Revolutie in Egypte #207: Waar Sisi president wil worden

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Two explosions rock Giza district near Cairo
Blasts took place on Giza Bridge close to where Central Security Forces vehicles were parked.

Two explosions have been heard in the space of two minutes in the centre of the Egyptian capital.

Al Jazeera sources, quoting the security directorate, said the two blasts were in Giza and they went off on Giza Bridge near where Central Security Forces vehicles were parked.

It is thought the explosive devices were homemade and detonated close to Istiqama Mosque and Giza Square.

Reuters news agency reported that three people had been injured in the explosions, citing a security source while local media put the figure higher.

The Health Ministry said it was too early for figures to be known.

Egypt has seen a wave of attacks claimed by armed groups since the army last year removed Mohamed Morsi as president and cracked down on his supporters.

More soon.

Al Jazeera English

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 10:21 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:

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Aloulou wie denk je dat mijn TT heeft veranderd. Er stond eerst op de hond Sisi en niet alleen Sisi.

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 15:19 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:

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Ooit gehoord van vrijheid van meningsuiting.

Zou je het ook melden als er hond Morsi stond i.p.v. Sisi.

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Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh will not run in the upcoming presidential elections, his Strong Egypt Party announced Sunday in a press conference, describing the polls as a "mockery" of elections.

"We will not take part in deceiving the people," said party leader Aboul-Fotouh, who had finished fourth in the 2012 presidential race.

The party boycotted Egypt's latest constitutional referendum on 14-15 January, after its members were arrested for spreading posters calling for a "No" vote.

On Saturday, leftist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi – who had finished third in the 2012 presidential elections – announced he would again run for president.

A roadmap was put into effect in Egypt after Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was ousted on 3 July following mass protests against his one-year rule.

In accordance with a recent decree by interim President Adly Mansour, presidential polls are to take place before 18 April.

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Prominent leftist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi announced on Saturday that he will run for president in this year's elections.

Sabbahi, who finished third the 2012 presidential race -- behind eventual winner Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak-era premier Ahmed Shafiq -- announced his candidacy at an event in Cairo.

The founder of the Popular Current group has more than once expressed his intention to run for president over the past few weeks. He is the first to confirm that he would seek the 2014 election.

Speaking on Saturday evening, Sabbahi said he would cooperate with anyone in the upcoming presidential race except those "who consider the 30 June protests a coup, or the 25 January revolution a conspiracy."

Days of protests starting 30 June last year led to the overthrow of Morsi, while the 2011 January uprising ended Mubarak's 30-year rule.

It is Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi who is, however, widely tipped to be Egypt's next president, after the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces empowered him to run for the top position last week.

El-Sisi, who is yet to officially announce his presidential candidacy, has grown immensely popular after the military ouster of Morsi on 3 July, following mass protests across the nation against the latter's rule.

Elections are expected to take place before 18 April, according to a recent decree by President Adly Mansour.

Mansour decided to bring presidential elections forward, changing an initial roadmap drawn up following Morsi’s ouster which would have seen parliamentary elections take place first.

The Popular Current will hold a press conference soon, Sabbahi said during his announcement.

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Putin backs Sisi to be president of Egypt
Russian leader says army chief, who has not officially declared candidacy, has made decision to run for top job.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he would support a presidential bid from Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, wishing him luck after holding talks in Moscow.

"I know that you, Mr defence minister, have decided to run for president of Egypt," Putin said, according to Russian news reports.

"It's a very responsible decision... I wish you luck both from myself personally and from the Russian people."

More: http://www.aljazeera.com/(...)421363611426204.html

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Op donderdag 13 februari 2014 21:59 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Lekker bezig.

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Je kan zeggen wat je wilt, maar charisma heeft deze man wel.

افتضاح هدف زيارة روسيا: بوتن يدعم المشين السيسي من أجل "مصير" الشعب المصري

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CAIRO — Shady el-Ghazaly Harb says he has given up trying to help the military-backed government address its worries about losing the support of young Egyptians.

After attending three meetings about the issue at the presidential palace in recent weeks, Mr. Ghazaly Harb, a 35-year-old political organizer, rejected the latest invitation because, he said, the authorities have not heeded advice to stop arresting so many young people, or at least to alleviate the grim conditions in the jails where they are held. Instead, the police arrested scores more, including friends of his who were involved in organizing the Arab Spring uprising here.

“A lot of youth groups are saying, ‘We cannot come and sit with you like this while our colleagues are behind bars — we cannot find this ethical,’ ” said Mr. Ghazaly Harb, who played a prominent role in the 2011 uprising against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak and then campaigned for the removal of Mr. Mubarak’s Islamist successor, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A growing number of young Egyptians say the government’s heavy-handed crackdown on any opposition is widening a generation gap, which poses a longer-term threat to stability.

Three out of four Egyptians are under 40, and more than two out of three are under 35. With the government’s most important leader, Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, retracing the 60-year-old footsteps of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser — even flying to Moscow last week to try to restart arms deals that were last seen at the height of the Cold War — young bloggers and activists are complaining that they feel caught in a time warp.

They are lashing out at their parents’ whole generation, which presided over three decades of economic, cultural and political stagnation and now seems to be repudiating the 2011 uprising for interrupting that stasis.

“Egypt is facing the tragedy of an entire generation incapable and unqualified to deal with their plight,” Mahmoud Salem, a 32-year-old blogger known as Sandmonkey, wrote last month in a widely circulated post.

Even Egyptian popular culture is stuck in a decades-old rut, he argued: People are still laughing at the clownish comedian Adel Imam, now 73; still listening to the pop heartthrob Amr Diab, now 53; and still admiring retouched magazine photographs of the glamorous actress Yousra, now 58.

“The very idea of ‘Islamic rule’ and even ‘military coups’ are from the 1980s,” he wrote, calling the current establishment “a generation holding on to the 1980s as tenaciously as a playboy holds on to his youth.”

The frustrations of young Egyptians propelled the protests that led to the ousters of Mr. Mubarak in 2011 and Mr. Morsi in 2013. Their disaffection came into focus last month when young voters were conspicuously absent from a referendum on a revised constitution.

The referendum, presented as a show of support for the military takeover, was the first time in a half-dozen national votes over the last three years that young voters did not flood to the polls. Their low turnout set off a public debate about their disaffection, even as the police continued to use deadly force in crackdowns against young people — Islamists, liberals or left-leaning — for staging anti-government protests. Sixty-two protesters were killed in clashes with security forces on Jan. 25, the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising, while a mostly older crowd gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate Field Marshal Sisi, who is 59.

“Gray hairs in the queues, black hairs in the graves,” is the epigram making the rounds among both liberal and Islamist activists, contrasting the referendum voters supporting the new government installed by Field Marshal Sisi with the protesters opposing it.

“Youth make up the majority, but the elders are still in control of everything,” Alaa al-Aswany, 56, a novelist and critic who is supportive of the military takeover, warned last week in a column urging the government to listen to the young. For three years, he wrote, “their elders” mocked the youth “and then realized they were right when it was too late.”

In an interview, Khaled Abdel-Aziz, the 55-year-old minister of youth, argued that the Egyptian news media had overstated the trend. He blamed Islamists trying to rekindle their protests, new political forces who fear a return of the old Mubarak elite and young politicians seeking positions or influence in the new government.

“It was exaggerated, until it became a subject addressed by everyone who works in the media,” he said.

Even so, top government officials made it clear that they were concerned during several meetings with young activists. “The referendum was an alarm bell for them,” said Mr. Ghazaly Harb, whose three meetings on the subject included one with the interim president, Adly Mansour, who is 68. “They say there is a gap between the current regime and the youth, and they want to understand why is there this gap, and how to get over it,” he said.

Mr. Mansour specifically asked the youth leaders in the meeting, “Where is the problem, and what is the reason the youth were absent like that?” said Susan Herfy, 39, of the Justice Party.

Younger Egyptians say they grew up hearing advice from their parents to keep their mouths shut and avoid challenging their leaders: “Cowardice is the master of morals,” they would say, or “walk by the wall” to avoid attention.

But starting about 10 years ago, members of the younger generation in Egypt began to rebel against the stultifying stability of Mr. Mubarak’s 30-year rule. They found new ways to express themselves through the Internet, thronged to the “Kifaya” movement against Mr. Mubarak’s monopoly on power and formed their own grass-roots organizations, like the April 6 Youth Movement.

Many saw the Tahrir Square sit-in of 2011 as their generation’s Woodstock, and the overthrow of Mr. Mubarak as their mark on history. “It was a struggle against our parents,” said Mina Fayek, an activist and a blogger. “We used to joke it was easier to stand in front of tanks and bullets than to convince your parents to let you go to Tahrir Square to protest.”

In his column, Mr. Aswany marveled that “a generation of youth emerged that was like a mutation.”

“Fathers who feared entering police stations gave birth to children whom we saw stand without flinching or retreating in front of armored vehicles shooting them,” he wrote.

Supporters of the 2013 military takeover, though, have often smeared the young activists as a “fifth column” conspiring with foreign powers to undermine security or provide cover to Islamist “terrorists.”

“It is not a youth revolution, and it has never been a youth revolution,” Ibrahim Eissa, a 48-year-old pro-military talk show host, declared recently. Addressing an “excited young man who went to a protest and calls himself a revolutionary,“ Mr. Eissa said: “You mistake chaos for revolution. You mistake destruction for revolution. You are an idiot who doesn’t understand!”

Several of the best-known youth leaders, including Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a pioneer dissident blogger, and Ahmed Maher, a founder of the April 6 group, are now behind bars. Critics like Mr. Eissa infuriate other young activists.

“Their generation was silent for 60 years, and when we have paid the price in blood for them to have the right to say something, they turn around and call us traitors,” said Ahmad Abd Allah, 34, a spokesman for the April 6 group.

Islamists say that a generation gap is widening in the Muslim Brotherhood as well, with young members blaming their elders for bungling their chance to rule. Speaking on the condition of anonymity because they do not want to be seen breaking ranks in a time of crisis, several young Islamists with relatives in jail said President Morsi and his contemporaries bore the blame for exposing the Brotherhood to a bloody crackdown.

Mr. Morsi and the older generation were suspicious of non-Islamists, and sought to go it alone on a gradual “political path” that avoided direct confrontation with the institutions of the police state, said Hamza Sarawy, 22, a spokesman for the Brotherhood-sponsored Anti-Coup Alliance who worked in the Morsi administration. But younger Brotherhood members preferred “a revolutionary path” of collaborating with more liberal groups to take on the old institutions. “The youth of the Muslim Brotherhood has a different mind-set,” he said.

Mr. Abdel-Aziz, the youth minister, said the government was struggling to create some kind of committee or commission that could speak for young people. “It is good luck that the youth did not have much to do with the government over the last three years,” he said, because “it would have stigmatized them.”

Mr. Salem, the blogger, suggested that given the country’s demographics, perhaps it should be the other way around. “Would you like to join the elderly committee?” he wrote. “It is a nice title, isn’t it? Like the youth committee.”

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Leftist activist Khaled Ali has said he will not stand in the upcoming presidential election.

"I refuse to participate in this farce called an election," Khaled Ali announced at a press conference at the journalists syndicate on Sunday.

Ali, who stood for president in 2012, said there would only be real presidential candidates if the election law is amended, the protest law is cancelled and jailed activists are released.

The army should not get involved in politics, he noted.

"I am not against the army but if its commander wants to be a candidate he should first resign his position and spend two years in politics as a civilian," Ali said.

Army chief Field Marshall Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is expected to announce his candidacy soon.

Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi is the only person to state he will stand for president. But the candidate registration process is yet to begin.

مؤتمر خالد علي لأعلان موقفة للترشح كامل

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Egypte veroordeelt 529 leden Moslimbroederschap tot de dood

In Egypte zijn vanochtend 529 leden van de Moslimbroederschap tot de dood veroordeeld. Zij zouden volgens de rechtbank schuldig zijn aan onder meer moord. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters op gezag van een van de advocaten.

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Op maandag 24 maart 2014 09:17 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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KristenMcTighe twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:47:21 As clashes reported in Minya after death sentence of 529 2day, a verdict also expected tomorrow in Minya court for 683 MB incl Badie #Egypt reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 10:27:31 Of the 529 given death sentence in Minya trial, only 51 were actually allowed to attend their own trial, #Egypt lawyer tells @BuzzFeed. reageer retweet

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katebt3000 twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:12:29 Leading human rights lawyer Nasser Amin tells BBC likely to be a retrial in case of MB supporters sentenced to death in Minya reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:19:53 Clashes being reported in Minya, people attacking the police station @magedatef75 reports. reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:07:41 One of those who was just sentenced to death in Minya trial is in a wheelchair. No way he could have taken part in clashes @BuzzFeed learns. reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:03:25 #Egypt lawyer in Minya trial said the judge had personal vendetta against those accused, no intention of fair trial from the start. reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:02:12 We spoke to families from Minya trial, they said many of those sentenced to death have no connection to MB or involvement in protests. reageer retweet

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sheeraf twitterde op maandag 24-03-2014 om 11:24:10 More clashes being reported in Minya right now, seem to be largely focused on police station. reageer retweet

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De Egyptische legerchef Abdel Fattah al-Sisi doet later dit jaar een gooi naar het presidentschap. Dat heeft de veldmaarschalk woensdag bekendgemaakt op de Egyptische televisie.

Hij zei zijn post binnen het leger op te geven. Ook stapt hij op als minister van Defensie. Al-Sisi verscheen in zijn legeruniform, naar eigen zeggen voor de laatste keer.

"Ik geef dit uniform op om het land te verdedigen", aldus al-Sisi. Alleen mensen zonder functie binnen het leger of de regering kunnen zich verkiesbaar stellen voor het Egyptische presidentschap. De stembusgang vindt waarschijnlijk volgende maand plaats.

Al-Sisi zei dat hij verder wil bouwen aan een 'modern en democratisch Egypte'. Tegelijkertijd leek hij zijn critici gerust te willen stellen. "Er zullen geen persoonlijke vetes worden uitgevochten", aldus al-Sisi.

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(Reuters) - Egypt's army is taking charge of billions of dollars of development aid from the United Arab Emirates, an army official said, raising further doubts over the narrow separation of powers with the military backed administration in place since July.

One of several Gulf states to shower Egypt with cash and petroleum products after the army ousted elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Mursi, the UAE also looked ahead, seeking to bolster a system that could keep Islamists it sees as an existential threat from running the most populous Arab state.

Alongside money to build clinics, schools and housing units, it offered to fund a project in Egypt's strategic wheat sector--the construction of 25 wheat silos that could help the world's biggest importer of the commodity lower its huge food bill.

Bread is a politically-explosive issue in Egypt -- failure to deliver it at an affordable price has triggered major riots in the past and the government wants to boost its storage capacity to reduce its reliance on international markets.

When army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled Mursi after large demonstrations against what protesters said was inept government, he put in place an interim civilian cabinet meant to be at arm's length from the military.

But Major General Taher Abdullah, who heads the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces, said when UAE officials discussed projects shortly after Mursi's ouster, it was with the army.

"They said, 'we will support the Egyptian people but through the army -- if the people want a hospital, the armed forces will build it,'" the 58-year-old career officer and engineer told Reuters in an interview.

The army's role in building construction became public earlier this month when UAE government-linked Dubai firm Arabtec's announced it had inked a $40 billion deal with the military to build one million homes in Egypt.

In the silos project, it has been acting behind the scenes.

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Op vrijdag 28 maart 2014 10:35 schreef SadPanda het volgende:
Zijn deze al gepost

Shut up your mouse Obama ******REMIX*******

OBAMA You Are a TRAITOR سما المصري تفشخ اوباما وتسبه بالاب والام.

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 17:51:23 New Pew poll on #Egypt is a must-read, offers further confirmation that popular support for coup is overstated: http://t.co/Z8mS6IIbcx reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 17:54:18 According to new Pew poll, 43% of Egyptians oppose Morsi's ouster, while 45% have unfavorable opinion of Sissi. #pt reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 18:00:29 Only 56% of Egyptians have favorable view of military, which is striking considering army's historic reputation as protector of State. #pt reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 18:02:36 Remarkable that MB would still garner 38% favorability rating considering that support for the org is now a criminal offense in Egypt. reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 18:07:02 Dissatisfaction with country's direction is now at 72%-- a 10% increase from before the coup: http://t.co/Z8mS6IIbcx #Egypt reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 18:12:48 The Pew results are even more striking when you consider that there's pretty much no real opposition media inside #Egypt today. #pt reageer retweet

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shadihamid twitterde op donderdag 22-05-2014 om 18:15:57 So nonstop govt propaganda, hyper-nationalism, social intimidation & criminalizing opposition only get u slim margin of favorability? #Egypt reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 22 mei 2014 19:28 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
Sommige polls en stellingen zijn niet goed te meten, zoals dat 10% "meer ontevreden is nu dan voor de coupe". Dat zegt niet zoveel. Maar wat wel vaststaat is dat Sisi gewoon flinke staatsmedia en bekenden inzet om een kunstmatige sfeer te scheppen alsof hij de messias is die Egypte redt. Met de tijd worden steeds meer Egyptenaren wakker dat het allemaal een farce is. En ik ben er zelfs van overtuigd - maar da's mijn mening - dat over een langere periode mensen zullen terugkijken en Sisi's dictatuur met Morsi's periode gaan vergelijken wat betreft bepaalde vrijheden. Hoe fout Morsi ook was, je werd niet opgepakt als je kritiek op hem als president had. En dat gaat 100% wel snel gebeuren wanneer Sisi wint en het gewoon weer een oud Mubarak regime gaat worden. Allemaal onder het mom van "herstellen van de democratie" en "redden van Egypte".