Egyptian Chronicles

Alaa Mubarak : Third Time Is The Charm

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:36:58 PST

Alaa Mubarak called again a News night Talk show last night for the third time this week to attack the Algerian Ambassador and express his huge anger from what had happened in Khartoum in that bloody night. This time he spoke to Amr Adib.

This time he slammed Al Jazeera Channel along with the Algerian Ambassador in Cairo.
He said that the Algerian press criticized his way of talking and that it is not how the Presidents’ offspring should speak ; well then the Algerian press should not count him as a first son but rather a regular citizen especially that they would not understand the President’s offspring language there !!
He is speaking in this way to express all those on the cafes and drivers “ The man of the working class.”
He did not say that the Algerians were Jews , he respects Algeria as a country.
He is a Muslim man who fears God and as a Muslim he respects all religions.
He does not want Ambassador Al-Hagar in Egypt “The later refused to apologize”
He attacked big NDPian Magdy El-Dakak’s October Magazine “My favorite's moment”
He does not have any political ambition what so ever. “We know that , it is his brother”

I do not know why Alaa Mubarak is speaking to the media suddenly all that time , it is not an attempt to help his brother in his plans because he simply overshadows him.

Is this an attempt to absorb the public anger ? The President’s son is angry and he is speaking the language of people but it is too late to make anything on the official level so Alaa would go on the air and say that he can’t take it anymore and enough is enough ??

Is this a political game ?? Well he said that he is not a member in the party “really !!??” and he does not have any political ambition what so ever plus it is his brother who should beware from his growing popularity ; I will say it again this man managed to created a popularity in the Egyptian street since last Friday his brother failed to create for 10 years now.

Is this a real sincere talk from the heart ?? I know you will think that I am kidding but think in this ; Alaa earlier this year has lost his eldest son and as a person he has not been exposed to such violent experience , he could be moved from inside. Alaa in two calls mentioned how the Egyptian Children who accompanied their families were in danger “he mentioned the story of his friend who was attacked by Algerian hooligans before the match in front of his 6 years old girl and in that call above he mentioned his friend’s son who was there and up till now is suffering from nightmares” .

Also as the son of President Mubarak and despite being the modest down to earth son compared to his brother Gamal Alaa has never been put in such situation. Alaa mentioned that he found the Algerian hooligans in the stadium doing these signs to him and his brother that they would be killed when they were sitting in the VIP box ; the VIP box in Egypt is a real box with protecting glass with fans who come to cheer for football not to threat anyone by anything. On the way to the hotel his convoy passed by those Algerian hooligans then in the hotel till their departure with the national team he began to witness what panic was from the crisis in front of him. I know I sound strange here but I do not think all the time in political conspiracy theories nor I am biased because he is supporting our calls for our dignity ; the dignity which his father did a wonderful job in wasting it for 28 years but I am speaking a person who did not suffer all in his life and suddenly in one year he faces two shocks ; may be the second is nothing compared to the first but the first made him vulnerable at least psychologically to watch for what he is saying. But if he was shaken psychologically , could not they stop him in presidency ; the man actually is creating diplomatic crisis !!?? It has never happened in any country that a first son comes on the air and attacks another country and its ambassador in this way.

I do not get it , I am trying to figure out what behind this openness on the media.

He said that he will speak again and again till something is really done ; I think this means we will hear from him and may be see on TV soon !!

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A Real Son of Madam

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:23:39 PST

Do you know who Israel will send to Egypt as its coming Ambassador ?? Yitzhak Levanon and do you know who is his mother ??

His mother is Israel’s first madam Shula Cohen ; the infamous Israeli spy caught in Lebanon in 1960s. Shula was the queen of prostitution in Lebanon since the 1940s and she was arrested in 1960s with a big scandal. She was extradited in 1967 for Syrian POWs. She had been a professional prostitute turned in to a madam with several brothels in Beirut , her clients and acquaintances including real VIPs from presidents to ministers to army generals in Lebanon . Here case indeed was very interesting because what made her exposed was an economic plot made by Israel to destroy the Lebanese Economy. The Lebanese economy in 1960s was booming and I am sorry if I say that it was booming thanks to the money Nasser spent there.

You can watch Zaven’s episode about the Lebanese intelligence history to know about the arrest of Shula. Prime minister Rashid Karami was the first man to lead the Lebanese security to Shula’s Lebanese accomplice who led them to her ; Karami was among our allies in Lebanon , very close allies by the way.

Being the son of a professional prostitute is not included in your resume especially when you are one hell of diplomat with experience in the Arab and this is why the AFP report about him doesn’t include this juicy info. Already I know it will only take 48 hours or even less when our press realizes who Shula Cohen was.

Of course I do not have to imagine the new title the national press will call on Levanon ; for sure it will be the son of bitch and technically it is true he is a son of a bitch.

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Plot of Algiers

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:56:00 PST

The Algerian-Egyptian media war which reached to a diplomatic crisis for sure has political reasons in the beginning and in the end , it is only using football and the long rivalry between the Algerian and the Egyptians not to mention the suppression both people live in.

I will speak about the Algerian media escalation which I do not fully understand and I am not alone ; many people like me wonder what is going in Algeria. We can understand what is going in Egypt very well our regime found a golden opportunity thanks to the Algerian media. We know very well our regime and its nasty tricks.

I know very well Press in most republic countries in the Arab world except Lebanon is controlled by the regime even those publications owned by the private sector and I know in a country like Algeria where the army controls everything no single article could be published without the approval of the regime especially when it tackles other country and so this campaign against us with all these fabrications were approved by the Algerian regime …why ?? From the 16th to the 18th the Algerian media went mad turning us to some kind of monsters to the Algerian public and of course we are people of high ego and self esteem then we got the war in Khartoum.

The point of no return I believe was when the Algerian press decided to go on with its lies that more 10 Algerian fans have been killed in Cairo despite the official denials of the Algerian Ambassador. It is not about the bus , for God sake there was not a single bus any Egyptian team took in Algeria that was not attacked but we have never spoken about it thanks to higher orders to preserve our relations with sister Algeria and guess what the Algerian media used to deny that there had been attacks there against our players too. Back to our issue there was kind of official approval in Algiers for this nasty lies as the ministers who came to Cairo had returned pretending that they were in hell. It is normal that the Algerian people go mad and angry to the level that our Egyptian businesses and interests in Algeria attacked along with our community is trying to leave the country as fast as they could.

Honestly starting from the attack on our businesses and interests I began to suspect that there is something more than sports rivalry and football fanaticism. When I began to read in Algerian Chorouk direct calls for the Algerians to leave Djeezy I knew that someone does not want Egyptian investments in Algeria and every economic decision has a Political decision behind it not a sports decision I am afraid.

This suspicion has grown more and more when I found out that suddenly Naguib Sawiris has to pay 100 of millions of dollars as taxes in Algeria right after the attack on his factory and his companies not to mention the theft of mobile handsets worth millions of dollars from his Ring Stores in Algeria which were smashed too “You can find the videos of its destruction all over the Youtube”. Naguib Sawiris is the first Egyptian businessman to hurt from the football curse as it seems but there are other businesses that suffered like Arab contractors which decided to freeze its project there. Up till now Citadel Capital does not suffer from the other woes of Egyptian companies there but may be because Citadel Capital originally is made of Gulf capital money.

From the 16th to the 18th of November things in Algeria were not like in Egypt , things were normal in Cairo compared to the battle prepared in Algiers by the State with false reports from Cairo and from false statements from ministers. In Algeria there was kind of public mobilization. Starting from the 16th of November the Algerians began to pack their things and head to Sudan. President Bouteflika and the army decided to transport thousands of Algerian football fans on their expenses , sorry not only on their expenses but on the air jets of the army itself. Thousands of Algerian football fans did not come on the board of Air Algerie but rather on the board of Algerian air forces C-130.

Algerians football fans or rather hooligans did not waste any time from buying or rather emptying the markets of Khartoum from weapons like knives and swords..etc. There were warning from a possible attack especially we had hopes that we would win and in that case those armed hooligans could kill our fans and our national teams in Khartoum. Our regime made us believe that everything was fine and that they would send special force 777 to protect our team plus Sudan had taken its precautions.. of course in real world we did not find 777 nor Sudan had imagined it would face something like that in that long night in Khartoum.I will not comment or speak about who were exactly the Algerian hooligans that night in the Stadium or in the street , especially in the street who chased our fans. There are lots of theories , some said that they were army soldiers ,some said they were ex-convicts pardoned by Bouteflika and some said that they were from the infamous “Haitysat” who are actually the thugs employed in elections

Here I am trying to find a real reason for the official Algerian escalation again this is not a free country with a free press ,it is as corrupted as us. As far as I could know till the first match the Algerian regime has been friendly to our regime , it is was not considered from the new axis of “Iran,Syria and Qatar” in the region. Our relations were perfect and it is enough to know Egypt was no.1 Arab investor in Algeria with billions of dollars invested there for giants like Orascom telecom and Citadel Capital.

There are couple of theories on why suddenly the Algerian state decided to escalate the matter and turn the Algerian people against Egypt :

1) Qatar is playing around , yes do not surprised but last month the Prince of Qatar visited Algeria with a very big economic delegation and so the theory says that Qatar wants to replace Egypt economically in Algeria ; what enforces the theory is how Al Jazeera is dealing with the matter and again the visit of the Prince of Qatar but what weakens it the fact that Algeria has a booming economy with opportunities for everyone to invest in and if I am not mistake Qatar will not invest in the same sector we are investing in. Still Al Jazeera was biased even in transferring the football matches , may be this because the number of Algerians in the channel now are more than the Egyptians who are quitting one by one because of the channel policies.

2) The Ambassador of Algeria in Cairo , Abdel Kader El-Hagar who is publicly persona non grata. Ambassador El-Hagar has one hell of record , he had caused a diplomatic crisis between Tehran and he was expelled form there. I think due to the rivalry between Tehran and Cairo he was accepted here and for some reason we did not check his record in Algeria itself. Those who support this theory depend on the facts that his statements in Cairo were contradicting with those in Algerian media . He was also very rude on Egyptian TV when he said “ I warn Egyptians from playing with fire” but again what weakens this theory is the fact that the Algerian regime must know that this is a man of regional and international diplomatic crises ; why would they let him lead them in to a new bigger diplomatic crisis with Cairo after the one he caused with Tehran?? Anyhow this man will not stay longer in Egypt.

3) Bouteflika is terribly sick , the man already suffered from Cancer before and he is not young. This is my first ever theory to be honest because in Cairo we have similar incidents. But the man has received his national team on the 19th of November , of course meeting with the national team does not confirm or deny anything. I am just saying again , we have been taught enough in Egypt to know what a diversion is especially when to it comes to the President’s health. But why would you create a diversion and also a diplomatic crisis with the biggest investor in your country !!??

4) Someone does not want our investment in Algeria , not Qatar but someone else , some general from their army generals with other country than Qatar ; may be a western country.

5) Ahmed Ouyahia has a hand in the issue , Ouyahia is from the expected presidential candidates after Bouteflika and he is just like our ministers in Egypt if I may say but with higher expectations and bloody experience “Really bloody resume that would make Ahmed Ezz a saint” . He is reported to stand against Arabic investment and that he is a close friend to Ronen Bergman. Ouyahia is said to be the financer of Algerian Al Chorouk which was leading the campaign against Egypt. He also was generous enough to send thousands of football hooligans on his expense. Ok what gain he will have from doing all this !!?? If he wants to be a president ,he should have regional allies , plus the Egyptian investments are there from 1998 !!??

6) Said Bouteflika , the younger brother of Bouteflika does not want the Egyptian investments. Said Bouteflika is looking forward to become the president of Algeria after his brother ; another kind of hereditary in North Africa. He is using this game to enforce his power against other generals in Algeria so he could inherit the rule from his brother whose health is going to bad to worse.

7) Said Bouteflika’s fight with Alaa Mubarak over some big arms deal from Lockheed according to Save Egypt front from London , strangely this website did not include the attack on the Egyptians in Sudan nor did it included the fact that the media in Algeria escalated the matter and there was a public mobilization in the country. I do not understand how a football match will help Alaa restore those billions !!??

8) Abdel Aziz Belkhadem also is planning to take over the rule after Bouteflika too and he is trying to win bounces.

Two theories are making the headlines now : Said Bouteflika and the Qatari role. Said Bouteflika is being accused more and more in Egypt that makes me wonder what is really between the Egyptian regime and the Algerian regime. There is no smoke without fire.

I know very well what is going in Cairo , this match my dear friends was used to hide the escape of NDPian Hany Sorour outside the country. This match is not used for the devilish plans of Gamal Mubarak , on the contrary if we won and he kept appearing with the national team here and there ; he would lose bounces.

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Do Not Blame Sadat Then

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:35:41 PST

Sadat has always been blamed by the Pan Arab nationalists and Nasserites that Sinai is still big desert with no development what so ever for real despite the fact that Sinai did not return totally to Egypt when he was alive not to mention he did not stay too long after Camp David accords ; he was killed in 1981 for God sake. Of course no one can blame President Mubarak and ask him why Sinai has been neglected for real in the last 28 years.

I am not here speaking about the tourism development in Sinai , we did not return back Sinai by war and Peace so it would turn in to a big hotel; the Israelis for 6 years did not do this , they built settlements and started to reclaim this desert. Famous Yamit was an example in its agricultural production as legend says. I also remember than Ben-Gurion in 1956 wanted to send settlers and start judaizing of Sinai as soon as possible.

It is a fact that Sinai weakness has always been its emptiness from people , it is not enough to have military bases there only ; you have to have people there , a real population along with the local population there. Sinai is 1/3 of Egypt total size and the huge development of Sharm El-Sheikh proved that you can make something great from this desert. Sinai fell in to occupation twice last century because of it was easy target , of course beside our poor preparations in both 1956 and 1967

Those who lived and remembered the days of late Sadat , remember that he had huge strategic plans for Sinai starting with the liberated parts in order to change demography of the peninsula through reclamation projects and transferring a population from the valley to Sinai. People still remember the Fairoz and the New Ismailia projects which for some unknown reason died just like Anwar Al Sadat.

Now back to the first paragraph ,usually the blame on Al Sadat is associated with the secret articles in the camp David accords ; legend says that he signed on an unannounced article in the accords that banned any real development or reclamation ; well guess what ?? Camp David did not ban any real development in Sinai and there is no secret article at all.

Egyptian journalist and poet Farouk Goweida has exposed this myth in a series of articles in Egyptian Al Shorouk under the title “ Sinai between Camp David and the governmental neglect” . Here are parts “1” and “2” of his report which I am not surprised that it was not published in Al Ahram Daily. This is not the first time he is speaking about Sinai , we all remember how he exposed the great scandal of selling thousands of acres in Sinai to Qatari investors who were cover to Israeli investors.

The second part of the report is very important because it included interesting facts about President Sadat. In the second part Farouk Goweida interviewed former minister of housing “Hasaballah El-Kafraway” who served in both Sadat and Mubarak’s cabinets ; he is from the most respectable ministers in Egypt and it is enough to know that he wrote a letter to Mubarak complaining about the corruption in the country and then found himself out of the ministry in the next reshuffle. I believe “El-Kafrawy” especially what he said goes to what I read and know.

President Sadat asked him to prepare studies for Sinai reclamation and reconstruction with special focus on the Middle Sector , the Middle sector has a very important military strategic importance and it was called “The field of tanks” where we had our famous 1973 Yom Kippur tanks battle there.
President Sadat wanted to reclaim 400,000 acres in this particular area and he also wanted to establish 400 villages there with special requirements.
President Sadat wanted the army veterans from soldiers to live in those villages , most of them were from the country side and know how to reclaim a land.
President Sadat requested a special design for the houses in those villages and Kafraway supervised the design of these houses along with General Fouad Aziz ; the commander of the second army then.
The design of the house would be normal outside but from inside there would be bunker for weapons and safety bunker from women and Children in the basement.
The prototypes of these houses are already there in Ismailia , you can see it by yourself in the New Meit Abu El-Kom village east Ismailia and in Sinai itself in Romana and Ballouza.
President Sadat wanted to be buried in Sinai so every Egyptian knows that this is an Egyptian land where an Egyptian President was buried there.
President Sadat seemed to know that 1973 war would not be the last war with the Israelis and Sinai will always be part from the Grand Israel dream , he believed in Peace but also he was taken his precautions.

This was late President Sadat and do not ask me why or how suddenly those 400,000 acres project had become part of history.

Sinai now is under the NDP tycoons control , you got the south where you can find Mubarak’s only best friend Hussein Salem and his empire and you got in the North Hassan Ratab and in between tribes with no right to own the land they live on , resorts and acres of drugs.

I read that we can have a similar “2012” scenario in Nile Delta in the future, Sinai could provide as a new hope for millions of citizens , I am not saying that this will happen but real civilized countries think about the future from now and we are facing a real danger and God gave us a lot of land that only needs few effort to turn in to a real paradise ; why we would leave it !!??

Mubarak could have done a lot of things in 28 years.

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Watch This Video

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:36:04 PST

Please watch this clip from yesterday’s episode of “Cairo today” , please focus on the videos which will be shown in the middle , of course you must know that package Amr Adib holds is the package of the Algerian ministry of interior’s special “fighting forces” meal which was given to those thugs brought in the C130 air jets.

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What About The Dignity of Egyptians inside Egypt ??

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:33:20 PST

Mubarak said in his speech in front of the people’s assembly and the Shura Council that the Egyptian citizens abroad are the responsibility of the state and that the dignity of Egyptians is from the dignity of Egypt !!

I do not know what to say except that Mr. President none of this could have happen if we are enjoying our dignity as Egyptian citizens inside Egypt in the first place !!?? Please tell these words to the victims of police brutality , please them again to thousands of Egyptians abroad who haven been humiliated enough around the globe because of your economic policies for 28 years. Mr. President please these words to the families who lost their members on the borders with Israel , on the board of flight 990 , on the board of Al Salam ferry and on the board of Badr I.

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Alaa Mubarak strikes Again

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:32:06 PST

It seems that Alaa Mubarak has a lot to say from that bloody night in Khartoum that left so shaken and so furious , last night he did it again and called a live night news show ; this time it was the official Al Beit Batik.

This time it was much long , he was ballistic and you have something interesting quotes more than the previous time with his famous line “ They were treating us as if we are Jews killing people in Gaza”

Alaa was very angry and he told them he wanted more time on air to express his anger , he would use his right as the President’s son.He was angry from Ibrahim Eissa's Op-ed last Friday in which his brother Gamal and Ahmed Ezz were attacked. Eissa wrote that Gamal and Ezz took the first jet to Cairo leaving the rest of the Egyptians in hell. Alaa was angry despite he was not mentioned at all from near or far , he believed that this attack meant that he and his brothers were cowards despite they left with the national team in the morning. For the record most Egyptians including me thought that the Mubarak brothers left earlier thanks to the telephone call of MP Mustafa Bakery from Khartoum in that night.

It is ironic because if Alaa Mubarak bought Al Dostor earlier last night he would know that Eissa does not hate him at him as he wrote in his Op-ed “ 12 Reasons to love Alaa Mubarak”

Also if he reads Al-Dostor and other opposition newspapers , does not he read

Alaa Mubarak continued his attack on Algeria in a strange way considering his position as the first son. Alaa does not want any relation with Algeria from any kind and he attacked the generals and Pasha of Algeria !!!! Alaa will not even accept the apology of the President !!?? “What do you want then ??”

Alaa also said that if we are going to play with Algeria again in the African national Cup , there will be no woman or child , it will be man to man I believe !!

I love this quote

I told “Papa” that we are going to with the national team

I also I love the fact that he does not know the name of Khairy Ramadan and kept calling him Mr.Khalid !!

Anyhow Gamal Mubarak must hate himself because in two phone calls only Alaa won a lot of popularity among the public regardless of what you and I think about him and his family.

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Livni in Morocco

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:52:00 PST

Israeli former FM minister and current opposition leader Tzipi Livni is currently visiting Morocco where she spoke in some summit for leaders from Africa and Middle East.

I do not know if the Arab media highlighted this or not but let’s say that despite there is no official relation between Israel and Morocco , unofficially the the relations between the Moroccan regime and Israel are historical. It is enough to know the road to Camp David started in Morocco under the patronage of late King Hassan where Moshe Dyan used to meet Sadat’s special envoy Hassan El-Tohamai. Strangely no one has ever dared to criticize the late king or the current King too.

How could they invite Livni ?? What about her disgusting role in Gaza ?? That stupid conference was held under the patronage of Mohamed VI whom If I am right the head of Al-Quds committee !!??

I wonder if anyone dared to ask Livni about the settlements and the Gaza blockade.

On the other hand I must salute the Moroccan people who protested against her.

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A Hysterical Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:31 PST

When Israel used to attack Gaza and the Egyptian regime did not do what is supposed to do ,I expressed my views on this blog a and I was being called hysterical for 4 weeks ; it made me sad for while but I did not lose my faith and later I felt that I am doing the right thing.

I am proud of what I did then and I still believe that the Egyptian regime did not act as it should as the ruling regime of EGYPT.

Now in this Egyptian-Algerian crisis I have been called hysterical too and honestly I do not know why !! I understand who called me hysterical during the Gaza war and why and I respect them but I do not know why I am being called hysterical now. I believe that my role is to show the truth and to defend my country and people whose voices were not heard for real for a long time and this is what I am doing ; trying to tell the world and more important to the Algerians our version of the story may be they will listen to us , may be they will understand that they are being manipulated by their regime. I am not hysterical and believe it or not several times I keep myself from blogging when I feel that I am nervous and I can be biased. There are several times I deleted whole posts because I feel that I am not that objective and I am biased in it.

If You follow my blog , you will know that I always defend the Egyptian rights and insh Allah I will continue to do so. In this crisis I believe we have been humiliated thanks in the first place for a regime that made us cheap in our own country and this is why we have been chased in the streets of Khartoum by hooligans.

I believe I was and I am still more objective than many of Egyptian bloggers. I do not hate Algeria , in fact I wish one day that I will visit it insh Allah but let’s say now I feel sad and angry from those turning its people against us. I have faith in Ben Baila’s Algeria not in Boutaflika’s Algeria.

We are people with high ego believe it or not , it is kind of paradox I know ; the big riddle of Egyptian personality which no one can understand for real for 7,000 years . We are strange I admit but I think this is what makes us special , you do not know when we are going erupt.

If you think that I am hysterical , well you have to bear me for while as I was hysterical during the Gaza war.

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The Father In Law

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:55:56 PST

Let’s put sports aside , yesterday the court has sentenced NDPian and MP Hani Sorour 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 Sorour 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 Sorour just in case you see him whether in UK or Switzerland.

10 PM Special Episode

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:51:18 PST

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.

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The First Protest in Zamalak

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:50:01 PST

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

Official Escalation

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:19:52 PST

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 Egyptian football association has issued an official statement rejecting and condemning the attack on our fans , it is expected that we will report to the FIFA
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.

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A Night In Khartoum

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:48 PST

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 :

Breaking News : Alaa Mubarak Speaks About Yesterday Match

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:26:07 PST

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

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Israel Will Bomb Lesbians

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:39:00 PST

Fox News is really expert when it comes to the Middle East first Egypt was in Iraq and now Israel will bomb lesbians.

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Have We Reached To This Level ??

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:21 PST

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.

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Algeria To World Cup

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:52:30 PST

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.

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The Clash of Titans : Amr Vs. Tamer

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:57:17 PST

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.

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Egypt-Algeria : 111-111

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:19:17 PST

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”

The corruption perception index "Mideast" - Zeinobia
Usually these indexes find its way to our media but I wonder if this index will reach to the Algerian citizens in the midst of their media’s frenzy over today’s match !!??

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24 Hour

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:25 PST

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 !!??

The photos and those testimonies are inclusive as long as there are no real names , real bodies and real families , use their your brain people those dead people have families who won’t wait till the end of the match to demand their rights for God sake like the Chief in editor of that Algerian newspaper which I can’t remember its name claimed !!!??
I do not know what kind of game the regime in Algeria is playing there ,is there a hidden political crisis between the Algerian regime and the Egyptian regime in the background we do not know anything about !!??
The attack on Egyptian businesses and investments are still on despite the Algerian security measures.
The big Egyptian businesses and investments that have been attacked were the following :

Orascom Telecom
Arab contractors
Sewedy cables

and I assume ASEC also has its share too.
The middle size businesses owned by Egyptians also have been under attack up till now. The Egyptian community there is so scared more than you can imagine.Orascom telecom has the biggest shares of the attack , the hooligans have burned a whole factory owned by Orascom there not to mention they destroyed about 15 shops and branches associated and owned by Djeezy despite the attempts of the company to appear as pure Algeria. Djeezy has been trying to keep its clients , I think they face a huge PR crisis and they are trying with all their powers to stay in the market. They offered two planes to Sudan for free and yet the press in Algeria are encouraging the Algerians to switch to local mobile phone operators as sign of patriotism. I do not know if all these companies will be compensated or not , they came to invest in Algeria for God Sake !! Were it better to have a multi-national company investing in the country then ??
Below you can find a collection of videos showing our companies being attacked, please ignore the disgusting racist titles
To Sudan there are unconfirmed news that the Egyptian army has dispatched its elitist special force squad “777” to protect the Egyptian supporters and the National team there !!!!!
24 hours !! The problem is that they will be over and we will have months to reconcile the relations for real.

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Meanwhile in The Things That Matter Section

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:44:02 PST

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 !!?

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After The Storm No.1 and Before Storm No.2

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:32:10 PST

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

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Ashamed That I Can’t Do Anything

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:20:19 PST

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

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Amr Adib And Ahmed Moussa’s moments

noreply@blogger.com (Zeinobia) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:15:00 PST

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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