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Sunday, July 08, 2012

Egypt - Morsy Recalls Parliament


Latest UPDATE for July 9 further down !


The newly elected President of Egypt, Mohammad Morsy, recalled parliament after it had been dismissed by Egypt's Military Council. The military had acted immediately after Egypt's highest court had invalidated the parliamentary elections held in June. The first freely elected parliament in Egypt would have provided a sound basis of power for the new president.

Reacting on this new development, Egypt's military council SCAF called for an emergency meeting. Fears of a military coup are rising. [Source: CNN]

Headline of Al-Arabiya on July 8, 2012:

قرار مرسي يسحب السلطة التشريعية من العسكري
بمقتضاه من المفترض أن يعود إلى ثكناته في 15 يوليو الجاري

Morsy's decision is [to take away] legislative power from the military, his demand implying a return [of the troops] to their quarters [until] July 15.



Above: Morsy and the Military

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UPDATE for July 9, 2012:



Headlines of Al-Jazeera TV, Arabic channel, on Morsy's decision to recall parliament for another session:

الدستورية ستفصل في دعاوى ضد قرار مرسي بعودة البرلمان

The constitutional [court] will decide on the matter of opposing Morsy's resolution to recall parliament.

المحكمة تلقت طعونا ضد قرار مرسي بعودة البرلمان للانعقاد

The court found [accusations] against Morsy's resolution to recall parliament for [another] session.

المحكمة ستنظر في هذه الطعون و تفصل فيها

The court will examine these [accusations] and [classify] them.

المحكمة ليست طرفا في أي منازعات سياسية

The court is not [taking sides] in any political conflicts.


Saturday, June 02, 2012

Egypt - الأحكام في قضية مبارك - Anger at Mubarak Verdict - مصر


Latest UPDATE merged into text !


Tens of thousands of protesters are now assembling on Tahrir Square in Kairo and elsewhere after an Egyptian law court ruled a life sentence for former president Mubarak who thus evaded a death sentence. His sons and security officials were considered as "not guilty".


While the Muslim Brotherhood and their candidate Morsy immediately called for protest, Morsy's competitor in the presidential elections, Mubarak's former prime minister Shafiq, declared the Mubarak verdict as "just" and added that "nobody should stand above the law" [quotation from CNN, Arabic text below quoted from Al-Jazeera].

أحمد شفيق: الحكم ضد مبارك يثبت ألا أحد فوق المساءلة

Ahmed Shafiq: The verdict against Mubarak confirms that there is nobody above the [(juridical) interrogation].



Mohammed Morsy speaking on Tahrir Square in Kairo:


المرشح الرئاسي محمد مرسي يعقد مؤتمراً صحفياً للتعليق على الأحكام في قضية مبارك

Presidential candidate Mohammed Morsy summons a press conference on the subject of verdicts in the Mubarak case.

محمد مرسي: مطلوب أدلة اتهام حقيقية و تحقيق قضائي على أعلى مستوى للقصاص العادل

Mohammed Morsy: Arguments [or: proofs and witness reports] are being requested for [any] authentic accusations and the juridical investigation on the highest level [in that case of] punishment of the righteousness [or: justness].


حزب النور ثاني أكبر الأحزاب تمثيلا في البرلمان المصري يصف الأحكام بأنها صادمة

The Al-Nar Party, being the second biggest party represented in Egypt's parliament, is considering the verdicts as shocking.



Parents, relatives and friends of "martyrs of the revolution" are deeply shocked by the Mubarak verdict which shows that Egypt has not yet reached the goal of its revolution:



The day before: Public rage against presidential candidate Shafiq. Participants in demonstration holding up their shoes in protest:



[Sources: CNN and Al-Jazeera, English and Arabic channel]




Additional information by Al-Arabiya TV:

- News on June 1-2, 2012:

محاكمة القرن.. مبارك والعادلي إلى السجن مدى الحياة

اشتباكات عنيفة داخل قاعة المحاكمة وخارجها فور مغادرة المتهمين والقضاء

Violent conflicts inside the courtroom and [people] boiling [with rage] at the outside when the accused and the court left.

- News on June 3, 2012:

خبراء قانون: علاء وجمال مبارك سيحصلان على البراءة

Legal information: Ala'a and Gamal Mubarak will be considered as innocent.

قالوا إن من بين الخيارات إنقضاء الدعوى بالتقادم أو الانقضاء بالتصالح

It has been reported that among other options [there might be] an end of process [due to] a limitation period or the termination by means of [reaching a settlement].


Ala'a and Gamal Mubarak at court.




Latest election news from Al-Jazeera's Arabic website on June 3, 2012:

باحث: الغرب وإسرائيل يفضلان شفيق

Investigator [says]: The West and Israel are preferring Shafiq [as new Egyptian president].


When Al-Jazeera quoted an " eminent German investigator and expert in politics باحث وخبير سياسي ألماني بارز ", they referred to " Udo Steinbach, director of the Asian and African Center at Marburg University مدير مركز آسيا وأفريقيا بجامعة ماربورغ أودو شتاينباخ ".

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach

News from People's Network, Beijing, on June 4, 2012:

埃及前总理称穆兄会将会把埃带回“黑暗时代”

Egypt's former prime minister [Shafiq] states that the Muslim Brotherhood could carry Egypt back into a "dark era".


News from Al-Arabiya on June 4, 2012:

واصل المرشح الرئاسي أحمد شفيق اختراقه لملفات لم يتعرض لها منافسه. فبعد خطابه في المؤتمر الصحافي، أمس الأحد، عن عدة قضايا وهجومه اللاذع على جماعة الإخوان المسلمين ومرشحها محمد مرسي

Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq is continuing to enforce his [claim] that he never [used] the [secret] dossier of his competitor - [at the time of] his speech in the press conference, last sunday, and when he prepared the juridical [comment] as well as his acrid attack at the Muslim Brotherhood and their candidate Mohammed Morsy.


Saturday, July 06, 2013

Egypt - Scenes of Street Fighting



UPDATE for July 7, 2013:


Death toll of bloody riots rising to 36,
more than 200 wounded are counted.
El-Baradei probably prime minister
under interim president Mansour.

中文:

埃及—大规模示威



Here are some snapshots and related news from the Arabic channel of Al-Jazeera TV that are illustrating the most recent developments in Egypt after the military coup d'état against Egypt's president Morsy:


Above: Pro-Morsy demonstration at the University of Cairo


مصدر طبي للجزيرة: 10 قتلى و 318 مصابا في القاهرة و محافظات مصرية أخرى

A medical source for Al-Jazeera [says]:
10 died and 318 were wounded in Cairo and other districts of Egypt.

التلفزيون المصري عن وزارة الصحة: مقتل 17 شخصا اليوم في القاهرة و محافظات أخرى

According to Egypt's television, the ministry of public health announced that 17 persons died during the day in Cairo and other districts.

شهود عيان: مجموعات من البلطجية تتصدى لمتظاهرين مؤيدين لمرسي قرب جامعة القاهرة

Eye witnesses: Groups of [local militants] are opposing demonstrators [in favour of] Morsy near the university of Kairo.



Cairo - Maspero


متحدث عسكري: قوات الجيش تدخلت في ماسبيرو للفصل بين المتظاهرين

A spokesman for the military [says]: Armed forces are entering Maspero [i.e. a Cairo neighbourhood] for a separation of the demonstrators.




Above (left): Treating the wounded in an Alexandria mosque.


صور مباشرة من داخل مسجد سيدي جابر في الأسكندرية الذي تحول لمستشفى ميداني

Direct pictures from the interior of Saidi Jabar Mosque in Alexandria that transformed into an [urban] clinic.




Above: Pro-Morsy demonstration in front of
the Egyptian embassy in Amman / Jordan.


Sunday, September 08, 2013

Region of Conflict


News Update on Syria: September 9/10 => further down

Breaking News: Obama accepts Russian plan of a chemical weapons' control by international monitors as Syria's government declares its will to cooperate, even to halt poison gas production. However, it remains unclear whether such plan is realistic in the frame of fierce fighting in Syria's civil war.

Obama's speech to the U.S. nation tonight can be evaluated by an ad-hoc opinion poll among speech watchers. It shows an increase of support for inevitable military action within a war-tired nation as well as strong confidence in a diplomatic solution that might be now at hand:









In my last blogspot, some days ago, I dealt with the crisis in Syria. On this occasion, I presented some visitors to "blueprint news" interested in the Syrian subject and who came from most exotic places all over the world.

Today, I'm dealing with some visitors and their field of interest and who came from the actual region of conflict which is stretching from the Mediterranean to the heights of Afghanistan and Pakistan. That region includes Iran which is being regarded by the West as an ally to the Syrian regime and a supporter of militant Islamists in Lebanon and Palestine. All of the following visitors came during the last few days and weeks:

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A visitor from the Emirate of Qatar who loaded latest information about Syria:



A visitor from Iraq interested in Syria news and who visited the same blogspot:



The following photos of victims from the reported gas attacks in Syria had to be added as they are taken from video material shown to members of the U.S. Congress in the effort to convince them of military action against Syria.

This came about the same time when questions of congressmen were answered by foreign secretary John Kerry, defense secretary Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey on September 4. President Obama was absent on that meeting because of his participation on the G-20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.

While official support of U.S. Senate and House on Capitol Hill is still uncertain, Barack Obama is trying to activate his European allies for support of a rather unilateral action in the frame of blocked decisions in the UN Security Council. War with Russia is considered to be unlikely by the Obama administration, even though Russia blocked the UN Security Council and declared that chemical weapons might have been used by Syrian rebels. In addition, Russia sent warships for observation into the Mediterranean where a fleet of U.S. and British warships has already been deployed.



Quotations from the hearing before U.S. Congress on September 4:


Kerry: We are acting cautiously. We are not getting into Syria's civil war.

Kerry: Russia won't go to war over Syria.

Dempsey: There's a risk of escalation if we do nothing.

Kerry: Inaction will undermine our credibility. If we do nothing, Pyongyang,
Tehran, Damascus will celebrate.

Kerry: Strike will impact Iran's thinking.


Syria News Update on September 9:


Russia urges Syria to hand over control of chemical weapons. [USA Today, September 9, 2013]



Syria News Update on September 10:

叙利亚国内反对派组织代表团将自今日起访华

Headline:
A delegation from Syria's internal opposition group is going to visit China these days.

中国外交部发言人洪磊在10日的例行记者会上 …
洪磊说,应中国人民外交学会邀请,叙利亚国内反对派组织“全国对话联盟”代表团一行6人将自今日起访华。访问期间,中国外交部等有关部门负责人将会见代表团,就叙利亚局势交换意见。


On today's regular press conference of China's foreign ministry, the ministry's spokesman Hong Lei said that a delegation from Syria's internal opposition group "Coalition for a Nationwide Dialogue" was going to visit China these days at the invitation of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs. The Syrian delegation comprises six members. During their visit, the delegation will be received by leading officials of the foreign ministry and related ministries for an exchange of views on the Syrian situation.


[Source: People's Network 人民网 on September 10, 2013]




- Breaking News - NBC News on September 10 -

by Alastair Jamieson, Albina Kovalyova and Keir Simmons, NBC News


"... President Barack Obama has agreed to discuss Russia's proposal that Syria hand over chemical weapons, the White House said Tuesday after Damascus confirmed it would accept such a deal.

Talks will begin at the United Nations later Tuesday, a White House official told NBC News, even as Obama prepares to address Congress -- and the American people -- to make the case for authorization to use military strikes if diplomatic solutions fail.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the U.S., France and Britain would propose a U.N. Security Council resolution shortly.

Earlier, Syria Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told NBC News in Moscow that he hoped acceptance of the "peaceful solution" would "put an end to the war."

The building momentum behind Russia's plan, which had already been endorsed by China and Iran, came only 24 hours after Secretary of State John Kerry raised a weapons handover at a news conference in London.

Obama said Monday that the Russia plan offered a potential path that averted U.S. military strikes, but Kerry cautioned that the only reason the Russia solution has "potential legs at all" is because of a credible threat of force.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies before the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday, saying that the Obama administration will not wait for very long on a possible Syrian chemical weapons proposal. "Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging," Kerry told a congressional committee Tuesday. He said Obama would look at the plan but added: "We’re waiting for that proposal, but we’re not waiting for long.” Kerry said it had been the “credible use of force” by the U.S. that has “for the first time brought this regime to even acknowledge that they have a chemical weapons arsenal,” adding that the threat of military action “is more compelling if the Congress stands with the commander in chief.”

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel echoed that line, saying the Russia deal "could be a real solution to this crisis," but added: "We must be clear-eyed and ensure it is not a stalling tactic by Syria and its Russian patrons."

Senior senators - including John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. - announced they were working on a new plan that would authorize the president to use force only if Syria did not comply with a U.N. resolution to remove chemical weapons by a pre-determined deadline.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announces Tuesday that he will not be voting in favor of a resolution to use U.S. military force in Syria. But even as they discussed their move, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced his opposition to military strikes against Syria. And Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Kerry's successor in the Senate, said he would not support the use of force resolution passed by the committee, calling it too broad.

The president traveled to Capitol Hill shortly after noon Tuesday to meet with the Senate Democratic Caucus and Senate Republican Conference before delivering an address to the nation from the East Room of the White House at 9:01 p.m. ET.

Kerry said that despite a Senate delay on a vote after the Russians made their proposal, "nothing has changed" on the administration request for congressional action, though he said the president may talk to congressional leaders about timing of a vote.

In a further development, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin said the Russian president had discussed the weapons handover plan with Obama at last week’s G-20 summit.

That shed a different light on Kerry’s mention of the plan at a news conference in London on Monday. That had previously been characterized by spokesman Jen Psaki as an off-the-cuff “rhetorical argument.”

Obama's case for limited airstrikes targeting Assad's regime was boosted early Tuesday when a Human Rights Watch report blamed Syrian government forces for the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds of people. The U.S.-based rights group said it had reached its conclusion after analyzing witness accounts, remnants of the weapons used and medical records of victims.

Human Rights Watch report: Syrian government is likely responsible for chemical attack. HRW said it did not believe the attack could have been carried out by rebels or other “terrorists” as a smokescreen, as suggested by Assad. "Human Rights Watch and arms experts monitoring the use of weaponry in Syria have not documented Syrian opposition forces to be in possession of the 140mm and 330mm rockets used in the attack, or their associated launchers," the report added.

Russia’s diplomatic solution appeared to be gathering momentum internationally -- as an attractive option for many U.S. allies who agree with the White House stance against chemical weapons but who are reluctant to be drawn into another Middle East military conflict.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are working with other senators on an alternative resolution to dealing with Syria and its chemical weapons. NBC News' Kasie Hunt reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained his proposal during a pre-planned 14-minute phone call to John Kerry as the U.S. secretary of state flew from London to Washington Monday.

U.S. officials said Kerry expressed concern that it would be hard to verify whether Syria had complied with any such plan, or to know if the regime had still kept some of its chemical weapons stockpiles.

Adding to international concern, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu agency reported that Syrian jets bombed the border town of Tel Abyad on Monday, prompting yet more Syrians to seek refuge in Turkey. Thousands had already flooded across the border, leaving authorities struggling to cope. ..."


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A visitor from Lebanon who loaded an earlier blogspot
that deals with the dangers of a future World War III:




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A Syrian visitor reminds us of a sad ending of Ramadan (August 2012) which
many Syrian refugees had to experience in their Turkish or Jordanian camps:





- City of the Lost - [The New Yorker / Letter from Jordan, August 26, 2013]


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A Jordanian visitor loaded another blogspot hinting at
a scenario of mutual threats in the Iranian conflict:




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A reminder from Egypt of the presidential elections in 2012 that brought Moh. Morsy
into office. I was surprised to learn how many visitors from the Arab world had loaded
blogspots related to Morsy, even after his destitution by Egypt's military one year later.




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And finally, there comes a download by Afghan authorities in Kabul
dealing with a Taliban attack of U.S. Airbase Baghram in May 2010:



The Baghram attack on May 19, 2010, was accompanied by first news on secret negotiations between Taliban leaders and Afghan government envoys on the remote paradise of the Maldives.

By the way, today's government request came from the same internet access point in Kabul as another request on August 17, 2013. That time's subject was chasing Al-Qaeda in Mali.




Choice of localized visitors to "blueprint news" during 48 hours on August 8/9, 2013:



A rare visitor from Cuba whose interest is electronic warfare in Syria:



Sunday, December 23, 2012

Egypt - Constitution Accepted - UPDATE


December 24 Update included.
Official Results from December 25 further down !



Above: Predicted overall result for the second stage of voting.

11:57 CET / 10:57 GMT

After the counting of more than 63% of votes following yesterday's second round of voting, it becomes clear that president Morsy's constitutional draft has been accepted by an overwhelming majority of 70.9%, result published at 10:00 GMT this morning by the Arabic channel of Al-Jazeera. Rural areas are approving the new constitution by even more than 80%. Only the Red Sea tourism resorts bring about some 60% of votes in support.
Even though urban areas present lower support than rural areas [i.e. Kairo / al-Jiza 66.3%, Alexandria 55%, Suez 70.4% and Port Said 51.1% votes in favor of the constitution], these first results are already proving widespread agreement to the president's constitutional draft which is considered to promote a democratic state based on Islamic values.



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Evening Update for December 23, 2012:

According to different European media (German TV / ARD, France 24), last voting results in the Egyptian referendum are showing a 64% majority of all votes in favor of president Morsy's constitutional draft. Voting participation should have been rather low at 32%.
A member of the electoral commission said that any voting results are to be considered as inofficial up to now. As expected, the opposition has already voiced accusations of fraud during the referendum.

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Morning Update for December 24, 2012:


Above: Latest election results predicted by Al-Jazeera on December 23/24 and worked up by Ulysses.

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Official Results from December 25, 2012

Nearly two-thirds of voters in the Egyptian referendum have supported a proposed new constitution, the electoral commission has announced. In all, 63.8% of voters cast Yes ballots in two stages, on December 15 and 22. The commission announced the result live on state-run Nile News TV. Parliamentary elections must now take place within two months.
[Source: BBC, London on December 25, 2012]


Above: Official Results published by Egypt's Electoral Commission.

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Editor's Note and Final Evaluation:

The overall result of both rounds of voting is presenting some 63,8% of votes in favor of the new constitution according to the electoral commission and different international media.

Unfortunately, the outcome of the second round of voting has not been mentioned. However it can be counted by using the outcome of the first round of voting from December 15 which was 56.6% according to CNN [news service on December 27].

Two times the average value (63.8%) is equalling the sums of first round (56.6%) and second round (x%) of voting:
63.8 + 63.8 = 56.6 + x
127.6 = 56.6 + x
x = 71


The counted outcome of the second round of voting should therefore be 71%. The result fits perfectly with the predicted 70.9% published by Al-Jazeera on December 23 (diagram on top of this blogspot). This implies an increase of Yes-votes for the constitution in the second round of voting !





Last 200 localized visitors to "blueprint news" who came to my site on December 11-26, 2012:


Most Northern visitor to "blueprint news" who came to my site on December 24, 2012:



Thursday, September 13, 2012

Spreading Islamic Rage - Egypt Libya Yemen


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UPDATE on September 14:
Rallies on Western embassies
in Karthoum, capital of Sudan.
German embassy torched (right)
but no casualties among German
embassy staff. U.S. and U.K.
embassies targeted as well.

Pro-Islamic Hizbollah TV in Lebanon
and its news summary on September
13, 2012, can be found here: Rallies on U.S. Embassies and Consulates

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استمرار المواجهات في محيط السفارة الأمريكية في القاهرة احتجاجا على الفيلم المسيء للإسلام

Confrontations continue in the neighbourhood of the U.S. embassy in Kairo [as an expression of] protest against the film that is insulting Islam.

[Source: Al-Jazeera, Arabic TV, on September 13]

أوباما يتفق مع زعيم ليبيا على العمل معا ويتصل بالرئيس المصري

Obama [comes to] an agreement with the Libyan leadership on acting together and approaches the Egyptian president.

[Source: Reuters news agency on September 13, 2012]

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Editor's Note:

According to latest news from Germany's TV channel NT24, U.S. President "Obama has sent two destroyers to the coast of Libya".

That information should be seen as an expression of cooperation between America and Libya as both countries are not waging war with each other. Facing an outbreak of anti-American riots in Libya, related to an independent American film production, both nations should be interested in regaining normal relations with each other as soon as possible.


Egypt's president Mohammad Morsy, known for his background in the Muslim Brotherhood, only recently made the following comment concerning the holy figure of Prophet Mohammed. The prophet's "red line" or his "depiction in red" are probably hinting at the prophet's love-live that has been exploited in the notorious American film and subsequently raised furious displeasure among Muslims.

مرسي: الرسول الكريم خط احمر لا يمكن المساس به

Morsy: Tracing the venerable prophet in red is not possibly touching him.


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Meanwhile, anti-American riots have reached the Yemenite capital of Sanaa where protesters tried to get into the U.S. embassy (pictures below):






Now, I know where my pictures go .....



Two visitors from Brooklyn / New York using the same visitor access point to "blueprint news":