Monday, March 12, 2007

Went Out and never returned back

Since last week I followed the news regarding the missing Iranian general Ali Reza Asgari despite my concern day and night with the Egyptian POWs files. It was very interesting to me , because I think it is the first in the history of the revolutionary Islamic Iran that some member from the regime itself to disappear like that , before of course the new information regarding him.

General Ali Reza Asgari , is a 63 years old general from the Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and former Deputy Defense Minister in the former President Khatami , he is known to be a rich man , already a man in his position should be especially he is working in one of Iran's important security forces like the Revolutionary Guards , whom I think they are equivalent to the State Security in Egypt as I understand , a group from the police and the army got nothing except to protect the regime in all the possible ways , ways that are far away from Islam.

Anyhow It started when Asgari vanished from the 7th of February after arriving to Istanbul on flight from Syria .He had reservations at the Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel but never checked in and that made the authorities in Iran seriously very worried , the first thought was that he was kidnapped by some western intelligence either the C.I.A or the Mossad ,the Iranian foreign ministry sent a group to investigate the sudden disappearance

 then after a week or something ,we began to read reports and hear news that the revolutionary guard rebelled on his home and is cooperating with western intelligence , of course mainly the C.I.A, it was very shocking especially to the Iranians , according to the media sources the American ones like Washington POST saying that he gave information mainly about Hezbollah and its ties to Iran , very critical information about the Lebanese resistance ,as already it turned out that he worked for some time in Lebanon since the late 80s as the commander of the Revolutionary guards there according to the Israeli sources  and after that he returned to Iran as a high-ranking official dealing with the arms trade and weapons industry, including the development of the Shaab-3 ballistic missile. He stepped down as Deputy Defense Minister in 2005.

Yet the new surprise we found now according to the Times that the general was working for the western intelligence since 2003 , in other more better description he was spying on his country since 2003 to be the first senior official since the revolution from 27 years to do so !!

His escape with his family was arranged for months according , already he got two son,daughter and several grandsons who fled the country ,some said that they went to Syria and from it their destination is unknown , already the man is said to be undergoing a debriefing in some base in Germany , of course I won't think a lot to know that it is an American base ,already the words used in the western reports are very silly "Western Intelligence" come on we all know it is the United States' "C.I.A" , the unique thing is the Israelis are saying that the general was working as their spy for the Mossad describing the operation as very successful , I won't speculate much and say that the Israelis are trying to save their intelligence dignity after the July war and El-Attar scandals, You see in all the western news reports the man is said to be spying on the Hezbollah-relations and the Lebanese resistance secrets , yet despite all these years they didn't win at all in the July war , the ex-commander of the revolutionary guards in Lebanon didn't know one single location of one missile in Lebanon to be targeted in the war , he didn't know where Nasrallah was , I mean logically I don't see any kind of help he presented to the Israelis or the Americans in their war against Hezbollah !! Logically a man like what they are saying should give them critical information that can blow the Lebanese resistance !!

Of course I don't need to say that he escaped because there was fear from that his cover was to be blown already Israeli YNet News hinted to that point , they are saying that "Iran’s notorious secret service, the Vavak, is believed to have suspected that he was a high-level mole"!! Notorious , well I don't suspect that Vavak is not so , but also the Mossad is a bloody Notorious, already I can't find anything related to the Vavak online as Iranian secret service , you see I know that in the time of the shad there was the "Savak" !!

Updates : It turned out the Israeli newspaper editor misspelled the word "Vavak" , the correct word is "Vevak" and it is the ministry of intelligence

There are some points which made me think again about the western version about the man ,I mean according to the same Israeli News source they said that in 1997 he was appointed deputy defense minister in charge of internal investigations. He uncovered several cases of embezzlement in the Republican Guard that made him unpopular.This is an act of an honest man who doesn't care a lot for position or what the other thinks as long as he was doing the right thing for his country ,so how can betray his country like this ??

Another question mark ,why he did it , I mean the reason can't be only money , already ,they say that he is a wealthy man and after his recruitment in 2003 he even became more wealthier ,that more money condition should have made the intelligence service in Iran more attention to him this is number one.

Another thing in similar situations from the Soviet Union and cold war era , the reason , announced reason for leaving the country to work for the enemy which was the united States always the escape from the dictatorship ,seeking freedom , because here the only reason , the obvious one is for money , I mean this is the direst kind of spies ,for spying for his enemies , especially he was not in need of money !!

I don't know but if I were from the C.I.A I would use this escape and say that he escaped because he wanted freedom to the end of this new middle democracy fancy

May be there is something about him ,I don't know , or may be it is just me , the conspiracy theory Arabic mind

Oh I think I forgot to say that i hate traitors

Lebanon war planned months in advance, according to Olmert's testimony

This is kind of old news

So it wasn't the Hezbollah adventure move that started the war ,it was going to happen either ways but the Israelis just needed an excuse to justify themselves in front of their people and in front of the international community .

You know this proves the strength of Hezbollah as a military power in the middle east ,I mean that this war was prepared from military and intelligence for months yet Hezbollah stood against the biggest destruction power in the middle east for a whole month and defeated it , none of the objectives the Israelis wanted to achieve in the war was fulfilled on the contrary

This is just a present I give to all those accused Hezbollah of being careless adventurer

http://www.Ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3373938,00.html

Link to israelinsider: security: Lebanon war planned months in advance, according to Olmert's testimony

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Libya boycotts the Arab Summit in Ryad

An expected act from the leader of the Libyan revolution El-Gadafi, he announced that his country will boycott the next Arab Summit in Ryad in an objection for transferring the Summit from Sharm El-Sheikh to El-Ryad !!!

May be he likes Sharm and its beaches

Seriously this is an expected already El-Gadafi doesn't dare to go to Saudi Arabia in the same way to Lebanon after his scandal when his secret service men were arrested in Cairo planning to kill the crown prince then king now "Abd Allah" from couple of years

El-Gadafi wanted to kill "Abd Allah" after the later had a big words fight with him publicly on air when he attacked late King "Fahd" and KSA and said  nonsense as usual

It was famous incident all Arabic TVs transferred it

The relations between KSA and Libya went from bad to worst since then especially after revealing about the Conspiracy ,KSA called for its Ambassador back home and asked Libya to do the same

Of course the Peace lover President Mubarak tried to mend the broken relations and I think he succeeded in that somehow ,the relations returned but of course not like before

But it never took the higher representation that is the king visits Libya or the Libyan leader visits KSA

You know I believe everytime , El-Gadafi always loves to make something to be talked about like his irrational crazy long speeches and press conferences , attacking other leaders and sudden departure of the Libyan delegates from the summit because he didn't like the coffee or tea ,I always remember his women bodyguards when they insisted to go with him to conference room and according to the Procotol it was prohibited ,only EGyptian forces and security were entilted to do so and thus his women bodyguards attacked the Egyptian Security men and both got clashes ,of course our Egyptian men were more stronger then his women , but it was like the circus in front of the cameras pulling their hairs and pushing them

Man I am speaking as we already are having some benefit from these summits

really I got a confession ,I only watch the summit and follow the speeches to hear Basher El-Assad speeches as I love his Arabic style and watch El-Gadafi Show as it is so funny

Link to ليبيا تعلن مقاطعتها للقمة العربية في الرياض

My proud sad important little secret

I guess if you are regular visitor to my blog you will notice that I don't update my blog as usual , no I am not sick thank God ,nor ideas and topics can't be found heaven forbids but I am busy

Not busy because my personal life makes me so , no not yet but because in the past of days I dedicated myself to something I promised this year to be write about after couple of months exactly June , but the current events that occurred in the past two weeks made me change my mind and started early my work

as you know this year is 2007 and next June will be the 40 anniversary for the six days war and as I made a series of posts about the 1956 Suez war, I decided to make a series of post about 1967 six days and as I know the impact and the results of that war that made a turning point in the history not only in the middle East but the whole world from the 1960s till now ,I decided I prepare my sources and my posts from now , There are many files in my mind that I won't reveal now let everything to its time , yet there is one file that I thought it was too big to be discussed in one post or even one blog ,it was the Egyptian POWs , when I began to read more and more since last year concerning them I realized that my duty as an Egyptian blogger who writes in English to believer to those who don't live in the Arab world and don't know Arabic the other side of the coin to let the rest of world know about the war crimes that happened to the Egyptian POWs in the six days war,I felt it was my duty to only translate what happened to those people may be one or two will read it and feel that those POWs need justice, anyhow I discussed with my Egyptian Blogger friends and we agreed to the idea of making a website based upon a blog where it would be what happened really  back then , I was really encouraged and I felt I wasn't alone especially with the great help of the wonderful Egyptian girl Bent Masrya and her wonderful work of banners

I started in making the blog ,which is rather a website ,not only for 1967 but the war crimes that happened in 1956 too ,I didn't leave a single point or incident hopefully in the war of 1956 that took three or two months to finish the 1956

Then I started the 1967 POWs files , yes it is not a single file ,it is a stack of files ,sad ones ,I began to gather the material as I can but still there was a shortage ,all I had was many photos ,some stories including the Shaked scandal ,yes I know about it from a long long time ago

thankfully to heaven the Israeli channel 1 and the director of "Rush Shaked" decided to air the documentary causing all the buzz in Israel and all the fury in Egypt and files , testimonies ,People of Sinai, former POWs began to appear and talk and I was just in heaven ,so in those couple of days and expect another more couple of days ,I dedicate myself to gather all these pieces of information here and there in order to translate them and write them down as they should be.

What I did in the Egyptian POWs forgotten files is still not completed yet , already I didn't complete the design of the blog itself , I didn't install the plugins of wordpress that I need as I am concentrating now on the material which is the important thing here

Anyhow I feel that what is there can be useful please visit it now and spread the news ,I want to hit the iron while it is hot

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You know I feel so sad and angry really when You search more and more you will find tragedy and you know the bless you have in your life now that you live among your people enjoying life and reading those lines now in this blog , not running away trying to avoid capture in the middle of the very hot hell summer of Sinai , you know I don't know why I remember the verses of Bob Dylan famous "Like a rolling stone" with "No direction home like a rolling stone" those men ,those great heroes were like the rolling stone between a commandership that was having its own battles for rule and an enemy that no the name the word of mercy to other races in its dictionary

Friday, March 9, 2007

israelinsider: Briefs: Egypt forbids thousands of Christian pilgrims from visiting Israel

You know this is the sort of news that is written ignoring a very important fact

I don't think those 2000 Egyptian Christian Pilgrims follow the Egyptian  Coptic Orthodox Church that led by Pope shounda as the article makes you believe so.

Simply because Pope Shounda was against the Peace with Israel and this was from the primary reason why he and El-Sadaat didn't have any good relations at all.

Plus and this is much more important Pope Shounda issued an order forbidding the Coptic people from visiting Israel for visiting the holy land in Jerusalem as long as it is under the occupation and as long as The "sultan" Monastery problem is there .

That is well known for all Egyptians , already another tiny piece of information ,the Egyptian Church still blames the Jews for what they believe happened to Jesus "PBUH" , this is from a Christian Orthodox friend.

Already I do believe that this news can be correct in one part that Egypt forbids the pilgrims from visiting Israel , but those Pilgrims are not Copts but from the other churches that don't follow Pope Shounda like the Catholic or the Protestant Church , already my neighbors are Catholic and visited the holy land from 10 years ago

This is just an important clarification my duty is to explain it

Link to israelinsider: Briefs: Egypt forbids thousands of Christian pilgrims from visiting Israel

The Original News in Ynet News

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

I swear I didn't forget the POWs

In the last few days the scandal of the murder of the Egyptian POWs in the six days war in 1967 at Alrish by the orders of the Israeli "Shaked" Battalion commander then and the current minister of housing in the Israeli cabinet Binyamin Ben-Eliezer made the headlines in the public and party newspapers, the anti and pro government headlines.

The Egyptian Parliament had very hot sessions with requests of expelling the Israeli Ambassador ,cutting the relations and presenting Eliezer to the international Court of Justice , not that only for the first time some NDP members attacked the Israeli Ambassador in Cairo so bad that they described him as a monkey !!!

It started with a documentary shown on the Israeli Television first channel called "Rush Shaked" or "The Spirit of Shaked" where they showed some testimonies from soldiers and officers who worked under his command in "Shaked Battalion" in 1967 and as I understand from the reports as I didn't see the documentary yet as it was shown once on the Israeli TV 1 and till now it didn't find its way to the Internet yet "please if anyone has it , just tell me because I really need it",anyhow as I was saying that I understood from what was written in the reports in the media that this documentary showed testimonies and evidences that the Shaked Unit slaughtered 250 Egyptian POW from the commandos captured in the war

This is not the first time or the only time the talk about the crimes against the Egyptian POWs comes up to the surface to it ,really I mean we are dealing here with big file from both wars 1956 and 1967 , this was n't the only incident,in fact there were much worst incidents , believe me I am working on this topic for some time now

Today I will just clear some points , this thankfully will affect the Egyptian-Israeli relations ,already Eliezer was going to come to Egypt on next Thursday this week , yet minister of National Security "and also the man responsible of the Israel file" Omar Soliman asked him to postpone his visit to unknown time . The Foreign minister requested the Israeli Ambassador and clarifications from the Israeli government.Not that only off the record in Egypt but in the records in Israel in newspaper Maariv , they said that "Borhan Hamad" who is a general in the Egyptian intelligence and the head of the Egyptian Security delegation which is responsible of the Israeli captured Soldier if you remember him , anyhow General "Hamad" took a vacation for a whole week , well I don't know the general , but the man deserves a vacation ,he won't kill himself for the freaking international peace

Anyhow also off the record in Egypt but in the records in Israel there was some small crisis when the Egyptian Security authorities stopped an Israeli truck from entering Egypt , the truck is said to be have Radioactive materials, of course officially the Israelis needed these allegations too saying that these material were going to be used for improving the Embassy !!

Back to the POWs Scandal ,of course Eliezer denied the allegations saying that those who killed were Palestinian Fadyeens not Egyptian POWs , the claims of the minister of housing were supported by one of his ex-IDF soldiers and the director of the documentary himself

The Israeli foreign minister asked our foreign minister to calm the film furor , I don't how she expects him to do so , he won't push a button to make people forget , already as I said that was the main headline in the front pages in many newspapers

You know I am surprised from the timing ,especially in Israel , I mean I think this film was aired in some kind of an internal war, a political revenge from Eliezer yet they didn't expect the Egyptian reaction , in fact they expect in Israel as long as Mubarak or Soliman didn't comment on this directly to calm down after one week or something, I mean the documentary was shown again , the Israelis were clever enough till now to cover their crimes they won't announce publicly on the first channel if it were not for a good reason.

About Egypt , I think that the Egyptian government will use it to come closer to the Egyptian people , in fact they have to because if they don't the people will hate them more and more , why I do talk about this in Egypt well pardon me ,but the timing is killing me already this is not the first time the Shaked massacre to be talked about , if the Egyptian government had wanted to investigate this , well it should have done from a long time .

I mean it had been there since 1995 in Israel an interview with Aryeh Yitzhaki who exposed the crimes of the Shaked , it came after the terrifying confession of Ayre Biro about the crimes he and his battalion did it in 1956 in the same year , I tickled this in my 1956 series of posts

You can check it in wikipedia too from 1995 , it is interesting that now in 2007 people are acting as if they didn't know about it

Now in Egypt , this information was published in a book called "The Zionist Conspiracies on Egypt" in year 1999 by late Journalist and author "Jamil Araf" , it was published by the famous publishing house "The modern Egyptian Press", the ISBN of the book 997-209-041-9

Look the date , in this valuable book there is a whole chapter about the crimes against in the Egyptian POWs in both war 1956s and 1967, exactly chapter 17, this incident of "Shaked" was mentioned from page 242 to 244

Now can anyone tell me why from the year why our government didn't do anything whehter in 1995 or 1999 ?? Why we have to wait till they damage all the evidence ?? already the Egyptian foreign ministry requested the transcript of the documantry and I am sure 95% that they change the transcript already the director said that we said that they were palestinians not Egyptians and blamed the Egyptian media from twisting the truth

In the end I want to say something to the Israelis and Jewish people I think that as Holocaust survivors you will understand why it is important to us to punish those who killed our men with no right what so ever in the worst way , they are like the nazis to us

Sources:

'Oprah of the Middle East' flees over TV row

Hala Sarhan in the Observer from London 

You know she really loves calling her Oprah of the Middle East despite there is a huge big difference between her and Oprah

You know it is the first time since the beginning of her professinal scandal that she uses bad words like "bastards" in an interview , I think this will cause a lot of anger back here in Egypt.

Already I read that she went to London to have some surgical operation in "Sowat El-Oma" last week and it was successful one ,she went from Dubai to London not like they referred to the article that she went or escaped from Egypt to London , I didn't stand at the piece of information that she left on Waleed Ibn Talaal's  private jet because it is known that he supports her at least for now

You know her attacks on those who exposed the case and calling them "bastards" won't help her much , I mean I understand how she feels ,but she must use her brain and choose her words better because it is a media and public opinion case in the first and in the end

Link to 'Oprah of the Middle East' flees over TV row | World | The Observer