Merry Christmas to all the people who celebrate it today
Feliz Navidad a toda la gente que la celebra hoy
كل عام و الاخوة المسيحيين بخير و سلام بمناسبة عيد الميلاد
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Bobby Gates unknown history
Robert Gates ,the new American secretary of Defense , you may know that the man comes from a great intelligence 
Not like any officer ,he was a very active field officer , and I mean with active ,I mean the kind of Mohamed Nassim may Allah bless his soul
Another interesting fact I knew about Bobby "which is the nickname of Robert in America for example they used to call Robert Kennedy Bobby" ,as I was saying I found a very interesting fact about Bobby Gates that in the mid 1980s he came on a special mission to Cairo ,trying to convince the Egyptian regime to invade Libya
The fact is over of course his mission failed because I and other Egyptians don't recall any invasion to Libya in the mid 1980s
This fact ,forgotten one is dedicated to all those people who really so happy by the resignation of Ramsefield
Bobby is much more worst Donald ,much more dangerous ,already the man specialization was the middle East
Technorati tags: Politics, International, United States, Secertary of Defense, Robert Gates, Bobby, Egypt, Lybia, History, Iraq, Middle East, 1980s, intelligence, C.I.A
del.icio.us tags: Politics, International, United States, Secertary of Defense, Robert Gates, Bobby, Egypt, Lybia, History, Iraq, Middle East, 1980s, intelligence, C.I.A
UN votes sanctions on Iran
Ok the UN voted for sanctions on Iran at last like the United States wanted ,since now there would be
- Prohibitation of the supply, sale or transfer of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology which could contribute to Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
- All states shall freeze the funds, other financial assets and economic resources" owned by people or entities linked to "Iran's proliferation sensitive nuclear activities or the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems.
But let's speak the truth would this make the Iranians stop their nuclear program ??
No way ,it is useless
Already Iran I believe is isolated enough thus such sanctions wouldn't be a big burden
in fact I believe it is a waste of time because they will continue in their program , Iran is not exhausted financially like Iraq after the Gulf war 2 , it is rich and got oil that gives it more power than you think
Do you think that China or Russia or N.Korea would listen to this UN order ??
Baby the UN orders are made to be broken , you want the best example see Israel
Anyway before anyone accuse me of anything I will focus on Iran
Iran still got the winning card of Iraq , yet Bush is dump enough to refuse to cooperate with Iran and Syria ,of course the one who really pays the price is the Iraqis.
From another hand the supporters and admirers of Ahemdnijadi will support him and Iran more than ever ,considering him the new Nasser ,the enemy of modern imperialism of the west
International Coverage from around the Globe
- France 24 : UN votes sanctions on Iran
- Al-Jazeera International : UN votes for Iran nuclear sanctions
Technorati tags: Politics, International, World, UN, United States, Iran, Nuclear, Middle East, Ahmednijad
del.icio.us tags: Politics, International, World, UN, United States, Iran, Nuclear, Middle East, Ahmednijad
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Nishan and Majority
Nowadays I began to hate the word “Freedom of Expression” despite believing in yet, but I just got sick from hearing it every where from every one. You know it is silly thing because every time some one makes a mistake against some one with several supporters, Religions are being humiliated based on the principle of “Freedom of Expression” in a way that no one accepted , Historical figures are defamed thank to the same principles
It is the chaos
I mean now the new fashion or crusade in the Arabic media and blogs is to stand with the Moroccan magazine “Nishan” changing it from 
For those who don’t know the Moroccan authorities decided to close and ban “Nishan” magazine after publishing an edition including a report about the jokes in the life of the Moroccans, till now there was nothing wrong, yet these jokes were not like any Jokes beside they were about Sex, explicit ones as I understood from some Moroccan readers’ comments and Politics, it had a section about the Jokes about religion mainly the Islamic one and here comes the problem
Jokes about God, about Prophet Mohamed, about his companions from what I understand from reading in Moroccan blogs.
This is unacceptable; making fun from the religion in a disgusting way is a taboo to be discussed in a public magazine, this is not sex or politics, it is about scared beliefs of not only to the Muslim population of Morocco and they are the majority “98.7%” according to the C.I.A fact book but also one billion Muslim around the globe if the jokes were really as they were described in the media, already I can’t judge by my own self as the edition and the magazine itself were banned from publishing online from the ISP itself after the government banning order and public anger , and even an anti-Nishan Website was publishing the jokes online as a part of the campaign against the magazine yet unfortunately by the request of the readers they deleted the scanned pages
Look before anyone jump in to conclusions, I am 100% with the Freedom of Press and Expression as long as they don’t cross their limits of what accepted and unacceptable from ethical behaviors, that’s what My Grand father an Egyptian Journalist who lived his last 20 years of his life in a battle with the Freedom of Press in Egypt taught me, there are certain red lines not to be crossed
“Nishan” made a huge mistake; I don’t mind speaking about Sex or Politics at all, despite some may object on Sex as a taboo from the Eastern taboos not to be discussed widely and openly in magazines and newspapers but religion no way
Even their excuse is not acceptable; it is very naïve saying that
“So what these jokes are from the Moroccan streets??”
What Streets exactly??
Are they from the communist streets or the secular streets or the aesthetic streets??? From what I know the Moroccan people, the simple average Moroccan Joe; who is the source of the jokes just like in any other country; respects Islam so much regardless of his or her behavior, you can feel this if you watch the Moroccan satellite channel, the influence of Islam in this nation is so great despite all the western –Franco influence, it is there and no one can deny it
It is there and the regime, the dictatorship Monarchy is using to its advantage creating myths from considering the King as another religious symbol, the Prince of Believers whose foot is kissed by old men, I can’t forget the scene in the King Hassen II funeral when some old, very old sheikh came and kissed the hand of the young king
“Nishan” could have saved itself from all that trouble, if it didn’t publish these religious jokes sections and kept only the sections about the sex and politics. Already I know for sure that the Moroccan regime did what it did from banning and punishing the journalists of the Magazines because of the jokes about King Hassen II and the interior ministers using the religion insult. You want a proof, well if you want to any “Anti-Nishan” Website you will find that the following
The “Nishan” magazine insulted Allah, Prophet Mohamed “pbuh”, his companions and the King of the country!!
Why do they consider their king is so holy to be considered as Allah, the prophet “PBUH” and the companions of the Prophet!!??
Look this is not an inspection court or that Islam against the Freedom of expression but everything must have limits. Some people I see what to internationalize the case, ok internationalize it
But let’s speak about Democracy which means you must have your rule based upon the majority, the majority of the Moroccan people are against this magazine after what it did and with its ban, and they are the majority not the sophisticated intellectuals I believe
This is problem I believe comes from the fact that Morocco is just like any other Arabic country which got no democracy at all, pure dictatorship, the personality cult of the king is there but the question here if Morocco were a real 100% democratic country and the majority was against that magazine and called for its ban, well the opponents and activists agree??
Insulting religions in the name of Freedom of expression is a crime against Freedom of expression
P.S update (2/1/2007) I found an online version for the forbidden essay on Wordpress.com ,I read it and I don't see a direct insult to the Islam or Allah or the prophet !!
del.icio.us tags: Middle East, Freedom of Expression, Morocco, Magazine, Nishan, Islam, Arabic, Press, Social, Citizen Journalism
Technorati tags: Middle East, Freedom of Expression, Morocco, Magazine, Nishan, Islam, Arabic, Press, Social, Citizen Journalism
Le Resistance Suez War 1956 "The unforgotten operations" {Must Must read}
The Underground resistance did many amazing operations, I believe the amazement came from the facts that most people who participated in it, were not military and never had a military training except for the boys of the National Guard like Dr. Yahia El-Shaer and Mohamed Maharn. They were like you and me, normal people who were put in extraordinary situation and did extraordinary things for their country, they didn't care for their safety, and they risked everything for what they believed in, from freedom and sovereignty
Today insh Allah, I will share with you some unknown yet important operations to famous ones with the correct details, but the way there are lots and lots of operations yet I chose those, I don't know why but they attracted me
My sources here are mainly two: Port Said online.com and Dr. Yahia El-Shaer valuable Website
1. Not every blonde is a western
Well this is what jumped in my mind after I read that story ,a mix of espionage ,courage and adventure , really those boys and men were too adventurous and that's why the history will remember them
Our hero here is half Egyptian - half European , young Mustafa Mustafa Abd El-Wahab who was 24 years old then "Born in the year 1939" , Mustafa 's father was a captain in the Universal company and he was a close friend to Dr Yahia El- Shaer in the high school. During the war Mustafa had a very big and dangerous assignment which was to spy on the invasion troops , thanks to his European look with his blonde hair and fluent language tongue he got,he wasn't caught.He provided the secret resistance with lots of information about the French and English troops on daily base. His biggest assignment was the 24 hours surveillance he made to the British troops while departure on the 22nd of December, his complete detailed surveillance report was sent immediately to the Egyptian Presidency and General intelligence
Big salute and kiss to Mr. Mustafa Abd El-Wahab where ever he is now ;)
2.It was a great lose to the MI5 and a great victory to the Egyptian Secret Resistance
That is what I said to myself ,it was a big lose to the MI5 when their man in Egypt major John Williams for 25 years got killed in a very simple suicide operation . major Williams worked in Egypt for 25 years ,he spoke not only Arabic fluently but also several Egyptian accents beside learning the Egyptian customs and traditions very well.In the war of 1956 he headed the intelligence service of the British forces in Egypt , yet it wasn't his only assignment his other more dangerous assignment was to 
The 16 years old man , really he was a man ,was "Said Asran" , a member in the secret resistance ,yet despite his connection to the resistance ,he made this operation individually , the resistance didn't know about this operation at all till it happened , there was no arrangement at all for that operation on the opposite of what is known in Egypt. All the credit goes to"Asran" who did to avenge for his brother murder , from what I think after reading and search that his brother was also in resistance and he may have been caught by Williams and torture to death and that's why it is too personal and dangerous "Asran" didn't care for his life to get William , it was a personal vendetta issue . Already he refused to take the money reward from the resistance commanders and according to Dr. El-Shaer the resistance underestimated his anger "In Arabic" . "Said Asran" died on the 4th of July 2004
A Big salute and prayer on the soul of Said Asran "Please if you are a Muslim ,read on his soul "El-Fataha"
3. The De lessepes' statue operation and El-Shaer family
First before the 24th of December 1956 Port Said had one big statue in city ,the "De Lessep" statue , very big statue that reminds you if you see it with the big statue of Ramses II statue in Cairo or Mustafa Basha Kamal statue in 
On 24th of December ,and it was Monday ,the Egyptians found that one of the soldiers from the departed invasion forces put rudely on the top of the statue The French flag and The GB union jack flag with a French Para troop hat ,it was so rude and provoking , when the Egyptians reached the two flags ,they burned them ,after that there was some kind of a group thinking condition all the people had it around the statue ,it must be destroyed ,they tried but the problem was that it was so huge from bronze
Anyway those angry people weren't alone who thought about this idea of destroying that statue ,an Egyptian Journalist who was in Port Said then though about it before them and even before the departure of Anglo-Franco troops , but of course for such big operation with big implications you need the Cairo permission and thus from El-Shaer family house where the Egyptian wireless unit was hided a coded message was sent to Cairo ,yet the answer didn't come immediately, in fact it came after the major Samir Ghanam ,the commander of this operation made his mind I believe from what I understand even thought the orders came from Cairo prohibiting any revenge attack to the European features of the city above them that statue ,I don't know really what Major Samir was thinking ,but I believe may be the act of the departed Soldiers had did it from putting the flags in a provoking way had its share. Anyway Ghanam acted on his own just like the angry people who gathered on the 24 of December trying to destroy it. 
Young Yahia didn't want to be alone in that historical mission , he was going to erase the last sign of western imperialism in Egypt then , he should share that glory and thus he asked Ghanam to include his brothers with him , but he only included one brother Abd El-Monam, while his brother Mohamed Hady was on another assignment
And thus the Al-Shaer brothers with black bag full of explosives went to destroy the big statue ,they went and it was a difficult operation
When they arrived they were already an audience about 20 or 30 people from the angry people who tried to destroy the big statue in vain ,so they were spectators who began to watch the two young boys who some of them knew their name trying to bomb that big thing
The problem was that they had to try three times to explode the statue till at last they did it and bombed it
and thus there was no more of the De Lessepes statue
The remaining thing is the base ,while the body De Lessepes is somewhere , it should be put in the museum
Check the story here
Big Salute and a Kiss to El-Shaer brothers
P.S : Today is the Victory Day in Egypt , the national day of Port Said where the last British and French Soldier left Egypt
Friday, December 22, 2006
Le Resistance 1956 in Port Said "The secret resistance"{must must read till the end}
This time I will speak about the secret resistance history and my source here is Dr Yahia El-Shaer book
The secret resistance as I said before the organized one was a cooperation between the people of Port Said and the Egyptian army ,here this what I am sure you don't know
When the assault on Egypt and Port Said happened and from what I think a clever thinking from Nasser and his advisors, President Nasser issued the presidential decree of forming the public under ground resistance , and appointed Abd El-Fatah Abu El-Fadl as the head of it , Abu-Fadl for those who don't know later became the deputy of the head of the Egyptian intelligence,already in that time Zakirah Mohi El-Din ,the head of the Egyptian intelligence ,had another title I found in the documents in Dr. El-Shear Website that was "The general supervisor of resistance across the Arab world "
Gen.Abu El-Fadl was the communication link between Cairo and the people of Port Said
Yet the real God father of the Port Said under ground or secret what ever you call it from resistance was major Kamal El-Sayed , a police officer who had a past experience in resistance and worked with the intelligence during the existence of the British Canal Military base, El-Sayed was the coordinator of the operations in Port Said ,as I said he was considered as the God father of the resistance and that according to Port Said online despite the existence of many important names , real important names from the special forces and Egyptian intelligence
The groups of the resistance were 8 groups "check this chart from Dr.Yahia El-Shaer,already I am sorry that it is only in Arabic , I swear if I have time I would translate it " , yet there were more of the Fadeyeens groups coming to the city under the siege through the Manazla lake ,the number of those external groups reached to 5 groups and this according to Portsaid online
The head quarter or the operation room of the resistance was in the office of the officer Detective in the upper floor of the El-Arab Quarter police station , and they hided the wireless in the house of someone you probably read his name frequently in this series Dr Yahia El-Shaer , they hided it in El-Shaers house , already young Yahia El-Shaer and his brother were member in the resistance and before that they were members in the national guards.
- There is a very unique story as their Mother late Mrs Amina bravely saved the wireless and the Egyptian officer who was sending telegram when the following happened, the British knew there was some wireless some where in the area as they got the signal, and thus the order came to the British soldiers to search every house , every flat ,every room and every crack to find that bloody wireless , already lady Amina bravely hided the device and the man with his submachine in the closet of her bed room , when she knew they were searching in the neighborhood, when they came to their apartment ,as soon as they entered and began to search ,she pretended to be panic and fainted ,yes she faked her fainted ,of course all the neighbors gathered and so ,when the British saw that scene ,they freaked out and left the house without searching the rest of the rooms ,the last thing they wanted was a public anger because of freaking out a lady ,already here are the pictures of the wireless that El-Shaer family hided in their house
The Egyptian resistance as any resistance in world began to have its publicity flyers whether the encouraging flyers or the English flyers from the kind "Johnny you are so dead ,you are going to die in Port Said..etc" {Johnny was the name the Egyptians used to call on any British soldier},The one who used to write it down with famous Journalist "Mustafa Shardy" along with others and they were called the "Hatshama group"and they worked in a very small print shop of Mr Mohamed Shaker Maklof and Mr Magrabi, and the first flyer was to encourage the people in Port Said and it held the title "We Will fight,We will fight" from the famous historical speech president Nasser said in Al-Azhar mosque on the 2nd of November 1956 "You can read the full speech in Arabic from here or here and English here,You can download it here from BBC Arabic . The English flyers used to reach to the British camps by either two ways from the Fadeyeens , the commandos or the Cyprus workers from the British base in Cyprus who came with the British army , already the Greeks and Cypriots stood beside the Egyptians in that war
The transportation of the weaponry to Port Said was a big problem not an easy with the city under a siege , it was even worst from smuggling the weaponry to Hezbollah, anyway Major El-Sayed thought about the fishermen in Al-Manazla lake , they were many but the choice was hard because it was a very critical thing ,in the end he chose a certain family from fishermen , the "Abd El-Manams" who used to hide the weapons under the fish in their boats. Transferring the weapons was a very dangerous mission yet the people didn't fear from it and thus you would find that even young ladies joined this mission,for example a lady that appears in the Al-Jazeera special documentary about the resistance Mrs Zeinab ,who recalls who she transferred the weapons inside her car and her little niece was beside her , and how the British soldiers stopped her and asked her about herself and the kid , Zeinab wisely and boldly answered him saying that the kid's name was Abd El-Nasser , and even before the soldier opened his mouth ,he found that people began to gather and thus he let her go , already people gathered to see what the problem of that officer with that lady and that fricked the officer ,the last thing they wanted to do was to raise sensitive issues
The operations of the secret resistance ranged from the defense of the city then spying and collecting information about the invaders to dangerous and violent operations of kidnapping and killing
For example the people used to hunt down the soldiers by putting snipers on the roofs and on higher floors in the building which made the British mad and bombed the buildings madly
Also the Fadeyeens used to steal "I don't know if it is the proper word" the weapons of the British soldiers and thus the orders came from the high command of the British army to its soldiers to attach the weapons on their bodies and not to roam alone but with a group on the 8th of November 1956 ,of course this didn't stop the resistance
Next time Insh Allah I will share you specific successful operations of the honorable resistance
Technorati tags: Egypt, Resistance, History, Port Said, Suez War, 1956, Middle East, UK, France, Politics
del.icio.us tags: Egypt, Resistance, History, Port Said, Suez War, 1956, Middle East, UK, France, Politics
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Because you don't like our president
To the Egyptian people
And you are complaining ,screaming and bitching about our President , at least he didn't call the days and the month after his name and his family , at least he doesn't have golden statues every where , at least he didn't write some book 
Really Egypt conditions ' are far more better than poor Turkmenistan
Today the President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov "oh man I had copy and paste his name "after 20 years of rule of the ex-soviet country of Turkmenistan that is so reach in resources specially Gas died suddenly from a sudden heart attack in the morning causing a shock to the country despite the reports about his bad health ,already he is a diabetic
The man is a very unique dictator , an old fashion if I would say ,you know the kind who worships himself and makes kissing his ass is a religious order in what the west calls as I knew today cult of personality ,strange in Wikipedia that the most famous three figures were only Kim Ill -Sung and his of N.Korea and our deceased friend here ,well they forgot another one Saddam Hussein
The guy was self obsessed by himself , golden statues for himself everywhere ,I mean look to the amount of Gold in that 
Also he wrote some book ,called Ruhonama , The Book of spirit , which he made as scared as the Holy Quran May Allah forgive me , yes the book is put beside the Holy Quran in the mosques , they put lines of the Ruhonama beside the verses of the Holy Quran , the man was insane for sure
You want a proof that Mubarak is nothing compared to him , check the presidential decrees he issued in Wikipedia
Of course the money from the gas industry in his country goes to him and his family ,you know I don't understand why he didn't make his son as a vice president may be because he didn't expect death already he was 66 years old and he was considered a life time president
check the news from
Der Spiegel English service with coverage about the Europe's concern about the Gas and of course don't miss the photo gallery there
And of course the fantastic BBC World coverage
The man dies "to the hell I am sorry to say so "
What is going to happen in the future after his death Questions without definite certain answers
The Niyazov's cult must must see this photogallery
The real poor country in an exclusive BBC report
del.icio.us tags: News, Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, President, Dictator, Death, Media, Asia, Democracy, politics, international
Technorati tags: News, Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, President, Dictator, Death, Media, Asia, Democracy, politics, international
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)