I haven’t had proper time to continue working on the Piggipedia files, but here is a face which popped up while I was reading some articles about torture, and I recalled having more pictures of the same officer on the SS Nasr City DVDs.
SS Lt. Colonel Hani Talaat, also known as “Gaafar,” worked at the dissolved SS, as part of its “Central Investigations Unit.” His name was mentioned in the case of Sayyed Bilal’s death under torture, and reportedly still keeps his job at Homeland Security, the successor of SS.
My talk to the local and foreign students and faculty, at the American University in Cairo, 12 February 2012.
In a country of roughly 85 million people, one third of whom are illiterate, you still get the following…
The number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt grew by 22 per cent to 81.7 million users in the year to November, government figures showed on Sunday.
The number of mobile phone subscriptions in October was 80.9 million.
In November 2010, Egypt’s three mobile operators, Etisalat Egypt, Mobinil and the Egyptian unit of Vodafone, had 66.87 million subscriptions.
This is another example of Trotsky’s theory of the “combined and uneven development”... and talk of the potential outreach one must strategize for as a political activist. The telecommunication revolution does pose concrete questions as well as vast opportunities for the socialist movement.
With 11 years experience as the Head of Electronic Investigation Department at (Mubarak’s dissolved Gestapo) State Security Police, one accumulates enough experience to become a banker and an expert on labor law.
Tens of Thousands marched on the MoD yesterday calling for overthrow of Mubarak’s army generals.
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