major points that our relations are from bad to worse with Algeria rapidly
The Algerian Ambassador is no where to be found in Egypt , I think he is starting to pack his stuff.
The security of the Algerian Embassy in Brazil St. in Zamalak is competing the security measures of The U.S , Israel and Denmark Embassies.
There have been calls to attack the Embassy since early morning in the facebook beside calls to
The EFA has withdrew from the North Africa football association
An Egyptian cinema production company “ The Arabic company for cinematic production and distribution” has announced that it is going to boycott Algerian festivals.
Yesterday many Egyptians slept earlier in sadness after our defeat against Algeria , it is a game and we know we could lose and it is not the end of the world but while they were sleeping many Egyptians all over the world kept awake till the early hours of morning watching the night were our fans in Khartoum were being chased in the streets by crazy Algerian thugs if I may say.
Thousands of Egyptians have spent their night in fear hiding either in hotels or in restaurants or in Egyptian companies HQ in Khartoum or even in the houses of Sudanese for fear they would be killed on the hands of the Algerian thugs brought by military Algerian planes.
According to testimonies these Algerians in the Sudanese stadium were not the regular Algerian fans we used to see , they did not even sing their famous “1,2,3 Algerie”. They were professional thugs who emptied the markets of Um Darman from knives ,Swiss knives and swords for complete three days. Of course we have been warned but we did not think it would reach like this especially we have lost. Already for the record many Egyptians did not go for fear of something similar would happen.
The Algerian thugs chased our fans bases and cars with stones and bottles , several Egyptians have been injured for real. The Khartoum airport seems to be I do not know what kind of word to use , may be poor despite the economy there is booming ,really booming.
The whole night the country listened to terrifying calls from Sudan coming from celebs , journalists, MPs and regular fans who trapped in the streets of Khartoum for hours and did not know where to go. I will get it here soon. There are so many
The Egyptian government immediately announced some kind of emergency situation but of course the masters of chaos made things worse. First many Egyptians reported that when they reached to the embassy they could not find the ambassador and had to go to the airport where their buses were attacked by the thugs. I wonder what could happen to them if the celebs did not call the live TV shows especially Amr Adib TV show “Cairo Today !!??
The ministers of information, aviation and health kept speaking on air in almost all TV channels to calm people down and tell them what to do.
The Sudanese authorities also suffer from this chaos syndrome regardless of what they claim , our fans had to wait in front of the Khartoum airport closed gates for hours till they were opened after our angry calls to TV shows.
Things officially began to escalate between Egypt and Algeria when Mubarak told Sudan that he would send our special forces 2 AM if the Sudanese forces can't control the situation.
You must know that an Egyptian Citizen called Marwa Abdel Karim has lost her eye , it seems that there is something about eyes and Algerians from 20 years Baloumi did the same thing to another Egyptian citizen in 1989 too.
I am so angry and frustrated. Update :
Here is the complete episode of Amr Adib :
The first time I saw media shy Alaa Mubarak speak to the media was in Ahmed Zaki’s memorial service and the second time has been from few minutes on Dream TV 1 for the first time in a very rare incident.
Alaa Mubarak , the eldest son from President Hosni Mubarak has called Khalid El-Gandor's live TV sports show to speak about his experience in Yesterday Match and what he thinks. Alaa is well known to be the patron saint of football in Egypt , he is mad about it and he is a friend to almost to all the players and coaches. Alaa says that he had to stay in the hotel along with his brother for two hours in Khartoum after the match where he saw and heard the terrifying testimonies of our fans who reached to the hotel. Alaa was angry and furious ,he said that he was not speaking as the President’s son nor does he present the official view but he was speaking as Egyptian citizen. Still for someone like him to speak so angrily on air for the first time against Algeria in this way this means there is a huge crisis between the two countries.
We have reached the point of no return as Alaa Mubarak has opened his fire on the Algerian federation , the Algerian fans and the Algerian thugs in Sudan not to mention the Algerian press and the Algerian Ambassador. “The Algerian press attacked him and his brother unfairly if I may say , it is a normal thing that they would support their country’s national team for God Sake !!”
Speaking about Alaa himself , well he is more human and more simple than his pale brother. There is a huge difference. If you do not know who he is , you will think that he is normal Egyptian football angry fan.
For the record there is huge anger and criticism to Mubarak brothers and the regime as their plane was the first one to leave Khartoum during the big chase of Egyptians in Khartoum. Angry fans called from Khartoum to TV live shows complaining that the Egyptian embassy abandoned them as soon as the Mubaraks had left the country. I do not know if he called to express his anger or calm people down honestly.
I was going actually to write a post attack brave man Gamal Cullan as in twilight’s Edward Cullan.
Regardless of the telephone call of Alaa Mubarak who spoke about stuff I can’t imagine that he would say like “Kafeya” , Gamal Mubarak thanks God did not use the golden opportunity to prove his leadership skills and win the hearts and minds of Egyptians if he had stayed in Khartoum to be sure that every Egyptian in the country has left safely to home ; thank God he did not because he does not does not deserve this opportunity as he is not a natural born leader , he is just a golden child wants to be a president.
Back to his brother , regardless of what I think of him and his family he did not say something wrong this time , there was something fishy in Khartoum prepared in Algiers officially these Algerians in the stadium were not fans but thugs brought by military planes.
Also do not freak out Alaa won’t win the hearts and minds of all Egyptians for the sake of his brother as we are not that naive .
Here is the call
News agencies are circulating news that the Algerian authorities have arrested an Egyptian on espionage !!! The source of the news is Algerian tabloid A Akhbar. I do not know if they understand the implications of such nonsense they are doing or not. They claim that that this Egyptian was spying on the oil fields !!!????
Are they kidding ?? First a Police general killed their fans and now we are spying on their oil fields !!??
This is too much , this is like crossing a point with no return regardless of all these slogans.
Ok Algeria has won the game and our Egyptian community in Algeria is spared from a fearful fate.
Some people believe we played a bad game ,other say that we did not play well
Some people believe that the Egyptian audience in Sudan were not those who were in Cairo , the third degree audience not those fancy businessmen and D-List actors along with the pale Mubarak brothers.
Bravo and congratulations for Algeria , of course I will be lying if I claim that I am saying it from my heart , it is hard after being attacked in the most disgusting way in the Algerian press systematically , it is hard after the fear our Egyptian community in Algeria live in that they would return to Egypt in coffins because of pure lies by all measures. It is hard because of this crack made by the lies of the Algerian press and please do not tell me Medhat Shalaby said this or Amr Adib said that , there is difference between lies and rudeness. Please do not tell your hooligans did this because in all our games in Algeria Algerian hooligans have become a real legend of terror for us and we did not complain nor did it affect our relations like this.
Many Algerians if not the majority believe that we have killed in Cairo between 4 and 8 fans , we have caused a pregnant fan to lose her pregnancy and we attacked an Algerian minister who was sitting in the VIP box with the Algerian Ambassador and the Mubaraks.
The solace of the Egyptians in this defeat is that the Algerians will spare us from their anger and their press from lies. Man we have become so weak.
Egyptians do forget insults and we have been insulted enough this time but I do not know when we will forget , at least I do not know when shall I forget !!??
A Huge salute to the Egyptian team , I can’t imagine the pressure on them. Even greater salute to coach Hassan Shehata
I have once read wise words :
Do regret on what you have missed and do be so happy with what you have
I will leave you with Shadia and Ya Habibty Ya Masr which was originally released after the six days war if I am not mistaken.
The Algerians got what they want , I hope they forget us now as we have a country with a future to care for ; let’s go back to our debate : Gamal or Omar or El-Baradei plus Haikel’s suggestion.
With all measures what we have witnessed from escalation because of the game between Egypt and Algeria has not been witnessed before whether regionally or internationally or even locally !!??
It seems that we will not talk about the game and its results whether positive or negative in Cairo “this post is written before the the match” only but we are going to also to talk about that expected war between Tamer Amin and Amr Adib on air.
I don’t like both men and in the current social-escalating to become political- crisis between Egypt and Algeria there is blood on both of their hands. We can’t forget that Adib started the feud with his unjustified rude attack on Algeria and then we have Amin Pasha who asked the Egyptians to welcome the Algerian football team with a yellow smile.
Yesterday there were some Algerian viewers who called Egyptian show El-Beit Baitek and attacked by name Amr Adib and Amin said Amen to this repeating the name of Adib. Moments later , in no time Adib knew that Amin has attacked him on the Egyptian national TV and so with no names mentioned he attacked Amin on air in front of millions using all what God gave him from strength and rudeness. Adib was furious because he used to defend his colleagues where as Amin did not defend him only but attacked him on the National TV of Egypt , his country. Adib called Tamer : The employee with no opinion what so ever !!
Honestly I do not give damn for both of them , they are not my favorite TV hosts but I am enjoying this on air feud, I do not know if Amin will fire back or not but I am just having one of my favorite moments ; insh Allah the second one will be when Abdullah Kamal of Rosa Al Youssef slams Mohamed Ali Ibrahim of Al Gomhouria and Ibrahim fires back in his silly full page.
Transparency International published its Corruption perception index for year 2009 and we came in No.111 worldwide and you will not believe which country shares with this unfortunate event : Algeria !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Algeria which is fighting us madly to qualify to the world cup is just as corrupted as us !!
We share this rank in this index along with other 8 countries.
The corruption perception index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys. CPI conducted 6 surveys whether in Egypt or Algeria. The scale here is from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (perceived to have low levels of corruption).
According to CPI report Egypt is still perceived highly corrupted despite lately we began to address accountability and transparency more openly , may the CPI ignores that open discussion is just the old policy of letting them bark till they get bored !!!!!
Worldwide New Zealand is perceived the least corrupted country in 2009 while Somalia is perceived the most corrupted country !! “Can we consider Somalia a real organized state so we can have this judgment !!??”
In the Middle East Qatar is the least corrupted country where as Iraq is the most corrupted country in the region “The Americans did bring democracy to Iraq as far as I could tell !!”
You can read the part concerning the Middle East below from the full report : “Click the full screen”
Ok we have got 24 hours before our big game with Algeria , it is not about which team will be qualified to the world cup now but about the battles we are expecting to take place between the Algerian hooligans in Sudan and in Algeria and the Egyptian hooligans in Sudan and the trapped Egyptian community in Algeria.
There is no difference between today and yesterday , the Algerian press is insisting on spreading hates and lies , Al Chorouk newspaper today was speaking about the match attacking Egypt in almost 20 pages of its 22 pages !!!!!
Al Chorouk issue 17/11 -
Yesterday Mona El-Shazely managed to speak to one of that tabloid newspaper and all what I got from him was screaming and shouting which makes me believe that they know the level of crisis they manage to achieve between the two countries. El-Shazely in a polite way accused him of lying indirectly.
Already What Algerian Al Chorouk has done from creating a diplomatic crisis from nothing should be studied as example on how dangerous and irresponsible press can be. I do not know if I am precise in using the word “irresponsible” in describing the actions of Al Chorouk and its fabrication , we all know that in the Arab world newspapers can’t go in similar defamation campaign against other countries except with the approval of the ruling regime itself and this makes me wonder about the Algerian official involvement in this escalation. The Algerian minister of labor says something and in Egypt and another thing in Algeria, ah by the way before I forget this man claimed that he were attacked in the Stadium , with my all respect all the high VIPs from diplomats and ministers sit at the main VIP box with their Egyptian counterparts including the Mubarak brothers , how could anyone touch him !!? Another thing , that nasty rumor which will cause the murder of some Egyptian either in Algeria or in Sudan ; those Algerians who were killed after the match .. Again and Again the Algerian Ambassador has denied these rumors.Watch him below denying these rumors for God Sake , why no one wants there to believe him !!?? Why would he lie ? Please do not tell me an Egyptian pressure !!??
Let’s put the football aside , let’s go back to things that matter , really matter. Yesterday Egyptian Al Shorouk , the really respectable Al Shorouk compared to its Algerian counterpart has published a very important news no one paid attention to unlike to what Algerian Al Chorouk published from endless lies. Egyptian Al Shorouk reported that Hilary Clinton and the States are practicing political pressure on the Egyptian state in order to increase of the quantity of gas exported to Israel and to reduce it price !!
Again I will say it : Increase the quantity of Gas and reduce its price !!??
You must know that in year 2005 Egypt agreed to export gas for Israel for $1.5 per BTU !! Yes for $1.5 BTU and due to the public pressure and also the financial crisis the Egyptian government had to raise it to $3 per BTU and the now the Americans want us to reduce the price which is cheaper than the average international prices again !!!
Are they kidding me ?? Of course no one care to discuss very important news
It turned out Hussein Salem who strangely mourned Amin Howeidy earlier this month in Al Ahram has traveled to Israel to sign new 3 gas deals last October !! It is strange because last time I read an interview for him , he said that he was an old man and left the business for his son !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will not speak about the national security point of view and how we regard Israel but I will speak about the economic point of view , this is completely wrong !!?? What do Israelis want ? To export natural gas to them for free !!?
According to the reports coming from Algeria the Algerian authorities have began to protect our Egyptian businesses and interests not to mention our embassy in the country.The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs has called the Algerian ambassador.
There are about 1500 Egyptians according to primary reports there and since yesterday many Egyptians have called both the embassy and the TV channels on air demanding protection to return back Egypt till the end of the match.
Here are the photos of Orascom’s Djeezy in Algeria after a night of hell
By the way I heard news Sawiris decided to return back all the Egyptian staff from there , already 20 Egyptian employees have been injured from his employees. Egypt Air office which was there from the 1960s has been destroyed
The largest investments for an Arab country in Algeria are owned by Egyptian corporations. Orascom telecom, Citadel and Arab contractors are from the major companies investing there. Up till now Orascom telecom and Arab contractors reported attacks there
The Algerian French magazines are full of B.S and I do not regret using this word, I do not know what kind of fabrications they are printing and why they are doing this , the journalist’s mission is to find the truth not to spread the lies in a perfect world and they are chanting with the glories of the revolution which is innocent from them. We have been called Baathists “I do not know if they understand the meaning of the word or not” , it has been reported that A Police general killed their fans in Cairo “a police general !!??” and the plot against the Algerian football team was made on very high levels of politicians in Egypt “I can imagine Omar Soliman sitting with Habib Al Adly and Gamal Mubarak planning for the attack in the basement of the GIS !! Are you kidding what kind of crack this people take in Algeria” !!??. Ah and we hate Algeria for some unspecific reason !!??
I know that part of the problem now , the bigger part of the problem is how the media in Algeria is dealing with the matter. Before the match I blamed our irresponsible media but now I am blaming the Algerian media for deceiving the Algerian people.
We will not solve or heal this crisis in this way by repeating the slogans of brotherhoods, Pan Arabism and Islam ; do not get me wrong but they are irrelevant when the other side does not consider you a brother or an Arab or a Muslim or even a human in the first place. We must be honest with ourselves, we got an issue , we got a grunge between the two countries and we must reveal it. In old Arab councils when they try to reconcile two tribes instead of endless war they do this.
We have a problem here and it is an old one to be accurate and unfortunately it started with football too. Algerians are people of mountain , they are tough,they get angry very quickly and their anger ends with violence and they got hooligans.
on the other hand we are big mouth people who can provoke anyone and lately we began to have hooligans too.
If We admit this and try to fix these points at least not to use them against each other it will be great. Of course this is besides the nasty role of politics
Gaza did not sleep yesterday just like Cairo , the Gazans were so happy that we won Algeria 2-0 , they went to the streets holding our flags just like us.
I really thank them so much and I am so ashamed that despite their good feelings I can’t help them , I wish one day Egypt uses the power it has got to end this inhuman siege on Gaza , to stop this endless agony and we can do it if we want actually.
I feel sadder when I see these images of Gazans smuggling sheep from the coming Eid through tunnels
Many of us will always this match between Egypt and Algeria for different reasons ; may be for the tension or for the game. I will always remember it because of the tension, the game itself and how that goal came in the last moment , the moment Mubarak sons were cheering , the tears of Hassan Shehata and how Amr Adib and Ahmed Moussa danced !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I understand that Ezzat Abu Oaf is busy in the CIFF but it would have been better to have him instead of the unofficial ministry of interior spokesperson in the Egyptian media aka Ahmed Moussa !!!
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