Tag: رشدي القمري

List of SS officers (Part II)

Posted on By 3arabawy

Hundreds of State Security Police officers, with their job occupations, phone numbers, have been exposed by 25Leaks website.

I’ve just skimmed through it quickly now. I’ll for sure do more investigations later, but if there is one thing that has been a trend in SS: It’s a family business. I’m seeing names of junior SS officers whose daddies are also in SS.

From SS Officers

One quick example (check page 2), you’ll find that our General Rushdi el-Qamari had a son who worked at the SS Heliopolis Bureau: Captain Muhammad Rushdi el-Qamari.

Previously I posted a link to another site with more names and phone numbers here.

More from the Piggipedia soon.

General Rushdi el-Qamari اللواء رشدي القمري

Posted on By 3arabawy

During the uprising, the regime took down the internet from the night of 27 January till 3 February, after blocking websites like Twitter and Facebook on the previous day. The government also took down the mobile phone networks and SMS, with the complicity of the three operators Mobinil, Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, as well as internet service providers like TEDATA.

The government body that orchestrated the blackout was the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), headed by the former Telecommunication Minister Tarek Kamel (whose brother Cairo University President Hossam Kamel is currently the target of an impeachment campaign by faculty staff and student protesters over his ties to the Mubarak regime), together with representatives from the police, Mukhabarat and government officials.

From SS Officers

The Interior Ministry’s representative on the board of NTRA during the revolution was General Rushdi el-Qamari, whose profile pictures I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs.

Little I managed to find out about the career of General Rushdi Muhammad Sayyed Ahmad el-Qamari, before he became the head of the General Administration of Police Communications in July 2010. But usually heads of such sensitive departments in the interior ministry come from the ranks of State Security Police, especially as he assumed the membership of the NTRA board, sharing seats with the Mukhabarat.

Essam Sharaf’s cabinet has come out few days ago saying the regime’s shutting down of telecommunications was “inappropriate.” But has anyone been held accountable? What happened to NTRA board members, including General Qamari? Have they been investigated? Do they still keep their posts? Or are we continuing with the musical chairs game?