أول تسونامي في العالم وقع في #مصر قبل 35 قرناً

أول تسونامي في العالم وقع في مصر قبل 35 قرناً

اكتشاف أثري هام في شبه جزيرة سيناء المصرية يلقي الضوء على ضخامة الجيش المصري القديم وشراسة المعارك التي دارت بين الدولة الفرعونية والهكسوس. كما يشير الاكتشاف إلى وقوع أول تسونامي في العالم قبل 3500 عاماً.

كشفت بعثة لوزارة الآثار المصرية عن مبان إدارية ضخمة محصنة تعود إلى عصر الهكسوس، تتكون من طابقين وعدة صالات وحجرات مبنية من الطوب اللبن بموقع تل حبوة، على بعد ثلاثة كيلومترات شرق قناة السويس بمنطقة القنطرة في محافظة شمال سيناء، حسبما صرح محمد إبراهيم وزير الآثار المصري.
وكشفت البعثة أيضاً عن بقايا مخلفات بركانية لقطع من بركان سان تورينى في البحر المتوسط، الذي أحدث أول تسونامى في العالم القديم منذ ما يقرب من حوالي 3500 عام وتسبب في غرق جزء كبير من سواحل سيناء والدلتا وعدد من المدن الأثرية، منها منطقة تل حبوة المعروفة قديما بقلعة ثارو.
وأشار الوزير، في بيان تلقت وكالة الأنباء الألمانية نسخة منه السبت (16 مارس/ آذار 2013)، إلى أنه تم اكتشاف هياكل آدمية وحيوانية من عصر الهكسوس داخل تلك المبان، وأن العديد من الهياكل الآدمية وجدت مطعونه برؤوس السهام والحراب، في دليل على المعارك الحربية التي دارت في الموقع بين الجيش الفرعوني بقيادة الملك أحمس الأول والغزاة الهكسوس حتى تم طردهم من مصر.
كما أضاف الوزير في البيان أن البعثة كشفت أيضاً "عن عدد من مخازن الجيش المصري وصوامع للغلال، بعضها دائري يبلغ قطره أربعة أمتار وأخرى مستطيلة أبعادها 30 متراً، وقدرت كمية الغلال التي تحتويها بأكثر من 280 طناً، مما يشير إلى ضخامة أعداد الجيش في عصر الدولة الفرعونية الحديثة.

تنوي السلطات المصرية تحويل موقع تل حبوة إلى متحف عسكري مفتوح لتشجيع السياحة في محور قناة السويس

تأكيد لما ورد في البرديات
ولفت البيان إلى أن الموقع سيتم إعداده كمتحف مفتوح للتاريخ العسكري على مساحة ألف فدان، ضمن مشروعات تطوير محور قناة السويس سياحياً.
من جانبه، قال الدكتور محمد عبد المقصود، نائب رئيس قطاع الآثار المصرية ورئيس بعثة الحفائر بشمال سيناء، إنه كشف عن بقايا حريق ضخم للعديد من المباني التي أحرقت بالمدينة أثناء المعركة، مما يؤكد ما جاء في بردية "رايند" المحفوظة بالمتحف البريطاني، بأن ملك مصر أحمس الأول قام بالهجوم على قلعة ثارو بتل حبوة ودخل المدينة وحاصر بعد ذلك عاصمة الهكسوس أفاريس في منطقة تل الضبعة بمحافظة الشرقية، على بعد 50 كيلومتراً من تل حبوة.
وكانت قلعة ثارو مركز قيادة الجيش في عصر الدولة الفرعونية الحديثة ومقراً ملكياً لفراعنة مصر ومركزاً للقيادة العسكرية وتجميع الجيوش التى خرجت من مصر لتأمين الحدود، ولذلك أقيم بها أربع قلاع ضخمة وأسوار من الطوب اللبن وخنادق وموانع مائية ومنحدرات حول الأسوار لمنع تسلقها، وكذلك أسوار مزدوجة. وبلغت مساحة أكبر القلاع المكتشفة 300 متر في 600 متر، مدعمة بعدد كبير من الأبراج. ويتراوح سمك الأسوار ما بين ثمانية و14 متراً.

#ksa Saudi Arabia: poverty, tyranny and congestion .. and "vices under the veil"

Social issues

Saudi Arabia: poverty, tyranny and congestion .. and "vices under the veil"

The Saudi cleric denounced the close of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood to confiscate rights in Saudi Arabia and demanded reform, Saudi writer warned that Saudi Arabia is witnessing a time of reform and loose at the same time, and stressed the need to take advantage of the experiences of neighboring countries.

Condemned a prominent Saudi cleric of the stream near the thought of awakening the Muslim Brotherhood in the "open letter" Friday (March 15 / March 2013) confiscation of rights, calling for reform. And at the same time warned of congestion in the kingdom, which follow a conservative approach politically and religiously.

Salman wrote back in its website modeled on extracts that "people here have longings and demands and rights, and will not remain silent forever forfeited in whole or in part ... when man loses hope, you have to expect him anything."

The return to "negative feelings accumulated since the time for quite some ... if still feeling scared of people surmised them all, and if increased frequency of anger will not unhappy thing, with the rising anger lose symbols of legitimacy and political value, and become leadership, however the street."

He attributed the reasons Saudi cleric congestion to "financial and administrative corruption, unemployment, housing, poverty, poor health and education and the absence of political reform horizon", noting that "the continuation of the existing situation is impossible., But the question to track where it's heading?".

Salman returns considered that it was "necessary to release the detainees and decisiveness Jeddah إصلاحيي", in reference to the provisions, which were issued last Saturday sentenced prominent human rights activists about ten years each solve Jmeithma to lack of access to a license to carry out the business.

Authorities also arrested in 2007 a number of university professors and lawyers, in what has become known as the "cell Break Jeddah", some of the Awakening Movement. And sentenced to one of them, one of the symbols of the Umma Party of the Muslim Brotherhood to 30 years imprisonment.

Era of openness and loose

For his part, said Saudi writer Ali bin Mohammed quartet in his new book that while the era of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, is the era of reform and opening up, but there are currents in Saudi Arabia grappling in the name of religion and disparate religious glances.

Extreme poverty and obscene wealth and the main controversy revolves around the veil

This came in a four-book, titled "Clash of currents in Saudi Arabia." According to the book quartet that "the reality of the situation in Saudi Arabia turns the equation, with leaves Halim Hiran, scene current ... suggests that we did not consider what happened around us coups and Anfelataat, what Ajdhir For more tyranny and authoritarianism in the absence of the rule of law and institutions."

Under the title "Corruption and Reform", the author believes that experienced by the country now "make money the state between the rich and the society referred to two main layers: the rich getting richer and poor belch poorest and debt troubles, with the decline of the middle class gradually."

"Vices under the veil"

With regard to issues controversial "It extrapolation of the reality of offering cultural popular ideological in Saudi Arabia since unification early thirties of the twentieth century, as most of our issues that we are preparing substantial centered on whether the woman's face rougher or not and whether separate from women or contact them and the rule of leadership Women of the car and who are the Islamists and what are their specifications through the prerogative of liberals and who are infidels and atheists who want to show corruption in the country and among people? what we must to stand in the face of conspirators against religion. "

"These issues formal list under a veil accumulate beneath sometimes vices various manifestations of pleading by some Alshahuanyen to achieve exactly the mundane name of God and His laws. These problems overtaken by many Islamic countries economy is based mostly on the Saudi funding for failed country that feeds arteries world resources of petroleum that feeds people and awareness beyond the sterile debate and did not succeed the dominant culture in the cities transition to a society tools product in his thoughts and ideas and industry. "

J. A / p. (AFP, Reuters)

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Now Saleh is gone, will North and South Yemen separate?

Baraa Shiban

The risks that threaten the Yemeni Unity as it enters its twenty-three years seems to be huge, while some forces in the South are seeking to secede and the army is seeking to drive out Al-Qaeda militias from the areas they control in the South, Al-Houthi rebels have Sa’ada province under control and some other areas in the North.

The celebration of the Unity anniversary last Tuesday came after a violent attack that killed one hundred soldiers and wounded more than 220, who were participating in a military parade on the occasion of the Unity anniversary.

The exception in the celebrations of this year is that the two presidents who signed the Unity agreement are no longer in power. The ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced to leave according to a political initiative sponsored by the Gulf Countries and the UN Security Council after the break out of a popular revolution, and his former deputy Ali Salem Al-Beedh who had to leave the country after the war of 1994.

Calls for Secession:

The most important challenge facing the Yemeni unity, is the high tone of secession raised by some Southern parts, especially that some of these forces are trending to violent methods instead of the peaceful methods.

In addition to that, some components of the Southern Movement, believe that they should take advantage of the success of the youth revolution in overthrowing Saleh’s regime, to push toward secession as the only alternative for solving the Southern issue.

Mr. Ahmed Abdul-Gani – the Head of Al-Jazeera Center for Strategic Studies – said that the negative role played by the former regime gave the opportunity for many projects to appear like Al-Qaeda, the Houthis, and the Southern Movement who are calling for separation.

He also said that there is a hope for the failure of such projects, if the Yemeni president Abdo Rabbo Mansoor Hadi and the reconciliation government speed up in facing the economical challenges, reduce the people’s suffering and provide the basic services such as electricity, and water.

Security Challenges:

Mr. Abdul-Gani also pointed out that “the security challenge of fighting Al-Qaeda militias and ending their control in some areas Southern the country is an important issue, as well as the start of restructuring the army under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, and restructuring the security forces under the leadership of the Ministry of Interior, emphasizing that it will help to overcome the political challenges in the country.”

The success of the coming National Dialogue will be the main guarantee for maintaining the unity, because the most important outputs of the dialogue will be agreeing on the constitution and the shape of the regime.

The International and Regional Community seems to be supporting the unity and stability of Yemen, but the details of this unity will be a matter of huge argument during the National Dialogue.

Furthermore, the Minister of State – Ezzy Shaif – said that “what we see and hear of projects of secession is a political game that only serves the interests of some outside forces, and take advantage of some mistakes occurred by some policy makers.”

He added that “Al-Qaeda in Yemen, is an international issue not just a local issue, and perhaps they found in Yemen the atmosphere to spread because of the economic situation and the spread of poverty and unemployment.”

He also said that what Al-Houthi group and most of the Southern Movement are demanding for the National Dialogue is in total within the national unity of Yemen, and stressed that most of the Yemeni people are supportive to the Yemeni unity, even if they disagreed on the shape of the political system of the country.

A practical guide to protecting your identity and security when using mobile phones

Many activists have been tracked via their mobile phones, and some countries conduct surveillance more extensively than others. You need to assess the risk for your own activities given the practices used in your country, how high-profile your work is, and what others in your community have experienced.

Phone companies have the capability to track and collect information about your use of mobile phones, including your location, and may share that information with the government if so requested. There is also the possibility of installing surveillance software on a phone that runs in the background without the user noticing. There is a risk of this, if your handset has been physically out of your hands for a period of time.

When your phone is on, it is constantly communicating the following information with towers nearby:

• The IMEI number – a number that uniquely identifies your phone’s hardware
• The IMSI number – a number that uniquely identifies the SIM card - this is what your phone number is tied to.
• The TMSI number, a temporary number that is re-assigned regularly according to location or coverage changes but can be tracked by commercially available eavesdropping systems.
• The network cell in which the phone is currently located. Cells can cover any area from a few meters to several kilometers, with much smaller cells in urban areas and even small cells in buildings that use a repeater aerial to improve signal indoors.
• The location of the subscriber within that cell, determined by triangulating the signal from nearby masts. Again, location accuracy depends on the size of the cell - the more masts in the area, the more accurate the positioning.

Because of this, when your phone is on and communicating with the network towers, it can be used as a surveillance device for those with access to the information that telecoms collect, including:

• Your phone calls received and sent
• Your SMS received and sent, including the information of senders and recipients
• Any data services you use (e.g., web browsing activities if not using HTTPS, unsecured instant messaging) as well as the volume of data transferred e.g., “did you upload to YouTube”)
• Your approximate location (from within a few meters to a few km depending upon density of towers)

It is important to note that if you think you are being tracked, it is not always enough to switch SIM cards, as you can be tracked by the ID (IMEI) of your mobile device/handset alone. There is also a lot of information on your phone that may be used against you if the phone is confiscated or taken from you. All mobile phones have a small amount of storage space on the SIM card, as well as internal phone memory. (In addition, some phones have a SD (or microSD) storage card for multimedia files.) In general, storing data on the SIM card and SD card (if available) is better than storing internally on the phone, because you can more easily remove and destroy

Data stored on your SIM, internal phone memory, and SD storage card (if present) include:

• Your phone book - contact names and telephone number
• Your call history - who you called, who called you, and what time the call was placed
• SMS you have sent or received
• Data from any applications you use, such as a calendar or to-do list
• Photos or video that you have taken using the phone camera, if your phones has one. Most phones store the time the photo was taken, and may also include location information.

For phones that allow web browsing, you should also consider how much of your browsing history is stored on the phone. If possible, do not keep a browsing history. Emails are a further potential danger should an attacker obtain access to the SIM card or phone memory.

Like the hard drive in a computer, the SIM memory of your mobile phone keeps any data ever saved on it until it is full, when old data gets written over. This means that even deleted SMS, call records and contacts can potentially be recovered from the SIM. (There is a free application to do this using a smartcard reader). The same applies to phones that have additional memory, either built into the phone or using a memory card. As a rule, the more storage a phone has, the longer deleted items will be retrievable.

So what does this mean for you?

Mobile phones can be powerful tools for activists, but they can also be incredible liabilities if the government or security forces are actively working with telecoms to track you. If you are in a country that uses mobiles extensively for surveillance, especially if you think you are being closely watched for high-profile activities, it’s recommended that you don’t use mobile phones to communicate. Conduct meetings face-to-face.

Ultimately, the risks you take are up to you: if you don’t think you’re being targeted as a high- profile activist or as part of a larger surveillance campaign and want to use your phone to communicate with fellow activists, record photos and video, or pass on information, you can use the following tactics:

• Create and use a code word system to communicate with fellow activists. Use “beeping” as a system for communication with fellow activists (calling once or twice and hanging up in order to let someone know you’ve arrived at a location, are safe, etc.)
• Don’t use the real names for fellow activists in your address book; give them numbers or pseudonyms. This way if your phone or SIM card is taken by security forces, they don’t have your entire network of fellow activists in hand.
• Bring back-up SIM cards with you to protests if you know they are being confiscated and it’s important that you have a working cell phone with you at an event. If you have to get rid of a SIM card, try to physically destroy it.
• If your phone can be locked with a password, use it. This can also be your SIM card’s PIN number: SIM cards comes with a default PIN number; if you can, change the default PIN number and enable PIN locking on your SIM. You’ll then be required to enter a password (your PIN number) each time you use your phone.
• If you think a protest is going to meet with an increased crackdown by security forces, you may want to put it in airplane mode while at an event; you won’t be able to send or receive calls, but you can still capture video and photographs and upload them to online sites later. This tactic is also useful if you think security forces are cracking down on everyone with a cell phone at an event. Later on the government can request call/SMS or data records for all individuals who were in a particular location at a particular time in order to perform mass arrests.
• Turn off location tracking and geotagging for various applications unless you are using this feature as part of a targeted project to geotag certain media at an event as part of an action. If you are using your cell phone to stream video live, turn off the GPS/geotagging option (Directions for Bambuser.)
• If you have a phone that runs on the Android Operating System, you can use a number of tools to encrypt web browsing, instant messaging, SMS, and voice calls via the tools created by the Guardian Project and Whispersys. When using your mobile device to browse the web, use HTTPS whenever possible.

Note for BlackBerry users:

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) provides two types of accounts with corresponding levels of encryption. For ordinary individual consumers, there has never been true end-to-end encryption on your BlackBerry communications – RIM or your mobile provider can always intercept your calls, emails, SMS, web browsing, etc. By way of contrast, enterprise users whose company uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) will have end-to- end encryption on their email, messenger (BBM), and web browsing. However, if you’re an Enterprise user, keep in mind that whoever runs your company’s server, typically your IT admin, has the means to decrypt all of your communications, and there are a variety of legal (and not so legal) processes which a government can use to get your decrypted communications. Recently the UAE tried to force Research in Motion to give them the mechanism to decrypt all BlackBerry communications, but RIM has refused to do so. BlackBerry users should keep up to date on any news of negotiations between their government and RIM on these issues. They should also be aware of other attempts to intercept encrypted BlackBerry communications. In 2009, UAE’s Etisalat sent BlackBerry users an unofficial “update” that allowed the telecom to receive copies of all users’ messages. RIM soon sent users an update that removed the fraudulent software, but BlackBerry users should be aware of any suspicious software updates that do not come directly from RIM.

This article is an extract of Access Now handbook, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PROTECTING YOUR IDENTITY AND SECURITY ONLINE AND WHEN USING MOBILE PHONES. It was written for citizens in the Middle East and North Africa who want to use technology safely to communicate, organize, and share data (news reports, information, media, etc.) – but it can be used by anyone online anywhere who wants to protect their privacy and security. Download the complete handbook English, Russian, Vietnamese, Korean, Polski, Indonesian.

More resources

• Tactical Tech’s Mobiles in a Box (English)
• MobileActive’s Mobile Security Risks Primer (English)
• Jhack.info (English, French)

Files: 

protecting-security-online-english.pdf

protecting-security-online-russian.pdf

protecting-security-online-vietnamese.pdf

protecting-security-online-indonesian.pdf

protecting-security-online-korean.pdf

protecting-security-online-polski.pdf

#yemen On Location Video: Yemeni cyclists fight for a chance to race

Yemen's national cycling team battles prejudice and conflict in the hope of competing abroad.