Egypt: from 2011 demonstrations to today (19 Viewers)

[ReBeL]

Essam Sharaf appointed Egypt's new PM

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has submitted his resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The council has accepted the resignation, and almost immediately announced the appointment of a successor, former transport minister, Essam Sharaf.

Shafiq's resignation comes on the eve of the planned "Friday of Determination" mass demonstrations, called for by the youth movements to demand the resignation of Ahmed Shafiq's government and the realization of a host of other revolutionary demands.

Essam Sharaf has been charged by the supreme council with forming the new cabinet. Sharaf was one of a handfull of ex-ministers who declared their support for the revolution in its early days, and is said to have joined the protesters in Tahrir Square days before ex-president Mubarak stepped down.

A professor of engineering who served under Mubarak from 2004-2006, Sharaf is well respected among the Egyptian public. He has been a vocal opponent of the Mubarak regime since leaving office and has been especially critical of the collapse of public transport under the former president.

The immediate replacement of the hugely unpopular Shafiq points to the armed forces hoping to dilute the anger and focus of protesters tomorrow.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...cs-/Essam-Sharaf-appointed-Egypts-new-PM.aspx

 

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[ReBeL]

Unforgettable night in the Arab TV history

I will not say a unforgettable night in the Egyptian TV history because this has never been seen before in the Arab world since the start of TV broadcasting in Iraq “Iraq was the first country to have TV broadcasting in the Arab world unlike the popular myth of the UAR’s Arab TV”
Last night ON TV made a TV history when it hosted the first real political debate between a prime minister and opposition figures in Egypt. This episode started from 10 PM and ended at 2 AM Cairo local time. Originally this TV show was not intended to be like that. Earlier Wednesday we found an announcement on ON TV’s news bar that Reem Maged would host PM Ahmed Shafik along with Naguuib Sawiris, Amr Hamzawy and Dr. Kamel Abu El-Maged and after that Yosri Fouda will host Hamdi Kandeel and Alaa Al Aswani in his show.
It was from the start good preparation and programming because we all knew that whatever Shafik would say , Al Aswani and Kandeel would fire back afterwards. Reem’s show started and it was actually terrible one , a counter revolution episode in front of us and Amr Hamzawy who seemed to speak logically in front of the PM from my point of view was not given enough time to speak.
Shafik defended the state security and considered its role as holy and this shows where we were going. Sawiris also was mad on how Ahmed Ezz , Garana and Maghabi were arrested despite he did not name them. As I described it , it was a counter revolution show to scare the people from the revolution thanks to Shafik and Sawiris.
For an hour and half I felt so angry from Shafik and I was not alone actually because twitter and FB were full of angry comments as well. Then came the golden announcement on Yosri Fouda’s twitter : Al Aswani and Kandeel will join the PM afterwards in an open discussion and it was the announcement of something unprecedented in the Arab world.


We know Kandeel and Al Aswani as outspoken opposition figures who were fought explicitly during the Mubarak era and paid the price for this , we know that they do not want Shafik and want him to step down. We know that this was not arranged according to our knowledge “we do not know yet how it was arranged actually on set”
We know most importantly that we can expect the unexpected from these two vs. Shafik on air and this is why it was something completely new in the Arab world where shows are tailored to please the prime ministers and officials. In our Arab world questions and answers are prepared in advance and usually the interviews with ministers do not include any other guest not to mention opposition figure in a debate like show.
The second part of the show started with Yosri Fouda giving the first real question to PM Ahmed Shafik then Alaa Al Aswany took it from there along with Hamdy Kandeel and for the first time we watched a prime minister being criticized and attacked like that on the air.
Shafik lost his temper especially with Al Aswany for about three time in the show. The last clash was the ugliest as he accused Al Aswany of wearing patriotism mask and reminded us that he “killed and got killed” and history was behind him !! Al Aswany of course had to fire back and reminded him that it was from right as Egyptian citizen to ask.
Now Al Aswany is being accused of rudeness in the Facebook and twitter also in several Egyptian websites for standing against the prime minister, of course those people who attacked Al Aswany have never seen a prime minister being really interrogated and roasted in a parliament before and actually they have not lost someone dear or lost any eye because of Mubarak’s regime !!
With my respect Shafik insulted the martyrs at Tahrir more when he spoke about the garbage at Tahrir square that should be cleaned to justify his Hyde Park’s plan for the square. He insulted hundreds of martyrs and thousands of injured when he spoke arrogantly about how he wanted the army to distribute meals on the protesters of Al Tahrir !!
He did not give a direct answer when he was asked on the contrary except once or twice , he was so irritated and seemed not to be opened for any real criticism. His body language was clear to all of us that he was nervous and not comfortable.
Hamdy Kandeel was a pro , he is a veteran TV host who knew how to corner Shafik calmly and smoothly , a great smooth killer he was. Kandeel wondered about the minister of foreign affairs and the Egyptian candidate for the league of Arab states’ secretary position.
I will not comment about Sawiris because actually he should have left and Amr Hamzawy stayed.
Even in Lebanon where the prime minister mocked freely and explicitly in the comic show ,nothing like this happened before there and I am a person who watches Lebanese political shows very well.
I will complete this post in this morning because actually now it is 3:33 AM and I need to get a sleep.
Again this episode was a TV history made in front of us.

http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/03/unforgettable-night-in-arab-tv-history.html

 

[K.O.]

What's next? Demonstrations asking this new guy Essam Sharaf to resign?

 

[ReBeL]

What's next? Demonstrations asking this new guy Essam Sharaf to resign?

Ahmad Shafiq was a part of the corrupt regime. So, it was necessary to show him the door. Regarding the new guy, it depends on how he deals with things. If he is also stupid and corrupt, why not demonstrating against him? Thanks God people there got rid of the fear and are fighting for the best for their vountry all the time.

 

[Yamen]

I am totally lost with the events now!

 

[ReBeL]

I am totally lost with the events now!

Why?

 

[Yamen]

been travelling and so much news going on and of course I am not familiar with the names and what they do.

 

[ReBeL]

been travelling and so much news going on and of course I am not familiar with the names and what they do.

If you have any question, I'll try to help.

 

[Bisco]

The Egyptian prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, has resigned.

Revolution succeeded again.

yup after last night's tv presentation it was very obvious. regardless of the comments been made bec for instance aswani had to be shot in the head last night he was beyond annoying!! any way shafiq as an individual is a good minister but he def came in the wrong time and to be extra honest should've resigned once the revolution reached its target along with suliman but instead he kept going. he did admit last night he wanted to leave and the military counsel told him to keep going ( i dont know the truth about this) but any way as i was saying he had to go quite simple not bec he is horrible but bec the people refuse to deal with him ( he also had a lot of question marks for the reaction towards the camel battle to be honest)


here is the complete interview if people want to watch it http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A145D9AA6D3DE96B

 

[ReBeL]

Who are those in the military council:

http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/3/3/egypts-military-council-in-a-diagram.html

 

[ReBeL]

The new Egyptian prime minister was carried to and from the stage on the shoulders of people in Tahrir Square.

 

[ReBeL]

Tonight from the Associated Press:

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have marched on a building belonging to the internal security service in Alexandria, and a medic says officers inside fired on the crowd, injuring three demonstrators.

Military forces arrived and dispersed the crowd of around 1,000 people after a tense standoff. The state news agency says protesters set four police cars on fire.

The demonstrators who forced out President Hosni Mubarak last month are demanding that Egypt's State Security Agency be dissolved. Its agents are blamed for some of the worst human rights violations during Mubarak's rule.

 

[ReBeL]

Video just posted to YouTube appears to be from inside the state security HQ in Alexandria, showing mounds of shredded documents and some of the protesters who stormed the building.

Al-Jazeera also has an eyewitness to the siege of the state security building in Alexandria:

"People are still there, the state security forces are still inside, surrounded by the army. There's probably hundreds and thousands of people here now, in the building ... [the army] is also saying they have orders to arrest [the state security officers]," but say they can't do so until they are able to take them out of the building safely, the eyewitness says.

The clashes broke out earlier this evening, with the eyewitness reporting seeing Molotov cocktails thrown from the building and ammunition fired.

 

[Bisco]

Tonight from the Associated Press:

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have marched on a building belonging to the internal security service in Alexandria, and a medic says officers inside fired on the crowd, injuring three demonstrators.

Military forces arrived and dispersed the crowd of around 1,000 people after a tense standoff. The state news agency says protesters set four police cars on fire.

The demonstrators who forced out President Hosni Mubarak last month are demanding that Egypt's State Security Agency be dissolved. Its agents are blamed for some of the worst human rights violations during Mubarak's rule.

so people can understand the shock and fear egyptains not certain egyptains but the entire 85 million egyptains are in at the moment think of east germany after the collapse of the berlin wall. every egyptain has a file in there!! literally some people like media figures apparently got clear instructions from the internal security if not all of them!! some buisness men have porn movies, some people got tortured with things out of the worst in human horror movie!!!! oh for the record all the important stuff got shredded but apparently wikileaks has volunteered to put them back together so we are all specially us arabs bec they too have files are in for a treat and a lot of truth and facts will be exposed to the world to know why people are pissed off at this big brother like institution who by the way had a main function of protecting egypt from any terror attacks but turns out they went way way way too far!!!

bottom line: wiki leaks has got nothing on what will be exposed if they put the shredded pieces of paper together

oh and before any one pops the question bisco do u have porn in yr file there the answer is i sure as hell hope not bec if there is it was'nt me!!!

 

[Bisco]

various pics of the burned, shredded documents and also of what its like inside the internal security building god forbid u have been a bad bad boy :

 

[Bisco]

where is naggar and hist?!?!?!?!? i mean seriously where r these guys after Mubarak got kicked in the ass these two in particular vanished. i hope both are well and safe but its not like them to be honest these guys are as addicted as the rest of us

 

[Bisco]

random facebook status material by normal egyptains in response to the collapse and findings in internal security

The whole country is having a 'Truman Show' moment

Those who went to #amndawla 2day need to scrub; visit Jerusalem, Mecca, Vatican and Tibet to purify themselves from this filth.

the rest are brutal jokes on the bastards and there officers and r mostly in arabic so there is no point but lets say now people realize the era we lived in under the freak show and his lovely son.

p.s: so people dont get the wrong idea i think this is normal and stuff i feel shocked, am pretty angry at how an institution like this kept doing this to all of us and no one bothered to question them or say hey thats not right. i guess this is my way of reacting and dealing with shock i become hyper!!

 

[ReBeL]

WoW. Just WoW. What are those documents containing is horrible.

Read this, guys. (In Arabic)
http://www.aljarida.com/aljarida/Article.aspx?id=198718

 

[ReBeL]

He was wearing a suit that costed 16000 dollars.

What an idiot!!!

 

[Fred]

What an ugly fuck he is