The army's deadline to the political powers or rather the Muslim
brotherhood will be and it will force its own road map on everybody.
Today is extremely important thus I will use again live blogging once again to keep with what taking place in the country.
Airport sources say 48 member of muslim brotherhood banned from travel. Private jets banned from takeoff. #egypt
— ▲Samy قائد (@samy_qaid) July 3, 2013
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the continuing anti-government protests do not constitute a Turkish Spring.
At a news conference before a trip to Morocco, he said the
protests were organised by extremists and accused the opposition of
provoking "his citizens".
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For a fourth night, there have been confrontations between police and protesters with tear gas being used
.
A protester has died after being hit by a taxi on Sunday, doctors say - the first fatality since the unrest began.
The demonstrator, 20-year-old Mehmet Ayvalitas, was hit when
the car ignored warnings to stop and ploughed into a crowd of protestors
in the Mayis district of Istanbul, said the Turkish Doctors' Union.
On Monday evening, thousands of demonstrators again gathered in Taksim Square, the focus of the recent protests.
A helicopter, its searchlight shining onto the crowd, hovered
overhead and tear gas wafted into the square, reports the BBC's Paul
Mason in Taksim Square.
Many protesters shouted "Tayyip, resign!" while waving red
flags and banners and blowing whistles, according to the AFP news
agency.
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Police also fired tear gas again to disperse protesters near Mr Erdogan's office in the Besiktas district of Istanbul.
Earlier on Monday, protesters clashed with police in the
capital, Ankara. Tear gas and water cannon were fired at hundreds of
demonstrators in the city as around 1,000 protesters converged on
central Kizilay Square.
In another development, a public sector trade union
confederation, Kesk, says it will begin a two-day strike starting on
Tuesday in support.
The left-wing confederation accused the government of being anti-democratic and carrying out "state terror".
I got in a taxi on Thursday and within a few minutes of conversation
the driver asked my nationality. This has been a sensitive question
recently; last week an American near the embassy answered in the
positive and was stabbed in the neck for his troubles. ‘I hate America,’ the assailant confessed afterwards.
For the taxi driver, however, it was an opportunity of a different
sort. After I owned up to my nationality he leaned over to his glove
compartment and…
… pulled out a sheet of paper.
In fact it was one of many, some signed, most not yet. The driver was
preaching the merits of a new campaign to oust President Morsi, and
wanted me to convey the message to America. they aim to collect fifteen million signatures to their
petition, vaulting over the total number of votes cast for Morsi in the
presidential elections. They claim two million to date.
Their grand finale is planned for June 30, at the presidential palace, one year to the day in which Morsi took office.
Here is the translation of their flyer:
REBEL
To withdraw confidence from the Brotherhood regime
The Rebellion Campaign
(to withdraw confidence from Mohamed Morsi ….)
Because security has not yet returned to the street … we don’t want you
Because the poor still do not have a place … we don’t want you
Because we are still begging from abroad … we don’t want you
Because the rights of the martyrs still have not been fulfilled … we don’t want you
Because there is still no dignity for myself or my country … we don’t want you
Because the economy has collapsed and is built upon begging … we don’t want you
Because you follow the Americans … we don’t want you
Since Mohamed Morsi the … came to power, the
simple citizen has felt that not one goal of the revolution has been
achieved – for bread, freedom, social justice, and national
independence. Morsi has failed to realize them all. No security, no
social justice – he is a demonstrated failure in the complete sense of
the word. It is not fitting for him to administrate a nation of Egypt’s
weight.
Therefore:
I, the undersigned, from my free and complete will, as
a member of the general assembly of the Egyptian people, withdraw
confidence from the president of the republic, the dictator Mohamed
Morsi, and call for early presidential elections. I pledge to hold
firmly to the goals of the revolution and to work on their behalf,
spreading the Rebellion Campaign among the masses until we are able to
achieve social dignity, justice, and freedom.
Hell is other Twitter users — according to the head of Saudi Arabia's religious police force, anyway.
Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said Wednesday that Muslims
who use Twitter or other social media have "lost this world and his
afterlife," as quoted by BBC News.
Saudi Arabia has a complicated relationship with social media as its usage skyrockets
in the country. However, the Saudi government is worried social media
could help the political opposition in the country organize in spread,
similar to the ways it has been used throughout the Middle East and
elsewhere.
"The Kingdom is particularly concerned with how Twitter has been used
to keep people informed of human rights activists who have been tried
for the crime of free speech," writes Jonathan Turley,
professor of law at The George Washington University Law School.
"Leaders on the web have been detained while others have been charged
with apostasy and other crimes for statements made on these sites."
Software engineer Moxie Marlinspike recently alleged in a blog post that Saudi Arabia wants the ability to spy on Twitter and such popular messaging services as Viber and WhatsApp.
Several years ago, Saudi Arabia threatened to ban BlackBerry devices
unless the company made it easier for the government to read users'
messages. The company reportedly decided to comply with those demands.
Other religious figures, including the Dalai Lama and the Pope,
have embraced social media to varying degrees as a way to spread their
message or connect with those inside and outside their faith. Can
religion and social media mix? Share your thoughts in the comments.
The shocking
video of a Syrian rebel eating
the lung of a pro-Assad fighter spread like wildfire across the Internet
earlier this week. The rebel, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, has filmed a YouTube video explaining his
actions.
"I am willing to face trial for my actions if Bashar and his shabeeha [militiamen] stand trial for their
atrocities," he says.
"My message to the world is if the bloodshed in Syria doesn't stop, all of
Syria will become like Abu Sakkar."
The Syrian rebel,
whose real name is Khalid al-Hamad, goes on to explain that he did what he did
because of atrocities committed by pro-Assad fighters. He said that evidence
taken from their cell phones showed how they raped women, killed children, and
tortured men. In an
article published this week by TIME magazine, the rebel fighter explained
that he had a sectarian hatred of Alawites, and that he had made another video
where he cuts up a pro-Assad fighter's body with a saw.
Abu Sakkar's
actions not only created controversy among observers of the conflict,
but also prompted the Syrian rebel leadership to take action. The Free
Syrian Army's
Military Council released a
statement condemning Abu Sakkar's "monstrous act," and instructed field
commanders to being an investigation "in which the perpetrator will be brought
to justice."
So far, however,
Abu Sakkar appears to still be on the battlefield. At the end of the video, the
cameraman asks him whether he will continue fighting after this controversy.
"Victory or martyrdom, I will fight to the death," he replies, then walks off
down the road.
Hackgate - The IPCC and Surrey's "Collective Amnesia"
Published in late April '13, the Independent Police Complaints Commision (IPCC) Commissioner’s Report
entitled 'IPCC independent investigation into Surrey Police’s knowledge
of the alleged illegal accessing of Amanda (Milly) Dowler’s mobile
phone in 2002' runs to just 6 scathing pages. Its key observation is
that
former senior officers at Surrey Police were 'afflicted by a form of
collective amnesia' in relation to the force’s failure to investigate an
allegation in 2002 that the voicemail of Amanda (Milly) Dowler had been
hacked by the News of the World (NOTW).
The relevant documents in the public domain consist of a letter from
Surrey Police to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee (CMS) on Surrey's own investigation (Operation
Baronet), evidence read-in to the Leveson Inquiry from the Metropolitan
Police Service (MET), as well as that IPCC Commissioner's Report. The
latter specifically focused on the referrals of Maria Woodall and Craig
Denholm for potential recordable conduct.
MARIA WOODALL
Then: In 2002, Maria Woodall was Detective Sergeant and Action Team
Manager of Surrey Police's investigation Operation Ruby into the
abduction of missing teenager Millie Dowler. She appears to have been
frank with the IPCC that the hacking of Millie's mobile phone by NOTW
was known by several on the investigation team - for example, DC John
Lyndon's 23rd April '02 log entry (p14)
...in light of the News of the World revelation that they or a third
party has accessed the voicemail it is possible that the messages had
previously been listened to by unknown persons and deleted.
Millie's mother Sally recounted to the Leveson Inquiry (p14)
her own suspicions that NOTW had intercepted family phones to get a
particularly intrusive story for publication ('The Longest Walk').
Woodall's referral to the IPCC however was not about 2002. She was
investigated for allegedly failing to pass on knowledge of NOTW's
hacking later during the investigation which led to the convictions of
Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire (p4):
The case against her rested on her actions and knowledge in 2007, when
the first phone hacking convictions took place. It is clear that at that
point she accessed the HOLMES system to view documents from 2002
associated with phone hacking.
Though the IPCC investigation "concluded that there was no case to
answer for misconduct." From 2006, Operation Ruby's Senior
Investigating Officer (SIO) was Detective Chief Superintendent Mark
Rowley. It is not known if Woodall informed him of her HOLMES searches.
Now: Temporary Detective Superintendent Woodall is about to leave Surrey for a new job with the City of London Police.
STUART GIBSON
Then: Detective Chief Inspector Gibson was the initial appointed Senior
Investigating Officer (SIO) when Millie Dowler disappeared in March
2002. It has been alleged that Gibson was one of the Surrey officers
who met with NOTW senior journalists and were told of the hacking. (here)
Documented evidence of his meeting(s) with NOTW are missing. Within a
few weeks, Gibson was removed from Operation Ruby. The conclusions from a
progress review by Sussex Police undertaken in the summer of 2002 are here.
At the same time, there was adverse criticism from the press - one
"describing the investigation under DCI Gibson as 'rudderless' and this
media coverage has since been described by (then Deputy Chief Constable)
Peter Fahy as 'a factor in replacing the SIO for [the investigation]".
(p9)
Now: Stuart Gibson is retired.
The IPCC Investigation also states that amongst senior officers
interviewed were those at Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
level.
CRAIG DENHOLM (ACPO level)
Surrey Police's evidence to the CMS Committee and the Leveson Inquiry
came from Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Kirkby. Normally, both might
have warranted the attention of the force Chief Constable. However,
Surrey's Chief Constable Mark Rowley had just left for a new post with
the MET and Temporary Chief Constable Craig Denholm was himself
implicated as the focus of Operation Baronet.
Then: In 2002, Detective Chief Superintendent Denholm (Head of Crime)
was Overall Officer in Charge (OOC) of Operation Ruby - the immediate
superior officer to SIO Stuart Gibson.
The case against Denholm "rested on his claim to have had no knowledge
about the alleged hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone before this was
revealed publicly in 2011. Given the extent of knowledge within the
investigation team, and Surrey Police as a whole, and the fact that this
was referred to in documents which he is known to have received, the
investigation found it hard to understand how he, the officer in charge,
could not have been aware of the alleged hacking. But despite detailed
examination of all extant documents and interviews with all relevant
witnesses, the investigation was unable to find any witness or
documentary evidence that contradicted Mr Denholm’s own repeated
assertions to the IPCC that he did not know, and had not made the
relevant connections. In view of that...there was insufficient evidence
to support a finding of a case to answer for gross misconduct."
Now: Denholm has just been appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Hampshire
Police. Its Chief Constable Andy Marsh said: "Craig is an experienced
and very capable DCC with a good track record of leadership and delivery
of excellent policing services to the public."
MARK ROWLEY (ACPO level)
Then: Rowley joined Surrey in 2002 as Chief Superintendent to command West Surrey Basic Command Unit. Previously (Guardian)
as a detective superintendent at the National Criminal Intelligence
Service, he 'led on the national deployment of covert techniques to
combat organised crime such as telephone interception'
Rowley became Surrey Assistant Chief Constable from November 2003 and
assumed the role of OOC for Operation Ruby in 2006. He was appointed
Chief Constable in 2009. Following the conviction of Levi Bellfield in
2011 for Millie Dowler's murder, Rowley iniated Operation Baronet under
AC Jerry Kirkby.
Now: Rowley is Assistant Commissioner at the MET. For some time he was
direct superior officer of DAC Sue Akers command of Operations Weeting,
Elveden and Tuleta. Responsibility for these investigations was
subsequently transferred to AC Cressida Dick.
PETER FAHY (ACPO level)
Then: Throughout 2002, Fahy was Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey Police
under Chief Constable Denis O'Connor. Fahy left Surrey in Dec '02 to
become Chief Constable of Cheshire Police.
Now: Knighted in 2012, Sir Peter Fahy is currently Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police.
DENIS O'CONNOR (ACPO level)
Then: In 2002, O'Connor was Chief Constable of Surrey Police. In all
available evidence, O'Connor has been very keen to distance himself from
the NOTW phone hacking in 2002. Instead, he has consistently
emphasized his heavy reliance on Peter Fahy's responsibility to have
informed him:
You will understand that as a discipline authority, not everything
reaches the Chief Constable, who must sit in judgment of things. So I
may have been partially safe from it, but I would have expected and, you
know,my sort of --my concern with the mission of policing and its
credibility, that people would have drawn -- my senior staff, my
professional standards department -- if there was anything significant,
they would have told me... Particularly my Deputy Chief Constable at the
present (sic) time, Peter Fahy, I had absolute faith in his integrity. I
thought he would make the right judgments
Lord Justice Leveson did however challenge O'Connor on this strategy of continuing, unsighted insulation (pp 98-100). His witness statement added (1st witness statement, p7):
I am not fully sighted on the details of the alleged contact between the
News of the World and my staff during the Amanda Dowler investigation
(I have deliberately limited my contact with Surrey Police pending
current investigations) so cannot comment on the specifics of this
issue.
Now: Knighted in 2010, Sir Denis O'Connor is currently Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
And STILL there are inconsistencies emerging on the hacking of Millie
Dowler. Note the investigation of Maria Woodall "rested on her actions
and knowledge in 2007, when the first phone hacking convictions took
place. It is clear that at that point she accessed the HOLMES system to
view documents from 2002 associated with phone hacking."
Yet it is debatable just how much documentation was on the second
generation HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System) in 2002... or
even in 2007. The - redacted - Sussex Review of September 2002 made
Operational Recommendations:
Recommendation 56
That Surrey Police in general ensure that sufficient analysts are trained on the HOLMES 2 system.
Recommendation 57
That Surrey Police formulate an appropriate policy regarding the typing
of at least the most significant 'other documents' onto HOLMES 2 during
any enquiry.
Were those Sussex Police recommendations ignored? Or if significant 2002
Dowler phone hacking documents were in the HOLMES system, were they
still there when Woodall looked in 2007? Had some disappeared by the
time of the 2012 Operation Baronet? Given that one of the aims of
HOLMES is to facilitate crucial information access across force
boundaries, was cross-force access to HOLMES 2002 documents volunteered
by Surrey to Operation Caryatid (the MET 2005-6 investigation into
Goodman and Mulcaire)? If not, why not? Alternatively - following the
high profile convictions of Goodman and Mulcaire in 2007 - Woodall may
have tried to access cross-force MET HOLMES databases on NOTW phone
hacking.
There were none. The MET did not enter details of the key Mulcaire
Archive into HOLMES during the Operation Caryatid investigation in 2005.
Or 2006. Or post-conviction in 2007. It was only in July 2009,
following intense criticism, that the MET's John Yates ordered the phone
hacking data entry into HOLMES to enable victim notification. It was
costly, protracted, and poorly executed.
The IPCC confirms "widespread knowledge uncovered in this investigation,
we consider that it is scarcely credible that no one connected to the
Milly Dowler investigation recognised the relevance and importance of
the knowledge that Surrey Police had in 2002...There is no doubt, from
our investigation and the evidence gathered by Operation Baronet, that
Surrey Police knew in 2002 of the allegation that Milly Dowler’s phone
had been hacked by the News of the World. It is apparent from the
evidence that there was knowledge of this at all levels within the
investigation team ...former senior officers in particular appear to
have been afflicted by a form of collective amnesia about this"
All this is highly reminiscent of the (contagious?) 'omerta' culture at
the News of the World. Surrey Police seem to have demonstrated the
self-same collective amnesia and willful blindness of NOTW senior
executives, the plausible deniability of Andy Coulson, the trusting
reliance on subordinates of Rupert Murdoch, the inability to read a
log/email chain of James Murdoch, the document preservation abilities of
News International's Datapool 3 team, and the reputational management
skills of Colin Myler.
To date, six have been charged
with conspiracy to intercept the voicemail messages of Millie Dowler in
April 2002 - Rebekah Brooks, Andrew Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Greg
Miskiw, Neville Thurlbeck and Glenn Mulcaire. Unless all six defendants
plead guilty, these charges will have to be defended in open court. So
there is much more evidence yet to emerge on the Dowler hacking,
including the potential for former senior officers of Surrey Police
being called as prosecution witnesses.
The short IPCC Commissioner's Report is a much-truncated and redacted
version. The full IPCC formal Investigation Report "contains full
details of the evidence supporting the findings and conclusions and the
report into this case is not being published at this time at the request
of the Crown Prosecution Service, in view of ongoing criminal
proceedings."
على صحراء قاحلة شحيحة كانوا يسكنون ..كانوا قوماً حفاة عراة يئدون بناتهم و يقتلون صغارهم عند وقوع مجاعة ما وكان الرجل منهم يرث حتى زوجات أبيه ، وكان إذا سافر يُقيّد زوجاته إلى شجرة حتى يرجع من سفره
كانوا مفكّكين مبعثرين يُغيرون على بعضهم البعض ..كانوا لا يُؤتمنون على
أماناتهم ولا على أعراضهم ..كان القويّ منهم ينهش الضعيف ..يعلنون الحرب
لأجل ناقة ويُورّثون هذه الحرب للأجيال المتلاحقة ..
كانوا
يُمثّلون بجثث أعدائهم ويُعلّقون الرؤوس على مداخل مدنهم ..كانوا يلبسون ما
رثّ وما بليّ ..كانوا يجلسون على التراب ويتّخذونه نمارق ويتبرّزون عليه
وينظّفون به عوراتهم ..
كانوا لا يعرفون لا قراءة ولا كتابة
يتناقلون ما يقرضون من الشّعر شفوياً ..كانوا يُصَعلِكون شعرائهم ويُحلّون
دمائهم ويحرّمون الحب ويقرنون بينه وبين الإثم والخطيئة .
كان الرجل منهم يجمع كبار قومه أدباً ونسباً ليطؤو زوجته حتى تلد له ولد
يكون وارثاً لكل صفات الجمال والكمال التي يحملها أولئك الرجال ..
كانوا قطّاعا للطرق سلاّبين نهّابين ..يعتبرون العمل مهانة واستصغارا لذلك
يوكلون الأعمال من فلاحة وحدادة وحياكة للعبيد والجواري ..
جاءهم محمد إبن عبد الله ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ) علمهم حتى نتف الإبط من شدة جهلهم وتخلفهم ..
أتستغربون بعد هذا أن يختن الرجل ابنته ويجلب صديقه حتى ترضعه زوجته بعدما يفاخذ صغيرته ؟
لم يُنجبوا ابطالاً فقد كان إبن خلدون من تونس وكان إبن الجزار من
القيروان وكان الفارابي من بلاد ما وراء النهرين وكان الرازي وإبن المقفع
من بلاد فارس وكان سيبويه من البصرة وكان إبن سيناء من بخارى وكان الغزالي
من نيسابور وكان النووي من سورية …
ربما كان بينهم أدباء
وشعراء فطاحلة لكنهم اُتّهموا من قبل هؤلاء الأعراب بالزندقة وبالإلحاد
وبالشذوذ .. فحتى إذا أنجبت أرضهم القاحلة اِسثناء كفّروه أو قتلوه ..
كان هذا دأبهم ؛ لو حدّثتهم عن النساء لقالوا لك : جواري وختان واِرضاع
الكبير ومفاخذة الصغير وبكر وعذرية ومثنى وثلاث ورباع ومتبرجة تبرج
الجاهلية وعورة وما ملكت أيمانهم وهل يجوز النكاح قبل البلوغ …
ثم يقولون هذا رجس من عمل الشيطان ولا يجتنبونة ..أسَرُهم مفكّكة تملؤها الصراعات والمظالم…
الجنس في كلامهم وفي وعيهم وفي لا وعيهم في مدارسهم وفي ملابسهم وفي هواتفم وفي حواسبهم ..يزنون مع عشيقاتهم ثم يرجمنهن بالحجارة ..
ولا يكتفون بهذا بل يمزجون الجنس بلحاهم وبأفكارهم ويحاولون تصدير كبتهم عبر فتاوى شيوخهم المهوسون به ..
عندما كانوا ينسجون أساطيرهم بوادي الجن وضع أجدادنا العظماء أول دستور في
البشرية ..كان أجدادي يسكنون القصور ويشربون الخمور في أواني الفضة والذهب
كانوا يشيّدون المعابد والمسارح ويلتقون فيها للتٌسامر وتبادل المعارف
وإقامة الألعاب و المسابقات والمناظرات الفكرية ..كانوا يبنون المكاتب قبل
المطابخ ..كانت روما أعتى الإمبراطوريات تَرهَبُهم وتغار من تقدّم
القرطاجين و الفينيقيين و من اِنفتاحهم .. لو كتبت بحراً من الكلمات لم وصفت حضارة أجدادي ..
يا معشر الأعراب هيا عودوا إلى خيامكم وإبلكم واِنكحوة ما لذّ وطاب من
جواركم وغلمانكم واِبتعدو عن أرضنا وشمسنا وبحرنا فأوطاننا أطهر من أن
يدنّسها أمثالكم.
