Sinai updates

Thank God the day was saved at 6 PM Arish Local time in North Sinai , the clashes were stopped between the Bedouins and the police, the gathering of the Bedouins in front the Egyptian-Israeli borders requesting the refugee from the Israeli authority was ended , already it was more like a public stunt by the Bedouins who wanted only the attention of the officials and world to hear their problems.

They didn't ask much , they wanted punishment for a police officer from the general security forces who came from some time after the Taba blasts , this young man thinks that he is in Cairo where the police has ultimate authority to escape from any charge as he killed young man from a week without any accountability and on Wednesday he killed two young brothers again for no reason or guilt

The two brothers murder was the last straw which drove hundreds of the Bedouins to rebel ,cut road and threat to cross the border for Israel , their only demands were to remove General Samy Loty ,the manager of general security in North Sinai and to give them the officer who caused the death of the three young man , as according to the tribal rules his punishment is death or to pay "Diah"/ "Sum of money" to the deceased families in hope that they will accept it if not then he must be killed

Thank Goodness help came from the wise tribe men in Sinai , with the representatives of the North Sinai in the assembly and huge help from both the army and intelligence who used their old relations with the Bedouins to remedy things

Without knowing what happened there or being there I expected that the state will listen to their simple very simple demands and remove the police general and I think they paid a "Diah" a huge sum to the deceased families to forgive the police officer who is not only transferred by may be now he is face a discipline court in the interior ministry , if it were for me ,I believe he should be executed !!

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What is happening in Sinai now ??

The latest achievement of the Egyptian Police , a war that they would lose and already began to lose with the people of Sinai , the Egyptians who regardless of their ethnic are still Egyptians

the clashes of the tribes in north Sinai escalated after the death of two young men on last Wednesday ,it reached to the level that the thousands of armed Bedouins already are controlling a part from the Egyptian borders with Israel

exactly from the international sign number 19 to international sign number 26 and it is an area that is beside the borders, the sources other than the official said that the Bedouins are controlling now 4 km on the borders

The governor and the MPs are trying to mend things with the heads of the tribes who seem insisting on their demands

There are thousands of anti-riots soldiers sent to the borders

I expected the situation to reach to this dangerous level since last year ,when the police and interior ministry began their barbaric campaign after the bombing of Taba , the campaign that reached to the level of arresting women and children of the Bedouins and detaining them for months without charges , already the west world not even the east refuses the inhuman humiliation to women and children so you can imagine how the Bedouins will feel !!

There is also rumor that some NDP member is causing all this trouble , I won't omit this rumor because the land there can be very expensive

Ironically the places where there are clashes and tensions now are familiar to me "El-Oga" and "El-halfan "valley , they are familiar to me because deep under the same sands the anti-riots are standing now are the bodies of our Egyptian POWs

Our Egyptian POWs who were giving help and were hided by the same Bedouins whose son and grand sons are treated so badly

Anyhow just to put clear some facts , this is not a minority oppression thing , because this is the same ill treatment of the police to the people in the valley !!

Link to FilBalad.News | بدو سيناء يسيطرون على جزء من الحدود مع إسرائيل

Original Source from Al-Hayat

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Norbit

N.B this is an old post I wrote from of couple of weeks ago

It had been very long time when I watched a real funny film in the cinema, today I watched the film  "Norbit" in the Nile city cinema, my favorite ,since its opening I always go there , I left "Galaxy" for  Good despite I think I will go to it soon insh Allah to catch the "300".

Anyhow Norbit is a comedy starring famous Eddie Murphy and beautiful Thandie Norton with other famous black American comedians . To tell you the truth I am not a huge fan for Eddie Murphy but I can't deny that he has a great talent to make you laugh and another great talent to imitate different personalities , not every actor has this talent but he has got and he succeeded in doing it in the two parts of " The Nutty Professor " and he is doing it even better in Norbit , why it is better well in the "Nutty Professor" he was presenting a similar set of characters ,the fat eat lovers of Klumps family , while in "Norbit" he is presenting a different characters ,completely different

I mean he is doing Mr. Wong the Chinese  ,He is doing Norbit the main character

and he is doing the evil woman from hell Rasputia

The film plot is simple ,well be careful here as there is a spoiler here

Norbit is a very simple guy , he is not the smartest or the most handsome guy in the city and surely not the richest after all he was an orphan raised Mr. Wong the kind frank Chinese guy who wants to go for whale fishing.Norbit in his childhood had a crush on beautiful Kate who was adopted by rich parents who took her away leaving him away ,after some time lonely Norbit found friendship ,security and what he thinks it was a family with Rasputia, the fat love food rude aggressive Rasputia whom he married . Norbit despite having not the perfect marriage was faithful till the day he returned back to find his wife in the arms of another man , of course it ended that Norbit was beaten , yet after every storm , there is a sunshine , because Kate is back to town for good and Rasputia won't like it

and here I will stop because I am a bad spoiler

The film is so funny and it will make you laugh despite I don't recommend the parents to bring their children to see it because as usual Eddie is using sexual jokes and remarks, Eddie always the sexual remarks in his movies from very long time ,even since his days as stand up comedian ,I remember the Eddie Murphy raw show and it was all about sex,women and homosexuals but the nice thing that it won't make you feel disgust if you are adult . There is a very interesting remark you will know that the movie is written by Murphy and his brother Charles

Seriously if you want a break from action and war movies and also romantic and stupid teen movies ,I recommend "Norbit"

Already It is the first time I know that such name exist !!

Here is the trailer

 

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Putin rejects talk of third term

Well it seems to he didn't listen to the advice of our man !! 

Link to Putin rejects talk of third term - Europe - MSNBC.com

 

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The Spies awake

We are still with El-Attar case as Canada requested officially Egypt to investigate the claims of El-Attar in the court that he confessed in front of the investigator after being tortured badly in the Egyptian intelligence , the claim which distributed Canada so much as El-Attar is considered a Canadian too, it distributed Canada because this allegation comes after the scandals of the interior ministry regarding the torture in the police stations and jails

For honesty I saw this coming and anyone would suspect in the creditability of this confession thanks to Adly torture club and its international fame

Anyhow the Egyptian official respond came today to fire back the allegations

A high Egyptian official source denied the allegations , saying that during the trial El-Attar didn't request a medical examiner to examine him to prove that he was tortured ,same thing for his lawyer who didn't request a medical examiner for his client and here is a good point ,an excellent because he was tortured in the way he described there would be remarks in his body to prove so and if there were remarks he would show them in the court to prove his allegations , but he didn't because he knows very well how big slim liar he is .

The Same source also said that the medical examiner attended and questioned El-Attar during the investigation sessions

The big surprise was that El-Attar was visited by Canadian officials from the embassy including the Consular himself and none of those officials recorded any remark about torture

From another side

Another espionage case was awake

The famous "Sherif El-Falali" case was brought up to surface by his family . His father had sent a small letter to "El-Dostor Daily saying  that his son in innocent and that his trial was a political one with in direct accusation to the president to be involved in it. I remember in the time of the "Falali" trial there were rumors about his involvement in a business with the one of the president's sons , dirty business the father revealed in letter that it was arms deal, oh yes according to the father his son was an arm dealer who was involved in selling a very  big deal to some African countries

Now for me El-Falali's case is finished because I remember how it went , at first the civilian court considered him innocent yet the military court considered him guilty and now he is jail for 15 years

I remember the trials till now and to tell you the truth I always found his parent are so provoking ,I can't forget his mother who said that her son is a religious and he has a Spanish girl friend ,another thing being an arm dealer for me is not that innocent ,I mean how many people were killed in Africa because of Mr. Falali so called trade , this doesn't make him innocent to me at all on the contrary

The father is accusing President Mubarak thanks to the fame of his sons ,especially Alaa and this wouldn't happen if they were not hated and had this bad fame honestly .

"El-Falali" 's father sent his letter to El-Dostor after those years because now there is a big suspicion regarding the latest two espionage cases especially the Nuke spy, he knows that it is a prefect time ,even his choice to send a letter to El-Dostor daily the biggest independent opposition newspaper shows that he wants to rise suspicion towards his son.

To answer back all these allegations and this not in defend of the regime , because I know the cons of it very well , I will say it again , if the regime wants someone in Jail ,it won't fake for him an espionage case that can threat the international relations of Egypt with other countries "Egypt vs. Canada in Case of El-Attar and Egypt vs Spain in Case of El-Falali" , if they want him in jail ,they will charge with other 1000 Charges

and again in the worst times of the intelligence during Salah Nasr and his moral scandals where People used to be kidnapped from other countries in coffins ,there was no single case that spying was used as a charge

I am not defending the intelligence because they don't need my defend but this is what I think and believe , i am not kind of a girl who lives in the dream of Adham Sabri and I guess this is obvious from my blog and coverage to the news there ,I just say this because I can take any more of this

What we are dealing unfortunately is the result of the constant lying of the regime and the hate that people began to feel towards it thanks to inhuman treatment of the security forces in the interior ministry that the intelligence and the army began to pay the price , now as a result of the stupid political security policies every convicted with a murder or drug dealing or treason will claim that he confessed under the torture !!

Sources :

1. Filbalad : Egyptian official source denies torture allegations
2. El-Dostor Daily : El-Falali's father "My son is innocent" page one date :22.4.2007

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The New "Bosta"

The "Bosta" word in Lebanon means "The Bus”, it has a mark in the Lebanese culture and history that now in the Arab world we began to understand thanks to the Lebanese movie "The Bus"

The "Bus" is a sign for the Lebanese civil war, because it started after the Bus incident where the phalanges troop made an ambush for bus carrying a Palestinian folklore dancing ensemble that was coming back from a wedding, killing them all and by this incident officially the civil war started between the PLO and the rest of the Palestinian militias from a side with their allies and the phalanges and their allies from another side and the rest is a bitter history

A bitter history some want to revive again

From sometime now the Lebanese scene is calm, I know it is like the quietness before the storm but it is calm, the Saudis are trying to avoid the storm as much as they can despite the attempts of some to revive it by simply creating a sectarian division

So it is not strange that from couple of months when the opposition started its strike some Shiite lad was killed and the accused who were never found were said to be from the Future movement than in January again in the clashes between the Hezbollah supporters and future supporters another Shiite Lad was killed, yet thank God the Shiite Leadership understood the purpose of this dirty game, it already knew how much it would cost the country

But as I said some don't like this way of act and thus they moved to the other front

From the Druze sect , Ziad Qabalan in his 20s who was a member in the Progressive party of Jonbalt and Ziad Ghandour who was 12 years old and a neighbor of Qabalan whose father is also a member in the progressive party were kidnapped earlier this week , it could be another kidnap crime but the facts that the victims belong to the progressive party ,  Qabalan was a suspect in the murder of one of Hezbollah supporters and the most important fact that this Lebanon , Lebanon the famous of Kidnaps in the time of war .

Of course all the leaders in Lebanon condemned the incident those who are on the suspect list from the opposition and all leaders called for calm down, the fear of the revenge that may cause between the Druze Sect and the Shiite Sect to a civil was and is still there and this is in fact a good indicator that the Lebanese understood the game.

Well it didn't end well the boys didn't return alive, as they found Qabalan and Ghandour dead bodies were found on Thursday, 40km south of Beirut, police said. The official statement is that they found the bodies in a field north of the port city of Sidon after a local television station received an anonymous phone tip!!

 

It is terrible thing when a 12 years old or even 24 years old young man got killed because of politics , of course the worst part is concerning the 12 years old Ghandour , whom I think wasn’t targeted in the first place.

 

You see as I said Qabalan was a suspect in a murder, plus according to the investigation he was kidnapped in his way to work as usual, it was his daily routine, in his way in his car he took young Ghandour, I don’t know why but it was the fate.

 

I think who ever did this is a heartless criminal with no feelings at all to kill a 12 years old boy who did nothing ,but I believe those two especially Ghandour are the among the first victims of  the new Lebanese civil war which I am afraid see in the horizon

Sources:

·       From Al-Jazeera News

·       From the official Progressive Socialist party : Tomorrow is a day of Mourning

·       From the future Newspaper "official Future movement Newspaper" : Return back our boys in Arabic

·       From Al-Akhbar Newspaper “Anti-governmental” : Gadra Tragedy

·       From Al-Manar TV "official Hezbollah TV" :

• Kidnapping of 2 Lebanese young men condemned
• Looking for 2 missing Ghandour, Qabalan continues

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Some people didn't like what Heikel told Fisk

 

It is my fault or my family's fault that we don't buy the"El-Osob"" independent weekly newspaper but we don't like Mustafa Bakery as we consider him more to be in regime side than people's side and it is enough that he considered "Saddam Hussein" as a hero !!

It is a fault because it seems that I missed the last week column of Mustafa Bakery on the 20th of April 2007 where Bakery revealed on the behalf of the famous Heikel that the interview with Fisk wasn't an official interview, it was a chit chat!! And Heikel doesn't mean any offense to the president that he sent Bakery with an apology to the presidency!!

Wow this is a lot and we need it to read it again over and over

First of all I must comment on the excellent relations between Bakery and the presidency that made a man in the weight of Heikel who hosts a former president like "Khatami" in his ranch for the weekend use him as an envoy to send his apology!!

Second it seems to me that Robert Fisk will be the bad villain in the end, the wicked British who deceived the old man by changing the simple chitchat in to an interview that would be published in one of the world famous newspapers!! I don't think that Robert Fisk with his history which is much longer than Bakery and much respectable too will deceive Heikel and Heikel does know very well that his words will be published as it is without a change

Third I don't see any offense to President Mubarak in the interview

Fourth Fisk didn't say that it was an interview, it was more Fisk describing his meeting and talk with Heikel, it is very common in the press abroad, this unofficial style, without a "Q&A", already Fisk is using it a lot

Fifth this is not the first time that Heikel criticizes Mubarak publicly, come on I remember his lecture in the AUC from couple of years, it is much bolder and it is even more public and was shown in TV twice on Dream TV, of course after that he was banned from the Egyptian channels, but he still got his show and special on air appearances on Al-Jazeera, where he says what really can make the presidency angry!!

The most important question we ask ourselves is what gain Fisk would have from publishing what can be considered insulting to President Mubarak; already the man published nothing compared to what is published in other media and newspapers.

Another important remark but not a question ,whether it was a chitchat or an interview Heikel said what he really believes and thinks and that’s what made the presidency really angry.

N.B I don’t believe the apology thing because Heikel doesn’t need an envoy

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