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A brand new powers in a brand new middle East "1-2"
2008-06-05 21:25:00
This is a brand new Middle East for sure that suits a brand new world , another step towards the new middle East where the Usually leading countries are substituted with other countries in the leading place,it is not about dictatorship regimes and minorities . In the last 20Th century Egypt and Saudi Arabia were the leading the countries in the Middle East, Egypt was the first then Saudi Arabia was the second , then in the last 27 blessed years the roles were switched especially in the last two years , Saudi Arabia became the leader and we are the follower , of course both were following the American Orders blindly. Saudi Arabia was always the faithful ally for the United States ,so it is not a surprise , Egypt has its own ups and downs with America since the revolution or the coup of 1952 "it was actually the first one to be backed by the American administration then in the region" Any how it seems that the United States got bored from these two dictatorship corrupte...
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Al Matrya Hospital shocking videos
2008-06-04 22:33:00
I do not know if I should post this or not . Last week Al Matrya educational hospital had seen a tragedy on the 22nd of May 2008 when a power outage took place , yes Power outage took place for two hours leading to the dramatic death of 4 babies in the neonatal intensive care.You must know before this outage on the 22nd of May , the hospital witnessed an another outage from three weeks before for 5 minutes and you must know that the back up electric generators did not work !!More important you must know that the administration of that hospital in Cairo that follows the ministry of health knew that. You must know that the administration of that hospital faked the time of death of those infants three hours before the outage so it would escape the legal accountability !!Now when the outage happened ,the doctors who were in duty during that time did what they could do to save those babies , they used their mobile phones to light the Neonatal I.C , one of them filmed these critical mo...
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Samson Blinded: The ugly face of Samson
2008-06-04 20:03:00
In the Bible there is a famous Hebrew of legend Samson,the Divine saver of the Israel ites against the Philistines was deceived by Delilah who cut his hair , his secret of strength , she was deceived him and cut his hear while his sleep for money in Gaza from the Philistines . Losing his power , Samson was captured by the Philistines who tortured till he became a blind. They took him to their pagan temple after couple of days , they did not notice that his hair was growing again; they were going to kill him to please their pagan; in the last moment he prayed to God for forgiveness and God forgave him and returned back to him his powers in the last minute and thus Samson in anger rage brought down on the pagan temple on the philistines and himself in a scene the was best quoted by Farid Al Atrash in his film ?Last lie? ?On me and on my enemies Lord ?Changing the famous words of Samson in the new testament ?Let Me die with the Philistines?This legend was memorized in the Egyptian memo...
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Obama : a historical victory and repeated Promises
2008-06-04 18:54:00
This is a historical victory , in fact even if Obama does not make it to the White House ,it will be enough for him this honour , to become the presidential candidate of the Democratic party in the Presidential America n race 2008. I believe that Dr. King did not dream in his time for this , I believe that  Rosa Parks did not think for one moment that a Black man will have the chance to become the President of the United States when she started the Civil movement , or when she refused to give her seat in the bus for a White man. Here is Obama?s speech of victory , it is indeed a victory. What next ?? Well more five months of direct war with John McCain , I do not know but I think if Obama won Hilary , he would win McCain insh Allah. This will be very exciting because Obama is the first black and McCain is the oldest in the history of American elections. We will wait and see as world viewers who will be the next of the leader of free world . Already I believe Obama ...
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Is he the president of another country ??
2008-06-03 23:07:00
President Mubarak is in Rome at the food security summit today and said to the Journalists and reporters from around the globe that Egypt did not suffer currently from food Crisis !!?? Excuse !!?? What about the daily queues in front of bakeries to get some loaves of bread after waiting for hours !!?? What about his decision to save the day and order the army to share its wheat with the people ?? What about the decisions to import Wheat from faraway countries like Russia ?? What about the Rice Crisis ?? Rashid order to stop the export of Egyptian Rise and this caused a trouble abroad and the price of Rice went up because of it ?? Does he think that those reporters will believe him like the chief in editors he takes with him in his Air Force One !!?? This shows that this man is no longer contacted to the present and he lost his ability to interact with the outside world as he should !!?? He lives in his world of lies and hypocrisy made by his entourage. The sad thing he doe...
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So What ?? They are all like her
2008-06-03 21:11:00
It seems that suddenly some Arab ic media woke up lately and discovered the historical background of the Israel i Foreign minister Tzipi Livni !!? I think I tickled her controversial role in the Mossad before from two years ago !! So what !!?? Now you are angry from her because you knew that she used to kill Palestinians !!?? With my all respect most of the Israeli ministers have killed Palestinians and Arabs !!?? All the Israeli prime ministers except Ehud Olmert were members in the IDF and fought and killed Palestinians and Arabs even pre-1948 !!?? Being an assassin in the Mossad is not something bad there ,after all she used to kill those she believed that they were and are her enemies , that makes her heroin in her society ,she does not care about what you think about her !!? Technorati Tags: Tzipi Livni,Israel,Foreign Minister,Middle East,Mideast,Arab,Palestine ,Palestinians, Peace
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Two hits
2008-06-03 19:46:00
Two hits in the heads hurt An Egypt ian common proverb I remember it when I read about another book that can cause trouble for Bush and his administration , already the man is still suffering from the consequences of McCallen?s book and does not know where it is going to take him so he would  find out that there is another book exposing his failure in the Iraq i war. This time the author is not a Civilian old buddy press secretary , he is retired U.S LT.General Ricardo S. Sanchez ,the former commander of the coalition forces in Iraq. The book is Wiser in Battle : A Soldier?s story ,you can order it from Amazon here. Amazon.com: Wiser in BattleISBN: 0061562424ISBN-13: 9780061562426 It seems some people want to clear themselves earlier in front of the America n people , in front of the people of the world and more important in front of the history. From administration point of view the Bush administration was suffering from a groupthink . This is what I got from the two bo...
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This is a war crime
2008-06-03 00:07:00
Oh boy we are in the sad June with its terrible memories regarding our slayed POWs and Civilians in the desert Sinai and here we are with this new scandal , which I am not surprised at all to know about. Thank God that people now speak and confess Please check this confession from an America n Soldier regarding what the U.S army does with the Iraq i and Afghani civilians dead bodies . There should be an international investigation about these crimes.These are war crimes by all measuresTechnorati Tags: American,American army,U.S Army,Iraq,Afghanistan,video,Media ,Human rights,regional,Arab,War,POWs,War Crime s
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The generations fight
2008-06-02 17:54:00
Step away the civilization fight ,there is some kind of a generations fight in the Egyptian blogsphere. The 1960s generation vs. 1980s generation . It was wonderful , if you know Arabic then please read these two links which represents the two generations. The 1980s generation Which I belong to The 1960s and 1970s generations which I like so. What do you think ?? By the way I found this essay in Radar Magazine from the US about their generations fight there ,this man hates our generation so much !!?? Technorati Tags: Generations ,Society ,Egyptian Society,international,life,nostalgia
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The Syrian-Israeli Peace talks
2008-06-02 09:00:00
And so the Syria ns are having an actual Peace talks with the Israel is under the blessing of the Turkey , the new Power of the middle East. Surprise , of course our official media are speaking in the infamous way "Now they are imitating us those who can't liberate their land !?? it is so late" This is disgusting talk I read it and I felt so so so sad because I know that Egypt should stand with Syria in that critical time , she should leave her like what happened to us in Camp David. Anyhow I do not put much hopes on these talks because I believe it is a public stunt by Ehud Olmert . Guys pay attention to Israel internal affairs , Olmert is on the break of resignation or accusation of corruption or even both , he needs this to raise from his popularity , the tough warrior image did not work and so he goes to the Peace Maker , who will solve Israel's problems. Timing is critical , in fact you will know that it is a public stunt or even a way to seek for person...
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A land fight not a sectarian fight
2008-06-01 21:39:00
As if we need it , seriously we do not need this , this is why I do not like some times the Upper Egyptian mind set. Now all the world , the news agencies around the globe are transferring the news that there had been clashes yesterday between Muslims and Christians over a piece of land in Mania in the south of Egypt , the clashes resulted in one death "a Muslim" and 4 injuries "Christians" The problem is that the dispute is not on a regular land but on a land that follows a monastery in Mania ,yup religious ownership adding more fuel to the fire !! There are some Arab tribes that claim the ownership of this land where as the monastery claims other wise , here we do not talk about religion but we talk about Upper Egyptian famous mind set , the sacred land. Look this is not a sectarian fight ,already with my all respect the Muslims kill other Muslims over land disputes in Upper Egypt ,Christians kill other Christians over land disputes in Upper Egypt. Last ...
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The sequence of events
2008-06-01 19:01:00
Please look with me at the sequence of the events in the Levant in the past two weeks: The Lebanese parties reached to an agreement in Doha ; no more strikes , more Parliament sessions and a new president with a national cabinet. Turkey announces that it is the mediator between Syria and Israel . Syria and Israel admit that there are Peace negotiations between them. There are news that Israel and Hezbollah are going to exchange POWs in a very big deal that will even include Samir Kantar himself !!?? Fouad El-Saniora is back again as the Prime minister !!?? Israel released Lebanese Prisoner on the 1st of June for exchange of their soldiers remains . Now this is what I think Egypt is completely excluded from all that considering that the fact that the Egyptian regime considered itself as a the sole mediator between the Arabs and Israel, I mean were not the words of Mubarak and his FM during the Israeli invasion to Lebanon in 2006 that we kept our embassy ...
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The NY Times Arabic blog
2008-06-01 17:56:00
The NY Times did a very excellent move and made an Arabic version of their Middle East blog . Already the NY Times started to published a series  of reports about the social life in the Middle East whether in Egypt or Saudi Arabia or in Iraq. They launched this blog in a move to connect with the Arabic and Muslim youth to know what they think,it is like some kind of dialogue,I wish it will be fruitful, because in the end the NY Times presents the America n view , this report is how the Americans look to our social life. Look I do not agree or disagree with what the NY Times publishes but it is important that we explain our point of view. Technorati Tags: NY Times,New York Times,Blog s,blogging,media,regional,Ameri ca,Mideast,Middle East
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Follow Up : Someone is lying , Someone is weaker..
2008-06-01 08:05:00
Till now the people of Damietta are fighting the ugly greedy Agrium to protect their beautiful Ras El-Bur , till now they are standing alone not representing the people of Damietta or Egypt but they are standing as representatives of the people around the world who are fighting pollution and big corporations. They are fighting and they are alone no one in the world care for them , here I am trying to do my role to make the people know about the on going struggle taking place in Damietta. You remember that I posted the news that President Mubarak ordered the transfer of the Agrium factory to some where else other than Damietta and I think I told you that the great people of Damietta demanded to see a written official form from this verbal promise , well the people of Damietta are now known to be very clever and cunning , well thank Goodness for that. Till now the factory is not closed and it is not transferred despite the verbal orders of President Mubarak , the President of Egyp...
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Follow Up : The Zaitoun massacre
2008-05-31 21:53:00
It started to make headlines in international newspapers as the four Christians massacre in Egypt . With my all respect all those campaigns in the radical Christian blogs do not help at all because for the first time the Egyptian police takes seriously and does what it should do : Serious investigation. For the first time the police conducts a serious investigation and rolled out the possibility someone lunatic killed those people , I will not speak about the possibility of a terrorist act because it is not , it is a straight crime. More details are published in the newspapers today especially Al Dostor . The details more and more prove that it was some kind of mafia , or a crime organization style murder. You want the truth , can you handle the truth ?? as I hinted it is more about the Gold shop owner , the jeweller , late Mr.Makram , May God bless his soul ; it turned that he has another side we do not know just like person in this earth , it turned out that he was usurer fa...
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A drop of life you are wasting
2008-05-31 12:32:00
In our holy Quran "Allah" SWT says "We create from Water everything life."All the experts are saying that we are heading towards a Water Crisis in the future , all the experts are saying that all the wars in the future especially in our regions will be not for oil or land or even Peace but for Water. It is something you can understand easily , water is the most important thing in life ,it is the essence of life .But of course we do not listen to all these warnings , they are just newspapers talk . Here I am not talking about environmental issues but I am speaking about a national security issue in Egypt .Last summer most Egyptians were shocked to know that there are other Egyptians in the valley who do not have access to Clean water , despite all the years of repetitive "In the time of President "X" all Egyptians have access to clean water and electricity !!" Those Egyptians do not have access to clean water where as a minority of Egyptians in the north Coast use water for their swi...
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Boycott Dunkin Donuts in UAE
2008-05-30 14:37:00
Dunkin Donuts ,the America n Donuts famous chain has pulled an ad featuring Rachel Ray in the TV because she was wearing an Arab scarf or Keffiyeh after the criticism of some Conservatives in the main stream media. They thought that Ray was wearing a "traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad" Now believe it or not Non Arabs in the United States are angry because they think that it is against freedom , how can a Keffiyeh be a source of danger and a TV commercial is pulled because of it , I mean I would not have noticed what she is wearing except after this. Keith Olbermann called for a boycott to Dunkin Donuts calling the chain the worst person !! I feel so angry despite I am not a Palestinian , but may be because I am an Arab. I have enough from this disgusting hate to us. What Palestinian terror they are speaking about those ignorant fanatics ?? That colourful traditional head scarf is wore in all of north and East o...
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I am just saying
2008-05-30 10:23:00
I found this photo for Suzanne Mubarak , the current first lady of Egypt and I could not believe the facial resemblance ... Suzanne Mubarak first lady of Egypt in 2006 Ex-Queen Nazli Sherif of Egypt in Rome 1965 attending her son King Farouk of Egypt's funeral .I will leave it to you P.S I do not compare Suzanne Mubarak on any other side except the facial resemblances , the first lady is much respectable from the first Queen , this is something I can not deny Technorati Tags: Suzanne Mubarak,Queen Nazli,Nazli Sherif,Nazli Fouad,King Farouk,1965,Egyptian Royal Family,History,Middle east,Mideast,Hosni Mubarak,Gamal Mubarak,First lady

Stop this madness
2008-05-30 10:22:00
Ok I can't take no more from this madness ,I was planning to post something either about Palestine or about Egypt regional political position but I think it is my role to stop this madness.Last Wednesday at 12 AM Cairo local time, Zeitoun neighbourhood in Cairo was a witness to a strange crime I think Cairo and Egypt did not see like it for a long time , it could be the first from its circumstance , I heard about it from my grand ma who watched it in the 6 News on National TV , I was amazed when I found that our ETV sent a reporter to the accident scene , but then my grand ma told me that it was a terrible unique one ; two persons killed four person in a Jeweller shop ; the owner and his aides and ran away. At the middle of the day , in front of all those people in a working day "Wednesday". Immediately I considered it as an arm robbery in the middle of the day due to the bad economic situations in Egypt , already there are not so many arm robberies in Cairo but I expect them to...
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Jimmy in Fox
2008-05-29 20:24:00
Our own Gamal Mubarak or Jimmy made another exclusive interview in World Economic circus with Fox News "how it can exclusive and already he made several interviews here and there !!" As you can see the reporter won't be from Fox if she did not ask Mubarak JR about Iran, this is the first question , already I do not know why he is speaking about Iran , it is an external issue and he is not official member in the cabinet . Another thing I noticed that he always uses the word "Challenge" over and over ,whether in his Arabic or English interview ; Iran is Challenge , Peace Challenge , economic challenge , there is always a challenge facing this man !!!?? Again I found him aggressive judging on his body language. What can I say ?? Enjoy the show of your favourite Jimmy in your favourite GOP Channel Technorati Tags: Fox News,Fox,Media ,Video ,World Economic Forum,Sharm El-Sheikh,Gamal Mubarak,Egypt ,Hosni Mubarak,politics,interantional,democracy, News
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60 years : A Road Map
2008-05-29 19:38:00
David Ben-Gurion made it clear in 1948 when he said A Christian State should be established {in Lebanon }, with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion?s strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight one, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo ? And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers? account with Egypt, Assyria and Aram That was David Ben-Gurion from 60 years ago; it was not just a plan for a war or for country but it is like a new map for the Middle East 60 years before the new Middle East maps even appear. That old plan was full of confidence despite the fact the Zionists were not actually armies but gangs , that old plan was full of old history despite that then it was in the 20th century, that old plan was full of biblical terms with emphasis to old prophecies despite the fact that founders of Israel , that fir...
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Mengistu the red
2008-05-29 12:48:00
Yesterday I read in the news that Ethiopia's Supreme Court sentenced former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam to death in absentia for his role in the Red Terror. I really laughed because this is the first time I read something about Mengistu.Pardon my ignorance but I only hear his name when my family brought up the famous funny presidential moments of President Sadat. President Sadat used to refer to Mengistu as red Mengistu due to his Marxist beliefs. President Sadat used to attack him a lot. Anyhow putting a side the nickname given to him , I think red is not only symbol of Marxism but for blood in his case. The sad thing in the red terror is that it is not the Mass murder operation in Africa ,it is repeated over and over. Just FYI I believe that we should pay attention to Ethiopia after all it is from our national security to secure the Nile ,already Mohamed Ali Pasha and his grand son Ismail pasha understood that. Technorati Tags: Mengistu,Ethiopia,dictators,dictatorship, Af...
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More and more scandals
2008-05-28 19:09:00
Poor Bush !! He is trying to leave good memory in the White House  but in vain . The former press secretary Scott McLellan at the White House in the Bush administration is releasing a very controversial book at about his years in service in the White house with Bush. Already Some excerpts were published in politico this morning and let me tell you that this book will be the talk of the world not the town only. The Bush former loyalist is attacking the White House while Bush is still there !! From the invasion of Iraq to Katrina to CIA Scandal to  pre-presidential years. The America n political  Websites and blogs are crazy about it and I am not amazed . You can pre-order his book from Amazon here Amazon.com: What Happened Regardless of what is said ,a side topic , this is what I call Freedom of expression.In my country if someone plans to publish a similar book like this , he will be either sent to jail ,defamed or won a ticket to London where he will be ju...
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President Carter and the Israeli Nukes
2008-05-28 17:38:00
President Carter is continuing on breaking all the taboos and is saying the truth about the Israel Nuke arsenal , of course many people do not like this , truth hurts sometimes but here is the former president of the United States is saying what we have been saying as Arabs for more 60 years ; watch out for the Israel Nuke arsenal people !! They have 150 nuclear assorted weapons from bombs to rockets to submarines ,you name it but no one care , the IAEA does not inspect nor demand an inspection nor the EU and America n administration impose sanctions on Israel !! Thank you again President Carter for saying the truth , we do not need anything except the truth , we do not want you to condemn the inhuman siege of Gaza , but just say the truth. 150 Nuclear assorted weapons and what is hidden can be greater like the Arabic classic proverb !! With my all respect the IAEA should stalk Israel instead of Stalking Iran, Syria and all other Arab countries with Nuclear ambitions with Isr...
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If You know the reason
2008-05-28 17:29:00
Q : why had the Egypt ian government renewed the activation of the Emergency laws for another two years ?? A: Because the future terrorism law does not include any protection to the regime for the strikes, it does not recognize strikes as an act from terrorism banned by law where as under emergency laws it can be banned by the orders of the President "Despite the fact it will be illegal " Q : what is the significance of the two years period ?? A: After two years ,we will be in 2010 , the end of president's Mubarak presidential period ,where it is expected than he will not renew and will abdicate and his son Gamal will take over It seems that the strikes are now the new threat facing the Mubarak regime scaring them after the success of the 6th April strike "this is a success, this fear". Now on a daily basis in Egypt there are strikes across the nation mainly in the factories and there are protests some where in front of something. The culture of Strikes ...
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Food Diary of the Guardian : Cairo
2008-05-28 16:59:00
There is a special report in the British Guardian newspaper about Food prices crisis in the world , Yesterday I found out it was Cairo's turn in the report. Chris McGreal and Jack Shenker did a fantastic job in transferring the bitter image of the situation in Egypt , already no Official media journalist dares to transfer the image like this from the working low class Jack Shenker is sharing with the whole world the diary and the diet of an Egyptian simple working class family "The Arabys" in one single week. Chris McGreal posted a podcast and a video with a feature about the bread shortages ,hunger and unrest in Egypt. Please read it, listen to it and watch it because the coverage is fantastic , I tell you that Al Ahram does not dare to publish something like this , after all Al Ahram and co. say that the latest economic decisions came to save the class of the Arabys and Hoda "featured in McGreal report" !! I just want to clear something the food prices cr...
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Follow Up : The Jewish delegation
2008-05-26 22:13:00
This is a follow up to my post " Then Compensate everyone including the Egypt ians"  as I have found more information relevant to the the topic. It turned out this delegation is formed from a group of Egyptian Jews who are living in Canada "it makes it Canadian", this delegation was going to stay in Alexandria ,already the association of the Jewish community is there. They were invited by the Israel i Embassy. They were not planning to demand a compensation for their nationalized properties but they were going to demand the Jewish antiquities from old Torahs which is in the custody  of the high supreme council of antiquities, the thing which also Egyptian state refuses and I am with that refusal.These stuff were found in Egypt and they are Egyptian and should stay in Egypt . For God Sake in the same way Egypt is entitled to restore its statues from Syria , you know the ancient Egyptians invaded old Syria and there are many ancient Egyptian antiquities the...
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The new face of Lebanon
2008-05-26 20:08:00
The new president of Lebanon Michel SolimanGeneral Soliman in the 12th elected President of Lebanon since the independence. Here are some family photos for him and his family after being a president Here is with his mother Josephine , I think she is so so so happy that her son Michel became a president Here is with his family , the first family in Lebanon now for the next 6 years From left to right His wife , the Lebanese first lady Wafaa, then his daughter Rita , then him , then his second daughter Lara and his son CharbelGood luck to Michel Soliman , already I liked his balanced speech yesterday in the Lebanese Parliament. This is man may be like what America and Israel wished him to be , he mentioned Shabaa farms as a Lebanese occupied land that he would work on restoring it back . That meant too much to me because it is important that we should forget Shabaa is a Lebanese land Also I respected him so much when he stressed the fact that Lebanon will not be a substituted country f...
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Sorry Comment moderation is back
2008-05-25 20:05:00
I feel so sad to turn my comment moderation on again for the same reason I turned on in the first time , I can't accept all this ill harassment , I can't take any more nonsense from sick person who no surprised idolized dictators and tyrannies and disrespect other races. I am sorry ,really sorry but I do not have that type of personality to answer these insults from that sick rude crazy person I apologize for any inconvenience
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One more year
2008-05-25 19:36:00
The emergency law is expected to be renewed for another one year by the orders of Mubarak and approval of the Parliament !! It seems that it will never expire !!?? Already I heard a very fearful future scenario from an activist friend that Mubarak wants the two laws : The future terrorism law and the current emergency law to work in parallel at the same time  so there would be no gaps !!?? Look I do not know how correct is that theory but I can't deny that Mubarak and his regime will not refuse such ultimate control. For your information the Terrorism law was supposed to substitute the emergency law after the later was active for the last 27 years since the assassination of President Sadat . The government was supposedly to finish the terrorism  law this month but it did not . Thank God there is pseudo terrorism act here and there to justify the renewal ,it is better to be clear ,it is good they stop to fool around with the people , because people are not longer f...
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