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A former Lt.General called Hossam Khairallah announced his presidential candidacy today in Cairo in Grand Hyatt hotel in a press conference attended by newspapers and TV channels. The presidential program of the former Lt. General that denies to be the candidate of the military is focusing mainly on education and civility of the state.
From the name or rather the military rank you will know immediately that we are speaking about military man , a big military man. Well for sure he is a big military man but there is a twist in our tale here.
1945 born Hossam Khairallah is a Yemen war and 1973 war veteran who joined the Egyptian intelligence aka GIS from 1977 till 2005. Lt. General Hossam Khairallah had served in the GIS in the information and estimation unit for year 26 years till he became the undersecretary of the GIS in 2005. This man participated in making the most important international economic and political agreements Egypt signed like the COMESA agreement.
Ahmed Hossam Kamel Khairallah comes from a family with a long history in the Egyptian security history. His grandfather was the governor of Giza , general Hamed Khairallah who refused to participate in the Abbas bridge massacre and his father a police general was the governor of Aswan who fought drugs in 1970s.
Here is a part of his press conference.
Shorouk news : Hossam Khairallah announces his presidential candidacy
Khairallah also is the chairman of the New Cairo club. He also heads a newly found association called “The Egyptian association for environmental quality”. This association was founded in last August 2011 and as you can guess from its name it is an environmental group.
Khairalla did not deny that he served with Omar Soliman in GIS , on the contrary he said it clearly that he worked with Omar Soliman for 14 years
I know about Lt. General Khairallah’s presidential candidacy since last week thanks to a dear friend that got a tip from a colleague in his work. That colleague is an ex-NDPian who used to be a member of the infamous electronic committee in the fallen party.
Khairallah is the third man from military background to declare his presidential candidacy official and is the second one now after the withdrawal of General Hatata from the race , whom I respect now so much after that decision. Officially it is him and former PM and Lt.General Ahmed Shafik when we speak about military candidate.
I do not think that Khairallah is the presidential candidate of SCAF but rather the intelligence if the intelligence is playing around as well , you know everybody is playing and has got a presidential candidate. If SCAF has a presidential candidate , it will be none other than Ahmed Shafik. Khairallah has also made it clear that he is not the presidential candidate
SCAF would be more stupider than I think if it has got than one presidential candidate , some people believe that Amr Moussa and Ahmed Shafik are the presidential candidates of the SCAF but they do not understand that Moussa and Shafik are competing on the same segment of voters. Shafik and Moussa will spilt votes so you can imagine the how many votes are now lost from the two men because of Khairallah.
Interestingly enough Khairallah insists that Omar Soliman is not going to run for the presidential elections and that if he does , Khairallah will not withdraw.
Needless to say many Egyptians including the revolutionary youth are refusing any military candidate whoever he is , it is crystal clear. I will not waste your time and mine speaking about the reasons.
Now here is an interview I found for Khairallah on ONTV with Amr Khafga in last August where he spoke about the national security concept. I like to listen to everybody.
ONTV : Khairallah speaks about National security concept
Khairallah appeared again on ONTV on October 14th,2011 to speak about the unknown third party involved in our clashes.
ONTV : Khairallah speaks about third party theory
To be honest he is more serious than Ahmed Shafik who charms many of the Cairene high middle and upper classes with his soft elegant sweet talk. As a strategic expert is more stable than Katu and his brothers.
FYI I am not against any Egyptian to run for presidential elections but I want all ex-military to wait for four years till to we enforce the civility of the state with a new constitution insh Allah if they have good intentions.
Anyhow days will tell if Khairallah is a big dreamer or if he is supported by the military or the intelligence or both.
The presidential elections from what I understood will be held next April 2012 !!
P.S you must that the Muslim brotherhood will support Non Islamist Civilian presidential candidate according to several leaks from the brotherhood.
This sounds like a Great Alternative to the Candidates presented so far!
ReplyDeleteA person with credibility, skill and while not from SCAF still he has great experience as a deputy to the director of Intelligence who is known to have protected Egypt from Foreign Threats and Domestic Strife for Decades under Kings, Presidents and until now still protecting Egypt and advising who ever is in government about information to support security and stability and prosperity, I LIKE IT !
@anonymous
ReplyDeletethis would qualify is the most ridiculous posts I have ever seen: "he has great experience ... who is known to have protected Egypt from Foreign Threats and Domestic Strife".
As a matter of fact he was one of the guys who oppressed Egyptians for Decades under Kings, Presidents. He is one of the guys who tortured and murdered tens of thousands and should go to the gallows.
He instigated religious strife as in Alexandria one year ago and did nothing against Egypt being made a USA puppet in the region.
I said it "would" qualify, because the truth is that you anonymous are for sure a Mubarakawee, one of his "children" one who wants that the old ways persist and Egyptians shut up and stay poor.
there is definitely no need to comment the anonymous post . . . the facebook-cv says enough about how deep-rooted and connected khairallah is to the ancient regime . . . some more information on the khairallah-clan - especially about his father - I found in my database:
ReplyDeleteMaj. Gen. Kamal Hamed Khairallah; born 16.10.1921; married, 3 boys (officer, engineer, student at St. George School); 1944 graduated Police Academy; 1957 BA in Law; 1964 Diploma of Higher Studies Institute; 1965 to USA for studying – Police Administration; 1970 Assistant to Cairo Community Commander; 1971 Commander of Central Police Forces; 1974 Commander of Security in Cairo; 07.1976 Assistant to Minister of Interior; 12.11.1976 – 00.00.1977 Governor of Sohag; 02.02.1977 Under-Secretary of State to Minister of Interior; 14.12.1977 – 27.11.1978 Governor of Aswan; hobbies: rowing, polo, horse-back riding.