Saturday, September 28, 2013

هيكل عراب نظام الخداع



في حرب أكتوبر عام 1973 استخدم النظام المصري ما أسماه بخطة الخداع الاستراتيجي في المعركة. لم يكن "الخداع الاستراتيجي قاصرا على حرب أكتوبر فقط إنما هو أحد أدوات نظام يوليو منذ تأسيسه وهو له عنوانا بارزا اسمه "هيكل"

محمد حسنين هيكل، الذي احتفل الإعلام الرسمي المصري بعيد ميلاده التسعين الأسبوع الماضي هو كلمة السر وحلقة الوصل في النظام الذي خرب مصر خلال الستين عاما الماضية. في السطور التالية مقتطفات مما كتب عن دور الأستاذ كوسيط بين المخابرات الأمريكية وضباط يوليو للقيام بانقلاب عام 1952 وتأسيس النظام العسكري. ظل هيكل خلال أكثر من 6 عقود عراب هذا النظام الذي بني على خداع الشعب المصري ونهب ثرواته وإهدار استقلاله الوطني. وبالرغم من كل الاتهامات التي سترد لاحقا له بالعمالة للمخابرات الأمريكية لايزال "الأستاذ" محتفظا بدوره بعيدا عن أي مساءلة.

في مايو عام 1944 كتب هيكل في ذكرى جلوس الملك فاروق مقالا بجريدة روزاليوسف عبارة عن وصلة من النفاق للملك، كتب يقول: "في يوم عيدك يا مولاي.. ثمان سنوات وأنت تحمل مسئولية هذا الوطن وهذا الشعب، كنت فيها نعم الملك الدستوري في ظروف لعلها أدق ما مر بها في تاريخ حياتها، أوليس الفاروق هو الذي قال ذات مرة :ـ إنني أحب قيادة السفينة أثناء العاصفة"
المقال الذي كتبه هيكل، وكان يبلغ من العمر آن ذاك 21 عاما، يكشف عن شخص وصولي يستخدم قلمه للصعود وتحقيق مصالح شخصية، هذا القلم وهذا الشخص الوصولي الذي خدع المصريين لعقود وزيف التاريخ، وجد في عبد الناصر ضالته لمواصلة مشروعه الوصولي.
تأسس النظام الحاكم في مصر عقب الانقلاب العسكري الذي نفذه الجيش في يوليو عام 1952، بصفقة ما بين جهاز الاستخبارات الأمريكية (السي أي إيه) ومجموعة من الضباط الصغار في الجيش و بواسطة عميل المخابرات الأمريكية مصطفى أمين وتلميذه النجيب هيكل. كانت الولايات المتحدة تهدف بإحلال "انكشارية عسكرية" في مصر إلى ضمان السيطرة على أهم دول الشرق عقب خروج بريطانيا.
لعب هيكل دورا رئيسيا في تسهيل نجاح العلاقة السرية بين ضباط يوليو والسي أي إيه، وظل يلعب هذا الدور بالرغم من توالي الرؤساء منذ 1952 وحتى يومنا هذا، وبعد أن ساهم في صناعة اسطورة عبد الناصر بالخداع، يعيد الكرة الآن بمحاولة صناعة أسطورة مزيفة أخرى لقاتل إسمه السيسي!

يقول مايلز كوبلاند في كتاب "لعبة الأمم": "... كما أن محمد حسنين هيكل هو نفسه الذي عمل على انجاح اللقاءات المتعددة بين الضابط ليكلاند (عميل المخابرات الأمريكية) والضباط المصريين الأحرار وقد تم ذلك –بالطبع- قبل الانقلاب.. ومن بين الضباط الأحرار كان عبد الناصر نفسه، واستمر هذا الضابط- أي ليكلاند- يستقبلهم بعد الانقلاب في شقته المطلة على نهر النيل طيلة أشهر عديدة.. والمضحك في الأمر- يقول كوبلاند- اذا شئنا القول- أن الجماهير كانت تهتف لمحمد نجيب وكذلك العالم الخارجي، أما السفارة الأمريكية فقد ربطت كل علاقتها مع عبد الناصر، ومن خلال ليكلاند، لأن عبد الناصر كان الرجل الوحيد القادر على اتخاذ القرارات الحاسمة"
عندما كان نظام يوليو على وشك أن ينهار عاد هيكل يلعب دور على الساحة السياسية المصرية بعد أن كان قد توارى، ولما لا فهيكل هو مهندس انقلاب يوليو، وكاهن النظام الأمين على أسراره. يقول كوبلاند: "لم ينس السفير الأمريكي كافري أن يكثر من الزيارات الروتينية لمحمد نجيب ويسلمه الرسائل الواردة من واشنطن... لكن الحوار الحقيقي بين الحكوميتين المصرية والأمريكية كان يدار مع عبد الناصر وبواسطة ليكلاند، وبصورة أدق بين ليكلاند وهيكل. وقد اتصف هيكل بالمرونة والحذاقة فكان يتسلل بالتدريج إلى صلب الاتصالات الجارية بيننا وبين عبد الناصر، وكان هيكل قادرا على طلي وجهات نظر عبد الناصر بالحلوى قبل أن ينقلها إلى السفارة الأمريكية، وهكذا كان يفعل عندما يطلب إليه أن ينقل وجهات نظر السفارة الأمريكية في القاهرة إلى عبد الناصرى نفسه"
وفي كتاب "رسالتي للمغفلين" كتب محمد جلال كشك: ".. وقد اتهم محمد نجيب، هيكل في كلام مكتوب ومنشور بأن المخابرات المصرية قدمت له (لنجيب) ولعبد الناصر تقريرا بأن محمد حسنين هيكل عميل للسفارة الأمريكية فلم يستطيع أن يلجأ للقضاء كما فعل الطاهر الذليل محمد نجيب (في هذه الواقعة على الأقل) لذلك آثر هيكل أن ينسحب مرة أخرى وذيله بين رجليه، الأولى نصحه محمد فوزي ألا يلجأ إلى القضاء ومحمود فوزي رجل أرقم يعرف السر، وصدقه النصح، والمرة الثانية عندما اعتذر لمحمد نجيب وتراجع، فهذه الواقعة – واقعة برج القاهرة- لا تثبت تزوير وكذب محمد حسنين هيكل وانما تشير إلى وجود سر خطير يحرص هيكل على اخفاءه ولو بالتزوير"

إذا كان مفهوما عدم فتح تحقيق مع هيكل في هذه الاتهامات له بالعمالة للمخابرات الأمريكية خلال فترات حكم رؤساء يوليو السابقين لأنهم كانوا شركاء له في تلك العلاقة، فلا يوجد ما يفسر احتفاء النظام العسكري الحاكم الأن بهيكل سوى أن تلك العلاقة السرية التي بني علي أساسها النظام لازالت قائمة.

لماذا فشلت ثورة يناير



في الأيام التالية سأقوم بتدوين نشط أحاول فيه شرح أسباب فشل ثورة يناير وكيف نجح النظام العسكري في ترميم شرعية نظام يوليو والعودة بقوة بعد أن كان يظن أنه برحيل مبارك ستعود مصر دولة مدنية بعد 6 عقود من الحكم الديكتاتوري.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Christians flee Syria village that speaks the language of Jesus





Christians in Syria were fleeing one of the oldest Christian towns in the world on Sunday, after regime forces failed to win it back from Islamist rebel fighters.


The Daily Telegraph, 08 Sep 2013


Rebel groups, including a branch of al-Qaeda, have taken control of Maaloula, one of the few remaining villages where the language of Christ is still spoken, residents and activists reported.
“Our army, the Syrian army, has failed us,” said Sister Antoinette, a nun from Maaloula, claiming the regime had forsaken control of the town. “We called the army, we begged them to come inside Maalouola and save us but they stayed outside. They sold us because we are a minority. They abandoned us because we are Christians.”
The Syrian government denied that it had lost control Maaloula. The state television channel SANA announced a series of victories against the “terrorist” invaders.
But video footage posted on YouTube on Sunday from the picturesque town told a different story: rebel fighters are shown walking through the streets of the village. A commander points out damage to the wall’s of the town’s ancient St Thecla monastery, which, he says, was caused by government tank fire.
Nestled deep in the mountains outside of Damascus, Maaloula was long known as a place for peaceful reflection. St Thecla, who is supposedly buried in the convent, was a follower of St Paul who fled to the village in Syria to avoid marriage, having taken an oath of chastity. It is said that the cleft of rock in which the convent is placed opened up to allow her to escape her pursuers.
This is one of only three places in the world where Western Aramaic, a dialect of the language spoken by Christ. It’s inhabitants are mostly Melkite Greek Catholic and Orthodox Christians have historically lived alongside a Sunni Muslim minority. Throughout the civil war, that has already claimed over 100,000 lives and torn apart the sectarian fabric of the country, Maaloula remained one of the last few places where Sunni Muslims and Christians could peacefully coexist.
Many of the rebels who stormed the town this week however, residents said, were overtly sectarian. The attack on Maaloula was a joint operation between moderate rebels from the Free Syrian Army, and Jabhat al-Nusra, a jihadist group aligned with al-Qaeda.
Rebels had initially tried to take the village last Wednesday, launching the operation by detonating a car bomb at the checkpoint to the entrance of the town. The army initially pushed back against the onslaught, but were eventually forced to flee the central part of the town.
Villagers told the Daily Telegraph that, having won control of much of the town, the rebel groups had turned on each other, with the hardline Jabhat al-Nusra, who believes in turning Syria into an Islamic emirate seeking to force the more moderate FSA fighters from the are.
Sister Antoinette said her brother in law had been “killed” by rebel fighters, and that his son has been kidnapped. Another resident in the village, speaking anonymously, told the Daily Telegraph that his neighbour was slaughtered in his home, and that rebels had tried to ’force a man to convert to Islam”.
Gregorious III, the Greek Catholic Patriarch in Damascus denounced the attack: “Why do the rebels make trouble in Maaloula, a peaceful town? Why create war where there are churches and where the people are peaceful? Leave us alone!”
He added: “I hope your country can distinguish between the opposition and al-Qaeda bandits. The opposition are Syrian’s too, that is OK, push them to dialogue. But to let these extremists commit these tragedies in our country is deeply immoral. Why not put the same effort into creating a peace agreement, as you are in planning to bomb Syria?”.


Egypt: British teenager loses leg in Cairo bomb attack






A British teenager has lost her leg in a suspected suicide bomb attack in northern Cairo, described by the Egyptian interior minister as the "beginning of a new wave of terrorism".

 

 

The Daily Telegraph, Sep 2013

No one was killed in the attack, the first in the capital since Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed president, was deposed in July. But more than 20 people were injured.
Among the most seriously injured was Deqa Hassan, 16, a British girl of Somali origin who lived in Brixton but has been at school in Egypt where she lives with her parents. Last month, after a visit to Dubai, she wrote on Twitter that she was afraid of returning to Egypt because of the violence there.
She was taken to the nearby Nasr Medical Insurance Hospital where her left leg was removed to her knee.
"I was walking with my friend and at the end of the street we heard the sound of an explosion," she said from her hospital bed. "I just hit the floor. People were screaming everywhere. It was very scary.
"Eventually two policemen walked up to us. We were screaming for help but they just walked away. It wasn't human."
Speaking in a London accent, Deqa went on: "The people nearby were yelling that they were injured and being shot at."
She said she wanted to go back to Brixton, where she had spent her childhood before moving to Egypt.
She also said she was with a friend who broke her shoulder.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of reports that a British national was injured in the bomb attack and we are urgently looking into it and liaising with the authorities."
Alistair Burt, the foreign minister, issued a statement condemning the attack. "Violence cannot offer a way forward," he said.
Mohammed Ibrahim, who was appointed interior minister by Mr Morsi but supported his overthrow, was driving in a convoy near the ministry when the attack which police said "appeared to be a suicide bombing" happened shortly after 10.30am. He had previously said he had received death threats.
A man was heard to cry "Allahu akbar" after the explosion, which was followed by a brief gun battle which left bullet holes down the side of the minister's vehicle. Two men alleged to be attackers were said to have been killed by the security services.
The minister was interviewed shortly afterwards, saying that the attack had been by means of a "remote controlled device" – believed to be hidden in a motorcycle.
"It was a heinous attempt," he said. "Even if I am martyred, another minister of interior will come and continue the war on the evil terror until we secure the country."
Opponents of the military-backed regime's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its forced dispersal of protests with the loss of more than 1,000 lives have warned that it might trigger a violent response.
The government says that the Brotherhood itself has encouraged terrorism.
One of the few senior Brotherhood leaders not arrested or on the run, Amr Darrag, issued a statement condemning the attack.
It was witnessed by large numbers of people living in the middle-class Nasr City district of Cairo, home to both a number of bases of the security forces and of the mosque that became the centre of pro-Brotherhood protests after Mr Morsi was overthrown.
"People were running around randomly," said Raouf Mahmoud, 25, a doctor. "Two police cars were set on fire. Fifteen minutes later an ambulance came and took four or five people away.
"Then we heard some gun shots. They lasted for two or three minutes. After that we just saw the smoke and the fire, and we hear there are some bodies or remains of the people who died there."
The wreckage was strewn across the road, cars with their roofs peeled off and nearby shopfronts shattered.
Egyptian activists said they feared a return to the Islamist terror campaigns of the 90s, in which scores of people including western tourists were killed.
There have already been a number of militant attacks in the Sinai, which now has its own branch of al-Qaeda operating. However, this was the first major attack in the capital.


Egypt: Grief of Muslim Brotherhood leader's family at death of teenage daughter





Seventeen-year-old Asma el-Beltagi should have had the brightest of futures. She was top of her class in school, had a reputation as a gentle and intelligent young woman, and was loved as the daughter of one of Egypt's first ever democratically elected leaders.



The daily Telegraph 15 Aug 2013


All of this must have been running through the mind of her father, Mohammed al-Beltagi, the secretary general of the country's ousted Muslim Brotherhood party, as he learned the news of his daughter's death on Wednesday.
Standing in the makeshift field hospital, his protest camp of Rabaa al-Adawiya burning around him, he had stared down, frozen, his eyes brimming with tears, at the lifeless body of his daughter, one eyewitness recalled.
Asma el-Beltagi was one of at least 525 people who were killed on Wednesday when Egyptian security forces stormed two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps that, for the past six weeks, had been calling for a reversal of the military coup that ousted Mohammed Morsi and Mr Beltagi, among others, from power.
Her death certificate, seen by The Telegraph, said that Asma had been shot in the chest, that her skull was crushed and her left leg broken.

Speaking for the first time, her brother Anas el-Beltagi, described how she had been on her to way to help at a field hospital when she was caught up in the violence.
"She was shot on her way there," he said. "I was with her just after. We took her to hospital. She needed a blood transfer, but we couldn't operate. She died at 1pm."
Anas and another brother Malik el-Beltagi said they had been tasked with organising her funeral as their father Mohammed has been forced to go into hiding.
In the space of a few short weeks, the leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood went from being the country's rulers to being vilified and persecuted as criminals. The new army-installed government has declared them "wanted", and vowed to arrest them.
It is unclear whether Mohammed Beltagi will risk attending his daughter's funeral. One of his brothers, Asma's uncle, said Mr Beltagi had gone into hiding and that he had been unable to reach him.
Other relatives gathered on Thursday outside Al-Hussein morgue, where her body was being kept, to mourn her death.
"She was the best in school. She was calm, and had a good manner and a kind heart," said Hoda Mohammed, one of Asma's aunts. "She always participated in Muslim Brotherhood activities. Her father was her role model."
Her relatives said Asma completed the task of learning to recite the entire Koran, word for word, a month ago. She was popular in school, and had a good sense of humour.
As a young, modern woman, she also had many interests. Her Facebook page showed The Pianist as one of her favorite films and Woody Allen as a favourite actor.
When her father was ousted from power in June Asma had participated enthusiastically in the opposition sit-ins. She would stay overnight regularly, sleeping in makeshift tents alongside other women protestors.
On the night of the attack protest leaders started calling for demonstrators to come to the exposed main street and show their defiance against the security forces, said Hoda, who was with Asma at the time.
"We started chanting and praying to God because we felt we were going to be martyrs," said Hoda.
Minutes later she lost Asma in a volley of teargas.
"I found her later bleeding on the ground," she said.
"Every minute someone died around us. The floors of the hospital were covered in the dead and the wounded. We couldn't find a space for her.
"Then the army started shooting teargas into the hospital and we had to flee.
"After an officer stood in front of the hospital door gripping his gun, and allowed us back, only briefly enough to take our corpses." As Hoda spoke, another aunty of Asma broke down into tears. Her whole body shook as she sobbed in realization of everything that her family and Mohammed Beltagi had lost: first the country, and now their most precious relative. "She was an angel," she whispered through the tears.

Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian photographer who chronicled his own death





The grainy film captures the soldier as he shoots from his vantage point on top of the yellow stone building.


The Daily Telegraph, 09 Jul 2013


He fires more than once and then, suddenly, turns the rifle and points toward the camera lens.
The film ends – and so too ended the life of Ahmed Samir Assem.
The 26-year-old photographer for Egypt’s Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala newspaper was among a least 51 people killed after security forces opened fire on a large crowd that had camped outside the Egyptian army’s Republican Guard officers’ club in Cairo, where Mohammed Morsi, the deposed president, was believed to be in detention.
Mr Assem had been on the scene as the pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters knelt for prayer shortly before dawn on Monday morning.
According to friends and relatives, the moment of his own death was captured as the grainy film culminates.
News of Mr Assem’s death filtered through after his bloodied camera and mobile phone were found at the site of the makeshift camp.
“At around 6am, a man came into the media centre with a camera covered in blood and told us that one of our colleagues had been injured,” said Ahmed Abu Zeid, the culture editor of Mr Assem’s newspaper, who was working from a facility set up next to the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, about a mile away.
“Around an hour later, I received news that Ahmed had been shot by a sniper in the forehead while filming or taking pictures on top of the buildings around the incident.
“Ahmed’s camera was the only one which filmed the entire incident from the first moment.
“He had started filming from the beginning of the prayers so he captured the very beginnings and in the video, you can see tens of victims. Ahmed’s camera will remain a piece of evidence in the violations that have been committed.”
Like much else about Monday’s incident, the exact circumstances of the shooting are hard to prove. However, other witnesses to whom The Daily Telegraph spoke have described snipers being stationed on buildings overlooking the site, which is in an area dominated by military installations.
Excerpts of a 20-minute video said to have been recorded by Mr Assem as the horror unfolded in front of him were shown at a Muslim Brotherhood press conference and are now being touted as evidence of a massacre on the streets of Egypt’s capital.
The other video, which purports to show the final seconds before Mr Assem was shot, have now been put on to his Facebook page, although the provenance of it could not be independently verified by The Daily Telegraph.
What is certain, friends say, is that Mr Assem has left a vivid testimony of events whose origins have been hotly disputed. Mr Morsi’s supporters say they were fired on from behind without provocation while they were praying. The army insists that security forces only fired after protesters attempted to storm the Republican Guard facility.
There have also been suggestions that the original firing may have come from agents provocateurs, triggering a wave of violence.
Whatever the truth, the Muslim Brotherhood says Mr Assem’s last film bears out its version of events and says it plans to use it as evidence — though it had not responded to requests for a physical copy by the time of publication.
However, Mr Assem’s brother, Eslam, 29, said the footage’s last seconds showed a soldier shooting demonstrators from a roof. The soldier then turned his gun towards Mr Assem and the film suddenly went dead, he added.
Colleagues described Mr Assem, a graduate of Cairo University’s communications department, as a dedicated professional who had amassed an archive of 10,000 photographs since starting his career as a photographer three years ago.
His work for Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala — the official newspaper of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing — put him in the front line of Egypt’s political turmoil. It had also put him at odds with his family, who were supporters of the late Egyptian nationalist leader, Gamal Abdal Nasser.
As Mr Assem’s friends and family mourned, Adly Mansour, Egypt’s new interim president, unveiled a draft constitution to replace the one drafted by Islamists and suspended last week. A committee will be set up to make final improvements to the document before it is put to a referendum. Parliamentary elections will then follow within three months and a date for a presidential election will be set once the parliament has convened.
Mr Mansour also named Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN atomic energy watchdog, as vice-president in charge of foreign affairs and Hazem al-Beblawi, a former finance minister, as prime minister.



Sunday, September 08, 2013

قرني المصري... قصة واقعية من وحي الأحداث!






واحد بلطجي كان محتل بيتك ومطهقك في عيشتك وكمان مغتصب مراتك، قمت أنت أخيرا عملت عليه راجل وطردته من البيت، فقام سلط عليك واحد شيخ صحبه ومكنه من البيت قبل ما يخرج. دخل عليك الشيخ بقال الله وقال الرسول، وقالك أنا اللي هحرس البيت، ورغم إنك مبتطقش الشيخ بس قولت أهو نجربه. بدأ عم الشيخ يظهر على حقيقته، إنه طمعان في البيت والمدام برضو. و واحدة واحدة بدأ يتغول في البيت وبعد ما كان واخد أوضة الحراسة دخل على البيت أوضة أوضة، فأنت قمت استنجدت بعدوك الأولاني اللي عمل فيها شهم وجه علشان قال إيه ينقذك ويرجعلك البيت، وفعلا البلطجي رزع الشيخ علقة موت وقالك خلاص أنا رجعتلك البيت. من شدة العلقة الشيخ بقي عايز ينتقم، وفضل مستني برة البيت، لو طلعت وحدك هيشرحك. من كرهك للشيخ فرحت قوي أنت بالبلطجي إللي دخل عليك بالحنجل والمنجل وقالك أنا تبت إلى الله ومش عايز بس غير أوضة جوة البيت، علشان أحميك من الشيخ الشرير، وأنا مش طمعان استولى على البيت تاني ومش هاجي جنب مراتك، طبعا أنت صدقت، بس البلطجي مع الوقت قعد يخوفك ويقولك إلزم اوضتك علشان لو طلعت الشيخ ممكن يستفرد بيك، وأنت لأنك خايف صدقت وبعد ما كنت بتبص للبلطجي على إنه محتل بيتك بقيت شايفه مصدر حماية. ولأن الطبع يغلب التطبع، البلطجي سرح تاني في البيت وبدل ما كان بينام مع مراتك في السر بقى كله علني وأنت مبسوط وبتقوله "تسلم الأيادي" فهمت حاجة؟!!