Tag: mukhabarat

London balconies falling down, falling down, falling down…

Posted on By 3arabawy

… as some people are wondering after Ashraf Marwan, and Soua’ad Hosni. but they tend to forget too General El-Leithy Nassef, Sadat’s former head of the Republican Guards, who played a central role in the 15 May 1971 “Corrective Revolution” against Nasser’s old-guards.

And guess what? General Nassef also jumped off from a London balcony… in the same building where Soua’ad Hosni died. Somebody go and check those bloody balconies.

Just to let you know: I live on the ground floor. OK? So if one day, la sama7 allah, you find the hoss lying dead in the backyard or something, then don’t jump to conspiracy theories… It can be then that I got depressed, and decided to jump off my 40 cm high window. And I may also decide, while flying from that height and before I hit the ground, to punch myself in the eyes a couple of times. Ok?

Interview with former armed Nasserist activist

Posted on By 3arabawy

Kefaya’s website has posted an exclusive interview with Nazmi Shahin, member of Egypt’s Revolution group, who was involved in armed operations against CIA and Mossad agents in Cairo.

The armed organization was founded by Nasserist army and intelligence officers in the beginning of the 1980s. They managed to kill two Mossad agents in August 1985 and March 1986. Their other two operations failed however: One in 1984, when they tried to assassinate an Israeli agent, the other was in 1987 when they tried to target the CIA Middle East Station Chief, who escaped with a head injury according to the interview.

The members of the organization were rounded up by the government in 1987, and were BRUTALLY tortured by the security services. They were given harsh long prison sentences in 1991. The group’s founder, former intelligence officer Mahmoud Nour Eddin, died in prison in 1998 due to maltreatment, while the rest of the activists were released around 2002.

Most of the group’s members spent their years of incarceration in solitary confinement. For example, Nazmi Shahin, the former army officer, spent 14 out of his 15 years alone in his cell.

You can read the interview here and here.