Game Over!

The Family


Was responsible for this family ... this is their money ....


... and those kids carrying cement ....


His money ...


... and the little girl's ....


... and his ....

... and their's ....

And their's ...

... and them too ....

From the Egyptian News Paper Al-Ahram

"إلي النائب العام الدكتور عبدالمجيد محمود ـ عن وجود حسابات سرية في البنوك المصرية لأفراد من أسرة الرئيس السابق حسني مبارك‏,‏ حرمه سوزان‏,‏ ونجلاه علاء وجمال تزيد علي‏200‏ مليون جنيه‏,‏ و‏147‏ مليون دولار‏.‏ وقال البلاغ‏:‏ إن لعلاء مبارك حسابات سري" الأهلي فرع مصر الجديدة بقيمة تزيد علي مائة مليون جنيه‏,‏ أغلبها تحصل عليها عبر ممارسات عمليات السمسرة والابتزاز في مواجهة المستثمرين‏.‏
وقال بكري‏:‏ إن علاء مبارك يمتلك عشرة حسابات بالبنك الأهلي بالجنيه المصري والدولار واليورو‏,‏ من بينها‏70‏ مليون جنيه علي حساب رقم‏50010813073,‏ وعشرة ملايين جنيه علي حساب رقم‏5000113070,‏ وعشرة ملايين أخري بالجنيه علي حساب رقم‏500053072,‏ فضلا عن حسابات أخري باليورو والدولار أرفق بكري مستندات كاملة بها‏.‏
وفيما يتعلق بجمال مبارك‏,‏ قال بكري‏:‏ إن لديه حسابات في البنك الأهلي فرع مصر الجديدة‏,‏ وهي كالتالي‏:‏
‏45.736‏ مليون علي حساب رقم‏1000821113,‏ و‏41.856‏ مليون جنيه علي حساب رقم‏5000082119,‏ و‏456,10‏ مليون جنيه علي حساب رقم‏5000082111,‏ كما يمتلك أيضا حسابات أخري بالدولار تصل قيمتها إلي نحو نصف مليون دولار‏.‏
وفيما يتعلق بالسيدة سوزان ثابت حرم الرئيس السابق‏,‏ فإنها تمتلك أيضا عدة حسابات منها‏2.559‏ مليون دولار علي حساب رقم‏50002658814‏ و‏84.776‏ ألف دولار علي حساب رقم‏100234917,‏ و‏175‏ ألف دولار علي حساب رقم‏50000058812‏ و‏295.404‏ ألف دولار علي حساب رقم‏112349176,‏ و‏7.675‏ دولار علي حساب رقم‏....‏
وأشار بكري إلي أن السيدة سوزان ثابت لها حساب في مكتبة الإسكندرية‏,‏ وهو حساب قام الرئيس السابق بتوكيلها للتصرف في أمواله وقيمة هذه الحسابات كالتالي‏:‏
‏92.960‏ مليون دولار و‏44.864‏ مليون دولار‏,‏ و‏5.452‏ مليون دولار‏.‏
وأوضح بكري أنه ثار جدل حول هذا الحساب وفوائد الودائع‏,‏ ولماذا لا يكون رئيس مكتبة الإسكندرية هو صاحب الحق في الصرف والإيداع‏,‏ خاصة أن أموال هذا الحساب تأتي من المنح الأجنبية‏.‏
وطالب بكري في بلاغه للنائب العام بضرورة اتخاذ الإجراءات القانونية فيما يتعلق بالتحفظ علي هذه الأموال ومساءلة أصحابها‏.


Basically, the paper is reporting that an ex member of The People's Assembly has lodged a statement to The Attorney General of Egypt confirming secret account numbers belonging to The Family and the sum of money in each. The account numbers are held in Egyptian banks and are visible in English above. Gamal and Alaa, Mubarak's two sons have money roughly totalling one hundred million dollars each, and Susan, his wife, with sums totalling 147 million. He states that Alaa's money were the fruits of commissions received for dishonest deals with investors. He also states that the ex-president had assigned the account of the new state of the art public library in Alexandria, which receives foreign aid in hard currency, to his wife in order to run it. He presented full documentation in support of his statement.

The attorney General has now banned the ex president and his wife, sons and their wives from leaving the country.

Of course, this is nothing compared to the allegations of the family's total wealth, which, as reported, runs in tens of billions oft dollars. So far, I am still hopeful that, although maybe guilty of aiding the theft and/or he dishonest dealings of his family by allowing it to happen, I still hope that the president himself would not have offended ... just for the sake of Egypt! ... a dwindling hope, I am sorry to say ... :-(

I suppose this is a chance for PM Shafeek, who is reputed for his integrity, to prove same to those who doubt his government and want it changed, by not giving any special treatment to The Family if the source of this money is confirmed to be illegal.

Egypt wants Justice Prime Minister Shafeek!

As well as the west's endeavour to trace the family's hidden money abroad, Global calls are now beginning to come in too. Which makes me wonder, why isn't it made illegal for heads of states as well as high public officials to have secret accounts anywhere in the world to stop them laundering their people's money in this disgraceful manner? And, now that there is a call for global democracy, transparency and accountability, why isn't there a special global organisation rather than individual countries to do this type of work tracing and returning theft money to the impoverished rightful owners?

Meanwhile, I hope The Army, who started this page to communicate with 'the young people' will kindly start another multi-lingual page on Face book to ask bankers and other professionals and/or people around the globe to, anonymously if they wish, help trace and give the numbers of The family's secret accounts in banks around the globe and other stakes in property, shares or whatever so that this money can be brought back to those rightful owners above and below ....

Face Book helped start revolutions that will change people's lives forever ... and hopefully for the better too, so... you never know ....


Let's hope ...


Related: Hosni Mubarak barred from leaving Egypt [click] and [Google]
Fire breaks out in Tahrir's Mugamma [click]
Senior official: Mubarak clique fortunes worth LE250bn [click] and in Arabic [click]
Legal experts: Mubarak will likely face imprisonment [click]
Mubarak family issues statement in response to allegations [click]

Egypt: Mubarak to be questioned on corruption [click]



" If poverty was a man, I would kill him"

Revolution: Police State!

This is but a small sample of the total disregard 'some, although were an ever increasing many' members of the Egyptian police force had for the public prior to the revolution. you stood a much better chance of escaping their wrath if you had an identity card with a known name, either elitist and/or connected ... or a wad of money!



The police is now trying to build trust again with the public. The minister of interior during the past regime was one of those first caught by the Army and the transition government. He is now under arrest for the atrocities committed against the public and for corruption. The Army has always been respected as protectors, hence are appreciated and loved by the public. In transition until a new president is elected, the Army is now in charge and are trying hard to mend and protect.

I do not envy them!



The killing of an innocent man [Actual scene]




Angry Friday




Tahrir Square 25 January 2011

======= Before 25 January ... =======

The Police, at your service




Ladies first!




Split it!



Khalid Saeed, in the clip below, he was the young man from Alexandria who filmed the corrupt officers above splitting the drugs they ceased earlier in preparation for selling them on the streets later. When Khaled uploaded the film on youtube he was hunted down, punched, beaten, kicked and tortured to death. his ordeal lasted for 20 minutes. Witness accounts say that close to death, he called out to his killers that he was close to death and it was 'haram', but they went on until they killed him. On lookers were warned they would the same fate if they opened their mouth ... they did! The police however later claimed that khalid chocked on a piece of drugs; 'Bungo?' ... This was perhaps the straw that broke the Egyptians back and was one spark that lead to the revolution of 25 January 2011.

Video has image of the dead victim

=======

Dancing officer
[Nothing to do with above but officer is 'in uniform'], if indeed an officer because it is so unbelievable!





Related:
Policemen to serve jail time over abuse [click] and [Google]
How the mighty have fallen [click]
Egypt's Interior minister to be tried on 5 March [click]


Tahrir Square protester. Maybe unusual ... and uncomfortable, but now, he is Free!

Egypt, one month on ...

Ezay?! ... How?!

إزاي ترضيللي حبيبتي
My beloved, how do you accept

اتمعشق في اسمك وانتي
Despite my fondness of you

عمالة تزيدي في حيرتي
To keep me so confused


ومنتش حاسة بطيبتي ازاي
You don't feel my trust in you

مش لاقي في عشقك دافع
Can't see what purpose to continue my love for you

ولاصدقى فى حبك شافع
When my loyalty gains me no grounds with you



ازاي انا رافع راسك
How, when I keep your head up

وانتي بتحني في راسي ازاي
You hold mine down?



انا اقدم شارع فيكى
I am your oldest street

وامالك من اللى ماليكى
Your hope

انا طفل اتعلق بيكى
A child holding on to you

فى نص السكه وتوهتيه
When midway you let me loose and be lost



انا لو عاشقك متخير
If I had a choice in loving you

كان قلبى زمانه اتغير
My heart would have changed long ago

وحياتك لفضل اغير فيكى لحد مترضى عليه
But I am here and I will remain till I get you to treat me right



ازاى سايبانى بضعفى
How did you allow it that I have become so weak?

طب ليه مش واقفه فى صفى
While you are not taking my side?




وانا عشت حياتى بحالها عشان ملمحش فى عينك خوف
I lived my life making sure you never see fear

وفى بحرك ولا فى برك ازاى احميلك ضهرك
Sea or land, I am preoccupied with how to guard your back



وانا ضهرى فى اخر الليل دايما بيبات محنى ومكشوف

How can that be?
When every night I sleep with a bent and cover less back?

One month on from the day the Egyptian revolution began, and exactly two weeks since Mubarak resigned on 11 February ... but where is Egypt now?

Since his departure, the Army, in an effort to reconcile and acknowledge, have increased public sector pay and pensions by 15%. But that's false reward given that rising prices, be it food or otherwise, is predicted to devour that increase. The gesture itself then prompted the many groups with a grudge to come out demonstrating for better pay and conditions. That's at a time where the Stock exchange remains closed for fear of a total collapse and an economy at a near stand still. In an attempt to quench the spreading anger, the current government also arrested a few business men and ex government ministers, some of whom are now in prison, but although it has now asked the west to freeze Mubarak and his family's assets, it has waited for 10 full days after his departure before it did so!! Hence, that puts a question mark on how connected that government still is to the ex president who remains at Sharm El Sheikh! As for all the money, the west pledged help so, let's hope ...

Today, the people returned and filled Tahrir Square again. They are demanding a total change of government if any hope of true democracy is to be achieved. But that however, still poses questions on whether by changing the PM and any remaining ministers belonging to the previous regime, that the result will be a system more detached from Mubarak's regime who will then lay the foundations for a future real democracy ... but no!

The old regime is everywhere! It is within the Army itself, inside all the public sector and it's various departments, those who control the private sector too ... even within the national media too. I am surprised the many pro Mubarak talk show hosts, broadcasters, etc at one million pounds a piece year each, are still in place ... pretending to support the current uprising, when in fact they know full well that they stand no chance of survival if that revolution succeeds in turning Egypt round ... but they are still there!

As for corruption, it is a nation within a nation, and despite the Army orders to stop loads of individuals from leaving the country, some, as usual, got knowledge of the decision and ran away with 'their money' with the help of their 'pots' already ... education is in corrupt taters, and so is health too! As for the corrupt politics, Egypt is like a teething baby, and teeth coming out do hurt!

What next? Egypt has not even begun to scratch the surface of the iceberg yet!

I know the Middle East is at boiling point, the Egyptians despite their own situation, and despite the many Egyptians killed in Libya, they have been sending convoys carrying food, medical help and equipment to neighbouring Libya ... I too wish them well ....

... but to me, while I sympathise with everybody,

Egypt is what matters ... and she is still hurting ....

Revolution, revolution, you begin, but when do you end? ... how long is your way? ... all the way? ... and how costly?


Peace

Related:
Clinton answers online questions of Egypt's youth [click] and [video]
Egypt's spreading strikes [click] and [google]
Ousting more than Mubarak [click]
British PM: West was wrong in supporting Arab dictators [click]
Egypt counts the cost of unrest [click]
What role has social media played in the Middle East revolutions? [video] and [videos]
Saudi Arabia: The need to change [click]
Saudi prince says not religious zeal spurred revolts [click]
Robert Fisk:The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil [click]
Egypt economy recovering, wants Europe debt relief [click]
Egypt: Constitutional amendments announced [click] and [Google] ... Constitutional amendments [click] ******* US senators tour Tahrir Square, Egypt [click]
New tourism intitiatives: Oprah invited for a Tahrir Square show [click]

Egypt's friend :-)

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

Prime Minister David Cameron was in Egypt today as part of a Middle East tour. He is the first big friend to visit Egypt after the 'Young people's' revolution, and he is there to push for a proper democracy and future civilian rule for Egypt :-)

He met with Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi, head of the Army and Prime Minister Ahmad Shafik, who was a much decorated fighter pilot and Army academic himself before he became Chief of Staff and then Prime Minister.



Look, they like him in Egypt. Well, David is friendly ... and the Egyptians are friendly too :-)

And before running to Kuwait to do some business, he had a little time to visit sunny Tahrir Square and to have a photo ... or two, while giving an opinion on the Libyan unrest :-)



This is the bit of the river very close to the Square ... well, time was tight it seems. But that weather ... and the view of Cairo in the sun and the magnificent Pyramids in the distance ....

And that meeting must have been in Abdeen Palace, was it?

For me, this is an historic event. David being the first western Prime Minister to visit after the recent events signals a very positive message. That of Britain's sincere wishes and intentions as a friend and future partner at the same time. It's like 'We're friends and we are here by your side' message to Egypt, and that's nice, and very valuable given not only that, as David said; the "Huge historic and cultural ties" between Britain and Egypt, but also the huge affection Egypt has for Britain too

You know, I wish i could tell David that this visit, on a social level, doesn't count. Well, first because Egypt doesn't look her best at the moment and Egyptians like to show, and offer, their best to their guests, let alone someone so special ... and, as PM said, democracy is key to peace in the Middle East. But allow me to add that proper democracy in Egypt is also the only route to real democracy in the region. Meaning, get it right in Egypt and the ripple effect will be felt everywhere else, then copied, as usual.

As for this here:

"Since democracy often goes hand-in-hand with open markets, more freedom in the Middle East could deliver commercial opportunities for Britain, the Prime Minister will argue on Tuesday.

Discussing the thinking behind the speech, Mr Cameron insisted that more democracy in the Middle East is in Britain’s best interests.

“We’ve got a very important trading relationship that we want to expand and we’ve got a very important security relationship, not least in terms of combating extremist terror, that we need to sharpen,” he said.

“A process of political and economic reform doesn’t run counter to those other two objectives. It goes with those objectives.”

He told reporters in Cairo: “I believe in a liberal conservative approach rather than a neo-conservative approach.

“Democracy is a process not just an event.

“We who want to see a more stable world, and stronger trading relationships, we should be arguing for the building blocks of democracy.”

Simply holding elections, he said, was not a guarantee of freedom. That requires the full range of institutions, from an independent judiciary to a free press and healthy political parties.

In his speech on Tuesday, Mr Cameron will also tacitly criticise the support Western governments have previously shown for Middle Eastern strongmen like Mr Mubarak, toppled this month after more than 30-years of autocratic rule.

US-led attempts to pick and support autocratic leaders deemed likely to support Western interests have been counter-productive and short-termist, sometimes even promoting regional instability, the Prime Minister believes."

Hear, hear Prime Minister!
... and Egypt, if we all get it right, is also key to mutual cooperation between all the countries in the region. Not only for the sake of achieving and maintaining peace, but for enhancing trade and development proper for the the whole of the Middle East. And together with Britain, Europe and beyond too, this presents a huge opportunity for prosperity of all of us combined ... and with all the untapped mix of human resources in Egypt alone cooperating, to name but one ... who's afraid of China?!
Get this one right and the only way is up!

That's why I don't agree that PM's trade trip passing by Egypt was risky, on the contrary, I think it was a very shrewd futuristic move from PM which will bear fruit in the near future. Because he wasn't there for trade but to show Britain's as well as own personal support for the Egyptians and give them words of encouragement and advice on what benefits they can gain if they get democracy right. Egypt being the country most capable of doing that in the region. The reason I hope that the Army and the current government will now cease the opportunity and, I hope, tell and show the people more about the role America, Britain and the west played in supporting, hence, in the success of the 25 January Egyptian revolution. Perhaps elaborate and explain in depth why David, Prime Minister of Britain was in Cairo, even making it his first stop and the significance of that. Egyptians understand, value and greatly appreciate that kind of warm gesture ... and this was a very positive and heart felt one.
It's up to the Egyptian media now, to convey David's and Britain's sincere message of freedom and friendship to Egypt. An opportunity not to be missed for much more positive portrayal of the west on Egyptian TV, news papers, etc, to get us all on the road to peace, understanding, and prosperity.
Again, for Egypt this time;
Get this one right and the only way is up!
... and another reason why those with an attitude must never be allowed to rise to positions of power and ruin it all ....
... and please tell PM, that small visit doesn't count David, you ain't seen Egypt yet, but I think you understand her right ... and there will be many more visits to come, I hope :-)

Related:
Democracy is route to peace in Middle East, says David Cameron [click] and [AlArabyia]
and [Google] and more [Google]
Surprise, Egypt's revolt has changed the Middle East [click]




“ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”




















Song: There is still good in the world
Singer: Ehab Tawfeeq

There is still much good in the world, there are still a lots of good people,
Extending their hand, and want to do right
With your hand in mine, we can make a difference
We need to tell the truth, to educate, to wipe out poverty
And social blindness, and learn
To help those hurting, innocent children needing a hug,
We need to join together to help, to honour the right to life ....

BMA UNREST!

WE URGE THE BMA NOT TO USE FORCE, OR GAS, AGAINST THE PROTESTERS AND TO ALLOW FOR A PEACEFUL AND ORDERLY TRANSITION!

BMA leader could be toppled in revolt by doctors against NHS reforms

WE CALL FOR CALM IN BMA SQUARE
AND ASK THE BMA TO LISTEN TO IT'S MEMBERS DEMANDS!
NOW!

British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting Motions

ANY HUMAN RIGHTS BREACHES AGAINST THE YOUNG DOCTORS
WILL NOT BE TOLORATED!

Lack of evidence to support NHS proposals

"ENOUGH!"

A sign of the times.

"YES WE CAN!"

Related:
Wishful thinking [click]
BMA members call for poll on industrial action to block health bill [click]
Government back tracks on price competition reform [click]
Doctors call for tougher line on privatisation [click]
The BMA should oppose the health reforms [click]
Doctors back strike against NHS reforms [click]and [google]