<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998</id><updated>2012-02-27T20:24:36.328-08:00</updated><category term='tourists in luxor'/><category term='egypt nile river pollution.corruption in egypt'/><category term='Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb ( أحمد محمد الطيب‎'/><category term='Islam in 1433'/><category term='Gay people should get the death penalty'/><category term='west bank hotel luxor egypt'/><category term='jimmy carter'/><category term='The Honourable Dominic Asquith'/><category term='Benetton Pulls Ad Showing Pope Kissing Imam.Pope Benedict XVI'/><category term='The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar'/><category term='Egypt&apos;s army'/><category term='British embassy Cairo'/><category term='spring'/><category term='Pope Benedict XVI'/><category term='luxor egypt'/><category term='hosni mubarak'/><category term='The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar west bank hotel luxor egypt spring Pope Benedict XVI hosni mubarak'/><category term='islam on women'/><category term='sell my son'/><category term='muslim liars'/><category term='egypts corruption'/><title type='text'>Egypts liars</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-600484414640737535</id><published>2012-01-20T05:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T05:19:20.095-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt&apos;s army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muslim liars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam in 1433'/><title type='text'>Lying in general</title><content type='html'>In may of 2006 I reported &amp;nbsp;the swindler Mohamed Awad to &amp;nbsp;to the police &amp;nbsp;for fraud/ swindling/ conning whatever you would like to call it. during the first months after reporting, I was told that the best man to see as he has more power than the Luxor district court , was &amp;nbsp;then doctor of islamic studies at Al-Azhar mosque&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="ar" xml:lang="ar"&gt;أحمد محمد الطيب&lt;/span&gt;‎;&amp;nbsp;is the current&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Imam"&gt;i&lt;/a&gt;mam&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;Al-ahzar,&amp;nbsp;He was appointed by the Egyptian President,&amp;nbsp;Hosni Mubarak&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;following the death of&amp;nbsp;Muhamed &amp;nbsp;Sayyid Tantwani&amp;nbsp;in 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;my case was in the luxor court for 4 years. the story of what happened in the court and &amp;nbsp;the swindle is on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;in 2010 I decided to go back to see the Sheik this time I went to his office in Cairo &amp;nbsp;where he promised I would get my money back, but he left it in the hands of his corrupt brother &amp;nbsp;mohamed el-tyeb,. I had one small payment &amp;nbsp;to make it look good &amp;nbsp;for the tourist industry, and to stop my story on the blogs, &amp;nbsp;making it bad for Islam I was told, an infidel gets money from a swindle &amp;nbsp;etc,payments where supposed to be every 6 months &amp;nbsp;One year went by by this time there was a revolution &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and I only had the initial payment of &amp;nbsp;£2500 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and the country was taken over by the military,I did not know at the time what game the military where playing but the talk in Luxor was that &amp;nbsp;people who had been swindled &amp;nbsp;i.e. 5000 had been swindled out of their homes to make way for the digging of the avenue of the sphinx &amp;nbsp;3 kilometre from Luxor temple &amp;nbsp;to Karnak temple. &amp;nbsp;I did a piece on one of the plots of land that was taken &amp;nbsp;this housed 62 families , then Iwas told to try and get my money back through the army. for 3 months I tried this avenue the army gave me lots of promises, then when it came to them confronting the sheikh the door was closed, then on hearing there was a meeting in the council offices &amp;nbsp;with 40 people &amp;nbsp;who thought they were going to get the land and compensation . I walked through the army cordon with the pretence of going to see my new friend ahmed gamal the new head of luxor council, &amp;nbsp;in the office I sat amongst the 40 natives &amp;nbsp;then 4 of these males were taken away led by the general, two hours later we had a visit from the head of luxor office with the excuse that luxor has no money for paying &amp;nbsp;I just got up and left the room &amp;nbsp;in another office &amp;nbsp;The guvorners office &amp;nbsp;with the door ajar I saw the general and the 4 men in conference, and two men sitting &amp;nbsp;for what seemed a chance to see the general, so I went in sat down and to my horror I found these four &amp;nbsp;men to be the Muslim brotherhood of Luxor, i.e. members who had their land and homes destroyed by the regime under the last guvorner DR Samir Faraq, they where handed cheques plus papers to say they owned the land, &amp;nbsp;then I got up and asked the General had he sorted my problem with the swindlers, &amp;nbsp;at that &amp;nbsp;and after 3 months of time wasting, &amp;nbsp;I was told they cannot do anything, &amp;nbsp;what they should have said was &amp;nbsp;we cannot go against the head of Islam &amp;nbsp;it will make it look bad, &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ClFB2MOhRds/Txla_JE6PcI/AAAAAAAAC1c/fweJfC6GaJQ/s1600/p5150004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="160" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ClFB2MOhRds/Txla_JE6PcI/AAAAAAAAC1c/fweJfC6GaJQ/s320/p5150004.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Photo Taken in May 2011 &amp;nbsp;in the Supreme &amp;nbsp;council of Luxor district office,&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-600484414640737535?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/600484414640737535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/lying-in-general.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/600484414640737535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/600484414640737535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/lying-in-general.html' title='Lying in general'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ClFB2MOhRds/Txla_JE6PcI/AAAAAAAAC1c/fweJfC6GaJQ/s72-c/p5150004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-6516006376419537540</id><published>2012-01-19T14:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T14:45:13.487-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar west bank hotel luxor egypt spring Pope Benedict XVI hosni mubarak'/><title type='text'>Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb : أحمد محمد الطيب‎;</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="navbar section" id="navbar"&gt;&lt;div class="widget Navbar" id="Navbar1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="body-fauxcolumns"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-outer body-fauxcolumn-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-inner"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cap-bottom"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div class="content-fauxcolumns"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-outer content-fauxcolumn-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-inner"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cap-bottom"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="content-cap-top cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left content-fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="content-inner"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cw_PSRCaY3g/TxiZGRm_lPI/AAAAAAAAC1E/CXu-0xQjJ3E/s1600/IMG_9759.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cw_PSRCaY3g/TxiZGRm_lPI/AAAAAAAAC1E/CXu-0xQjJ3E/s320/IMG_9759.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;header&gt; &lt;div class="navbar section" id="navbar"&gt;&lt;div class="widget Navbar" id="Navbar1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="body-fauxcolumns"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-outer body-fauxcolumn-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-inner"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cap-bottom"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div class="content-fauxcolumns"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-outer content-fauxcolumn-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxcolumn-inner"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cap-bottom"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="content-cap-top cap-top"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left content-fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="content-inner"&gt;This is the photo all good Muslims have in their home in the upper delta of Egypt these are the Sheikhs of the Area the two top guys &amp;nbsp;have already died and gone to be with Mohamed &amp;nbsp;the one with the glasses &amp;nbsp;died when he drove his car into the canal near Esba in the west bank . lower two is the Elder brother Mohamed &amp;nbsp;then &amp;nbsp;Ahmed the head of Islam in Egypt They are &amp;nbsp;the liars who conned me out of my Home &amp;nbsp;and money,the other guy &amp;nbsp;I think he is part of the muslim brotherhood ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;header&gt; 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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/ahmed-el-tayeb-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al.html"&gt;Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8766227485492354950"&gt;&lt;div id="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-3083 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb tag-ahmed-el-tayeb-the-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al-azhar tag-bullshit tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypts-corruption tag-luxor-egypt" id="post-3083"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/top-egyptian-cleric-ahmed-el-tayeb-the-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al-azhar-mubarak-deserves-mercy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Top Egyptian cleric Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar: Mubarak deserves mercy"&gt;Top Egyptian cleric Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar: Mubarak deserves mercy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3083&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h1 id="yn-title"&gt;Mubarak deserves mercy&lt;/h1&gt;ALL  THE PEOPLE IN EGYPT “WELL THE POOR”   want mubarak swinging from an   acasia tree,  but if orders are given it has to pass this man&lt;cite&gt;  Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar&lt;/cite&gt;,     Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Monem was convicted of killing 20 protesters  on Jan. 28,in his absence he was tried and convicted  . The court  referred the case to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s religious authority who  must approve all death sentences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=11f589428/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ap.org%2Ftermsandconditions" id="yn-prvdlink"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yn-story-related-media"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yn-story-main-media"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/FILE---Sunday-Jan-2-2011-file-photo-Ahmed-el-Tayeb/photo//110521/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1//s:/ap/20110521/ap_on_re_eu/egypt_cleric_mubarak"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/FILE---Sunday-Jan-2-2011-file-photo-Ahmed-el-Tayeb/photo//110521/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1//s:/ap/20110521/ap_on_re_eu/egypt_cleric_mubarak"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/FILE---Sunday-Jan-2-2011-file-photo-Ahmed-el-Tayeb/photo//110521/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1//s:/ap/20110521/ap_on_re_eu/egypt_cleric_mubarak"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg"&gt;&lt;img height="264" src="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg" title="three_cols" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2011/01/03/imam-of-al-azahr-tells-pope-to-stfu/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Egypt’s Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb, Sunni Islam’s highest religious authority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;And He does not run the area known as Gurna&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; including the Luxor district&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EX39PazRShs/TsQxSjH6njI/AAAAAAAAAPU/rLNMGi_koP4/s1600/sheik+014+-+Copy+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EX39PazRShs/TsQxSjH6njI/AAAAAAAAAPU/rLNMGi_koP4/s1600/sheik+014+-+Copy+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EX39PazRShs/TsQxSjH6njI/AAAAAAAAAPU/rLNMGi_koP4/s320/sheik+014+-+Copy+copy.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;the bearded %$*^% is one of the Muslim brotherhood the one who lied to me about the way I could get my money or my hotel back, the handsome turd next to him is the butcher of gurna&amp;nbsp; the one who mutilates the girls as to orders of the Sheihk,s &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-btnsrEJ_m_k/TsQxXotj_TI/AAAAAAAAAPc/i3O2hoyk9OQ/s1600/sheik+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-btnsrEJ_m_k/TsQxXotj_TI/AAAAAAAAAPc/i3O2hoyk9OQ/s320/sheik+013.JPG" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sheikh Mohamed El-Tayeb. elder brother of Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb,&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/FILE---Sunday-Jan-2-2011-file-photo-Ahmed-el-Tayeb/photo//110521/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1//s:/ap/20110521/ap_on_re_eu/egypt_cleric_mubarak"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;this is the Liar. and the one who has the last say in the running of the luxor district.WAS  Dr Samir  Faraq the only bad boy in luxor, I fear not  there is no doubt he was   corrupt,  but he was not the only one. some sheikhs and head of villages  got colossal amounts of money to put street lighting in  the villages,  some got money to build unneeded bridges across the canals, millions of  Dollars have been squandered some sheikhs did quite well  soon after  receiving monies these sheihks  were turning up at the begging bowl   in  new cars at the new office in Awameia, this office got the brunt of the  destruction during the recent riots. as the people knew it as Samir’s  office,above are the thieves  distributing this  new found wealth???, question is, are they  above the law?? &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; problem is in the new Egypt&amp;nbsp; they are now the law, .&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Egypt’s  top Sunni Muslim cleric says the country’s former president Hosni  Mubarak should be granted mercy instead of facing prosecution,&lt;br /&gt;Ahmed  el-Tayeb, the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar institution, was quoted  by German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’s Sunday edition  as saying that “mercy should prevail over justice” given Mubarak’s  achievements and his poor health.&lt;br /&gt;Representatives of Al-Azhar,  the pre-eminent theological institute of Sunni Islam, in Cairo could not  be reached to confirm the comments.&lt;br /&gt;“One should consider that  Mubarak has done a lot for Egypt over a long time. He’s an old and sick  man. Mercy should prevail over justice,” he was quoted as saying.&lt;br /&gt;The  weekly, which said it interviewed el-Tayeb in Egypt’s capital, further  quoted him as saying that toppling Mubarak was an expression of the  people’s desire for change “which Al-Azhar supports.”&lt;br /&gt;El-Tayeb  also voiced concern in light of the recent clashes between Copts and  Muslims in Cairo, saying those were directed “from interested groups  outside” the country, accusing “the West of seeking to foment chaos in  Egypt.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;“Muslims and Christians have lived peacefully together since Islam’s introduction 1,400 years ago,&lt;/span&gt;” the newspaper quoted him as saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;so with all this power  he cant even get a muslim drug addict to pay up,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;your  brother sheihk mohamed has my mobile number.  on Ahmed el-Tayeb the  grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar promise I have been waiting 5 months for  my  2nd  6 month installment ,&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb"&gt;Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/ahmed-el-tayeb-the-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al-azhar/" rel="tag"&gt;Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/bullshit/" rel="tag"&gt;bullshit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-zahi-hawass/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr. Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/egyptian-general-admits-virginity-checks-conducted-on-protesters/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters"&gt;Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3077&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;go home  make a new president,  they were told!&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK GIRLS  YOU CAN NOW START BLOGGING  ON HOW THE ARMY ARE LIARS,,, THEY SAY   NONE OF THE WOMEN WERE VIRGINS.&lt;br /&gt;THIS  MEANS THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE WOMEN  ARE GOING TO HAVE ONE  HELL OF A  JOB PROVING THAT THEY ARE VIRGINS TO THE NEW HUSBAND TO BE ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;YOU WANT DEMOCRACY, PROVE THESE ANIMALS TO BE LIARS,&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5240002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="630" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5240002.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=630&amp;amp;h=630" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;more verbal garbage coming from the ARMY  liars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;,,we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).”&lt;/span&gt; you mean they were smoking?  well how dangerous is that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;A  senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed  on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such  admission after previous denials by military authorities.&lt;br /&gt;The  allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks  after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten,  given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution  charges and forced to submit to virginity checks.&lt;br /&gt;At that time, Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or “virginity tests.”&lt;br /&gt;But now a senior general who asked not to be identified said the &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;JUST AS MUCH AS SHEIHK MOHAMED TYEB DEFENDS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AS PART OF THE CULTURE OF LUXOR.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,”&lt;/span&gt; the general said. “These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn’t  later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.&lt;br /&gt;“We  didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we  wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” the  general said.&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; “None of them were (virgins).”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This  demonstration occurred nearly a month after Egypt’s longtime President  Hosni Mubarak stepped down amid a wave of popular and mostly peaceful  unrest aimed at his ouster and the institution of democratic reforms.&lt;br /&gt;Afterward,  Egypt’s military — which had largely stayed on the sidelines of the  revolution — officially took control of the nation’s political apparatus  as well, until an agreed-upon constitution and elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/29/egypt.mubarak.charges/index.html"&gt;Mubarak denies ordering shootings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  March 9 protest occurred in Tahrir Square, which became famous over 18  historic and sometimes bloody days and nights of protests that led to  Mubarak’s resignation.&lt;br /&gt;But unlike in those previous  demonstrations, the Egyptian military targeted the protesters. Soldiers  dragged dozens of demonstrators from the square and through the gates of  the landmark Egyptian Museum.&lt;br /&gt;Salwa Hosseini, a 20-year-old  hairdresser and one of the women named in the Amnesty report, described  to CNN how uniformed soldiers tied her up on the museum’s grounds,  forced her to the ground and slapped her, then shocked her with a stun  gun while calling her a prostitute.&lt;br /&gt;“They wanted to teach us a  lesson,” Hosseini said soon after the Amnesty report came out. “They  wanted to make us feel that we do not have dignity.”&lt;br /&gt;The  treatment got worse, Hosseini said, when she and the 16 other female  prisoners were taken to a military detention center in Heikstep.&lt;br /&gt;There, she said, she and several of other female detainees were subjected to a “virginity test.”&lt;br /&gt;“We  did not agree for a male doctor to perform the test,” she said. But  Hosseini said her captors forced her to comply by threatening her with  more stun-gun shocks.&lt;br /&gt;“I was going through a nervous breakdown at  that moment,” she recalled. “There was no one standing during the test,  except for a woman and the male doctor. But several soldiers were  standing behind us watching the backside of the bed. I think they had  them standing there as witnesses.”&lt;br /&gt;The senior Egyptian general  said the 149 people detained after the March 9 protest were subsequently  tried in military courts, and most have been sentenced to a year in  prison.&lt;br /&gt;Authorities later revoked those sentences “when we  discovered that some of the detainees had university degrees, so we  decided to give them a second chance,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;The senior general reaffirmed that the military council was determined to make Egypt’s democratic transition a success.&lt;br /&gt;“The  date for handover to a civil government can’t come soon enough for the  ruling military council,” he said. “The army can’t wait to return to its  barracks and do what it does best practice  and protect the back   passages  on the borders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="date-outer"&gt;&lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt;&lt;div class="post-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="post hentry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549" name="6538026950486301246"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/tens-of-thousands-protested-throughout.html"&gt;Tens of thousands protested throughout Egypt&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Is luxor part of Egypt,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5240002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3043" height="630" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5240002.jpg" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;IN LUXOR Tens protest to demand trials of regime figures,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;It's to the squares in Luxor and Aswan where protests are being held in Abu Haggag Square and Shuhada Square respectively.&lt;/span&gt;  there was more people at last nights wedding in Abu Haggag  SQUARE than at today's protest,  &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/15/egypt.sex.film/index.html?iref=obinsite"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;      Sex lives of married Egyptians laid bare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/15/egypt.sex.film/index.html?iref=obinsite"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt; AND WHERE DO THEY PERFORM FEMALE MUTILATION IN EGYPT?????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;one place is the Sheihks home in Gurna here they have a room where the butcher works,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="mceTemp"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_3044" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;dt class="wp-caption-dt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_7357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3044" height="280" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_7357.jpg" title="IMG_7357" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd class="wp-caption-dd"&gt;EACH  PROTEST  SINCE THE 25/1/2011    IT SEEMS IS HELD BY THE SAME PEOPLE,   TOUR COMPANIES WHO ARE LOOSING MONEY. THOSE WHO SHOULD BE ON THE PROTEST  MARCH WILL NOT DROP THE REIGNS OR LEAVE THEIR TAXI INCASE THEY LOOSE A  CUSTOMER FARE.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;form action="/en/node/453448" charset="UTF-8" method="post"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6876.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3045" height="468" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6876.jpg" title="IMG_6876" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;STRANGE LOOKING STONE DON'T YOU THINK???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;IF MUBARAK GETS TO TRIAL AND  GETS THE DEATH PENALTY. WILL  THE HEAD OF  ISLAM IN EGYPT" SAY YES  HANG HIM".    ALREADY HE HAS STATED HOSNI  SHOULD GO FREE,   AND AS I PERSONALLY KNOW THESE  THE  SUPREME COUNCIL  OF ARMED FORCES  WILL NOT GO AGAINST THE SHEIKHS,  WELL NOT AGAINST THE  ELDER BROTHER OF &lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/search/label/Dr%20Ahmed%20Mohammed%20Ahmed%20Al-Tayeb%20Al-Azhar%20Sheikh." rel="tag"&gt;Dr Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Al-Tayeb Al-Azhar Sheikh.&lt;/a&gt; ,  so where does that leave all these protesters all the ones who martyred for freedom, all the injured,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="views-slideshow-ddblock-field_associated_media_default"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549"&gt;&lt;img alt="People wave Egyptian flags during a pro-democracy rally at Tahrir Square, in Cairo. " height="308" src="http://amay263.cdn.infralayer.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/highslide_zoom/photo/2011/03/26/41/tahrir.jpg" title="Tahrir Square" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tens  of thousands protested throughout Egypt to demand the trial of Mubarak  regime figures and to exert pressure on the Supreme Council of the Armed  Forces to take steps toward political reform.&lt;br /&gt;Eyewitnesses said  that 20,000 Egyptians protested in the coastal city of Alexandria to  demand the dissolution of municipal councils that have been controlled  by members of the dissolved National Democratic Party. Protesters also  called for trying Mubarak.&lt;br /&gt;In the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh,  hundreds gathered in al-Hadaba. They demanded that Mubarak be removed  from Sharm el-Sheikh hospital where he is being treated and transferred  to Tora prison in Cairo.&lt;br /&gt;In Suez, thousands of protesters emerged  from Friday prayers to participate in the second Friday of Anger protest  in Isaf square in the neighborhood of Arbi’in. Protesters called for  purging the media of Mubarak regime figures.&lt;br /&gt;and IN LUXOR Tens protest to demand trials of regime figures,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="date-outer"&gt;&lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt;&lt;div class="post-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="post hentry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549" name="358883642263116076"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/egypts-ruined-economy.html"&gt;Egypt's ruined economy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-358883642263116076"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;                             &lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/23/egypts-ruined-economy/" rel="bookmark" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link:Egypt's ruined economy"&gt;                             &lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Egypt's ruined                              eco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/23/egypts-ruined-economy/" rel="bookmark" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link:Egypt's ruined economy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/23/egypts-ruined-economy/" rel="bookmark" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link:Egypt's ruined economy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-size: 85%;"&gt;nomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and how many people believe Egypt is ruined,&lt;br /&gt;first they cut off gas supplies  from Egypt, that's called cutting ones nose to spite the face,&lt;br /&gt;they put out false info on the tourists in 2010 .  18 million  visited  Egypt, they say 11million ,, that's 7 million people with unacounted income from  tourists.    and yes Egypt needed a revolution,  but they need to get  rid of all the old regime,  all they have done up to date is move these  people about,  ie   one of the corrupt police generals in luxor  "Ebd  Mosin",  because all the people here  in the west bank  know he was  corrupt, he has been moved to  Hurgada, I wrote about this  nice general   in my attempted murder  statement 12 months ago, but all they have  done is give him a better job,  they sentence one cop for killing 20 in  tarhir square. they never took any statements nothing just pointed the  finger and sentenced him in his absence, makes the people happy  "I DO  NOT THINK So,,  this new media story also mentions  the cruise boats and  how lack of tourism is ruining their business,   well how about all the  crops and farmland their pollution has ruined, no talk about that, no  rice in Ismaleia , no food is growing in the el fayoum,&lt;a href="http://nilelife5.blogspot.com/2010/12/egypts-farmers-desperate-for-clean.html"&gt; because of the cruisers,  http://nilelife5.blogspot.com/2010/12/egypts-farmers-desperate-for-clean.html ,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilelife5.blogspot.com/2010/12/egypts-farmers-desperate-for-clean.html"&gt; so Egypt does not need any outside help in ruining its ecconomy, can manage very well on its own,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTER  ALL ITS GOT   PEOPLE LIKE Judge Shaddy and Hassan Gamal" SHEIHK MOHAMED  TAYEB", MOHAMED AWAD  AND LAWYERS LIKE MUSTAFA ATEA,swindlers liars and  forgers. &lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt; http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/ .&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="cnn_first"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Everyone  will                              agree history was made in Tahrir  Square and Egypt's                              politics took a great  step forward with the ouster                              of President  Hosni Mubarak. But have Egypt's                              economics  taken a big step backwards?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              One of the generals running the country  presented a                              picture of his country's  economy that made me think,                              "What in the  World?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              He says foreign direct investment is now  down to                              zero. Egypt's foreign reserves are  fast getting                              depleted. Then there's the  tourism industry, which                              employs 2 million  people but is sitting idle with                              the world  continuing to shun the Pyramids of Giza                              and  cruises down the Nile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              That's $1 billion of lost revenue every  month.                              Growth has crawled to a standstill. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="more-5660"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              Meanwhile, tens of thousands of workers,  emboldened                              with a new sense of freedom, are  staging strikes to                              demand better pay.  Confronting them would mean work                              stoppages.  Appeasing them will cost money, and the                               state's coffers aren't exactly overflowing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              Then there's oil. The revolutions of the  Middle East                              has sparked a cycle of pain in  the crude markets.                              Look at three countries  that have been hit hardest                              by people power  movements - Egypt, Tunisia, Syria.                              They are  all oil importers. Egypt then will go from                               growth in 2010 to shrinking GDPs this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              Now, look at their neighbors who managed to  stave                              off the wave of protests through a  mix of bribery                              and appeasement - Qatar,  Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.                              They're all net  oil exporters with vast cash                              reserves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              That's why the dichotomy is actually  getting worse,                              because oil importers need  to spend more to buy the                              same amount of  gas. Also, to keep political support                              at  home, they need to increase subsidies on things                               like food - potatoes, carrots - because everything                               costs more, thanks to oil-driven inflation here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              And then there's this. Unlike previous  years, the                              gulf countries, the oil-rich  countries, actually                              want oil prices to be  priced higher because they                              need the cash.  They need to support their own                              spending  plans for new cities and to more payouts to                               suppress dissent. For the first time in history, oil                               is averaging nearly $100 a barrel for more than a                               year. Even the Saudis need that cash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;                              If Egypt's economy doesn't stabilize soon,  the IMF                              will soon come knocking on its  door. And what will                              it demand? Economic  reform to promote growth, of                              course, which  means what? A devaluation of Egypt's                               currency, possibly? The reduction of subsidies? The                               privatization of industries? Anything to get the                               fiscal house in order and generate new economic                               growth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt; just had another story from luxor. on how hassle is ruining one man's life,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt;  this hassle is another reason tourists do not come here to Egypt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"G"  you can put your story on the comments,  then I will give it a page, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"&gt;&lt;span class="post-labels"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/search/label/judges%20in%20luxor" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="date-outer"&gt;&lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;Monday, May 23, 2011&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt;&lt;div class="post-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="post hentry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549" name="8028630321221087633"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/sheikh-mohamed-tyeb.html"&gt;sheikh MOHAMED TYEB&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8028630321221087633"&gt;EVERYTIME I START TO WRITE MY STORY ,,ON THIS THE CORRUPT MOHAMED TYEB  ,,, MAKES ME ANGRY AT WHAT HE DID TO ME,  WHAT RIGHT HAS HE TO TAKE ALL  THE CASES OUT OF THE CRIMINAL COURT HERE IN LUXOR WITH A PROMISE OF  GETTING ME MY MONEY BACK, AFTER THE SIGNING HE REFUSES TO PAY, HE IS  PROTECTING A KNOWN DRUG ADDICT ALCOHOLIC AND SWINDLER, HE IS ALSO  PROTECTING A LAWYER WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF FORGERY, AND NOW I FIND  MY EMBASSY WILL NOT INTERVENE EVEN THOUGH THERE IS AN ATTEMPTED MURDER  CHARGE WAITING TO GO IN THE COURT, SO THE GLOVES ARE OFF SHEIKH MOHAMED,  WHO IS THIS SHEIKH MOHAMED EL TYEB , HE IS THE ELDEST OF THE TYEB  DOMAIN HIS SHEIKDOM IS THE MAFIA COUNTRY KNOWN AS THE WEST BANK OF  LUXOR. HE IS IT SEEMS THE HEAD OF THE MAFIA, MOST OF TYEB FAMILY ARE IN  THE TOURIST INDUSTRY, AND AS ONE WOULD THINK THEY WOULD NOT WHAT THIS  KIND OF SHIT FLOATING ABOUT ON THE NET, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Al-Azhar  in Cairo, CERTAINLY DID NOT BACK IN 2009 WHEN HE PROMISED AN END TO MY  PROBLEM, MAKE IT BAD FOR ISLAM IS WHAT HE SAID, TOLD HIS BROTHER MOHAMED  TO BE STRONG IN DEALING WITH MY CASE, IT WAS PLAIN TO SEE MOHAMED DID  NOT WANT JUSTICE FOR A CHRISTIAN, HE HIMSELF SHOUTED OUT VERBAL ABUSE AT  MY LAWYER AND TRANSLATOR, WHO IN TURN REFUSED TO COME WITH ME TO THE  HOME OF TYEB IN GURNA, BACK TO MOHAMED TYEB BACK IN 2008 THEY HAD LOCAL  ELECTIONS, STRANGE ENOUGH TWO OF MY PALS, THE LAWYER MUSTAFA ATEA AND  THE OWNER OF RHAMA TOURS METHAT, STAYED THE COURSE OF THE RUN UP IT MUST  HAVE COST THEM A FORTUNE IN BANNERS AND SO ON, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE  SHEIKH APPEARS ON THE BANNERS,AND HIS MAFIA UNDERLINGS DECIDE NOT TO  RUN FOR OFFICE. ANY WAY THE RACE WAS WON AS SOON AS MOHAMED DECIDED TO  RUN FOR OFFICE AFTER ALL WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS WOULD VOTE AGAINST THE  HEAD OF THE SHEIKHS HERE IN LUXOR. NOW WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO GO FOR  OFFICE THAT ALREADY HAD SO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER HIS PEOPLE. AS THE TIME  UNFOLDS IT BECOMES CLEAR OUR FRIEND SHEIKH TYEB WANTS TO BE IN THE  CORRUPTION LEAGUE, WITH DR SAMIR FARAQ, SIGNING PAPERS FOR SHEIHKS AND  ELDERS WHO WANTED TO IMPROVE THE LIFE STYLE OF THEIR VILIAGES.AND MOST  IMPORTANT THEIR OWN LIFESTYLES. NEW CARS WERE APPEARING IN FRONT OF THE  NEW COUNCIL OFFICES IN AWAMEIA, LOTS OF KISSING THE SHEIKHS HAND WAS  GOING ON AS MONEY WAS PASSED AROUND LIKE CONFETTI, OFTEN I SAT IN THE  SHEIKHS OFFICE, HOPING FOR AN ANSWER ON MY CASE, WHILE THESE ELDERS  BEGGED FOR MONEY , IE ELECTRIC STREET LIGHTS, BRIDGES OVER CANALS ETC  ETC, ONE HUGE ARGUMENT I OVER HEARD IN THE COFFEE SHOP WAS ABOUT WHY ONE  SHEIKH GETS 1 MILLION FOR A BRIDGE AND HE GETS ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TO  DO A MUCH MORE NEEDED ONE, THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY JEALOUS OF EACH OTHER  AND SHOUT OUT THEIR GRIEVANCES IN PUBLIC, SO NOW THE QUESTION IS SEEING  SHEIKH MOHAMED IS THE ELDER BROTHER OF THE GRAND MUFTI, IS HE BEYOND THE  JUSTICE SYSTEM, OR ARE THE POWERS THAT BE AFRAID OF OVERTURNING THE  ROTTEN APPLE CART, OR EVEN LOOKING IN THE APPLE CART TO WEED OUT THE  MAGGOTS.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="post hentry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549" name="7749916527382460647"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-muslim-drig-addict.html"&gt;ONE  MUSLIM DRUG ADDICT&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7749916527382460647"&gt;ALL THIS  FOR ONE MUSLIM DRUG ADDICT,  MOHAMED ACHMED MOHAMED AWAD,&lt;br /&gt;MOST OF &lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Ahmed  el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar  FAMILY IS IN THE TOURIST  TRADE IE TOUR OPERATORS,  TOUR GUIDES  FACTORY AND HOTEL OWNERS,&lt;br /&gt;AND  YET  SHEIHK MOHAMED THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY IS A KNOWN INFIDEL HATER,  MUSLIMS HAVE NO INTEREST IN ANYTHING BUT THE KORAN. THEY IF LET BE WOULD  DESTROY ALL OF THE ANCIENT ARTIFACTS ETC,  I AM SURE IF LET BE THEY  WOULD BUILD A MOSQUE ON THE PYRAMIDS .  AND IF ISLAM RULES HERE IN EGYPT  ALL HIS FAMILY WILL SUFER, BUT&amp;nbsp; S M T,  DOES NOT CARE, HE PROTECTS  MUSLIMS LIKE MOHAMED AWAD AND HIS LAWYER MUSTAFA ATEA, THE FORGER,&lt;br /&gt;BUT MOHAMED HAS PUT MOST OF HIS MONEY IN THE TOURIST TRADE COS HE THINKS  THAT'S THE PLACE TO MAKE MONEY,MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2988 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-police-corruption tag-luxor-egypt tag-egypts-corruption tag-british-embassy-cairo tag-hosni-mubarak tag-west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt tag-egypts-judges" id="post-2988"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/egypt-sentences-policeman-to-die-for-protest-deaths/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Egypt sentences policeman to die for protest deaths"&gt;Egypt sentences policeman to die for protest deaths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/egypt-sentences-policeman-to-die-for-protest-deaths/#respond" title="Comment on Egypt sentences policeman to die for protest deaths"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2988&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;ANOTHER CASE THAT STINKS OF THE OLD REGIME,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div id="articleInfo"&gt;CAIRO | Sun May 22, 2011 10:46am EDT&lt;/div&gt;CAIRO  May 22 (Reuters) – An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a police  officer to death in absentia on Sunday for killing protesters during  demonstrations that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, a judicial source  said on Sunday. The source said Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Monem was  convicted of killing 20 protesters on Jan. 28, one of the most violent  days of the 18-day uprising that unseated Mubarak on Feb. 11. The court  referred the case to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s religious authority who  must approve all death sentences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The sentence against Abdel-Monem, who has evaded capture, is scheduled to be confirmed on June 26 after the Mufti’s approval.&lt;/span&gt; (Writing by Sarah Mikhail)&lt;/h4&gt;WHO IS THE GRAND MUFTI,,Top Egyptian cleric:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;cite&gt; Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar,&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h5&gt;THIS IS THE MAN WHO HAS THE JOB OF WHAT,&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h4&gt;IN MY CASE  HE DID NOTHING   JUST GAVE THE JOB TO HIS BROTHER MOHAMED   AND HIS BROTHER SHEIHK MOHAMED TYEB IS A KNOWN HATER OF CHRISTIANS, JUST  LIKE THE KORAN TELLS HIM TO BE, NOW IF THIS POLICEMAN IS A MUSLIM  AND”  IF THEY CAN GET  HIM ALIVE”&lt;/h4&gt;ALL HE HAS TO DO UNDER ISLAMIC LAW IS SAY THE FOLLOWING WORDS ” I THOUGHT THEY WERE CHRISTIANS”&lt;br /&gt;JUST LIKE MOHAMED AWAD  SAID IN 2006 ON WHY  SHOULD HE PAY ME BACK&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF THIS COURT CAN PASS SENTENCE  IN ABSENCE,(&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Abdel-Monem, who has evaded capture&lt;/span&gt;)   ON A GUY THEY&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; CLAIM&lt;/span&gt;  KILLED JUST 20 PROTESTERS,  WHY CAN’T THEY DO THE SAME WITH  MUBARAK   AND HIS CRONIES  WHO KILLED  850   + 6000 WOUNDED,  AFTER ALL BEING A  POLICEMAN HE WAS ACTING ON ORDERS,,,  WHO’S ORDERS”&lt;br /&gt;AND HOW CAN  THEY PASS SENTENCE ON A GUY WHO HAS NOT HAD A SAY IN HIS PROSECUTION  ,   WHO IS IT THAT SAYS HE KILLED 20 PEOPLE ,Abdel-Monem IS JUST ANOTHER  ONE OF MUBARAKS SCAPE GOATS I FEAR,no prizes for anyone guessing why  this killer is on the run,  or how long he would stay alive in prison,  my bet is he will be killed on sight, because  he will name who GAVE THE  ORDERS,&lt;br /&gt;WHAT’S WITH THE DATE OF 26/6/2011,    ADLY HAS HIS CASE  REFEREED  TO THIS DATE NOW  THIS CASE,  COULD BE SOMETHING TO DO WITH  THE MOON/  JUST WONDERING AS I HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS,,     I  WONDER WHAT’S NEXT  CAN NEVER TELL IN THIS CORRUPT COUNTRY,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;A new beginning for the Egyptians,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2994" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220043.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the  noise machine, is here to drown out the noise of the bikers doing  wheelies and all that tyre burning on the new square here in Luxor city  the cultural centre of the world,&lt;br /&gt;here is where the new democracy  is taking place   a democracy Egyptian style,  no law,   no peace and  quiet &amp;nbsp; place, where the youth have found freedom  and fuck everybody  else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2992" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220039.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2993" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5220041.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/police-corruption/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in police corruption"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-judges/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2979 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-police-corruption tag-dr-samir-faraq tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypts-corruption tag-egypts-judges tag-luxor-egypt tag-west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt" id="post-2979"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/a-simple-case-of-being-swindled/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to A SIMPLE CASE OF BEING SWINDLED."&gt;A SIMPLE CASE OF BEING SWINDLED.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/a-simple-case-of-being-swindled/#respond" title="Comment on A SIMPLE CASE OF BEING SWINDLED."&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2979&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;MAY  3RD 2006  I WALKED INTO THE  TOURIST POLICE OFFICE   TO REPORT A SIMPLE  CASE OF A SWINDLE  , THE POLICE OFFICE WAS THEN  SITUATED BETWEEN THE     WINTER PALACE HOTEL AND THE PHAROES BIRTH HOUSE IN LUXOR TEMPLE,   LITTLE DID I KNOW ONE SHIT HOLE WOULD BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER IN 2010,&lt;br /&gt;THIS WAS THE POLICE ELITE  DETECTIVES OFFICE ,  CALLED THEMSELVES THE LUXOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION  DETECTIVE TEAM,and yes thats&amp;nbsp; L  C I D.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_2867"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="840" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130019.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=840&amp;amp;h=840" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;view from the cesspit to the winter palace hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;NEITHER DID I KNOW HOW MANY  PEOPLE WOULD GET OR GET THEMSELVES INVOLVED  IN CORRUPTION,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_2867"&gt;ONE  DRUG ADDICT AND HIS LAWYER HAVE INVOLVED!  SO MANY CORRUPT PEOPLE&lt;br /&gt;FIRST   THEY INVOLVED 6 PROSECUTION JUDGES,  THESE JUST MEN   GOT THEMSELVES   INVOLVED BY ACCEPTING  AN INVITE TO MY HOME   FOR A FREE MEAL  IN 2005  (OUT OF MY POCKET)  BY  THE &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;THEN&lt;/span&gt; MY LAWYER MUSTAFA ATEA,  THESE  ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO SIGN YOUR LAND PAPERS, I was told.&lt;br /&gt;THE  POLICE ON THE FIRST REPORT OF THE SWINDLE   DID NOT MAKE ANY  STATEMENTS,  MUSTAFA  AND  MOHAMED  GAVE THEM A HANDSOME REWARD  NOT  TOO,  THE NEXT DAY AFTER FINDING  MUSTAFA AND MOHAMED WHERE IN THIS  SWINDLE I MADE A  STATEMENT TO THE POLICE,  THE STATEMENT WAS TRANSLATED  INTO ARABIC  BUT NOT WORD FOR WORD,    MUSTAFA   WAS LAWYER FOR BOTH  PARTIES,  BUT NEVER IN THE 5 YEARS  WAS THIS  OFFENCE BROUGHT UP ,, BY  MY NEW LAWYERS OR THE JUSTICE SYSTEM,&lt;br /&gt;ALL MY lawyers  WANTED WAS  MY MONEY,   THEY KEPT SAYING THINGS LIKE WE ARE WINNING,  THEY KNEW I  HAD NO CHANCE OF WINNING  THEY ALSO AS CHRISTIANS  HAD NO SAY IN THIS  COURT  IF THEY MADE IT BAD FOR A MUSLIM THEY WOULD SOON BE OUT  OF  BUSINESS  .&lt;br /&gt;JUDGE SHADDY WAS THE ONLY HONEST ONE ( HONEST AS HE  WAS NOT A GOOD LIAR)  , ON THE FIRST HEARING   I WALKED IN HIS ROOM  I  ASKED IF HE ENJOYED THE MEAL IN MY HOME,  NEVER BEEN TO YOUR HOTEL HE  SAID, HE ALSO TOLD  MY NEW LAWYER ,  I do not like that man,   AND FROM  THAT DAY  THEY THE JUDGES  SET OUT TO DISCRIMINATE ME,&lt;br /&gt;I MADE A  COMPLAINT TO THE HEAD OF  DISTRICT JUDGES HASSAN GAMAL,  HE TOLD ME I  WAS A LIAR  WHEN I MADE A VERBAL DATE MISTAKE  SAID 2005  INSTEAD OF  2006.&lt;br /&gt;THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO DROP THE ARSON CASE  AGAINST ME  AND MY WIFE,   MOHAMED AWAD HAD SAID TWO MANY LIES IN HIS STATEMENT, ONE  BEING HE WAS IN lUXOR POLICE STATION   ON THE EAST BANK, THE NEXT PAGE  OF HIS  STATEMENT SAYS HE SAW MY WIFE MAKE A FIRE.   THIS GUY CAN SEE  THROUGH TREES AND BUILDINGS FROM 4 MILES AWAY?? THERE WAS SEVERAL  CONFLICTING ITEMS IN HIS AND HIS BROTHERS STATEMENTS,  THE BROTHER WAS  THE ONLY OTHER PERSON IN THE HOTEL  THAT NIGHT,  BUT NO  PROSECUTION   WAS MADE ON  ADVICE FROM THE TOURIST POLICE,&lt;br /&gt;MY  CASE WAS MADE  VERY COMPLICATED, THESE JUST MEN IN THIS LUXOR COURT, JUST TURNED ALL  THE CASES AS IF I WAS THE  BAD ONE  3  ASSAULTS WHERE TURNED AGAINST ME   2 OF WHICH I HAD A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE,   THE CASE OF THE ATTACK ON MY  WIFE,  THE ATTACKER GOT ONE MONTH IN JAIL  I FOR PROTECTING HER GOT TWO  WEEKS, THEY SAID I HIT THE ATTACKER IN THE  TESTICLES, SEEMS THAT IS NOT  ALLOWED IN ISLAMIC LAW,  &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;  I DID NOT KNOW A MUSLIMS BOLLOCKS WAS HIDDEN  ON HIS CHIN UNDER HIS  BEARD,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_1922.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_1922.jpg?w=222" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;THIS  BOLLOCKS BEARD  SERVED ONE DAY IN JAIL  DID NOT LIKE THE TORMENTS AND  sheihk mohamed tyeb got him out while they lodged appeals,   more on  bollock face ,in my story,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;I will give a full list of names after i see my lawyer  &lt;/span&gt; . includes Dr Zahi Hawass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Egypt sentences policeman to die for protest deaths&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div id="articleInfo"&gt;CAIRO | Sun May 22, 2011 10:46am EDT&lt;/div&gt;CAIRO  May 22 (Reuters) – An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a police  officer to death in absentia on Sunday for killing protesters during  demonstrations that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, a judicial source  said on Sunday. The source said Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Monem was  convicted of killing 20 protesters on Jan. 28, one of the most violent  days of the 18-day uprising that unseated Mubarak on Feb. 11. The court  referred the case to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s religious authority who  must approve all death sentences.&lt;br /&gt;The sentence against  Abdel-Monem, who has evaded capture, is scheduled to be confirmed on  June 26 after the Mufti’s approval. (Writing by Sarah Mikhail)&lt;br /&gt;no  prizes for anyone guessing why this killer is on the run,  or how long  he would stay alive in prison, my bet is he will be killed on sight,  because  he will name who his commander is,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/police-corruption/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in police corruption"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2973 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb tag-dr-samir-faraq tag-egypts-sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb tag-egypts-corruption tag-luxor-egypt tag-west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt" id="post-2973"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/ahmed-el-tayeb-the-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al-azhar/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar"&gt;Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/ahmed-el-tayeb-the-grand-sheik-of-cairos-al-azhar/#respond" title="Comment on Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 21, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2973&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1 id="yn-title"&gt;Top Egyptian cleric:&lt;cite&gt; Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar,&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Mubarak deserves mercy,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;YOUR  BROTHER MOHAMED  DID NOT SAY THAT  IN MY CASE   PROFESSOR ACHMED &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;YOU  ARE SIDING WITH THE CROOKS AGAIN,,  FIRST IN JUNE  2006 YOU SIDE WITH  THE DRUG ADDICT AND ALCOHOLIC SWINDLER   MOHAMED ACHMED AWAD   AND HIS  LAWYER   THE FRAUDSTER  MUSTAFA ATEA,   NOW YOU WANT THE  CORRUPT HOSNI  MUBARAK TO GO FREE,&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yn-story-related-media"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yn-story-main-media"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/FILE---Sunday-Jan-2-2011-file-photo-Ahmed-el-Tayeb/photo//110521/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1//s:/ap/20110521/ap_on_re_eu/egypt_cleric_mubarak"&gt; &lt;img alt="Ahmed el Tayeb" height="333" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110521/capt.d4fca4620282485787cdf1dd3cd6704e-a07b0b44f126464aa319c831288091e1-0.jpg?x=213&amp;amp;y=333&amp;amp;xc=1&amp;amp;yc=1&amp;amp;wc=262&amp;amp;hc=409&amp;amp;q=85&amp;amp;sig=7bX8wdLD8UF7Vuvy1wZA0A--" width="213" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;cite&gt;,&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;abbr title="2011-05-21T10:57:44-0700"&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BERLIN  – Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim cleric says the country’s former president  Hosni Mubarak should be granted mercy instead of facing prosecution, a  German newspaper reported Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand  sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar institution, was quoted by German weekly  Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’s Sunday edition as saying that  “mercy should prevail over justice” given Mubarak’s achievements and his  poor health.&lt;br /&gt;Representatives of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent  theological institute of Sunni Islam, in Cairo could not be reached to  confirm the comments.&lt;br /&gt;“One should consider that Mubarak has done a  lot for Egypt over a long time. He’s an old and sick man. Mercy should  prevail over justice,” he was quoted as saying.&lt;br /&gt;The weekly, which  said it interviewed el-Tayeb in Egypt’s capital, further quoted him as  saying that toppling Mubarak was an expression of the people’s desire  for change “which Al-Azhar supports.”&lt;br /&gt;El-Tayeb also voiced  concern in light of the recent clashes between Copts and Muslims in  Cairo, saying those were directed “from interested groups outside” the  country, accusing “the West of seeking to foment chaos in Egypt.”&lt;br /&gt;“Muslims  and Christians have lived peacefully together since Islam’s  introduction 1,400 years ago,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.&lt;br /&gt;This  critical situation in the country in the wake of Mubarak’s demise, he  was further quoted as saying, “could force the military to remain in  power.”&lt;br /&gt;The French-educated el-Tayeb was appointed to his post  last year by Mubarak. He had been a member of Mubarak’s ruling party but  left it after public criticism that the head of Al-Azhar shouldn’t also  be in politics.&lt;br /&gt;During the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak,  el-Tayeb condemned the sit-in in Tahrir square after Mubarak promised  concessions. He said the continued protests were not religiously  condoned.&lt;br /&gt;He is considered a moderate cleric, is an expert in  Islamic philosophy and issues of faith, and has criticized hardline  Islamists.&lt;br /&gt;The 82-year-old Mubarak has been held in custody since  last month on charges that include misuse of power and ordering attacks  against protesters in the 18-day uprising that drove him from power in  February.&lt;br /&gt;His 70-year-old wife, Suzanne, was released this week  after she relinquished assets and property valued at some $4 million, a  move aimed at settling corruption allegations against her, though it was  unclear whether she might still face trial.&lt;br /&gt;Bringing Mubarak to  trial has become a rallying point for protesters, who turned out in  Tahrir Square by the hundreds Friday to express their frustration at the  failure by the military council, which currently rules the country, to  bring about more democratic change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb"&gt;Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-samir-faraq/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr Samir Faraq&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb/" rel="tag"&gt;Egypt's Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/west-bank-hotel-luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;West bank Hotel Luxor Egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2967 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-police-corruption tag-dr-samir-faraq tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypts-police-brutality tag-egypts-judges tag-el-adly tag-hosni-mubarak" id="post-2967"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/trial-of-egypts-former-security-chief-postponed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Trial of Egypt’s former security chief postponed"&gt;Trial of Egypt’s former security chief postponed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/trial-of-egypts-former-security-chief-postponed/#respond" title="Comment on Trial of Egypt’s former security chief postponed"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 21, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2967&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;ok   been there done that,&lt;/h1&gt;what they did in that court was nothing new for Egypt’s court system,MY SIMPLE CASE ON A SWINDLE HAS TAKEN 5 YEA&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;R&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;S.CLICK HERE TO READ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.   most  judges here  are from wealthy homes  and their seat has been  bought.  these men  have been brought up in corruption  and do not know  the difference between right and wrong;they cannot cope with more than  one problem  does their head in;  judge shaddy  on hearing the first  of  my case,  was actually watching road runner on his laptop  and we had  to wait for it to finish before the case proceeded;  the lawyer I took  to court for swindling me out of my home and money  also had a friend in   judge SHADDY,  another judge  told me to” SHUT THE FUCK UP”  ,,WHAT  MOVIE ARE WE MAKING TODAY I ASKED,  GOOD JOB THE POLICE HAVE NOTHING TO  DO WITH THE ONGOINGS  OR THE POOR BUGGERS WILL ALL DIE IN JAIL. ,       the ANGRY  relatives had nothing to do with the postponement  of the  case,,,,,,  ALL THE LAWYERS WANTED WAS MORE TIME  TO FUCK THE CASE UP.,&lt;br /&gt;try ADLY  on one case  hang him,,, then just say he was also corrupt ,CANT HANG THE MAN TWICE,&lt;br /&gt;CAIRO  – An Egyptian judge on Saturday postponed the trial of the country’s  former interior minister and four of his top aides in the deadly  shooting of protesters after chaos broke out in the courtroom, with  families of the victims shouting “Butcher! Butcher!” at the defendants.&lt;br /&gt;Habib  el-Adly is the highest-ranking former regime official to be brought to  trial so far in the killings of 846 protesters and the injury of  thousands of others during the uprising that forced ex-president Hosni  Mubarak to step down on Feb. 11. If convicted, el-Adly could face the  death penalty.&lt;br /&gt;Outside the heavily guarded courtroom north of  Cairo, families of the victims held up pictures of their dead relatives  and posters calling for the death penalty. They pushed down security  barricades in their rush to enter the courtroom. Once inside, the  families shouted “Butcher!” at el-Adly.&lt;br /&gt;The chaos prompted the  judge to postpone the trial to June 26. Plaintiffs’ lawyers presented a  request to change the judge because of what they said was his friendship  with el-Adly.&lt;br /&gt;El-Adly served as Mubarak’s interior minister for  13 years, a time during which his 500,000-strong security forces were  blamed for some of the worst human rights violations Egypt had seen in  decades. Anger over police brutality, particularly by members of the  notorious state security agency, was a main motive for the uprising.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier,  El-Adly was convicted of money laundering and corruption charges and  sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined about $2.5 million. He also  faces a third trial on corruption charges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/police-corruption/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in police corruption"&gt;police corruption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-samir-faraq/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr Samir Faraq&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-zahi-hawass/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr. Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-police-brutality/" rel="tag"&gt;egypt's police brutality&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-judges/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts judges&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/el-adly/" rel="tag"&gt;el-Adly.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hosni-mubarak/" rel="tag"&gt;Hosni mubarak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2945 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-city tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypt-far-from-justice tag-egypt-nile-pollution tag-egypts-corruption tag-luxor-egypt tag-mohamed-lofty tag-muslims" id="post-2945"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/amnesty-egypt-far-from-justice-over-unrest-that-killed-840/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Mohamed Lofty,Amnesty: Egypt far from justice over unrest that killed 840"&gt;Mohamed Lofty,Amnesty: Egypt far from justice over unrest that killed 840&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/amnesty-egypt-far-from-justice-over-unrest-that-killed-840/#respond" title="Comment on Mohamed Lofty,Amnesty: Egypt far from justice over unrest that killed 840"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 19, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2945&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;   its also far from justice in my case,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;corruption  was the order of the day pre 25.1.2011..  and its getting to look like  its not going to go away.  all they are doing is looking for easy  targets to blame all the atrocities on  , scapegoats , those who had a  firm belief  the regime was her to stay,   judges   most who were put in  their seats by  rich parents, as one blogger said in 2007, and got  himself put in jail. police  officers have just been moved around like  piles of rubbish from one district to another.  it also seems their  little black books have been made to do a disappearing act,   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lots  of criminal files have  vanished  into thin air,  so how are those law  abiding justice seeking men  going to get  Justice done in this country  where the old regime  &lt;b&gt;still are in command.  its OK moving the  head  and getting it to talk, they should have kept it on the body, as  that’s where all the injustice lays.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Luxor  District for instance  only 2 men have been arrested on corruption  charges  Dr Samir Faraq and his secretary,  it seems the army are quite  happy the way things are going here,  they do not want to open any more  Pandora boxes for fear of reprisals from the Muslim community, last  Sunday i saw and heard with my own eyes and ears how things work here in  the council chambers, twenty or so locals  who had grievances over land  etc, where given a lecture by one of luxor main speakers as to how this  the local council has no money to pay them,  one by one all these  people who came in with smiling faces .  i watched as frowns took over  some threw their papers down in disgust and left the meeting,then on the  other end of the table was  Brigadier |Mohamed and 4 Muslim guys, this  little group of people moved into  another office  when the arguments  started to fly from the mouths of the downcast , me i had no idea why I  was  taken in this room,  only that I thought the Brigadier had some  good news for me  after 15 days of his lies, not even on this day did  the brigadier have anything to say   ,&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2954" height="315" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150004.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=315" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  I waited then outside  the room where the brigadier and his salifi guys  had over an hours discussion , as they came out of the room with broad  smiles on faces  I barged into what is Achmed Agag office,  but the  Brigadier had gone no doubt through the back door to avoid a  confrontation with me as to the two lies he said, first lie in front of  The new guvorner of Luxor,”  &lt;i&gt;will go see the sheikh tonight  and  Phone you at 9.00 in the morning,”  12 days later I managed  to get the   brig on his mobile, the brig  has a tendency two switch unwanted calls  off, so I used my other mobile and caught him off guard,  “meet me at  15.00   we will go to the police and make charges, “  i knew there and  then I was being fobbed off,  the police do not work at 3.oo in the  afternoon,   but hoping the general had some kind of power , I thought  maybe he can get the corrupt ones  to hear my new statements,  but here i  was 3 three days later still hoping the army was going to do as they  promised the youth of the revolution, ” we will stop the corruption and  bring the corrupt to justice”,,,, but its seems that Sheihk Mohamad  Tyeb’s door is firmly closed to me and the powers that be,  on   seeing  Achmed Agag At his desk I vented my furry on him,  he then handed me the  office phone,  ,  How can I help said a voice on the end of the line,     this was Ehab Gaddis the British consulate her in Luxor, come to my  office at 9.00 on Wednesday,  why cant I come now, and as usual the  answer was I am in Cairo, the most favourite of sayings if one does not  want to see someone to bide time to give  answers,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all  very well you guys  reading my posts, this problem is over 6 years old,   the revolution is almost 4 months old, and I am back to square one  where I still need help in my case, &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; but from a simple   swindling case, this has turned into a nightmare of corruption  ,attempted murder ,blackmail , forgery,  two terms  of jail sentences,  and all because two  Muslims decide they do not want to give a Christian  his rights.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;(CNN)&lt;/b&gt;  — At least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during  the Egyptian revolution earlier this year as then-President Hosni  Mubarak clung to power through violence and intimidation, Amnesty  International said in a report Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;Though protesters  ultimately ousted Mubarak, Egyptian leaders have a lot of work to do to  compensate victims’ families and restore citizens’ faith in the  government, the report said.&lt;br /&gt;“The Egyptian authorities have much  to do to rebuild trust in public institutions, which have been seen as  tools of repression and obstacles to justice,” the report said.&lt;br /&gt;“They  must start by overhauling laws that allowed violations to happen and  take steps to guarantee that such abuses will not be repeated.”&lt;br /&gt;Egyptian government officials declined CNN’s request for comment about the report.&lt;br /&gt;Amnesty  International said it sent a team to Egypt, which spent more than two  months conducting interviews for the 120-page report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hundreds of people who suffered grievous abuses are still waiting to receive justice for what happened to them&lt;br /&gt;–Amnesty International&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Complaints about corruption, low wages and rigged elections sparked protesters to hit the streets of Cairo in late January.&lt;br /&gt;In just 18 days, protesters were able to end Mubarak’s 30-year rule.&lt;br /&gt;But despite his ouster, many are still suffering, the report said.&lt;br /&gt;“Many  hundreds of people who suffered grievous abuses during this period are  still waiting to receive justice for what happened to them,” Amnesty  International said.&lt;br /&gt;The organization said it found “damning” evidence that Egyptian security forces used excessive force to disperse protesters.&lt;br /&gt;Many  died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One field hospital told  Amnesty International that it documented 300 cases of people losing  sight because of shotgun wounds to their eyes.&lt;br /&gt;There were  numerous cases of torture of protesters who were detained, according to  the report. These cases included beatings with sticks or whips, electric  shocks and threats of rape.&lt;br /&gt;At least 189 prisoners died during the protests, the group said, calling for an investigation.&lt;br /&gt;Egyptian authorities have detained Mubarak and his two sons in connection with the deaths of protesters.&lt;br /&gt;Former  Interior Minister Habib El Adly was handed a 12-year prison sentence  for corruption and he will face a separate trial Saturday for his  alleged role in the killings. And prosecutors are continuing to  investigate other high-ranking members of the deposed government.&lt;br /&gt;But Amnesty said more should be done.&lt;br /&gt;“Authorities’  response to victims must go much further than this,” the group said.  “That means giving them the truth about what happened, providing them  with appropriate reparation and making sure that all those responsible  are brought to justice.”&lt;br /&gt;Mohamed Lofty, an Egypt researcher with Amnesty International, said the organization was trying to get the truth out.&lt;br /&gt;“We  have found that abuses and violations of human rights has continued in a  very bad manner even after Mubarak left,” Lofty said Thursday. “It is  very important to reveal the truth about what happened.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2951" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5180004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2951" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5180004.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;and now we can all go get some shit pills&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-city/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor city"&gt;luxor city&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-zahi-hawass/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr. Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypt-far-from-justice/" rel="tag"&gt;Egypt far from justice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypt-nile-pollution/" rel="tag"&gt;egypt nile pollution&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/mohamed-lofty/" rel="tag"&gt;Mohamed Lofty&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/muslims/" rel="tag"&gt;muslims&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2941 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-british-embassy-cairo tag-dominic-asquith tag-egypts-army tag-hosni-mubarak tag-human-shit tag-suzanne-mubarak" id="post-2941"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/egypts-military-rulers-deny-mubarak-amnesty-plans/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Egypt’s military rulers deny Mubarak amnesty plans."&gt;Egypt’s military rulers deny Mubarak amnesty plans.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/egypts-military-rulers-deny-mubarak-amnesty-plans/#respond" title="Comment on Egypt’s military rulers deny Mubarak amnesty plans."&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 18, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2941&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;oooooooooh, ITS A LOAD OF CRAP&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5200001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5200001.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;the sign that sums up Luxor&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2960" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5190001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2960" height="840" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5190001.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=840" title="P5190001" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;TEMPLE OF LUXOR,  THE RAMSES111 PYLON TOILET.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2961" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5190009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2961" height="476" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5190009.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=476" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;HORSE SHIT AND THE NUT MAN&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2958" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6385.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2958" height="419" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6385.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=419" title="IMG_6385" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;shit in a fag tray, and this one really stinks, nothing like babby shit to make a humdinger of a smell,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;first part of this story is what happened yesterday 17 May.&lt;br /&gt;this  is a ca ca.(lump  of shit)   not just a ca ca  but a  policemans ca ca.   here on the lower path of the promenade  where tourists  have to  clamber on board their once in a lifetime Nile cruise boats  there are  some gardens with  some  shrubs  flowers  a few birds and wild life .  you can see these on  my blog  &lt;a href="http://www.myegyptblog.wordpress.com/"&gt;myegyptblog&lt;/a&gt;   all very nice you may say, and what a nice place to spend ones days of  retirement.  but while walking along  on these hot days one gets this  wonderful aroma of human ca ca , (wonderful for the flies that is)&lt;br /&gt;This day  I was here on the walk  for a reason. not sure if its of interest to anyone  , &lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt; my story on being swindled is on  this blog, its sure not of any interest to anyone here in egypt  including my embassy,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5913.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2942" height="419" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5913.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=419" title="IMG_5913" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  had just been in the Council office for 3 hours   after 3 months of  waiting  and promises  on someone to solve my problems, 18 days ago I  got to see the new Guvorner of luxor, who gave my problem to the army  Brigadier Mohamed  while in the same chamber Ie  the guvs office,   brigadier said he was going to see the Sheikh Mohamed Tyeb.  that  evening  and would phone me at 9.00 the next day  with the outcome. my  tale of woe is very complicated, and seems much to complicated for the  simple minds of people who shoot guns for a living,   my  cases where  taken out of the criminal court here in Luxor due to the massif  corruption   with Judges police and lawyers.  on  a promise the Sheihk  would put and end to my problems.&lt;br /&gt;no need to keep going over my  story as it all on the blogs,   so here i was on the lower path of the  prom feeling very dissatisfied with what seems another corrupt army  officer,  who after three months  tells me to go see my embassy consular   Ehab Gaddis who has a consulate here in Luxor, and these are the  people who cannot even be bothered to answer my pleas for help.&lt;br /&gt;18th May,&lt;br /&gt;like  a good boy I was at the consulate dead on time,   Mr Gaddis  had his  secretary  to greet me and take me to the consulates office on the forth  floor ,  not long after Mr Gaddis arrived,  and asked how may I  help,,,,,     on that question alone    I knew this  was going to be  another  waste of my time,  this man has  or should i say,  should of  had  messages from the cairo embassy ie my web sites   or at least   messages to say  i had problems  getting my money from the sheihk,&lt;br /&gt;I  was in regular contact with  Ehab   until the attempted murder  on my  person last June. what happened at that last  meeting  was also e-mailed  to the right honourable Dominic Asquith british ambassador to Egypt,   and no one  from my embassy has even made contact with me.&lt;br /&gt;not to  worry.  I brought Mr Ehab Gaddis  up to date and  maybe they are now  going to do  some thing, but i am not putting much faith  in them  not  after what has happened over the past 6 years,&lt;br /&gt;back in the flat  i  get to read  the internet on how  this army is still lying to the  people.   maybe I am off the swings but sill on the roundabout&lt;br /&gt;several  times they have said nothing wrong with the old bugger.  but he is too  ill to go to jail,   must be kept in a hospital of his choice.&lt;br /&gt;this  or any other hospital in Egypt was good enough for him back in June  2001,  me  I cannot even get to see a doctor not seen a doctor since the   day of the attempted murder,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 id="yn-title"&gt;Egypt’s military rulers deny Mubarak amnesty plans&lt;/h1&gt;CAIRO  – Egypt’s military rulers denied local media reports they plan to grant  amnesty to deposed President Hosni Mubarak following a wave of popular  criticism and calls for new protests.&lt;br /&gt;The denial, issued late  Tuesday, followed unconfirmed reports that Mubarak would be pardoned in  return for an apology to the nation for any wrongdoing and would also  hand over his assets. The reports claimed the ousted leader would  release an audio recording appealing for amnesty.&lt;br /&gt;The statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said the country’s judiciary has the sole authority in Mubarak’s case.&lt;br /&gt;The  media reports sparked a wave of criticism and prompted calls for a  “Friday to Reject the apology,” rally in Tahrir Square. Several youth  groups warned that granting amnesty to Mubarak would spark a new  revolution in Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;Calls also spread on Facebook and Twitter  for rallies on May 27 under the banner, “I have not felt the change, I  am going back to Tahrir,” referring to the central Cairo square that was  the center of the protests that brought down Mubarak. They reflected  disappointment with the way the military council, which took over from  Mubarak, is running the country.&lt;br /&gt;Mubarak stepped down on Feb. 11  and transferred power to the council after 18 days of a popular  uprising. He has been in custody in a hospital since last month over  allegations of killings of protesters and corruption.&lt;br /&gt;Mubarak’s  70-year-old wife, Suzanne, was released on Tuesday after she  relinquished assets and property valued at some $4 million. The move  aimed to settle corruption allegations against her, but it was unclear  whether she still faces trial.&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Mubarak was hospitalized over  the weekend after she fainted and complained of chest pains during  interrogation. She had been expected to be transferred to a women’s  prison after medical treatment.&lt;br /&gt;Anti-corruption prosecutors have  claimed that Mubarak’s wife has millions in bank accounts in Egypt and  owns a villa where she and her husband lived. It is not clear how much  money the Mubaraks may have abroad. Some estimates range into the tens  of billions of dollars.&lt;br /&gt;Many Egyptians have criticized the ruling  military council for being reluctant to restore security while cracking  down violently on peaceful protests and sending thousands of civilians  to be tried by military courts.&lt;br /&gt;Most recently, a 17-year-old  youth was sentenced to death by a military tribunal on charges of  kidnapping and sexual assault of a young woman. The sentence was  condemned by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which called  it “deeply troubling” and called for it to be overturned.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile,  Egypt’s largest Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced it  had officially applied for political party status. The party will be  active starting June 17 unless the Committee for Political Parties  issues an objection.&lt;br /&gt;A top party official, Mohammed el-Katatni,  noted that 978 women and 93 Christians are now among the party’s  founders — an apparent attempt to show the group’s moderate stance  following previous assertions that women and Christians are not eligible  to run for the presidency because that would violate Islamic Sharia  law.&lt;br /&gt;The group also appointed Rafik Habib, a Coptic Christian, as deputy party leader.&lt;br /&gt;“The  presence of Christians among the party founders gives practical  evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood is meeting its promises and that  Christians are brothers and the nation’s partners,” it said in a  statement.&lt;br /&gt;The once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood said last month  that it would contest half the seats in Egypt’s parliamentary elections  in September, sparking fears among secular political forces of a  parliament dominated by Islamists.&lt;br /&gt;The group is well positioned  to win big in September. Having survived years of attempts by Mubarak’s  regime to suppress it, the Brotherhood is the country’s best organized  political force now that the ex-president’s ruling party has been  disbanded.&lt;br /&gt;we should also remember that   the power that be  are still the old regime, Hosni’s  power house,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Uncategorized"&gt;Uncategorized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/british-embassy-cairo/" rel="tag"&gt;British embassy Cairo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dominic-asquith/" rel="tag"&gt;Dominic Asquith&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-army/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts army&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hosni-mubarak/" rel="tag"&gt;Hosni mubarak&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/human-shit/" rel="tag"&gt;human shit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/suzanne-mubarak/" rel="tag"&gt;suzanne Mubarak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2926 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-egypt category-uncategorized tag-egypts-corruption tag-horses-in-egypt tag-luxor-egypt tag-nile-pollution tag-steam-ship-sudan tag-tourists-in-luxor" id="post-2926"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/2926/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Luxor Egypt. steam-ship-sudan"&gt;Luxor Egypt. steam-ship-sudan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/2926/#respond" title="Comment on Luxor Egypt. steam-ship-sudan"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 17, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2926&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2938" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_6007.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_6007" width="630" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUXOR TEMPLE  COLUMNS  AT SUSET 17th MAY 20011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="size-full wp-image-2932"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5945.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2934" height="149" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5945.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=149" title="IMG_5945" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2933" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5170016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2933" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5170016.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the  owners brochure say, The boat is regularly restored with a care to  reconciling its original ambiance with the accoutrements necessary to  respond to the needs of today’s traveller, no that's not steam coming  out of the stern this is a diesel ship not "ss" no mention of its nile  polluting engine or the roaches and rodents in the brochure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;see  the rates on this the most expensive of the nile cruisers, also its the  worst boat for polluting the nile  it needs a new engine  and a full  extermination  of its kitchen and bilges,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.steam-ship-sudan.com/en/prices-and-reservations.asp"&gt;http://www.steam-ship-sudan.com/en/prices-and-reservations.asp   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all  very well for  the rich  passengers to travel in style   as they have a  doctor on board so I am told. to see to your ailments, ie  pills for  diarrhoea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="Steam Ship Sudan" height="68" src="http://www.steam-ship-sudan.com/img/logo.gif" width="180" /&gt;Your message has correctly been sent.&lt;br /&gt;We wish to thank you for your interest about the Steam Ship Sudan,&lt;br /&gt;we will contact you within 24 hours.&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8553219411230405998&amp;amp;postID=7100351778163361549"&gt;Fermer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5893.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="421" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5893.jpg?w=514&amp;amp;h=421" title="IMG_5893" width="514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;today  we have a reconnaissance plane flying about I wonder if its taking  count of all the pollution . we have no other probs here ;; or do  we?looking at its single engine   mounted in the centre of the main  frame  I wonder why the engine on full throttle does not burn the tail  off&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5160002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2918" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5160002.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here  on the temple square roundabout tourists have to walk to get into  market street this horse has been standing in the blazing sun for hours  there is no shade for these poor animals not even on the cornish what  shade there is is taken by the taxi drivers and vehicles, next shop to  this and the horse piss is the walk by food outlet and the bread shop,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5160001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2919" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5160001.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all  very nice the sparrows get to eat crumbs the cobbles are stained with  horse piss and shit and the people manage to catch all kinds of  diseases, and its all free, its all free even for us the tourists, one  thing the brochures and the come to Egypt videos do not tell is about  all the freebies you can pick up from the Nile waters to the roaches  that scramble in and out of your rooms whether its on a cheap Nile  cruise to the more expensive rooms in the Winter Palace Hotel there are  also uninvited guests or shall we call them pets that visit the guest  rooms the geckos that shit on your walls also have a tendency to have  airborne diseases as do those rats and mice. so its not just the food  and swimming pools that cause your diarrhoea and tummy to turn. I see  lots of the tourist with anti bacteria hand cream that’s put on like its  a life saver the only way you are safe here in Egypt is if you wear a  respirator with its own air supply and you will also need a food drip,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2920" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5140015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2920" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5140015.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the picnickers toilet area&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Take  this area this is one of the green patches on the temple square here  the ladies can all huddle together some can have a piss without the  tourist seeing but all eat nuts and spit the shell out, then the next  lot of would be picnickers come along and do the same thing at one time  we had lady shell pickers to clean the grassy areas but now they just  clear the horse shit from the roads around the area,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5170040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2935" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5170040.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in  this grassy area one can see the dug out piss holes. the area does not  smell all that bad as the grass gets watered every 4 days,,” that’s  inundated  not pissed on”,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2927" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_56351.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2927" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_56351.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5635" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;when these grassy areas are inundated they make for a good mirror image photo. it also takes all the piss smell away&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2923" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120036.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2915" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2915" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150013.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;a  shocking piss area. WC NO 3,it may be here for a purpose but its not  very nice getting electrocuted three phase style normal electric is 240  V, this is 450 V. WATER IS A GOOD CONDUCTOR.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5150012.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;WC NO 4. THE BIRDS HAVE ALMOST GOT RID OF THE EVIDENCE BUT THE SMELL OF URINE IS AWEFULL&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;LUXOR TEMPLE AT SUNSET.&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5778.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2891" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5778.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5778" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2889" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5787.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2889" height="419" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5787.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=419" title="IMG_5787" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;AND  HERE WE HAVE THE VAGRANTS, YOU FUCK OFF, IN THE LOCAL DRESS, BAKSHEESH  IN GREEN. AND THE NICEST OF THE THREE IS EATING HIS SUGAR CANE THAT HE  HAS JUST STOLEN FROM A GUY .HIS FAVOURITE SAYING IS FUCK THE  TOURIST,THESE NICE BOYS HAVE BEEN PLAGUING THE AREA SINCE 28/1/2011.WHEN  THEY GOT PAID 20LE EACH FOR SMASHING UP THE SIGNS IN THE LUXOR RIOTS,  AND YES I HAVE PROOF OF THEIR ANTICS.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2890" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5781.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2890" height="655" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5781.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=655" title="IMG_5781" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;THE SUGAR CANE DELIVERY BOY, WILL NOT HAVE MUCH LEFT BY THE TIME HE GETS IT TO THE DRINKS SHOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2888" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5140003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2888" height="226" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5140003.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=226" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;HERE  I WAS JUST TAKEN A NICE PHOTO OF THE SUNSET THROUGH THE TEMPLE OF  LUXOR, WHEN I GOT FLASHED UNSURE WHETHER THIS GUY THOUGHT HE WAS  ALEXANDER THE GREAT BUT HIS PRICK WAS THE SIZE OF A PEANUT, SO REFRAINED  FROM TAKING HIS PHOTO. THEN HE DECIDED HE NEEDED A PISS AND THAT'S WHAT  HE WAS HERE FOR A PISS UNDER THE STAGE, IN ANOTHER WEEK OR SO THE  NATIVES WILL HAVE DISMANTLED ALL THE WOOD FROM THIS STAGE THEN WHERE  WILL THE NATIVES GO FOR A LATRINE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;this blog is not for the  faint hearted, but if you are thinking of coming to Egypt this is what  you will see unless you are blind then your sense of smell should take  over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5658.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2885" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5658.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5658" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5750.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2884" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5750.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5750" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-are-there-no-tourists.html"&gt;why are there no tourists.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/14/iran.acid.eyes/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn" title="A human rights group on Saturday urged Iranian authorities not to put acid in the eyes of a man found guilty of blinding a woman who scorned him."&gt;Rights group urges Iran not to blind woman’s attacker with acid. Iran and the true religion of peace,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2881" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2881" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5751.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5751" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;piss in a bottle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130044.jpg?w=300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130040.jpg?w=300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;It  seems we have no tourists in Luxor and after what I saw again today,,  its no wonder, those tourists who have braved to see Egypt will not come  here again after taking photos like I have,,,THE WHOLE PLACE STINKS NOT  JUST OF ANIMAL SHIT BUT OF HUMAN EXCREMENT.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;not feeling too  well today I just went for a short walk around Luxor temple this time of  day 17.30 I had time to get some shots of the sun setting through the  temple pillars. but first I had to pass all the human toilets. here in  full view of tourists the carriage drivers get rid of what’s in their  belly . just a few yards from the mosques and ancient places, the first  toilet is in the open,&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2848" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5627.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2848" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5627.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5627" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;toilet no 1,not far from abu hagag mosque AND WHERE THE TOURISTS DISEMBARK TO GO SEE THE TEMPLE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2848" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5627.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2848" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5627.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5627" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;toilet no 1, and the Roman ruins behind the wall,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5635.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2851" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5635.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5635" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abu Hagag is built on the temple of luxor, and it has many toilet and washing areas for the faithful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  Mosque of Abu Hagag in the Temple of Luxor. The Islamic mosque is  located over the First Court and adjoins the eastern wall of the Temple  of Luxor. It was built in medieval times above the walls of an ancient  Christian basilica located inside the temple courtyard. When the mosque  was erected, the derelict temple was already filled with a high mound of  soil and debris. That mound was later excavated, leaving the mosque and  its doorway standing high above the courtyard on the church’s  foundations. A new door and a stairway were built on the east side  (shown here). The mosque is dedicated to Abu’l Hagag, the Muslim saint  who reputedly converted Upper Egypt to Islam. The mud-brick minaret on  the right dates to the eighth century A.D., while the other minaret is  much later. To this day, the Muslims of Luxor celebrate the annual  festival of Abu’l Hagag with processions and boat-haulings that descend  directly from the ancient Festival of Opet connected with Luxor Temple.  the mosque had a convenient fire in 2005, UN money rebuilt it. they  claimed luxor district council turned the electric off . and the candles  set fire to the mosque did not know electricity was built into the  mosque &lt;b&gt;eighth century A.D.&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="top" alt="" src="https://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/TVE_TPP/0981_3.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2852" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5636.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2852" height="945" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5636.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=945" title="IMG_5636" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;this a larger mosque here is where most of the drivers go before prayer to wash and whatever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2854" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5110010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2854" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5110010.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;toilet  no 2, under the staging. this was built for Mrs Mubarak to listen to  the Cairo orchestra . she stayed one hour said she was ill and went back  to Cairo, this first lady is also a compulsive liar.every time she came  here she said she was ill, maybe it was the smell of money,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5110011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2855" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5110011.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;‘&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="251" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5056.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=251" title="IMG_5056" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;these  are some of the touts who have their own outside CONSTITUTIONALS NEAR  THE TOURIST AREA. MUST NOT GO TO FAR JUST IN CASE THEY MISS A SALE.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;ASKING  SOME OF THE TOURIST HOW THEY LIKE LUXOR… EVERY TIME WE GET OFF THE BUS  WE HAVE THIS HASSLE. WORSE PLACE WAS THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS AND KARNAK  TEMPLE,&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160039.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The above photo taken 16/4/11&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;below 14/5/11 this is refuse land fill a mixture of garbage, horse shit and bones from the butcher outlets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120003.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2867" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2867" height="840" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130019.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=840" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;view from the cesspit to the winter palace hotel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="840" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130020.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=840" title="P5130020" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;the view from the cesspit to the temple&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2869" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5446.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2869" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_5446.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_5446" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;nice colours in the water today all the next photos are taken the 13th may&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2870" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5130013.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2871" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120008.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120013.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120016.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2874" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120017.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2875" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5120020.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;2009 visit of hosni mubarak,&lt;a href="http://nilelife2.blogspot.com/2009/12/nile-pollution.html"&gt;http://nilelife2.blogspot.com/2009/12/nile-pollution.html, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/SzMl7fWRwdI/AAAAAAAAEkE/Uef5G388jcw/s1600-h/PC200001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/SzMl7fWRwdI/AAAAAAAAEkE/Uef5G388jcw/s400/PC200001.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU MAY ALSO LIKE .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.wordpress.com/category/riots-in-egypt/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://myegyptblog.wordpress.com/category/riots-in-egypt/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE MARO RESTAURANT WAS CLOSED SHORTLY AFTER THIS BLOG ON ITS FILTH,&lt;br /&gt;NICER BITS ABOUT LUXOR ARE ON &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;WWW.MYEGYPTBLOG.WORDPRESS.COM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor egypt"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Uncategorized"&gt;Uncategorized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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     Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 4, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2782&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;well its a first  I actually got my money back from  Thomas cook branch in luxor Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;wonders will never cease   just goes to show how in the right they were over this matter of telling lies.&lt;br /&gt;and yes it was Qatar airlines who cancelled the flight, the only bit if truth in the whole saga,&lt;br /&gt;this money will be put to one side   as soon as my court case is finished  I will be out of this country and back to Wales.&lt;br /&gt;at  least there  I will find some honesty,  I know in a few weeks the pain  of arthritis will start again and I will be back in a wheelchair,&lt;br /&gt;I just cannot cope  with all these liars  its as if they tell the truth  the whole of Islam will come crashing down,&lt;br /&gt;and  there in the security of my homeland I can write the truth about this hell hole they call Egypt,&lt;br /&gt;lovely country  shame its full of Egyptians,  as one  Englishman said a few years ago.,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_4723.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2783" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_4723.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_4723" width="630" /&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one thing I will miss is being able to walk in the sun every day, I will miss the sunsets and  birdwatching,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5020008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2784" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5020008.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but I will be glad to get away from the mosquitoes. I have shown this area before    50 yards from the Winter Palace Hotel,&lt;br /&gt;here  we have a cesspit  from the horse shit and piss,  now its a breeding  pool for the mosquitoes. who have a tendency to look for us foreigners   what its like in the hotel itself is another question,  if its bad in my  flat 400yds away.  the beer gardens  Hamees and Sinbads   are the best  places to go for a night out  there you can give blood at leisure while  having a cheap beer.  not only do the mosquitoes bite  but sinbads  has a  tendency to sting  those who drink  a few beers,  even though he is a   Muslim selling the infidel beer,  also be a bit weary of the food,  it  tends to give one the delly belly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2790" height="383" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040013.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=383" title="P5040013" width="630" /&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;another   4 hours  spent in the waiting room of the guvorner of Luxor’s Office. I  saw this photo hanging on the wall where once a photo of the  young  president  Hosny mubarak hung, rather a pun”  as some say he is going to  hang from the neck until dead for crimes committed against the people.&lt;br /&gt;but  like this photo its  very nice on first glance  unlike the  people who  come to visit the guvorner   I see the flaws  in this photo its not real   just like Egypt is not real and full of lies,   take a good look at  the photo    its like a game of spot the difference  but this is in one  photo.  this is a bottom half  photo of the  cornish (promenade)taken  from the new winter palace building  at about 12 noon. this building was  taken down in 2008.  the sunset is also a real photo. but the sun does  not set in the  south  here in luxor the sun sets in the  winter at 40 d   north west  in June it sets behind the Valley of the queens at  90d  north west.  but its a rather pleasant photo  much better than the  previous one hanging there. while admiring the view of the nile and  thebes mountain range  that’s home to over 100 tombs and temples I could  reel them off as most I have visited and &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/thebes.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;photographed,you can see them or some of them on this link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  apart from the new tombs unearthed over the past 3 years after the  demolition of the tomb robbers houses,  not that the tombs are worth  visiting all they are now are holes in the ground  thanks to the  incumbency of the great Dr Zahi Hawass, allowing 50 years of desecration  of these tombs.   and to my mind  Hawass was nothing more than a tomb  robber,  harsh words \i hear you say after all Zahi did for Egyptology    corruption is corruption no matter what colour its painted,  and it  seems the corruption is still here  he gets  a year in jail for land  theft  and another year for letting space in the museum  but has been  made head of antiquities, how is he going to do his job from a prison  cell.&lt;br /&gt;here my problems have come to another door, well the same  door  but this time the door should have been opened  as it was the army  general Mohamed . who wanted a word with Mohamed / sheikh.&lt;br /&gt;Now  lets see who has tried to get my problem sorted,  first there Was AND  IS, Achmed Agab  who took over from the corrupt Dr Samir faraq, his last  phone call a month ago told me to go and collect my money,&lt;br /&gt;then  the new Governer Khaled Took office, he said he had seen the sheikh    but never said anything about my problem he in turn referred me to  general Mohamed who said he was going to have a word with the sheikh  last night,  and he will phone me at 9 in the morning,  I asked him you  sure 9 in the morning,  well its now 12.03 in the afternoon  even though  I sent general a text  stating that he too has come to a closed door,   he still has not phoned me  maybe he is not well enough to get to his  mobile at 2.00 this afternoon I shall phone him  that will have given  him 24 hours to get back to me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2788" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040010.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nice  car   no 1 reg is for the guvorner of luxor.  Khaled is also  a nice  man and a good choice to be Luxors new guvorner . HE HAS ONE HELL OF A  HARD TASK  PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHT AFTER THE LAST GUVORNER  DR SAMIR  FARAQ. WHO IS NOW IN JAIL  ALONG WITH THOSE OF THE OLD REGIME  CALL HIM A  FALL GUY, AS NOT ONLY HE WAS CORRUPT HERE IN LUXOR,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110046.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A ” T 55″ RUSSIAN MADE TANK ON DUTY  IN KARNAK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="264" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110045.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=264&amp;amp;h=264" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-2424"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1047"&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_1400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="306" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_1400.jpg?w=460&amp;amp;h=306&amp;amp;h=306" title="IMG_1400" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;samir faraq his photo taken from one of the protest banners&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2789" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040011.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FEEL  SAFE IN LUXOR WITH THE ARMY ON DUTY, THIS IS ONE OF THEIR VEHICLES LIKE  MOST OF THEIR TANKS ETC THESE DATE BACK TO THE 50S AND 60S&lt;br /&gt;BRINGS  TO MIND MY  DAYS SPENT AS A YOUNG MAN  IN THE TERRITORIAL ARMY  COLWYN  BAY BRANCH  OF THE 372 REGIMENT RA , HERE AT THE RIPE OLD AGE &lt;img alt="RL Photo 3" height="483" src="http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/classic-car-images/rl-2.jpg" width="577" /&gt;OF 17 I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST  WITH A BEDFORD TRACTOR  TOWING A 25 POUNDER . &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:25_Pounder_Gun.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="25 Pounder Gun.JPG" height="225" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/25_Pounder_Gun.JPG/300px-25_Pounder_Gun.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOT  AN EASY TASK AS THE GREAT ORME WAS THE DRIVING COURSE OF THE TEST, BACK  TO BARRACKS  AND THE LAST  PART OF THE TEST WAS TO DRIVE FROM COLWYN  BAY TO HEADQUARTERS IN PRESTATYN IN AN AUSTIN CHAMP . THE CHAMP HAD A  ROLLS ROYCE ENGINE AND DID 8 MILES TO THE GALLON 4 MILES LESS THAN THE  BEDFORD LORRY,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://austinchamp.com/03%20Register/-theregister/FV1801/6000_7000/6000-6100/6091.htm"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="511" src="http://austinchamp.com/6091.jpg" width="723" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;THERE  I RECEIVED MY LICENCE,  A MILITARY LICENCE SAYING I COULD DRIVE  ANYTHING ON THE ROAD  BAR A STEAM TRACTION ENGINE,  AND THERE WAS NOT  ANY OF THEM ABOUT IN THE EARLY 60S,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor egypt"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/mosquitoes/" rel="tag"&gt;mosquitoes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-cook/" rel="tag"&gt;thomas cook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2773 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-city category-uncategorized tag-bloody-liars tag-egypt-culture tag-egypts-corruption tag-hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt tag-luxor-egypt tag-thomas-cook" id="post-2773"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/thomas-cook-liars/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt."&gt;Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/thomas-cook-liars/#respond" title="Comment on Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt."&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 1, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2773&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/11727/Business/Economy/Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.aspx"&gt;http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/11727/Business/Economy/Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thomas  cook have an office in luxor a prime site next to the winter palace  hotel.  where they have at least 10 staff a manager  2 office managers ,    no wonder they claim a loss Europe’s second-biggest travel firm said  on Monday it expected around 35 million pounds (US$57 million) to be  knocked off its profits in the second half of the year compared with its  initial projection of 20 million.  is that £ $ Euro or EGP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;luxor airport&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5010005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2776" height="322" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5010005.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=322" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st  MAY.2011, 21.00, At this very minute i should be in Doha flown there on  flight no QR 517 that’s Qatar airways 517, there I had to wait 2 hours  for my connection flight to Bali Denpasar airport is where my daughter  was going to meet me off the plane and we were going to spend a few days  together its almost 10 years since I last saw my daughter, but thanks  to Thomas cook staff here in Luxor Egypt my plans have been scuttled  mainly by lies, 5 days ago quatar air had cancelled the flight QR517,  but Thomas cook did try and phone did come to look for me , but I gave  them the wrong mobile number and they could not find my address. lets  start with the mobile no. I can never remember my no, so I have to look  it up in my phone directory first I ask for the number I need to ring ..  dail the number so by magic my phone no is implanted to the mobile I  need to contact and all I need to do then is press memorize and that  number is stored and vice versa he then asks for a name and presto we  have each others phone numbers, cant be to many tony in luxor now can  there   , WOULD HAVE A REAL JOB FINDING   MOHAMED YES&lt;br /&gt;a very  angry Tony on arriving at luxor airport finds out about the cancellation  of a flight he had booked, and phoned Thomas cook Mustafa answered the  phone and blurted out his lies, and I was getting more and more angry so  rather than him making a fool of himself and more to the point umwaa. I  walked out of the airport . with some very bemused police I had just  entertained with my broken Arabic questions , they must have thought the  stupid man had come a day or two to early. realizing my mistake I left  the airport terminal in a hurry to save any more embarrassment . 30 le  to the airport from luxor so I flagged a taxi down and another one came  stopping with screeching brakes. he jumped out of his vehicle and  started shouting at the driver I had stopped, me i was off down the  road, bollocks to more hassle . i intended to walk half a kilometre and  get a service bus that will cost 1 le into the city centre, then this  other screeching of brakes. jump in he said this car was first in line,  30 le i said luxor centre , OK he said , then as if by magic this taxi  driver had lost his English where go he asked. after 8 years I know the  game, and its time to play games back.&lt;br /&gt;as the driver turned to  take the longer 100le route to the centre of Luxor. all was nice and  quiet not been on this route for a long time so enjoyed the scenery&lt;br /&gt;not  in any hurry to get back and have a face to face with the liar from  Thomas cook, this route is about 10 k longer than the direct route to  the centre of Luxor. so i knew there was more agro coming from this  driver. on arriving at the Isis hotel that’s 2 kilometre from my flat.  the driver again asked where i go. well i said is this the centre of  luxor. yes it is. the new governor of luxor has moved things about has  he is he another samir faraq, i asked. the only thing the driver  understood was samir faraq,&lt;br /&gt;he is in jail I was told in Arabic,  yes i know, you should also be in jail , I said. OK where you go , HANY  WAHIB SHOP, YOU KNOW HANY WAHIB SHOP OH YES” HE SAID.&lt;br /&gt;AS WE HEADED INTO THE CENTRE OF TOWN WHICH WAS A DIRECT ROUTE TO MY FLAT HE MADE ANOTHER TURN TOWARDS THE STATION.&lt;br /&gt;NO  POINT IN GETTING CROSS ITS JUST WHAT THESE PEOPLE LIKE, MAKES A MEANING  TO THEIR BORING DAY. AFTER A FEW MORE TURNS WE ENDED UP BY THE COPTIC  CHURCH. NOT HERE I SAID HANY WAHIB SHOP NEAR THE TEMPLE ENTRANCE. AS WE  GOT TO THE ROAD THE NEAREST ROUTE TO THE AIRPORT, THIS BUGGER WAS ABOUT  TO TURN RIGHT HEADING BACK TO THE AIRPORT, NO NOT kARNAK TEMPLE.  REMEMBER i ASKED FOR LUXOR CENTRE 30LE.&lt;br /&gt;YES HE SAID , well this  is luxor centre as I got out of the car a making sure my bag was also  out I gave him the thirty, 100le he shouted as i slammed the door shut,  goodby&lt;br /&gt;I said, and i heard another screeching of tyres. must have  burnt a good 30 le off between all the 3 lots of screeching he did. by  the time i got in my flat it was 6.30. drop the bags off and just enough  time to get to Thomas cook office for a showdown, no point in leaving  it until the morning as agreed on the phone from the airport. by then  morning staff would be on and no bugger would have a clue as to what i  was there for, on entry in the office a very worried Mustafa was  confronted by a very angry Welshman, while in the taxi I went through  what exactly was said when i decided to buy my travel tickets to Bali,&lt;br /&gt;what’s  with all these fukin lies mustafa, what with sheihk tyeb the judges,  lawyers and police lying its enough being lied to without a travel  company such as Thomas cook lying, you can save all the lies for those  first time tourists , But Mr Tony not our fault, never is I said, so  whose fault is it , Qatar , oh no i said you knew this flight had been  cancelled days ago, do you not think I had a right to know before i got  to the airport, and again the bastard lied, saying I gave him the wrong  number, oh I said so why did you not send someone to my flat 5 minutes  walk from here, You gave us wrong address, to make it worse he said , we  send someone to your address but you gave wrong address, well I said  opposite my front door there is a furniture painting shop outside there  is a very nosy man all he does is sit guard to the shop. I asked him  seeing you already said i give you the wrong address, anybody look for  Mr Tony . no he said. and i said I gave you my address from a bank  letter my visa card came in . how did the bank get my visa to me if its  the wrong address, no answer came, he made a few calls. and said come  back at 9.30 in the morning and we go see Qatar air office , first i  said can you get me to Bali on the 3rd, yes he said another lie, there  are no flights until the 4th, look it up before we waste any more time, I  will be here at 9.00 just to collect my money plus compensation,&lt;br /&gt;now  he tried to get hold of his manager, while doing so I told Mustafa of  all the problems i had,, You Mr Tony from the hotel west bank, yes I  said. then he said a German lady has been looking for you can I give her  your telephone no, then his manager phoned to say I can see him in the  morning, well that will be nice I said and started to leave, can I give  the German lady your number, Yes I said and left.,&lt;br /&gt;as i said the T  C office is just around the corner to my flat, just as I got in my flat  put a cuppa on the mobile rang, its me she said, not in any mood to  have friendly banter with some stranger. I just said” ooh that’s nice,  the line went quiet so I said how can I help you. its me she said again ,  without going into what was said, this is the lady the rep from Thomas  cook was on about, I wonder how she got my phone number, and all the way  from Germany, Thomas cook had just said I gave them the wrong number.&lt;br /&gt;so here i will stay hoping to get my probl&lt;a href="http://www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com/"&gt;e&lt;span style="color: #993366;"&gt;m sorted out, http://www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #993366;"&gt; ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;&lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-city/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor city"&gt;luxor city&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Uncategorized"&gt;Uncategorized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/bloody-liars/" rel="tag"&gt;bloody liars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypt-culture/" rel="tag"&gt;egypt culture&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;hot air balloons luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-cook/" rel="tag"&gt;thomas cook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/will-egypt-get-justice/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Will Egypt get justice’"&gt;Will Egypt get justice’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/will-egypt-get-justice/#respond" title="Comment on Will Egypt get justice’"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 29, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2765&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Sheikhs ,ARE THEY  above the law .&lt;/h1&gt;Now  that the initial surge of the locals demands to getting their  rights  back are being dealt with things seem to have  quietened down,&lt;br /&gt;its  OK it seems that the locals can claim their stolen land back and  rightly so, many are claiming for land that was not theirs  i.e.  government land,   so  who is going to say what is what.          On the  end or the beginning of the cornish we have the Iberhotel, and across  the road  opposite the main lobby entrance  there was a curved  building    this was the land registry office  a place I spent a few hours  looking at plans of the west bank  mainly the  Memnon amenhotep111  temple  area,  it took quite some time to get to see detailed map of the  areas   the maps showed all buildings that where existing before 1972,   why  is quite simple there has not been one single building built on  the west bank  with building consent  not even the police station or any  of the schools, IN 2010 THIS BUILDING  WAS  DEMOLISHED   AND QUITE A  FEW OF THE LAND REGISTRY  FILES  DISAPPEARED IN THE MOVE TO THE NEW  OFFICE,  NO  RECORDS ARE OR HAD BEEN  PUT ON COMPUTER, SO NOW SINCE THE  2011 REVOLUTION  NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IS AGRICULTURE LAND OR WHO OWNS WHAT,  CONFUCIUS WAS BORN AGAIN WITH THE HELP OF DR SAMIR FARAQ,&lt;br /&gt;Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the Egyptian Government following the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1952"&gt;Egyptian Revolution of 1952&lt;/a&gt;.  pre 1952  of course the Nile inundated  the land, Gamal Abdel Nasser   SAW THE DIVISION BETWEEN RICH AND POOR  AND GAVE THE POOR THEIR OWN LAND  JUST ENOUGH TO FEED THEIR FAMILY, and in 1998 Mubarak made a law  no  building on Nile land that meant  no building on land inundated by the  Nile waters .  covered his  GREED FOR LAND quite well  as not much land  was  covered by nile water  after the building of the high dam in Aswan.   THEN CAME THE REGIME  UNDER MUBARAK  MUCH OF THE NILE LAND WAS GIVEN  TO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SONS,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elephantine,_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="188" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Elephantine%2C_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night%2C_Aswan%2C_Egypt%2C_Oct_2004.jpg/320px-Elephantine%2C_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night%2C_Aswan%2C_Egypt%2C_Oct_2004.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elephantine,_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A night view from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan"&gt;Aswan&lt;/a&gt;, looking west, towards EYESORE OF  Moevenpick Hotel on Elephantine Island&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Elephantine  was a fort that stood just before the first cataract of the Nile.  During the Second Intermediate Period (1650 – 1550 BCE), the fort marked  the southern border of Egypt,  BUT WAS OF NO IMPORTANCE TO MUBARAK AND  HIS REGIME THEY BUILT THE OBEROI HOTEL  AND SOLD IT TO  MOVENPICK  FOR  200 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2003.  ANOTHER ISLAND  WAS ALSO SOLD TO BUILD THE  ISIS HOTEL  THIS WAS  WILDLIFE PROTECTED LAND.&lt;br /&gt;COMING CLOSER TO luxor&amp;nbsp; WE HAVE THE KINGS ISLAND ONCE KNOWN AS CROCKODILE ISLAND ANOTHER  ONE OF MUBARAKS LAND GRABBING SCHEMES RECENTLY SOLD FOR 600MILLION  STERLING. IT TOO WAS  WILDLIFE PROTECTED LAND. ,&lt;br /&gt;WAS  Dr Samir  Faraq the only bad boy in luxor, I fear not  there is no doubt he was   corrupt,  but he was not the only one. some sheikhs and head of villages  got colossal amounts of money to put street lighting in  the villages,  some got money to build unneeded bridges across the canals, millions of  Dollars have been squandered some sheikhs did quite well  soon after  receiving monies these sheihks  were turning up at the begging bowl   in  new cars at the new office in Awameia, this office got the brunt of the  destruction during the recent riots. as the people knew it as Samir’s  office,                      who were the kingpins  distributing this  new found wealth???, question is,  ARE THEY  above the law .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="post-comment-link"&gt;&lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-muslim-drig-addict.html#comments"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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jimmy needs to learn what is Taqaya.&lt;a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm"&gt;http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://uk.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carter-says-egypt-army-unlikely-powers-195810822.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-2143793823534173841?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/2143793823534173841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/jimmy-carter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/2143793823534173841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/2143793823534173841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/jimmy-carter.html' title='Jimmy Carter'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-3629477170409035338</id><published>2012-01-10T15:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T15:21:30.133-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay people should get the death penalty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sell my son'/><title type='text'>'Gay people should get the death penalty’</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084684/Five-Muslim-men-trial-handing-homophobic-leaflets-near-mosque.html"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084684/Five-Muslim-men-trial-handing-homophobic-leaflets-near-mosque.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am not defending the gays but after 8 years in Egypt from what I found&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If these men&amp;nbsp;are right &amp;nbsp;there will not be any males &amp;nbsp;left in the islamic countries.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;one reason being the Qoran says its ok &amp;nbsp;as long as they do not abuse the women until they are married&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;'Gay people should get the death penalty’: Five Muslim men on trial for stirring up hatred after 'handing out homophobic leaflets near mosque'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;One leaflet called The Death Penalty? showed image of mannequin hanging from a noose and said buggery led to hell, court hears&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jury told the 'horrible' leaflets were designed to stir up 'hatred and hostility against homosexual people'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prosecution of the group is first of its kind since new laws were passed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084684/Five-Muslim-men-trial-handing-homophobic-leaflets-near-mosque.html#ixzz1j6GPlF33" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084684/Five-Muslim-men-trial-handing-homophobic-leaflets-near-mosque.html#ixzz1j6GPlF33&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;then there is this &amp;nbsp;male from Saudi, &amp;nbsp;who thinks all he has is shatel, strange he is not selling his wife and daughter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;'Who'll give me $20million for my son?' Saudi man tries to sell his boy on Facebook after court shuts down his illegal business&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Only condition is to know which city buyer lives in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Claims it's last option to provide for wife and daughter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="article-icon-links-container" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="article-icon-links cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li class="social-icons" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 170, 210); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;A Saudi man is trying to sell his son on Facebook for around $20million to avoid 'living in poverty' after his illegal business was shut down, it was reported today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry claims trafficking his son is the only option to continue providing for his wife and daughter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;He says he is willing to go to court to complete the sale, the only condition of which is to know which city the buyer lives in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Desperate: Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry with his son, whom he wants to sell on Facebook for $20million to avoid poverty" class="blkBorder" height="393" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/10/article-2084642-0F66681100000578-585_634x393.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="634" /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Desperate: Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry with his son, whom he wants to sell on Facebook for $20million to avoid poverty&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Al Shahry made the decision after first asking whether the authorities could help him financially when his illegal debt-collection business was shut down by a court,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;he told Qatari news outlet Al Sharq.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;He was apparently denied the request because he was older than 35.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItems" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h4 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;It is not clear whether his actions are merely a publicity stunt or, if genuine, whether he would be able to carry out the sale without redress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Human trafficking is an offence in Saudi Arabia, but the country does not comply with minimum international standards, according to the U.S. Department of State.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 308px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Unlikely medium: Facebook's terms and condition do not allow anyone to post content that infringes a person's human rights" class="blkBorder" height="267" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/10/article-2084642-0F66680200000578-377_306x267.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="306" /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Unlikely medium: Facebook's terms and condition do not allow anyone to post content that infringes a person's human rights&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;In recent reports, quoted in Venture Beat, it said the Saudi government 'continues to lack adequate anti-trafficking laws, and, despite evidence of widespread trafficking abuses, did not report any criminal prosecutions, convictions or prison sentences for trafficking crimes committed against foreign domestic workers.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Facebook is also unlikely to allow such a sale through its website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;According to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, users 'will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Around half of all Saudi children face domestic violence or some kind of abuse, it is claimed by a Saudi Arabian human rights group, The National Society for Human Rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; 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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;so many lies in one year,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="post-title" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="post-title" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bikyamasr.com/32428/al-azhar-sheikh-demands-apology-from-pope-benedict/" rel="bookmark" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link to Al-Azhar Sheikh demands apology from Pope Benedict"&gt;Al-Azhar Sheikh demands apology from Pope Benedict&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="meta" style="clear: none; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAIRO: The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, reiterated his call for Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church, to officially apologize for insulting Islam. El-Tayeb said such an apology is a basic condition for resumption of interfaith dialogue between the two religious authorities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;El-Tayeb met with Michael Girard, Ambassador of the Holy See to Egypt, and refused to resume relations between Al-Azhar and the Vatican until the Pope apologizes for insulting Islam and Muslims.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;El-Tayeb also said during the meeting that relations between the two faiths are normal, despite the fact that official relations between Al-Azhar and the Vatican are frozen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;El-Tayeb said Pope Benedict’s predecessor, John Paul II, loved Muslims and always sought to engage in dialogue with them, reported state news agency MENA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Al-Azhar indefinitely suspended its interfaith dialogue with the Vatican in January 2011 in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on the status of Christians in the Middle East.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c1Vg2yqrsvc/TwSqtwSjg7I/AAAAAAAABoo/xveedBMkXxs/s1600/16112062_400x240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c1Vg2yqrsvc/TwSqtwSjg7I/AAAAAAAABoo/xveedBMkXxs/s320/16112062_400x240.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn.bikyamasr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sheik_ahmed_al_tayib.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g32428]" style="clear: right; color: #336699; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-24082 alignright" height="196" src="http://cdn.bikyamasr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sheik_ahmed_al_tayib-251x300.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 10px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 10px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 10px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 10px; border-width: initial; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;" title="Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb al-Azhar" width="164" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tensions date back to the Pope’s call for protection of Christians in Egypt and Iraq. He called on governments in the Middle East to protect their Christian minorities after two recent attacks that targeted Christians. Twenty-three Egyptian Christians were killed after a bomb targeted Two Saint’s Church in Alexandria following a mass on New Year`s Eve. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; story from april 2011, &amp;nbsp; since &amp;nbsp;april the Grand Imam &amp;nbsp;of islam has cheated me out of my Money. said that Muslims have lived in unity with other faiths for the past 1433 years, he even went as far as &amp;nbsp;telling the pope to shut the fuck up. not to sure about his kissing the pope. but I know this liar and his family of &amp;nbsp;liars I first met him when he was just an Imam doctor of Al Azhar islamic collage. even met him in his office at the college.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Mar&lt;/span&gt; 2010&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; while &amp;nbsp;they were lying to me on getting my money back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;in his home in Gurna Luxor &amp;nbsp;,when he had the phone call from the then president Hosni Mubarak &amp;nbsp;who was recovering in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Heidelberg University Hospital, to say he was the new grand imam of Egypt. after the death of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The pals have one thing in common &amp;nbsp;Hosni went to Germany and the imam Ahmed went to France for operations,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"&gt;was it because they had no hospitals in Egypt lto do simple opps &amp;nbsp;. or was it they do not trust their own people with their health. The Imam was in france November 2010 having a by pass opp, only his near family knew of it until he returned home to recuperate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tNuKTSFNOyU/TwSqsp_HhcI/AAAAAAAABog/QzDrCCNgMCc/s1600/Unknown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tNuKTSFNOyU/TwSqsp_HhcI/AAAAAAAABog/QzDrCCNgMCc/s1600/Unknown.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FkQOGkZw5no/TwSqyMCxY8I/AAAAAAAABow/C1UD1phXbzA/s1600/sheik+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FkQOGkZw5no/TwSqyMCxY8I/AAAAAAAABow/C1UD1phXbzA/s1600/sheik+013.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;the fat guy is the elder brother( by 2 years) of the gran imam &amp;nbsp;Sheik Mohamed El-tyeb. and he is a real Christian Hater. &amp;nbsp;some rumour he is the head of the `muslim brotherhood, &amp;nbsp;one thing we must realise is this if the imam says kill &amp;nbsp;the Muslims will kill. they have more power than any other in an Islamic state,l3 times &amp;nbsp;my lawyer and translator were mocked by this man to the point that they refused to come with me again to the Sheikh's home to sort my problem out, five years I put up with their promises, until I was forced to come back to Wales due to ill Health caused mainly by these Muslim liars. today after &amp;nbsp;having an operation that led to a full medical pre pop where I was diagnosed as having Diabetes, &amp;nbsp;the muslim doctor in Egypt told me I had a disease from the pigeons. it cost a fortune in medication that was making things worse.the pharmacist was the doctors brother. I was also told to drink as much orange juice and cola.if the hospital did their job after I got beat up &amp;nbsp;blood tests would have shown I had diabetes, my loss of hearing &amp;nbsp;after the beating &amp;nbsp;I now have hearing aids, so all in all I was lucky to get out of Egypt alive, &amp;nbsp; and of course now I live in Wales I can tell the truth of what is going on in the land of taqiyya..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;blog without fear of them downing the site&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;or being jailed as so many have been&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm"&gt;Taqiyya ― Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;,s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and who is the cause of this blog on the liars of the Arab spring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="" height="300" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/aaaa.jpg?w=114&amp;amp;h=300&amp;amp;h=300" style="display: inline-block;" title="aaaa" width="114" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p6160020.jpg" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2735" height="500" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p6160020.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=500" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim and cousin of Sheikh Ahmed Tyeb &amp;nbsp;Mohamed Awad is the owner of the west bank hotel &amp;nbsp;Luxor,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;he is an alcoholic, drug user and dealer and a dealer in black-market artefacts ,this photo was taken moments before He dragged me down the steps and his family set about beating me with sticks while semiconscious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is part of the story from may 2010 9 months after the beating &amp;nbsp;the whole story &amp;nbsp;is on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;I want to get to know how the Arab mind works,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;no doubt millions of others do too, maybe the Arabs themselves would like to know and how to make sense of things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;most I have met up to 3 years ago just wanted my money, more intelligent ones just said things to keep me quiet so they told lies. and always an insha alla at the end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;these included judges,lawyers , sheikhs and police the higher rank they were, the bigger the lies were ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;in July 2006 i took my case to the sheikh he ruled mohamad awad had to pay me back, mohamad awad said why should I pay a Christian money, and the sheihk said what can I do you leave it in the luxor court, after finding out 2 about these liars connected to the court here in luxor ! took my chance on opting for what we shall call Shari law, .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;that meant going back to see the sheikh in Cairo, there in his office on the 28.6.09 he told me to see him in his home in Gurna on the 28th of August where he said he promises to finish my problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="264" src="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" title="three_cols" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2011/01/03/imam-of-al-azahr-tells-pope-to-stfu/" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Egypt’s Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb, Sunni Islam’s highest religious authority.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;no matter what anyone's views are about the Sheikh he is the only person here in Egypt that has tried to help me, even against his brother Mohameds wishes,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;لا يهم ما هي وجهات النظر حول أي شخص الشيخ، وقال انه هو الشخص الوحيد هنا في مصر الذي حاول ان تساعدني، وحتى ضد رغباته محمد شقيق،&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;in the first hearing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;28st of August . the sheihk achmed said you will fight for 20 years and get nothing in this court , take what you can tony,, and he worked on what the agreement was in 2006 just the £38.500 that I could prove from the bank statements , 5 years on and today the figure is more than 1.5 million first 20£ for the sale of workshop and bmw car. cash money given to Mohamed. loss of income from the hotel estimating on what was taken in the first 12 months of opening 15000£ annually. this was taken from the hotel and its restaurant. court costs etc another 20.000£, in 2010 sheikh achmed gave my problem to his brother Mohammed tyeb, because he had just been appointed head of Islam by his majesty H Mubarak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;so now i had a hater of Christians looking into my case,,, BE STRONG Achmed told his brother, the other reason achmed wanted this case finished was my web sites,, making it bad for Islam he said, now here is Mohamed Tayebs cunning plan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;get mr tony to down all the cases against the Muslim brothers two of whom are actual relatives, if Mohamed awads mother is related to the sheikh that means all involved in the charges are in the sheikdom of tyeb,,, give Mr tony 25 thousand egp his phone and memory card back ; give him 15thousand every six months; they think i am an egyptian money will close my eyes;, all this did was insult me ; but as sheihk Achmed said 12 months before ;; take what you can Mr Tony, not forgeting 2 weeks before the deal Mohamed Awad tried to kill me. because i caught him in a lie,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/02/attemted-murder.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;,Attempted murder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;why did I go to the hotel.Before I entered the hotel, I showed a policeman at the checkpoint next to the building now known as the West bank hotel. my papers from the court,&lt;br /&gt;this was the paper I had received 6 months prior from the luxor court that I could go back to my home but did not&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;"WHY? the sheikh asked me not to provoke Awad while he was deciding what to do about my situation,&lt;br /&gt;I asked this policeman to help, there was also several plain clothed police at the checkpoint at that time,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;now known as the thugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;none would help even though I had court orders to go back to my home,&lt;br /&gt;as I arrived in the hotel the doors where open but there was no one about, so I proceeded to go up to my room that is situated to the rear of the first floor. as I was on the first flight of concrete steps Carima the wife of Mohamed Awad saw me and started screaming . Tony is here. then mohamed Awad who sleeps on the ground floor on the base of the stairs appeared I GAVE HIM THE PAPERS THEN KARIMA TOOK THEM AND RIPPED THEM UP&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I took a photo of Mohamed&lt;/span&gt;then he ,,MOHAMED,, shouted I kill you you fuck then grabbed my legs and dragged me down 5 steps I banged my head and my buttock . while semi concious on the floor I was kicked several times. karima took my bag and emptied its contents on the floor and took my Htc mobile phone,mohamed took my camera and took the memory card out. as I got to my feet karima and mohameds mother Samira started hitting me with sticks as I moved from the bottom of the stairs into the foyer.&lt;br /&gt;Achmed appeared in his underwear he never moved from the base of the stairs he was just shouting"you fuck just go I will kill you. then the Neighbours appeared and dragged me out of the hotel then brave achmed came out and started shouting the same as before,&lt;br /&gt;one secret police came and told me to leave. and I went to the checkpoint. here I was told to wait for the tourist police IE Ebd El Moshin. I waited for one hour and was quite incoherent. half an hour after the incident in the hotel Achmed came to the check point. to make a complaint.&lt;br /&gt;as I now know the complaint was I had used a knife and attacked him, so why did the police not search me, Here I was being held by the police a knife wielding tourist. and no one searched me . neither did they try to retrieve my mobile and sim card,&lt;br /&gt;on arrival at the police station at dier el medinet, they questioned Achmed first. an hour later I was questioned ;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;as I was writing my statement EBD Moshin asked what am I doing ? make it short just say how the women hit you them we can take to court, then I asked that I go to the hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as I was making the new statement they called a service taxi to take me and achmed to the hospital. ebd moshin also ordered a guard to accompany us,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;at this I asked "am I under arrest,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;why would you be under arrest ;asked Moshin&lt;/span&gt;, I been arrested before and no one told my embassy" I said; and again he said no you are not under arrest.&lt;br /&gt;at the hospital the guard stayed glued to me ; Achmed was allowed to walk about freely. after a few minutes Achmed was allowed to leave. now it was my turn to get examined. A severe blow to the head several marks where I had been hit with a stick or similar, and another severe bruise to the buttock, then I was taken back to the police station. there I waited for almost 2 hours, before another vehicle was called to take us to the main police station in new Gurna.&lt;br /&gt;no questions , just very stern police by this time I was feeling Quite faint and asked if I could go home to eat drink and get my medication. not now you can get them later, then a young police officer arrived he was told to get changed into civil clothes. when He came back he was given a pistol and told to hide it under his jacket. at 19.30 we left . in the cab of a local transport vehicle, this guy could only talk about how he would like to have sex with a white girl just kept on and on. I was glad to have some space as we boarded the ferry, after getting off the ferry the sex machine said we take a taxi I said no, the court is just down the promenade then I went to my flat under much objection from the gun totting policeman. but nothing he could do as his orders were to get me to the court by&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;21.30. while in my flat I managed to get a message to my lawyer.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;through my landlord.&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;even though I was being charged for assault with a deadly weapon, they said I was not under arrest&lt;/span&gt;, so there is no need to contact any one, I only found out what the charges where while in front of the Judge.&lt;br /&gt;In the court We all of us were made to stand up, usually we sit then stand when the Judge is addressing someone, feeling quite faint I asked the Judge if I could sit after being on my feet in searing heat all day."&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;SHUT THE FUCK UP&lt;/span&gt;" he shouted.. half an hour later I was up on a grievous bodily assault on the ARSONIST Achmed Mohamed Awad. even though the doctors said in the report Achmed had a superficial wound to his hand made with a blunt instrument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;one week later I was with the Sheikh making deals for my money bac&lt;/span&gt;k,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;one and the main part of the deal was that I the victim had to drop all charges against all the conspirators who swindled me out of my home and money,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;two days after the deal I was called in front of the corrupt Judges. first question&lt;br /&gt;Why you make it bad for us?&lt;br /&gt;so I told him. about all the corruption The lawyer had spun in this court.&lt;br /&gt;?what was the reason for the judges to see me.&lt;br /&gt;By taking my case in front of the sheik and making Mohamed Awad and his lawyer plus the judges liars. they wanted me out of the country,&lt;br /&gt;this was geared by the lawyer Mustafa Atea because before the beating, I would not drop the charges against him. so in effect Mustafa was still in charge in this court. he had the backing of Sheihk Abru nasser + one of the elders.The reason I went to the hotel Because when Sheik MOHAMED Tyeb called mohamed awad on his mobile to sign papers to had over land to me;- he said he was in Cairo and would not be back home for a week, hence the photos I took of him in the hotel, and the reason he did not make a complaint to the police, even though I tried to pull him out of the hotel, therefore he was the only one I touched not Achmed,&lt;br /&gt;If he made the assault complaint to his friend Moshin, Sheihk mohamed would have known he lied and was not in Cairo. as soon as the lying neighbours came, he shut himself in his room,&lt;br /&gt;he was also not in a fit state to go anywhere, as you can see this guy is a opium taker drug addict,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p6160020.jpg" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="225" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p6160020.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=225&amp;amp;h=225" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;mohamed awad the real family man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Mohamed Awad the real con man.11/5/11, As I was walking along the promenade today a hand tapped me on the shoulder or rather grabbed my shoulder, hey" Mr Tony where is my money,&lt;br /&gt;this was Bedawi, the builder of my home,IN 2004/5 ,, I thought Mohamed was paying you in monthly instalments; I said ,&lt;br /&gt;no he never give me only 1 month he say he wait for you to pay , I told him how much I paid. and he was supposed to be paying you the builder and the painter, from money from the hotel and restaurant. I said, I need to know more, and said we can talk in a coffee shop,&lt;br /&gt;apparently The builder paid his workers each day,,, at times, like when making concrete floors etc he had 30 men working ,,,,normally while bricklaying and plastering there was 4 men working, plus men paid to take the bricks and sand up to the working area floor, these men only worked if paid each day, and Mohamed only paid for the workers leaving Bedawi without money , Mohamed saying he will get the money at the end of the job, and just gave money to tie the builder over, Bedawi said he received one month but that was all.. each month he went for his money he was told the same story, Mr Tony have no money, well Mohamed wasn't lying, the painter has the same story he never got paid only for materials.&lt;br /&gt;so I told Bedawi to go see the sheikh, then he told me things I already knew from an employee at the hotel called Walla, out of the 2400 months salary for 6 employees, Mohamed was taking half their wages for getting them a job in my hotel, all of these employees are his relations, Walla got the push two months before I had problems Mohamed said Walla was taking all the tips, I prove it He said, early morning there was only two staff in the hotel, send the new boy out to get groceries, when getting the money out of your pocket, drop this 20 le on the floor I have taken the serial no, and of course Walla picked the note up. Mohamed gave Walla instant dismissal.&lt;br /&gt;The reason being Walla was my pal , We talked about things , and Mohamed did not want Walla telling me the truth of what was going on. and it was Walla who told me 6 months after I got burnt out of the hotel what Mohamed was up to IE taking half the wages taking all the tips taking 4500le for meat your bill was about 1000 le per month, I paid Mohamed Awad employees tax money its the law Mr Tony ! we have to pay Tax,! and Another reason why I had to employ his best friend Hassan as hotel manager, 1000 per month,&lt;br /&gt;Hassan was illiterate, so he needed to employ an under manager, this is and was a 5 bedroomed hotel, but Mohamed kept bringing up the rules of owning a hotel in Egypt, 6 staff one gardener handy man Tyib, the garden was 20 x 5 meters with lots of paving, the hotel was new no need for a handyman,&lt;br /&gt;I left Bedawi rather confused! he thought Mohamed took me out of the hotel for not paying ,Bedawi is going to see the Sheikh this Friday,&lt;br /&gt;and once Mohamed got me out, his lies as to not being paid people believed,AND OF COURSE I NOW KNOW THE REAL REASON MOHAMED AWAD WANTED ME OUT OF MY HOME,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;,I also want to know where in the koran does it say a drug addict, alcoholic, and swindler not just from me but from his own relations,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;has complete protection from prosecution, if under the protection of The village sheik here known as Sheihk mohameb Tyeb,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire, seems that my friend is also a Christian hater, too bad I was beginning to like him,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Something the Muslim do not do is apologise. if so do you think the liar will apologise to me&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-3668471150902609662?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/3668471150902609662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/liars-of-arab-spring_8806.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/3668471150902609662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/3668471150902609662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/liars-of-arab-spring_8806.html' title='Liars of the Arab spring'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c1Vg2yqrsvc/TwSqtwSjg7I/AAAAAAAABoo/xveedBMkXxs/s72-c/16112062_400x240.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-3330402769358871952</id><published>2012-01-02T15:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T15:44:38.634-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='islam on women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egypt nile river pollution.corruption in egypt'/><title type='text'>ladies in egypt</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;WELL IT SEEMS THE COURTS IN EGYPT HAVE CHANGED &amp;nbsp;SINCE MY COURT CASE THAT LASTED 5 YEARS WITHOUT GETTING ANYWHERE. &amp;nbsp;I LEFT EGYPT DUE TO BAD HEALTH AND LIVING UNDER THREAT FROM THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;MORE ON MY STORY ON&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheikh-ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html"&gt;http://&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheikh-ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html"&gt;estbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheikh-ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheikh-ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html"&gt;w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We must also &amp;nbsp;have the thought that each and every Judge &amp;nbsp;high ranking soldier &amp;nbsp;or police general were put in their place by &amp;nbsp;the old Regime so in fact are the old regime but with a different &amp;nbsp;head, the head of islam in Egypt Dr Ahmed El-Tyeb. &amp;nbsp;and there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim that he claims he is, these people now just how far to push to see what they can get away with. . the whole of the arab states &amp;nbsp;I,E, islamic states work on &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm"&gt;T&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;aqqya :- the principle of lying for the sake of Allah,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Egyptian court calls to end&lt;br /&gt;forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="article-icon-links-container" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="article-icon-links cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li class="social-icons" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 170, 210); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thinFloatRHS" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 235px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Case: A Cairo court has called to end virginity tests on female detainees in military prisoners after a case brought by protester Samira Ibrahim" class="blkBorder" height="262" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/27/article-0-0F47FE3500000578-494_233x262.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="233" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Case: A Cairo court has called to end virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons after a case brought by protester Samira Ibrahim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;An Egyptian court has called to stop the controversial practice of carrying out forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Cairo-based court made the decision to stop the tests after a case was brought by female protester Samira Ibrahim who was arrested during protests in Tahrir Square in March.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;However, the head of Military Judicial Authority said in a statement carried by state news agency MENA that the ruling could not be executed because there was no decision to force virginity tests on detainees and if someone did it then it would be an individual act that required criminal investigation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The military rulers who replaced deposed President Hosni Mubarak in February have come under mounting pressure from activists who criticise them for mismanaging the transition to civilian rule and violating the human rights of protesters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;This is the second case in a week where civilian activists have obtained a favourable ruling in cases involving the army.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'The court orders that the execution of the procedure of virginity tests on girls inside military prisons be stopped,' Judge Aly Fekry, head of the Cairo Administrative Court, said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The case was filed by Samira Ibrahim, a woman who said the army forced her and six other women to undergo virginity tests in March after they were arrested during a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;On Sunday, another civilian judge ordered the release of a prominent blogger whom the army had detained in October on charges of 'inciting violence and sabotage' during a protest by Christians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;An army official was quoted in May as saying the tests were carried out so that the military would not later be accused of having raped the detainees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Anger: Women chant anti-military council slogans as they protest against virginity tests outside the State Council court " class="blkBorder" height="308" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/27/article-0-0F480C2C00000578-681_468x308.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="468" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Anger: Women chant anti-military council slogans as they protest against virginity tests outside the State Council court&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Ibrahim, who comes from the conservative southern Egyptian city of Sohag, was transferred to a military court four days after her arrest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She received a one-year suspended prison sentence for insulting authorities, participating in an unauthorised assembly and breaking a curfew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She filed a case with the military prosecution against the soldier who carried out the virginity test, and the military judiciary was now handling the case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'We demand that those who committed this act be held accountable,' said Basma Zahran, a lawyer from El-Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence who joined Ibrahim's case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;A military judicial official said last week that cases of reported forced virginity tests had been transferred to the Supreme Military Court and that military personnel accused of taking part in violent clashes and human rights violations against protesters would be prosecuted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079056/Egyptian-court-calls-halt-forced-virginity-tests-female-detainees-military-prisons.html#ixzz1iLVpD1cv" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079056/Egyptian-court-calls-halt-forced-virginity-tests-female-detainees-military-prisons.html#ixzz1iLVpD1cv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Egyptian authorities agree to stop raiding human rights groups after U.S. pressure following the storming of NGO offices&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Egypt's military rulers accuse organisations of destabilising security&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;It is claimed they are fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;U.S. State Department calls on Egypt 'to immediately end harassment'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Defense Secretary welcomes agreement to halt raids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="article-icon-links-container" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="article-icon-links cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Egyptian authorities have agreed to stop raiding the offices of human rights and pro-democracy groups after the U.S. government intervened.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Defense Secretary Leon Panetta welcomed the decision, but expressed 'deep concern' that the attacks by security forces had been allowed to take place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The non-governmental organisations had been accused by Egypt's military rulers of destabilising security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Provocative: Egyptian military stand guard as officials raid a U.S.-headquartered non-governmental organisation office in Cairo yesterday" class="blkBorder" height="415" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/30/article-2080122-0F4B8B1000000578-420_634x415.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="634" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Provocative: Egyptian military stand guard as officials raid a U.S.-headquartered non-governmental organisation office in Cairo yesterday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Thursday's raids on a total of 17 offices throughout Egypt were part of the ruling generals' attempt to blame 'foreign hands' for the unrest that continues to roil Egypt since the 18-day revolt that ousted long-time leader Hosni Mubarak in February.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Among the offices ransacked were the U.S.-headquartered National Democratic Institute, Freedom House and the International Republican Institute, which is observing Egypt's staggered parliamentary elections.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItems" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h4 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Obama administration demanded Egyptian authorities immediately halt the raids on NGOs, saying they are 'inconsistent' with long-standing U.S-Egypt cooperation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The U.S. State Department called on the Egyptian government 'to immediately end the harassment of NGO staff, return all property and resolve this issue'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Yesterday the Egyptian authorities agreed to call an end to the raids after negotiations with Mr Panetta and U.S. ambassador to Cairo Anne Patterson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Armed raids: Egyptian soldiers ransack the U.S. National Democratic Institute, an NGO (non-governmental) rights group in Cairo as a soldier stands guard" class="blkBorder" height="479" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/30/article-2080122-0F4B5ECD00000578-821_634x479.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="634" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Armed raids: Egyptian soldiers ransack the U.S. National Democratic Institute, an NGO (non-governmental) rights group in Cairo as a soldier stands guard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;According to a State Department spokesman, Ms Patterson told the authorities she expected 'all international NGOs, including those that receive U.S. government support, to be able to return to normal operations as soon as possible in support of the democratic transition under way in Egypt.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She agreed to take part in a dialogue with Egyptian officials to better explain the work of the organizations and address any concerns they might have. 'These NGOs should be allowed to operate freely as they do in countries around the world in support of democracy and free elections,' the spokesman said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;After Ms Patterson's discussions, Mr Panetta spoke by phone to the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, to emphasize the importance the administration places on the country's democratic transition and the ability of non-governmental organisations to work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Panetta expressed appreciation for the decision to stop the raids and make it easier for NGOs to work in Egypt, a Pentagon spokesman said. 'The secretary emphasised that it is critical for Egypt to continue on the path to democratic transition,' he added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The raids on the NGOs were the first since Mubarak left office, though Egyptian officials have been levying accusations for months that the civil society groups are serving a foreign agenda.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Most recently, Justice Minister Adel Abdel-Hamid this month accused around 300 non-profit groups of receiving unauthorised foreign funding and using the money for protests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Interior Ministry said the raids on ten non-profit organisations were part of the investigation into foreign funding of rights groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;By far the largest recipient of foreign funding in Egypt is the military itself, which has for more than 30 years received about $1.3billion in annual U.S. security assistance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; 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border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="634" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Out of their hands: NDI workers wait as Egyptian officials raid their office&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Freedom House said its staff were held incommunicado during the raids and that mobile phones, laptops, funds and documents found during the interrogations were confiscated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The group said in a statement the raids came just three days after it formally submitted papers to register its offices in accordance with Egyptian law.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Troops and police sealed the doors of the civil society groups and banned anyone from entering or speaking with employees as they were interrogated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Freedom House spokesman Charles Dunne said:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'In the current fiscal environment, the United States must not subsidise authoritarianism in Egypt while the Egyptian government is preventing NGOs from implementing democracy and human rights projects subsidised by the U.S. taxpayer.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), which is not under investigation, said in a statement that the raids went beyond the type of Mubarak-era tactics that spurred hundreds of thousands of Egyptians to take to the streets demanding freedom and democracy during this year's uprising.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;ANHRI said in a statement: 'Mubarak's regime did not dare to undertake such practices prior to the uprising', adding that the storming of the civil society organisations' offices is part of 'a systematic campaign against these organisations, which was prepared for in advance'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The country's military was cheered by protesters when it took over security from Mubarak's hated police force in January during the uprising.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The military, long the country's most powerful establishment and one that produced Egypt's last three presidents, sought to portray itself as a key player in the revolt that toppled Mubarak's 29-year rule.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; 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border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="634" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Held hostage: Employees of the NGOs were banned from leaving and were interrogated as officials searched through computer file&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;However, in the eight months since Mubarak's exit, the military, led by a general who served for 20 years as Mubarak's defence minister, has been methodically seeking to discredit the reformers, accusing them of illegally receiving foreign funds and being part of a plot hatched abroad to destabilise Egypt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Egypt's leading pro-democracy advocate, Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, denounced the raids.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Writing on his Twitter account, he said: 'Human rights organisations are the guardians of nascent freedom. Efforts to suffocate them will be a major setback and will surely backfire.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;An official with the Egyptian Attorney General's office said at least one of the U.S.-based organisations being searched was operating without proper permits. He did not say which one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Laws requiring local and foreign civil society groups to register with the government have long been a source of contention, with rights activists accusing the government of using legal provisions to go after groups critical of its policies. Offenders can be sentenced to prison terms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;A security official said 'influencing public opinion in non-peaceful ways' is among the possible charges that could be brought against the ten organisations being investigated. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to reporters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The security sweep on civil society offices comes on the heels of a military crackdown on protesters demanding ruling generals hand over power to a civilian authority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Soldiers attempting to end the protest last week beat women and dragged one half-naked while kicking her in the street. At least 17 protesters were killed, adding to the roughly 100 people killed in clashes with security since Mubarak's exit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle-East and North Africa, said that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is trying to attack groups that have criticised the military's human rights records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She said: 'I believe SCAF is trying to find some scapegoat for their human rights record. Targeting civil society was a technique used by Mubarak, so it really is reminiscent of the worst tactics of the Mubarak era.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080122/Tensions-rise-Egyptian-forces-raid-American-NGOs-Cairo.html#ixzz1iLVMG5Fj" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080122/Tensions-rise-Egyptian-forces-raid-American-NGOs-Cairo.html#ixzz1iLVMG5Fj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-3330402769358871952?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/3330402769358871952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/ladies-in-egypt.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/3330402769358871952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/3330402769358871952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/ladies-in-egypt.html' title='ladies in egypt'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-2500818440993321556</id><published>2012-01-02T15:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T15:16:35.459-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam in 1433'/><title type='text'>holiday in Egypt 1433 style</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Islamist rule in Egypt may scupper tourism if it is followed by crackdown on alcohol and bikinis&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party says tourists can do without alcohol&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Ultra-conservative Salafist candidates demand ban on all alcohol sales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Calls for segregating Egypt's beaches by sex and banning revealing swimwear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="article-icon-links-container" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="article-icon-links cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li class="social-icons" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 170, 210); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="cleared" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Islamists are widely expected to win a majority in Egypt's new parliament after threatening a crackdown on alcohol and bikinis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party has left Egypts tourist industry fearing they will be elected when the parliament reconvenes next month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Brotherhood has said tourists can do without alcohol while&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;ultra-conservative Salafist candidates have taken it a step further by demanding a ban on all alcohol sales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Egypt's planned crackdown on booze and bikinis could hamper the tourism industry. Picture: The Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza in Cairo " class="blkBorder" height="319" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/29/article-2079936-0F4BA0D600000578-121_468x319.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="468" /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Egypt's planned crackdown on booze and bikinis could hamper the tourism industry. Picture: The Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza in Cairo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;They've also called for segregating Egypt's beaches by sex and banning revealing swimwear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Political unrest and violence have kept tourists away from this and other Egyptian landmarks since the fall of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;former president, Hosni Mubarak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Officials say the number of visitors this holiday season is down by more than one-third compared to the same time last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItems" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h4 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;More...&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079799/Airstrike-Turkey-kills-35-war-jets-mistake-smugglers-terrorists.html" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Turkish jets kill 35 in airstrike after mistaking smugglers for terrorists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079882/Iran-boasts-surveillance-U-S-aircraft-carrier-tensions-Tehran-continue-rise.html" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Iran boasts of surveillance of U.S. aircraft carrier as tensions with Tehran continue to rise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Hisham Zaazou, the senior assistant tourism minister, said:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'These are irresponsible statements in my opinion that, even if said by responsible people, I believe they do not understand the set-up of the industry and the dynamics of it.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'Four out of five tourists who come to Egypt do so for leisure vacations at the beach rather than to visit the pyramids or other historical sites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'More than three-quarters of all visitors to Egypt are from Europe,' he says. 'They expect to be able to enjoy the beach as they would at home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Politicians have called for segregating Egypt's beaches by sex and banning revealing swimwear" class="blkBorder" height="313" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/29/article-2079936-0F4BA0AE00000578-737_468x313.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="468" /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Politicians have called for segregating Egypt's beaches by sex and banning revealing swimwear&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'To swim, you wear a bathing costume. To have dinner, part of the culture is to have a drink with the dinner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'This is the kind of information people have to understand that do not understand the industry. And you don't change the culture of people,' Mr Zaazou said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;But&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Azza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;al-Jarf, the Islamist lawmaker, says Egyptian officials need to rethink their approach to tourism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She argues that appealing to Muslim visitors abroad and domestically will boost tourism, as would hosting more international conferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;She adds that separating beaches by sex and curbing public consumption of alcohol won't affect these new markets or even the old ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Such pronouncements are naive, says Elhamy el-Zayat, who chairs the Egyptian Tourism Federation and runs a company specialising in conference tourism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;He says he's talked with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists at length about their tourism proposals and why they won't work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;He believes that once the Islamists are in power and faced with the financial reality, they'll stop trying to make Egyptian tourists conform to a more conservative Islamic lifestyle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'If they were not pragmatic, could they have collected so many votes?' Mr el-Zayat said. 'They were very pragmatic and very sly, we have to remember this.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; 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border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; display: block; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079936/Islamist-rule-Egypt-scupper-tourism-followed-crackdown-alcohol-bikinis.html#ixzz1iLUdFVYy" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079936/Islamist-rule-Egypt-scupper-tourism-followed-crackdown-alcohol-bikinis.html#ixzz1iLUdFVYy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-2500818440993321556?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/2500818440993321556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/holiday-in-egypt-1433-style.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/2500818440993321556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/2500818440993321556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2012/01/holiday-in-egypt-1433-style.html' title='holiday in Egypt 1433 style'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8553219411230405998.post-1333295156570475970</id><published>2012-01-02T15:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T10:58:05.068-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egypt nile river pollution.corruption in egypt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hosni mubarak'/><title type='text'>having a laugh</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;On their way to the country club? Mubarak's sons leave court in their casual clothes following trial over killing of 800 protesters&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Gamal and Alaa Mubarak accused, along with their father, of complicity in killing protestors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;Ousted Egyptian leader turns up to court on stretcher wearing dark sunglasses and covered in blanket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Concern charges against Hosni Mubarak may be dropped following recent acquittal of policemen tried for killing Egyptian protesters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Wearing casual white attire, the two sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak leave court today after a new session of their trial in Cairo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Gamal, the one-time heir-apparent, and Alaa are accused of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters during last year's uprising that toppled Mubarak's 29-year regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Earlier, their father, who faces the same charges, was wheeled into the court on a stretcher wearing dark sunglasses and covered in a green blanket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="On trial with Hosni Mubarak are his two sons - Gamal (back), his one-time heir apparent, and Alaa - seen here leaving the courthouse today" class="blkBorder" height="647" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/02/article-2081262-0F5189DF00000578-128_636x647.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;On trial with Hosni Mubarak are his two sons - Gamal (back), his one-time heir apparent, and Alaa - seen here leaving the courthouse today,,,,,,,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Hosni Mubarak faces charges of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters during last year's uprising that toppled his 29-year regime" class="blkBorder" height="413" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/02/article-2081262-0F51874E00000578-798_636x413.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Hosni Mubarak - who is suffering from a heart condition, according to his doctors and lawyers - faces charges of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters during last year's uprising that toppled his 29-year regime. He is seen here outside the courthouse today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Are these are the same doctors and lawyers who said Hosni was fit to stand trial last June.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The 83-year-old, who&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;was brought by helicopter to the courthouse from a hospital where he is being held in custody,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;is suffering from a heart condition, according to his doctors and lawyers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The trial has resumed amid speculation that a recent acquittal of policemen tried for killing Egyptian protesters could be a prelude to the dismissal of charges against the ousted leader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="relatedItems" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Egyptian authorities agree to stop raiding human rights groups after U.S. pressure following the storming of NGO offices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079056/Egyptian-court-calls-halt-forced-virginity-tests-female-detainees-military-prisons.html" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Egyptian court calls to end forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079936/Islamist-rule-Egypt-scupper-tourism-followed-crackdown-alcohol-bikinis.html" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Islamist rule in Egypt may scupper tourism if it is followed by crackdown on alcohol and bikinis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;It began on August 3 but has since been bogged down in procedural matters, including a demand by lawyers for the victims that the presiding judge, Ahmed Rifaat, be removed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;That request alone took a separate court about three months to rule on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Another Cairo court on Thursday acquitted five policemen of charges of killing five protesters during the uprising in the capital's district of el-Sayedah Zeinab last January and February.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="An Egyptian woman chants slogans in front of the courtroom in Cairo where Mubarak's trial has resumed. The banners list the names of men killed during the uprising" class="blkBorder" height="418" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/02/article-2081262-0F51575B00000578-52_636x418.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;An Egyptian woman chants slogans in front of the courtroom in Cairo where Mubarak's trial has resumed. The banners list the names of men killed during the uprising&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The court said three of the defendants were not at the site of the killings while the other two fired against protesters in self-defence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The ruling angered families of the victims. Activists demanded that the killers be brought to justice and complained that similar cases are languishing in courts in several Egyptian cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Also on trial are the ousted leader's former security chief and six top police commanders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Gamal and Alaa, who also stand accused of corruption, were brought up in the Heliopolis district of Cairo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Gamal went on to become a banker in London until returning to Egypt in 1995. He climbed up the ranks to lead an influential government committee which instigated liberal economic reforms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Alaa did not assume such a public role, but was alleged to have used his father's status to become immensely rich through corrupt business enterprises.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pro-Mubarak supporters gather outside the Cairo courthouse" class="blkBorder" height="379" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/02/article-2081262-0F51575F00000578-987_636x379.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Pro-Mubarak supporters gather outside the Cairo courthouse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artSplitter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="An Egyptian woman holds a banner with Arabic writing that reads, 'martyr Moaz al-Sayed Mohammed Kamal, the blood of any martyr is respected' in front of the courtroom" class="blkBorder" height="418" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/02/article-2081262-0F51570700000578-21_636x418.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;An Egyptian woman holds a banner with Arabic writing that reads, 'martyr Moaz al-Sayed Mohammed Kamal, the blood of any martyr is respected' in front of the courtroom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The acquittal of the police officers in el-Sayedah Zeinab and the relatively long time the Mubarak trial is taking before even starting to deal with the core of the charges against him have led many activists to brand the proceedings a farce, organised by the generals who took over power when the longtime leader was ousted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The generals are led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defence minister for the last 20 years he spent in office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The activists believe the generals remain beholden to the Mubarak regime, and only placed the former president and his two sons under arrest after mounting pressure by protesters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The Mubaraks were arrested in April, two months after the ousting of the regime.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Activists believe this was long enough for the three to conceal evidence of their alleged involvement in either the killings or corruption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; font-size: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; 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cairo. he has a home in the town of Gurna near Luxor. he promised me and my wife he would put an end to our problems of being swindled, For 5 years I put up with this lying toads lies&amp;nbsp; he had his chance to put things right, but he chose to use&amp;nbsp; taqqaya. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nySdMJUJtSNubzdLR93BlQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0yNDA7cT04NTt3PTQwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/skynews/16112062_400x240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Benetton Pulls Ad Showing Pope Kissing Imam" border="0" class="vlz" height="240" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nySdMJUJtSNubzdLR93BlQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0yNDA7cT04NTt3PTQwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/skynews/16112062_400x240.jpg" title="Benetton Pulls Ad Showing Pope Kissing Imam" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="bd"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="photo first last"&gt;&lt;a class="media" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/benetton-pulls-ad-showing-pope-kissing-imam-photo-16112062_400x240-044745434.html;_ylt=Aq5DOntEq5Q.1L2snpgrMgrofMl_;_ylu=X3oDMTQzb3BwYWhsBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIFJlbGF0ZWQEcGtnAzhkNWNhMTAwLWViNTktMzkxZC04Njc4LTIyNjFiZTYxNGEzMARwb3MDMQRzZWMDTWVkaWFBcnRpY2xlUmVsYXRlZAR2ZXIDMTAyNGNiNjAtMTBkOS0xMWUxLWJkZjMtMjdjMGFmMmM4MGE2;_ylg=X3oDMTJqZTllN3YzBGludGwDZ2IEbGFuZwNlbi1nYgRwc3RhaWQDZTUwZjFiYWYtMDE3MC0zNmZkLWFjYzktNTBjNWJkOGM0OGYyBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdl;_ylv=3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="action enlarge"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Benetton Pulls Ad Showing Pope Kissing Imam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yog-col yog-11u" id="yui_3_3_0_1_1321520907803415"&gt;&lt;div class="yom-mod yom-art-content"&gt;&lt;div class="bd"&gt;Benetton has been forced to pull an advert featuring a picture of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The image showed the pontiff kissing Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, an imam from a pre-eminent theological school of Sunni Islam.&lt;br /&gt;Al-Azhar suspended interfaith talks with the Vatican earlier this  year after Benedict called for greater protections for Egypt's minority  Christians.&lt;br /&gt;The picture of the pair was posted on the clothing company's website  and posters featuring the kiss were briefly displayed in Milan, New  York, Paris, Tel Aviv and Rome.&lt;br /&gt;It was among various pictures of political opponents kissing created for Benetton's campaign, titled "Unhate".&lt;br /&gt;They included Barack Obama and Venezualan leader Hugo Chavez, German  Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the  Israeli and Palestinian leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas.&lt;br /&gt;The company said the adverts were aimed at fostering tolerance and  "global love" but it prompted a quick reaction from the Vatican.&lt;br /&gt;Spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi called the picture an "unacceptable"  manipulation of the Pope's likeness and said it offended the religious  sentiments of the faithful.&lt;br /&gt;"It shows a serious lack of respect for the Pope," he said, and he  warned that the Vatican was studying measures to protect the pontiff's  image.&lt;br /&gt;Shock ads have long been part of the company's publicity strategy,  with previous campaigns featuring death row inmates and people dying of  aids.&lt;br /&gt;The company said the images were "symbolic images of reconciliation -  with a touch of ironic hope and constructive provocation - to stimulate  reflection on how politics, faith and ideas, when they are divergent  and mutually opposed, must still lead to dialogue and mediation".&lt;br /&gt;In a statement following the Vatican's complaint, it apologised and  said: "We have decided with immediate effect to withdraw this image from  every publication."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="entry-title"&gt;not so long ago the Imam of Al Azahr told the&amp;nbsp; 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&lt;div class="blog-posts hfeed"&gt;             &lt;div class="date-outer"&gt;          &lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Monday, May 16, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt;          &lt;div class="post-outer"&gt; &lt;div class="post hentry"&gt; &lt;a href="" name="9187204529293846021"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="post-header"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9187204529293846021"&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb ( أحمد محمد الطيب‎;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SHEIKH  MOHAMED TYEB HAS CHANGED HIS STANCE ON HELPING A TOURIST SO MAYBE I WILL  CHANGE MY MIND ON HIM BEING MY FRIEND AND LET YOU ALL KNOW WHO THIS  CUNIVING MUSLIM IS IN REALITY, FIRST HE IS THE HEAD OF THE SHEIHKS , AND  HEAD OF THE TYEB SHEIKDOM, FORGET ABOUT HIS BROTHER &lt;strong&gt;Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language"&gt;Arabic&lt;/a&gt;: أحمد محمد الطيب‎; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sheikh&lt;/em&gt; Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language"&gt;Arabic&lt;/a&gt;: الشيخ أحمد محمد الطيب‎) is the current &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam" title="Imam"&gt;Imam&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_Mosque" title="Al-Azhar Mosque"&gt;al-Azhar Mosque&lt;/a&gt;. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" title="Hosni Mubarak"&gt;Hosni Mubarak&lt;/a&gt;,  in 2010THE HEAD OF ISLAM IN EGYPT. SO MY QUESTION IS WHY DID MOHAMED  RUN FOR GOVERNMENT KNOWING FULL WELL HE HAS THE SUPPORT OF ALL THE  MUSLIM PEOPLE IN LUXOR, AND WHY DID HE JOIN OFFICE WITH THE CORRUPT DR  SAMIR FARAQ NOW IN CAIRO PRISON AWAITING SENTENCE, I HEAR SOME VILLAGE  ELDERS ARE NOT HAPPY AFTER OTHERS RECEIVED VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR  VILLAGE PROJECTS. SUCH AS 1 MILLION LE FOR A 15 FT BRIDGE OVER A CANAL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT  EGYPTS ANTI CORRUPTION FORCE WILL NOT DELVE INTO THE SHEIKDOM FOR FEAR  OF MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE BROTHERHOOD AND THE LIKE. SO DOES THIS MAKE  HIM ABOVE THE LAW. AND WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME AFTER ALL HIS AND SHEIKH  ACHMEDS PROMISES OF TAKE ALL CASES OUT OF THE LUXOR COURT AND WE WILL  GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS FROM 28TH JANUARY POST ,,, TO THE NEW GUVORNER OF LUXOR KHALED PLEASE READ THIS POST.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well  its all doom and gloom here in Egypt what with people running around  and fighting with Egypt's presidents men MDK seems to be the order of  the day .it seems not only I have been affected by the corruption here  in this beautiful land of Egypt but its people too are rebelling against  , well, it would be beautiful if they get rid of the pollution and this  regime , I know I as a guest in this country should not be commenting  on how it should be run, but seeing that the powers that be do not like  me blogging on anything other than the birds and the bees, and the  injustice of the corrupt courts made it impossible for me to get my  rights, But thanks to the head of Islam in Egypt Dr ahmed Tyeb . I at  least get some of my money back even though its in six monthly  instalments, and in order to get all of my money I have to stay here in  Egypt for the next twenty years by then I will be older than the  president of Egypt is now, so what do I do with my time as a retired  person who is dependant on the good Sheihk Tyeb,who I will see hopefully  every 6 months going gracefully old with me. he is 65 I am 67 so that  makes that I should die before him,I have answered some people,s  question why do I live in Egypt. I love Egypt the country I can go out  every day and see something new almost every day I see a new species of  something I have not seen before I have made a hobby from birding and  photographing wildlife in all its forms. go to my website  www.myegypt.co.uk on the lower of the first page is a list of all my  blogs all have run out of allotted space because of the amount of photos  on them these include tombs and temples I have visited, some people  have never heard of the temple toud or Montu, El Khab, selicia quarry  etc, over 1000 plants on one blog. 60 species of dragonfly , 85 species  of birds in luxor alone, bugs most in macro,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;three blogs on life  in luxor, recently I did a three week tour of lower Egypt most of that  blog from Cairo to Suez and overland to Siwa oasis is now on the last  page of myegypt website, some days with my back problems I was laid up  stopped in Alexandria for a few days halfway through to recuperate, why  did I choose Egypt to live,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in 1991 I was diagnosed with three  slipped disks 96 I started to get Arthritic, all my joints would stiffen  up could not even manage to walk properly even a six inch step was a  problem, I started doing volunteer work helping build orphanages in .  Rumania, Israel ,Jordan ,Kenya,Sri Lanka finally in a village here  called Daraw upper Egypt I renovated the eye ear and throat clinic for  Germanaya hospital this was for the poor people mainly the Nubian , here  I found my arthritics had gone one reason being it hardly ever rains  here in the Nile VALLEYdelta, only problem was lifting things because of  my slipped discs , no problem the people here need work so I had a guy  just to lift anything for me I.E. bricks sand and cement and so on , I  did not need any one to clean my backside and I managed quite well even  taught the Egyptian how to plaster and lay bricks, I travelled 45  kilometres each day from Aswan just to stop gossip that the sister had a  new boyfriend, but in them six months I fell in love with Egypt and its  simplicity never thought of the Muslim factor here, its not what a  Christian talks about for fear of reprisal, so when I decided on living  here in Egypt I was as well informed about these liars and con men as a  two year old. and I got conned never in my wildest dreams did I think of  anyone , especially one I was getting out of the gutter to bite the  hand that feeds him, they do not have any morals one thing that will not  pass their lips is "I am Sorry" what they will say is why should I pay  an infidel back, fuck off back to your own country, seven times this  week I have had this remark and one from A cop,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_4028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="300" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_4028.jpg?w=284&amp;amp;h=300&amp;amp;h=300" title="IMG_4028" width="284" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;the face of evil,.&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_40291.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="252" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_40291.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=252&amp;amp;h=252" title="IMG_4029" width="300" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go  back to your own fukin country Christian not welcome here and all that  bull. and here I am thinking the president of Egypt has put his foot  down about Muslim embracing the Christians,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even through all  this, I still quite like living here tomorrow I know the weather will be  fine enough for me to go out for a walk,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;I want to get to know how the Arab mind works,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no doubt millions of others do too, maybe the Arabs themselves would like to know  and how to make sense of things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;most  I have met up to 3 years ago  just wanted my money, more intelligent  ones just said things to keep me quiet so they told lies. and always an  insha alla at the end&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these included judges,lawyers , sheikhs and police the higher rank  they were,  the bigger the lies were ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in  July 2006   i took my case to the sheikh  he ruled mohamad awad had to  pay me back,  mohamad awad said why should I pay a Christian money, and  the sheihk said what can I do   you   leave it in the luxor court, after  finding out 2 years ago about these liars connected to the court here  in luxor i took my  chance on opting for  what we shall call Shari law,   .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that meant going back to see the sheikh in Cairo,  there in  his office  on the 28.6.09  he told me to see him in his home in Gurna  on the 28th of August where he said he promises to finish my problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="264" src="http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/three_cols.jpg" title="three_cols" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2011/01/03/imam-of-al-azahr-tells-pope-to-stfu/"&gt;Egypt’s Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb, Sunni Islam’s highest religious authority.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no  matter what anyone's views are about the Sheikh   he is the only person  here in Egypt that has tried to help me, even against his brother  Mohameds wishes,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;لا يهم ما هي وجهات النظر حول أي شخص الشيخ، وقال انه هو الشخص الوحيد هنا في مصر الذي حاول ان تساعدني، وحتى ضد رغباته محمد شقيق،&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the first hearing &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;28st  of August .   the sheihk achmed said  you will  fight for 20 years  and  get nothing in this court , take what you can tony,, and he worked on  what the agreement was in 2006  just the £38.500  that I could prove  from the bank statements , 5  years on  and today   the figure is more  than 1.5 million   first 20£ for the sale of workshop and bmw car. cash  money given to Mohamed.  loss of income from the hotel  estimating on  what was taken in the first 12 months of opening 15000£ annually. this  was taken from the hotel and its restaurant. court costs etc  another  20.000£,      in 2010  sheikh achmed gave my problem to his brother  Mohammed tyeb,  because he had just been appointed head of Islam by his  majesty H Mubarak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so now i had a hater of Christians looking into  my case,,,   BE STRONG  Achmed told his brother,  the other reason  achmed wanted this case finished was my web sites,,  making it bad for  Islam  he said,    now here is Mohamed Tayebs  cunning plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;get  mr tony to  down  all the cases against the  Muslim brothers two of whom  are actual relatives, if Mohamed awads mother is related to the sheikh  that means  all involved in the charges are  in the sheikdom of tyeb,,,   give Mr tony 25 thousand egp  his phone and memory card back ; give him  15thousand every six months;  they think i am an egyptian money will  close my eyes;,  all this did was insult me ;  but as  sheihk Achmed  said 12 months before ;;  take what you can Mr Tony,  not forgeting 2  weeks before the deal    Mohamed Awad tried to kill me. because i caught  him in a lie,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/02/attemted-murder.html"&gt;,Attempted murder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725"&gt;why  did I go to the hotel.Before I entered the hotel, I showed a  policeman  at the checkpoint next to the building now known as the West bank  hotel. my papers from the court,&lt;br /&gt;this was the paper I had received 6 months prior from the luxor court that I could go back to my home but did not&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"WHY?                                         the sheikh asked me not to  provoke Awad while he was deciding what to do about my situation,&lt;br /&gt;I asked this policeman to help, there was also several plain clothed police at the checkpoint at that time, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; now known as the thugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;none would help even though I had court orders to go back to my home,&lt;br /&gt;as  I arrived in the hotel the doors where open but there was no one about,  so I proceeded to go up to my room that is situated to the rear of the  first floor. as I was on the first flight of concrete steps Carima the  wife of Mohamed Awad saw me and started screaming . Tony is here. then  mohamed Awad who sleeps on the ground floor on the base of the stairs  appeared I GAVE HIM THE PAPERS THEN KARIMA TOOK THEM AND RIPPED THEM UP&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; I took a photo of Mohamed&lt;/span&gt;  then he ,,MOHAMED,, shouted I kill you you fuck then grabbed my legs  and dragged me down 5 steps I banged my head and my buttock . while semi  concious on the floor I was kicked several times. karima took my bag  and emptied its contents on the floor and took my Htc mobile  phone,mohamed took my camera and took the memory card out. as I got to  my feet karima and mohameds mother Samira started hitting me with sticks  as I moved from the bottom of the stairs into the foyer.&lt;br /&gt;Achmed  appeared in his underwear he never moved from the base of the stairs he  was just shouting"you fuck just go I will kill you. then the Neighbours  appeared and dragged me out of the hotel then brave achmed came out and  started shouting the same as before,&lt;br /&gt;one secret police came and told  me to leave. and I went to the checkpoint. here I was told to wait for  the tourist police IE Ebd El Moshin. I waited for one hour and was quite  incoherent. half an hour after the incident in the hotel Achmed came to  the check point. to make a complaint.&lt;br /&gt;as I now know the complaint  was I had used a knife and attacked him, so why did the police not  search me, Here I was being held by the police a knife wielding tourist.  and no one searched me . neither did they try to retrieve my mobile and  sim card,&lt;br /&gt;on arrival at the police station at dier el medinet, they questioned Achmed first. an hour later I was questioned ;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;as  I was writing my statement EBD  Moshin asked what am I doing ? make it  short just say how the women hit you them we can take to court, then I  asked that I go to the hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as I was making the new  statement they called a service taxi to take me and achmed to the  hospital. ebd moshin also ordered a guard to accompany us, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;at this I asked "am I under arrest,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; why would you be under arrest ;asked Moshin&lt;/span&gt;, I been arrested before and no one told my embassy" I said; and again he said no you are not under arrest.&lt;br /&gt;at  the hospital the guard stayed glued to me ; Achmed was allowed to walk  about freely. after a few minutes Achmed was allowed to leave. now it  was my turn to get examined. A severe blow to the head several marks  where I had been hit with a stick or similar, and another severe bruise  to the buttock, then I was taken back to the police station. there I  waited for almost 2 hours, before another vehicle was called to take us  to the main police station in new Gurna.&lt;br /&gt;no questions , just very  stern police by this time I was feeling Quite faint and asked if I could  go home to eat drink and get my medication. not now you can get them  later, then a young police officer arrived he was told to get changed  into civil clothes. when He came back he was given a pistol and told to  hide it under his jacket. at 19.30 we left . in the cab of a local  transport vehicle, this guy could only talk about how he would like to  have sex with a white girl just kept on and on. I was glad to have some  space as we boarded the ferry, after getting off the ferry the sex  machine said we take a taxi I said no, the court is just down the  promenade then I went to my flat under much objection from the gun  totting policeman. but nothing he could do as his orders were to get me  to the court by &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;21.30. while in my flat I managed to get a message to my lawyer.&lt;/span&gt; through my landlord.&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; even though I was being charged for assault with a deadly weapon, they said I was not under arrest&lt;/span&gt;, so there is no need to contact any one, I only found out what the charges where while in front of the Judge.&lt;br /&gt;In  the court We all of us were made to stand up, usually we sit then stand  when the Judge is addressing someone, feeling quite faint I asked the  Judge if I could sit after being on my feet in searing heat all day."&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; SHUT THE FUCK UP&lt;/span&gt;"  he shouted.. half an hour later I was up on a grievous bodily assault  on the ARSONIST Achmed Mohamed Awad. even though the doctors said in the  report Achmed had a superficial wound to his hand made with a blunt  instrument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;one week later I was with the Sheikh making deals for my money bac&lt;/span&gt;k, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;one  and the main part of the deal was that I the victim had to drop all  charges against all the conspirators who swindled me out of my home and  money,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;two days after the deal I was called in front of the corrupt Judges. first question&lt;br /&gt;Why you make it bad for us?&lt;br /&gt;so I told him. about all the corruption The lawyer had spun in this court.&lt;br /&gt;?what was the reason for the judges to see me.&lt;br /&gt;By  taking my case in front of the sheik and making Mohamed Awad and his  lawyer plus the judges liars. they wanted me out of the country,&lt;br /&gt;this  was geared by the lawyer Mustafa Atea because before the beating, I  would not drop the charges against him. so in effect Mustafa was still  in charge in this court. he had the backing of Sheihk Abru nasser + one  of the elders.The reason I went to the hotel Because when Sheik MOHAMED  Tyeb called mohamed awad  on his mobile to sign papers to had over land  to me;- he said he was in Cairo and would not be back home for a week,  hence the photos I took of him in the hotel, and the reason he did not  make a complaint to the police, even though I tried to pull him out of  the hotel, therefore he was the only one I touched not Achmed,&lt;br /&gt;If he  made the assault complaint to his friend Moshin, Sheihk mohamed would  have known he lied and was not in Cairo. as soon as the lying neighbours  came, he shut himself in his room,&lt;br /&gt;he was also not in a fit state to go anywhere, as you can see this guy is a opium taker drug addict,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p6160020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="225" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p6160020.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=225&amp;amp;h=225" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-body-4762563166792160725"&gt;mohamed awad  the real family man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mohamed  Awad the real con man.11/5/11, As I was walking along the promenade  today a hand tapped me on the shoulder or rather grabbed my shoulder,  hey" Mr Tony where is my money,&lt;br /&gt;this was Bedawi, the builder of my home,IN 2004/5 ,, I thought Mohamed was paying you in monthly instalments; I said ,&lt;br /&gt;no  he never give me only 1 month he say he wait for you to pay , I told  him how much I paid. and he was supposed to be paying you the builder  and the painter, from money from the hotel and restaurant. I said, I  need to know more, and said we can talk in a coffee shop,&lt;br /&gt;apparently  The builder paid his workers each day,,, at times, like when making  concrete floors etc he had 30 men working ,,,,normally while bricklaying  and plastering there was 4 men working, plus men paid to take the  bricks and sand up to the working area floor, these men only worked if  paid each day, and Mohamed only paid for the workers leaving Bedawi  without money , Mohamed saying he will get the money at the end of the  job, and just gave money to tie the builder over, Bedawi said he  received one month but that was all.. each month he went for his money  he was told the same story, Mr Tony have no money, well Mohamed wasn't  lying, the painter has the same story he never got paid only for  materials.&lt;br /&gt;so I told Bedawi to go see the sheikh, then he told me  things I already knew from an employee at the hotel called Walla, out of  the 2400 months salary for 6 employees, Mohamed was taking half their  wages for getting them a job in my hotel, all of these employees are his  relations, Walla got the push two months before I had problems Mohamed  said Walla was taking all the tips, I prove it He said, early morning  there was only two staff in the hotel, send the new boy out to get  groceries, when getting the money out of your pocket, drop this 20 le on  the floor I have taken the serial no, and of course Walla picked the  note up. Mohamed gave Walla instant dismissal.&lt;br /&gt;The reason being Walla  was my pal , We talked about things , and Mohamed did not want Walla  telling me the truth of what was going on. and it was Walla who told me 6  months after I got burnt out of the hotel what Mohamed was up to IE  taking half the wages taking all the tips taking 4500le for meat your  bill was about 1000 le per month, I paid Mohamed Awad employees tax  money its the law Mr Tony ! we have to pay Tax,! and Another reason why I  had to employ his best friend Hassan as hotel manager, 1000 per month,&lt;br /&gt;Hassan  was illiterate, so he needed to employ an under manager, this is and  was a 5 bedroomed hotel, but Mohamed kept bringing up the rules of  owning a hotel in Egypt, 6 staff one gardener handy man Tyib, the garden  was 20 x 5 meters with lots of paving, the hotel was new no need for a  handyman,&lt;br /&gt;I left Bedawi rather confused! he thought Mohamed took me  out of the hotel for not paying ,Bedawi is going to see the Sheikh this  Friday,&lt;br /&gt;and once Mohamed got me out, his lies as to not being paid  people believed,AND OF COURSE I NOW KNOW THE REAL REASON MOHAMED AWAD  WANTED ME OUT OF MY HOME,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;,I also want to know where in the  koran does it say a drug addict,  alcoholic, and swindler not just from  me but from his own relations,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;has complete protection from prosecution, if under the protection of The village sheik  here known as  Sheihk mohameb Tyeb,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;talk  about jumping from the frying pan into the fire,  seems that my friend   is also a  Christian hater,  too bad I was beginning to like him,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744787"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744858"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It  should be noted that this venomous snake who has just hissed and spat  and bared his fangs at Pope Benedict XVI, was one of the 138 Islamic  'scholars' who signed off on a sweetly-sinister veiled-threat  'surrender-or-ELSE' letter "A Common Word Between Us and You" which was  sent to all the heads of ALL the major Christian groupings in the world,  in October 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we want to know what Al-Tayeb's record is like, here is a sample:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On  April 4, 2002 he said: “The solution to Israeli terror can be found  **in suicide attacks** {my emphasis - dda} that will sow terror in the  hearts of the enemies of Islam.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- reported by Magdi Allam, in  the Corriere della Sera, 22.1.2008, in his article – "La Fatwa dell’odio  anti-Israele che condiziona anche i. ‘moderati’."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those new to this site and this subject, who may not have heard or know much about 'A Common Word':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is the jihadwatch discussion that took place when it appeared -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/10/muslims-to-christians-make-peace-with-us-or-the-survival-of-the-world-is-at-stake.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/10/muslims-to-christians-make-peace-with-us-or-the-survival-of-the-world-is-at-stake.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Muslims  to Christians: Make Peace With Us, or the Survival of the World is At  Stake" (trans: SURRENDER already, become dhimmis or convert, or as soon  as we get enough WMDs we will use them on all and sundry).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is what Canon Patrick Sookhdeo, apostate from Islam, had to say about it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://barnabasfund.org/news/archives/text.php?ID_news_items=342" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://barnabasfund.org/news/archives/text.php?ID_news_items=342&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28th November 2007 - FEATURED ARTICLE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RESPONSE TO OPEN LETTER AND CALL FROM MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO CHRISTIAN LEADERS, 13 OCTOBER 2007&lt;br /&gt;And here is Anglican priest Mark Durie also analysing 'A Common Word':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://acommonword.blogspot.com/2008/02/notes-for-christians-on-understanding.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://acommonword.blogspot.com/2008/02/notes-for-christians-on-understanding.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744861"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744866"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes  Pope Benedict, how dare you interfere with the killing of copts. They  are infidels.....our infidels....." 10 bucks right now that that's what  that son of a gun is thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am fed up with this stupidity.  His comments just raised my blood pressure to a dangerous level. A prime  example of the stupidity of islam. Here he is everyone......the highest  official in the highest school of islam in the sunni world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744868"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Daily Mail, UK, 1:40am on 7th July 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=466818&amp;amp;in_page_id=1770" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=466818&amp;amp;in_page_id=1770&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I hope the link still works).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="comment-744928"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there was the time I thought the army may help.??? Mr Tony Muslims do not help infidels!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="post-comment-link"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="post-icons"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt; &lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"&gt;&lt;span class="post-labels"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-outer"&gt; &lt;div class="post hentry"&gt; &lt;a href="" name="339764079878299735"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt; &lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/to-guvorner-of-luxor.html"&gt;TO THE GUVORNER OF LUXOR,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-339764079878299735"&gt; The dates I will give are in my head, as you asked for a summary of  events the first date is,  3.3.06 the day I realized I was in a swindle.&lt;br /&gt;if  you need the actual dates  case numbers etc  my lawyer has all the  paper work of the case up to 6/6/2010,,  his phone number is 0144145177    or 0123573343,&lt;br /&gt;First day after I found out I was in a swindle, I  went to the tourist police  on the east bank,   they called Mustafa Atea   and Mohamed in for questioning, they were released on the promise of  paying me my money back the next day,  the police never made any  statements neither did they write any kind of note,  this can be  confirmed by the lawyer Methat,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FOLLOWING DAY  NEITHER MUSTAFA OR MOHAMED TURNED UP  WITH MY MONEY,&lt;br /&gt;I WENT BACK TO THE POLICE STATION  AND MADE STATEMENTS,&lt;br /&gt;MOHAMED HAD SWINDLED ME OUT OF £38.800,00 , ONLY  PROVEN ON STATEMENTS MONEY  OUT OF MY BANK ,&lt;br /&gt;I  COULD NOT CLAIM THE £20.000.00 FROM THE SALE OF WORKSHOP TOOLS AND THE B  M W CAR. AS THIS WAS BROUGHT OVER IN CASH TO PAY THE BUILDERS,   OR SO  MOHAMED SAID,&lt;br /&gt;*MUSTAFA WAS CHARGED WITH TAKING 500LE TO TRANSLATE THE ARABIC PAPERS INTO ENGLISH.&lt;br /&gt;THE OTHER CHARGE WAS HE MADE A LEASE CONTRACT, NOT LAND CONTRACT,&lt;br /&gt;MOHAMED  AND MUSTAFA WERE ENCASERATED FOR 4 DAYS BEFORE IT WENT IN FRONT OF THE  PROSECUTION JUDGES, THEY SENT THE CASES TO COURT THE FIRST HEARING WAS  ONE YEAR LATER,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST PROSECUTION HEARING ,  MOHAMED AND HIS BROTHER ACHMED STARTED TO GET ME OUT OF MY HOME, FIRST  THEY TURNED THE ELECTRICITY AND WATER OFF, I REPORTED THIS TO THE  TOURIST POLICE AND NOTHING WAS DONE  THEN THE ROOF WAS SET ON FIRE, ONLY  PERSON IN THE HOTEL THAT EVENING WAS ACHMED THE BROTHER.  THE  NEIGHBOURS WERE PAID TO SAY THEY SAW US DRINKING AND SMOKING ON THE  ROOF,   THE FIRE INVESTIGATION PROVED WE DID NOT MAKE THE FIRE, THE  POLICE PUT IN A REPORT THE FIRE STARTED WITH A SPARK FROM THE SUGAR OR  SIMILAR FIRES . THERE WAS NO FIRES THIS WAS THE END OF SUGAR SEASON  IT  WAS CHAMASIN WIND TIME ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ONE MONTH AFTER WE LEFT THE HOTEL, I HAD  A PHONE CALL FROM  THE OWNER OF THE KELLANY HOTEL ASWAN, TO SAY SOME  DOCTOR  LEFT HIS BAG IN THE HOTEL. I SAID ITS NOT POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE  HOTEL IS CLOSED, THAT’S WHAT THE POLICE TOLD ME, YOUR THINGS ARE SAFE AS  WE HAVE CLOSED YOUR HOTEL ROOMS,   THE DOCTOR PHONED ME BACK DESCRIBING  THE ROOMS AND WHO WAS IN CHARGE , SO MY WIFE SAID GO TO THE POLICE, AS  WE DID,,  TAKE A CAMERA , THEY SAID PROOF THE HOTEL IS OPEN,&lt;br /&gt;THE  FATHER WAS WAITING WITH A STICK HE BEAT MY WIFE WITH THE STAVE AND I HAD  MY FINGER BROKE PROTECTING HER,  IN COURT  I GOT TWO WEEKS JAIL THE  FATHER GOT A MONTH.  HE CLAIMED I HIT HIM IN THE TESTICLES.&lt;br /&gt;MOHAMED  HAD RENTED A HOTEL  SEAWAVES  IN HURGADA, TOLD HIS FAMILY DO NOT LET  TONY OR HIS WIFE IN THE HOTEL,  ALL THE POLICE STATEMENTS WERE LIES,  THEY SAID I HAD NO CAMERA AND THEY SAID THE FATHER HAD NO STICK,  EVEN  THOUGH Achmed’s statement said he took the memory card out of the camera  . Proof the father had a stick the weal marks on my wife and  my  smashed finger  where I had to have the nail surgically removed and 7  stitches . On the first  appeal they reduced the sentence to one  thousand pound fine,&lt;br /&gt;DURING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OUT OF MY HOME, I  HAD TO MOVE 3 TIMES MOHAMED AND HIS THUG FRIEND MOHAMED UNIS and co,  THREATENED THE LAND LORDS , THESE MOVES COST ME ALMOST FIVE THOUSAND  STERLING.&lt;br /&gt;I had nothing  Mohamed would only let me take my personnel  things Clothing  etc. out of my home even though it was under police  supervision,  I had to pay the police 200le to park the lorry outside my  home. Mohamed followed the lorry to find out where I lived, and  threatened the land lady,&lt;br /&gt;During the first year out of my home I had  been arrested twice  the police did not even inform the embassy,  not  that the embassy could do anything anyway,&lt;br /&gt;In June 2006 I was told  sheik tayeb can solve the problem, then  all I wanted was the money I  could prove back, £38 800.  He asked if I wanted the home or my money.  Take the money he said as the home will be coming down soon ( making a  large roundabout in maroor)  he then ordered Mohamed to pay me back  £12,000.00 every year  for 3 years, Mohamed refused  and the sheikh told  me to go back to the Luxor court,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first court hearing may 2007.&lt;br /&gt;Mustafa  produced the English rent copy. Did not give it to his lawyer  he took  it out of his inner coat pocket and gave it direct to the judge,&lt;br /&gt;The  judge flashed the papers in my face asked is this your signature,  I  said it looks like my signature, and dismissed the case  until the  signatures could be proven,  first I had to go to Cairo Port said road  court to get them translated to Arabic,&lt;br /&gt;weeks later I was told by my  lawyer to go pick the rent papers up from the court get them stamped   and take them to Cairo, as I was reading these papers  half of which I  could not read, Mustafa pushed pass me to go to see his uncle who was  chief Clerk for the judges hassan atea [deceased]&lt;br /&gt;On the way out I  asked him which child wrote this contract, he hit me full in the face my  false teeth got dislodged by the time I came to my senses Mustafa was  on his way out  but there was so many people in the allyway between the  courts  he was slowed down when I caught up with him, I asked what’s  your problem he leaned in my face saying nothing you can do in this  court you are not a muslim , and I head butted him  he then pushed me  over and I fell over some convicts sitting on the floor  he then ran out   down the stairs,&lt;br /&gt;I reported this to the duty police down stairs as I  was leaving the court , he told me to go to the police  who were now in  their new office by the train station,  I told the general  about the  incident but did not make a written complaint because  he said no point  just make more paperwork and more time for you in court.  Mustafa also  went to the police station made a complaint I hit him three times in the  face in his place of work. He also stated I hit him with a big ring on  my finger, knowing this would get me jail time. I week later I was  called in front of the judge,  first he asked can I see your hands, then  after some questions,  he said “halas“, no statements from me nothing  so I was under the impression  they had seen through Mustafa’s devious  plan,&lt;br /&gt;WHAT HE DID WAS GO OUT PAY SOME THUG TO BEAT HIM IN THE FACE  WITH A RING TO LEAVE MARKS, HE WENT TO HOSPITAL FOR REPORTS  THEN WENT  TO THE TOURIST POLICE, WHY NOT THE CRIMINAL POLICE.&lt;br /&gt;NEXT THING I WAS  IN THE CRIMINAL COURT BEING CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL ASSAULT, RECEIVED 2  WEEKS JAIL, THIS WAS AND HAD TO GO TO THE CAIRO APPEAL COURT WHERE IT  WILL BE DEALT WITH IN 5 TO 10 YEARS TIME,  ALSO WITH THESE ASSAULT  CHARGES MOUNTING UP ,  IT WAS LOOKING VERY GOOD FOR MUSTAFA AND HIS PAL  Mohamed Awad.&lt;br /&gt;It took 3 years for these judges to decide the English contract was  a forgery,&lt;br /&gt;4  misdemeanours  to Quena court,and 3 times the papers went to the  forgery office in Quena after the second refusal of,   oh we only check  the signature, I knew the signatures were mine  how they obtained them  was through his uncle Hassan. And judge Shaddy, we need your signature   please , I signed a paper then he said print writing. Then Mustafa made  the English rent contract around the signature, proven the last time  these papers went to Quena,&lt;br /&gt;Fed up with the corruption  in luxor  court 1st of August  2009 two weeks before ramadan, I went to Cairo to  see Dr  Ahmed  Tyeb at al azhir university,&lt;br /&gt;Come and see me 28th  and I promise I will finish this problem.  Must not make it bad for Islam he said,&lt;br /&gt;During  this time I had my papers  from the court saying I could go back to my  home.  I told Tyeb   and he said not to make things bad  stay out  and I  will finish this problem.&lt;br /&gt;Then Mohamed wanted to give me one piece  of the land in Ramla,  6 months later I was told that Samir faraq Had  taken this land  and sheiks tayeb ordered Mohamed to pay £40.000&lt;br /&gt;I was ordered by Sheihk Mohamed to  take all the court cases out of the court.&lt;br /&gt;This  was a Sunday  next day,   Mustafa now had a problem  as he had not  released  power of attourney ,  this was signed  in the court as   licence for beer for the hotel, saying sorry Mr tony Cannot get a  translator for the contract,  two hours later He asked  to sign my hotel  papers saying trust me mr tony I am your lawyer,&lt;br /&gt;So where did  Mustafa go on Sunday instead of meeting me and my lawyer in court . He  went to see his pall Judge Shaddy who had recently moved to Cairo ,  15  days latter he came back  and we all had to meet in the court.   First  and it seemed most important was to take Baba Awad off the months Jail  sentence, then the other cases, making sure all the charges against  Mustafa was dropped,&lt;br /&gt;The same evening we went back to the Sheihk  to sign  for my money,&lt;br /&gt;Then came the bartering  and the blackmailing, saying  I will get 3 to5 years jail if I did not Sign.&lt;br /&gt;You  know about the attempted murder two weeks prior to the sheihks order,  they said they had put 3 more assault charges in to the police,  just  like they did twice before.&lt;br /&gt;Neither did I know the  luxor court had found the English contract to be a forgery,&lt;br /&gt;And  this is the main reason Mustafa went to see his friend Judge Shaddy,  during the time Mustafa was in Cairo  I also had a call from my lawyer  to say Judge Achmed wanted to see me , he asked why I made it bad for  the judges on the internet, and with Sheihk Achmed,  they wanted me out  of the country   before the shit hit the fan.&lt;br /&gt;The sheihk making mohamed Awad and Mustafa liars  means that these Judges  did not do their job   giving justice where its due,&lt;br /&gt;And  now with the cases out of the court and sheihk mohamed  refusing to  hear my complaints, it seems that he too has fallen into Mustafa Ateas  corruption web,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;58.800.00 sterling is what Mohamed received  2004 -2005 exchange rate was between 11 and 12 egp to one £&lt;br /&gt;While I ran the hotel  I was paying 8 500 le for staff and  food, per month&lt;br /&gt;the  first 5 months of the hotel being open the polish archaeological team  was paying 9000 per week food and rooms, 9 person @120 per day.    I  never received one penny of that money, or any other money from the  hotel mohamed claimed he owed the builders money. When I was forced out  of my home I saw the painter man in Luxor, and he was still waiting for  his money,  he also said  bedawi the builder was still getting  a  monthly payment, so in effect all the money I gave mohamed  only went to  pay for materials, I then went to see a man who was building the Coptic  church, I asked him how much would it cost to build my home  the  complete building with the land about 25 thousand sterling using the  best materials to finish ie tiles and wc suites.&lt;br /&gt;Over the months I  was in the  hotel the restaurant alone took 20thousand le per week and  the hotel was full most of the time an estimated 20thousand per week.   The hotel was opened January 2005  I got forced out in  may 2006’&lt;br /&gt;The hotel was reopened the day Mohamed Awad refused to pay Sheikh tayeb 2006,&lt;br /&gt;With the money he made  from the hotel he bought 14 carrat  and one carrat in rahmla west bank.&lt;br /&gt;In  2007  he sold part of my home to A Swiss woman took her for 30thousand  euro. She was forced to leave Egypt as Mohamed had taken photos of her  with young boys, and his police friends refused her entry into Egypt,&lt;br /&gt;2010   2 weeks after sheikh Tayeb  ordered payments, part of the deal in my  getting the money (25 thousand le )  my camera memory card and mobile  phone back, was if Mohamed sold any land or the hotel he had to pay me  .he sold part of the hotel to a German his black-market artefacts   dealer, Jurgen Engels,&lt;br /&gt;So all in all from an estimate Mohamed has made well over one million from my home.&lt;br /&gt;I  want £50.000.00 compensation from the swindler for the beatings, my  wife and surgery to my finger the attempted murder in June 2010. Plus  all the money he made from the hotel and what he took from me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mustafa Atea , I want what I have spent from being out of my home £20thousand .&lt;br /&gt;Plus £20 thousand for each case    Forgery;; a lawyer acting for both parties and lying on the assault  charge,&lt;br /&gt;I  know I can never get my bribery police money back  so seeing  Mohamed  And Mustafa liked paying corruption money to the police and judges,  I  will call it quits  and say these are out of court settlements,&lt;br /&gt;And here is another  nice bit about mohamed awad,  I had six staff plus a gardener all mohameds family.&lt;br /&gt;Chef  had an autistic child  and I paid him an extra 500 per month  mohamed  took half of their wages every month, tips  where put in a jar  and  supposed to be divided each week for all the staff, Mohamed never gave  any of it to the staff. then one wonders why the staff were stealing  from the hotel.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"&gt;&lt;span class="post-location"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="date-outer"&gt;          &lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt;          &lt;div class="post-outer"&gt; &lt;div class="post hentry"&gt; &lt;a href="" name="1366055627186784441"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt; &lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-are-there-no-tourists.html"&gt;why  are there no tourists.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1366055627186784441"&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rm-M8vAFbzQ/Tc1zfm5cmiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7Vz0NMTTues/s1600/P5130044.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606264098000771618" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rm-M8vAFbzQ/Tc1zfm5cmiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7Vz0NMTTues/s320/P5130044.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KbCPx-mtiak/Tc1zff9jJLI/AAAAAAAAAH8/r0UZFN5arnU/s1600/P5130040.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606264096138929330" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KbCPx-mtiak/Tc1zff9jJLI/AAAAAAAAAH8/r0UZFN5arnU/s320/P5130040.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="maincontent"&gt;   &lt;div id="maincontent_inner"&gt;     &lt;div class="post-2837 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-british-embassy-cairo tag-british-embassy-cairo tag-egypts-corruption tag-luxor-egypt tag-tourists-in-luxor" id="post-2837"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;It  seems we have no  tourists in Luxor  and after what I saw again today,,  its no wonder, those tourist who have braved to see Egypt  will  not  come here after again after taking photos like I have,,, see them on      www.nilelife.blogspot.com  THE WHOLE PLACE STICKS NOT JUST OF ANIMAL  SHIT BUT OF  HUMAN EXCREMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/british-embassy-cairo/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to British embassy Cairo,"&gt;British embassy Cairo,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/british-embassy-cairo/#respond" title="Comment on British embassy Cairo,"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 11, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2837&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     ANOTHER E-MAIL TO MY EMBASSY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="16px" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" width="16px" /&gt;Anthony Roberts to information.ca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;show details 13 Feb 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;to The Honourable Dominic Asquith. and great-grandson of H H ASQUITH.&lt;br /&gt;on  a number of occasions I have been in contact with the british embassy,  over A problem I have had for the past 5 years , each time I have phoned   or e-mailed I have had the same response this is a judicial matter DO  NOT BOTHER US,   now I have been told by an army general my problem lies  with you, now the corruption is finished here in Egypt,&lt;br /&gt;he also said  we do not want to hear any more bad things about Egypt  now we are trying to make the country better,&lt;br /&gt;Richard  fielder was my last contact, I know he has left. but he  must have had a  secretary so she will have all my past correspondence  but will not  have the lies I was told when I visited my embassy three years ago.  after waiting one week in Cairo for the return of Mr Fieldman who was I  was told  due in his office&lt;br /&gt;on the next wednesday, rather than go  back to Luxor I obted to see a few sights in Cairo and stayed at the  cheap  Cleopatra hotel opposite the Museum and convenient for the  embassy, 7.30 on the wednesday  I phoned the office and the girl  answered;- he has just come in.  so 15 minutes later I was in  my  embassy’  filled a form in and waited patiently,  how may I help you Mr  Roberts the lady behind the glass frame asked.  as if she did not know .  Mr Fielder I asked,  he is not here today;- vanished has he,  she is  the girl who said he has just walked in only one hour ago.&lt;br /&gt;so please  Honourable Dominic Asquith, can you pull a few strings here  so the  puppets work again.  I have no money to come bobbing up to my embassy  only to be told lies again, all I want is my human rights, now you may  go to part of my story that is now on&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt; http://myegyptblog&lt;/a&gt;   save you any hassle You can click on the link isn’t  the internet a  marvellous way to contact people I hear it was Mr Mubaraks favourite  place.   and please after you read  the second part,do not say WE have  an agent in Luxor who will deal with your problem.&lt;br /&gt;this letter as all  the other letters will be posted on my blog. such as a letter from Dr  Zahi Hawass  on corruption of the police; well he did not actually say  that he said He will stop the corruption in my case  by telling two  police generals about how I tried to help recover some Pharaonic pieces,   but he also lied to me, the case went worse,&lt;br /&gt;my next blog will be  on the corrupt Judges and Lawyers including names on  one who 6 months  ago told me to shut the fuck up. , and also how they the judges want me  out of the country and why.   UPDATE  11/5/2011   YOU CAN NOW SEE ZAHI  HAWASS E MAILS ON  &lt;a href="http://bloodylyingbastards.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-mails-to-and-from-zahi-hawass.html"&gt;http://bloodylyingbastards.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-mails-to-and-from-zahi-hawass.html,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="16px" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" width="16px" /&gt;Anthony Roberts to consular.cairo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;show details 07:59 (12 minutes ago)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;its  now three months since I e-mailed the right  D Asquith,  giving  you  time to get over the upsets here in Egypt, i have not really tried to  contact again,   you may  or rather should be in the know as to my  situation here in Luxor. if not go to my blog,  &lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its  very disheartening  that after 3 months  no one has even acknowledged  my mail..  at this point in time I have a brigadier Mohamed, looking  into my case, and has been for the past 12 days  twice he has said he  will phone me  even given specific times , he also has a tendency to lie   or just switches his mobile off when a call  comes from Tony.&lt;br /&gt;its  seems that each time they get to Sheihk Mohamed Tyeb’s  door it gets  shut in their faces. and i ask myself is this man above the law . where  he can take all my cases out of the corrupt court here in Luxor with a  promise of my money back from the swindler Mohamed Awad  and his corrupt  lawyer Mustafa Atea. give me a first payment with one of the local  papers taking photos  ,(look what we do for an infidel)  my second  instalment payment was due 1st  February 2011,   has not been  forthcoming,&lt;br /&gt;but now I cannot take my case back to the court,   you also need to be aware that The swindler mohamed Awad  tried to kill  me. And I was arrested   but the corrupt General Ebd Mosin  refused to  contact you or Ehab Gaddis,  after 12 hours under arrest  after been   assaulted , the judge told me to shut the f*ck up,, because I asked him  if I could sit down,&lt;br /&gt;–&lt;br /&gt;Tony &lt;a href="http://www.myegypt.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;www.myegypt.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0" id=":26"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt; Reply&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt; Forward&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt;Reply&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div id=":jb"&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="16px" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" width="16px" /&gt;Anthony Roberts to consular.cairo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div&gt;show details 08:11 (5 minutes ago)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;- Show quoted text -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;its  now three months since I e-mailed the right  D Asquith,  giving  you  time to get over the upsets here in Egypt, i have not really tried to  contact again,   you may  or rather should be in the know as to my  situation here in Luxor. if not go to my blog,  &lt;a href="http://www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.itsjustegypt.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its  very disheartening  that after 3 months  no one has even acknowledged  my mail..  at this point in time I have a brigadier Mohamed, looking  into my case, and has been for the past 12 days  twice he has said he  will phone me  even given specific times , he also has a tendency to lie   or just switches his mobile off when a call  comes from Tony.&lt;br /&gt;its  seems that each time they get to Sheihk Mohamed Tyeb’s  door it gets  shut in their faces. and i ask myself is this man above the law . where  he can take all my cases out of the corrupt court here in Luxor with a  promise of my money back from the swindler Mohamed Awad  and his corrupt  lawyer Mustafa Atea. give me a first payment with one of the local  papers taking photos  ,(look what we do for an infidel)  my second  instalment payment was due 1st  February 2011,   has not been  forthcoming,but now I cannot take my case back to the court,  you also  need to be aware that The swindler mohamed Awad  tried to kill me. And I  was arrested   but the corrupt General Ebd Mosin  refused to contact  you or Ehab Gaddis,  after 12 hours under arrest  after been  assaulted ,  the judge told me to shut the f*ck up,, because I asked him if I could  sit down,&lt;br /&gt;–&lt;br /&gt;Tony &lt;a href="http://www.myegypt.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;www.myegypt.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;h1&gt;whats all this bull on your website&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;h1&gt;If you are a victim of a crime,               BAG SNATCH ONLY,&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;img alt="Street robbery" height="130" src="http://centralcontent.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/jpg/3971596/2886616/victim-of-crime" title="Street robbery" width="194px" /&gt;The Embassy can help if you are a victim of crime. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;What we can do to help&lt;/h2&gt;We  can give general information about local police and legal procedures.  We can’t give you legal advice, but can put you in touch with a local  lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;If you need medical treatment, we can help you to contact  a local doctor.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I know! &lt;br /&gt;THERE ARE NO DOCTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL   IN LUXOR  I  WAS TOLD TO GO TO THE ASUIT HOSPITAL,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Contacting friends and relatives&lt;/h2&gt;If  you want us to, we can contact your relatives and friends and let them  know what has happened. In some cases, we can offer financial  assistance.&lt;br /&gt;We cannot collect evidence or investigate crimes  ourselves, and in many countries investigating authorities and the  courts will refuse to answer enquiries from other people and  organisations, including our staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Local lawyer&lt;/h2&gt;So, you  should consider appointing a local lawyer who can look after your  interests in court, and follow any trial for you. We can give you a list  of local English-speaking lawyers.&lt;span style="color: #000099;"&gt;THERE ARE NONE IN LUXOR, AND TRANSLATORS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE LAWYERS,&lt;/span&gt;  We would not ordinarily attend a court case involving a British national and cannot influence the outcome of any trial.&lt;br /&gt;Back  in the UK, you may feel you would benefit from extra support to help  you cope with the effects of the crime. Organisations such as &lt;a href="http://www.victimsupport.org/" target="_blank" title="Victim Support"&gt;Victim Support&lt;/a&gt; can help.&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS THE BEST THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN CAIRO  CAN COME UP WITH,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://centralcontent.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/central-content-pdfs/5619320/victims-of-crime"&gt;http://centralcontent.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/central-content-pdfs/5619320/victims-of-crime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;WHAT’S UP DO THEY HAVE NOVICE WEB MASTERS .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/british-embassy-cairo/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in British embassy Cairo"&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/british-embassy-cairo/" rel="tag"&gt;British embassy Cairo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/tourists-in-luxor/" rel="tag"&gt;tourists in luxor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2819 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-riots-in-egypt-2 tag-abdel-aziz-al-gindi tag-christianity tag-essam-sharaf tag-middle-east tag-religeon" id="post-2819"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/christians-blame-islamists-for-deadly-egypt-clash/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Christians Blame Islamists for Deadly Egypt Clash"&gt;Christians Blame Islamists for Deadly Egypt Clash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/christians-blame-islamists-for-deadly-egypt-clash/#respond" title="Comment on Christians Blame Islamists for Deadly Egypt Clash"&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 8, 2011&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2819&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;h1&gt;Egypt promises justice after Copts and Muslims clash in Cairo&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;  I have been promised justice for 19 months from the sheikh of al azhir,   but  seems a bit slow coming, now ,oh”  goody the army  are looking  into it now,my story on corruption in the courts, the police and lawyers  is on &lt;a href="http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/"&gt;  http://itsjustegypt.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;i  had an appointment to see brigadier mohamed at 15.00 today  this man is  the highest officer here in luxor, .  or was it because he told me the  wrong time,  I know that the local tourist police office is closed from 3  till  9 this evening,  ah well will have to phone him again later,  he  did tell me this morning he was busy with all the problems they have in  Cairo.&lt;br /&gt;One week ago today I met Khaled  the new guvorner of luxor  again, he  put me in contact with the  brigadier,  he in turn said,, he  will see sheihk tyeb that evening and will phone me at nine the next  morning, just be patient I thought  , so i sent the general a text  message saying,,, are you another who has come to  tyebs closed door,   during the course of the next few days I tried phoning  but each time  the phone was cut off,  meaning he knew who was  calling but closed his  phone,,  this morning I managed to contact him,  and he said call to see  me at 15.00  and  we will go and see the tourist police.  but again he  never showed neither is he answering his phone.   its what i would call   blanking someone,  saying things to keep me quiet, the same thing has  happened over and over again during the past 6 years,  sheihk  mohamed  tyeb  is well versed in this blanking. he has done it more than 15 times  ,  so where does it leave me,   all i can do is blog and hope someone  high in office like  The justice minister, Abdel-Aziz al-Gindi hears of  my fight against injustice, ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="content"&gt; &lt;div id="article-wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="main-content-picture"&gt;&lt;img alt="Egyptians gather outside a burning church in Cairo" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/8/1304878484539/Egyptians-gather-outside--007.jpg" width="460" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;Egypt’s government has promised justice after a clash between Copts and Muslims which led to a church being burned down.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="article-body-blocks"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/egypt" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Egypt"&gt;Egypt&lt;/a&gt;‘s  transitional government moved quickly to defuse tensions after  Muslim-Christian clashes in Cairo left 12 dead and cast a cloud over  hopes for peaceful post-revolutionary change.&lt;br /&gt;Angry  demonstrations erupted in the capital after a Coptic church in the  Imbaba neighbourhood was burned down on Saturday night. Military police  separated opposing camps at one protest reminiscent of the dramatic  events that overthrew the regime in February.&lt;br /&gt;Fighting broke out  over rumours, which turned out to be false, that a Christian woman was  being held inside a church and prevented from converting to &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/islam" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Essam  Sharaf, prime minister of the military-backed government, postponed a  visit to the Gulf to convene an emergency cabinet session, and announced  compensation payments for the dead and nearly 200 injured as well as  strict implementation of tough new laws banning gatherings outside  places of worship.&lt;br /&gt;The government, sensitive to mounting alarm  about deteriorating security since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in  February, also rushed to announce that all 190 people arrested would be  tried in military courts. The justice minister, Abdel-Aziz al-Gindi,  pledged to “strike with an iron hand all those who seek to tamper with  the nation’s security”.&lt;br /&gt;Imbaba, a poor neighbourhood in the  north-west of Cairo, was quiet but tense as night fell. The main  al-Wahda street was blocked by armoured cars and patrolling soldiers –  trusted far more than the police, who were discredited during the  revolution.&lt;br /&gt;Witness described how several hundred Muslims massed  outside St Mina church demanding the woman be surrendered. Gunfire was  heard and stones and petrol bombs were thrown before the army and  emergency services were able to bring the situation under control. A  second church was burned down.&lt;br /&gt;Copts, who marched last night to the state TV station, called for national unity but blocked roads and raised tensions.&lt;br /&gt;Egyptian  media described the Imbaba attackers as Salafis – fundamentalist  Muslims who want the imposition of sharia law. The Salafis, often with  links to Saudi Arabia, are seen as having become more visible because  internal security is less repressive now than before the revolution. It  is also widely believed that elements of the Mubarak regime are  encouraging them.&lt;br /&gt;“It’s the previous regime that is responsible  for this,” one distraught resident told reporters. “We demand that the  higher military council punish all those responsible for this crime,”  said George Ishaq, a pro-democracy activist. “This is a crime – not  sectarian strife.”&lt;br /&gt;The incident was condemned by the Muslim  Brotherhood, Egypt’s main Islamist grouping. “We should crack down on  that violence and not let those people ruin what we achieved in the  January revolution,” said a spokesman, Essam el-Erian. “The Imbaba  incident clearly shows that there are some people who are still working  behind the scenes to ignite sectarian strife in Egypt.” Erian echoed  popular feeling in suggesting that attacks may have been encouraged by  members of the now disbanded National Democratic Party, which ruled  Egypt during the Mubarak era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of  the UN nuclear watchdog and a presidential hopeful, called for “urgent  measures … to combat religious extremism and intolerance before Egypt  slides into the dark ages”.&lt;/h2&gt;Salafis demonstrated in front of the US embassy in Cairo last week after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.&lt;br /&gt;Last  month 13 people died in similar Muslim-Coptic clashes in another Cairo  neighbourhood. Copts make up about 10% of Egypt’s 80 million people.&lt;br /&gt;Over  the weekend, democracy activists held a conference to discuss the  future of the revolution in advance of landmark parliamentary elections  planned for September. The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted the event,  saying that the priority was to change the constitution for the  post-Mubarak era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/riots-in-egypt-2/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in riots in egypt"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/religeon/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2809 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-egypt tag-avenue-of-the-sphinx-luxor tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypts-corruption tag-luxor-egypt" id="post-2809"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/akhenaten/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Akhenaten"&gt;Akhenaten&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/akhenaten/#respond" title="Comment on Akhenaten"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2809&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;img alt="" src="http://symbolankh.devhub.com/img/upload/akhenaten_cover.jpg" /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In  obedience to chronological order, we should deal with Akhenaten and  Nefertiti first. Undoubtedly, Akhenaten’s reign, in the mid-14th century  bc, was the most unusual religious and artistic phase of the Egyptian  New Kingdom (1550–1069), if not the entire pharaonic period. During the  first few years of his reign he appears to have developed an obsession  with the cult of the Aten (literally the ‘sun-disc’), a considerably  more abstract deity than the traditional Egyptian pantheon. He built  religious monuments to the Aten at a number of sites, but primarily at  eastern Karnak and at Akhetaten (‘horizon of the Aten’), the latter  being a new capital city established by him on supposedly virgin ground  at the site now known as Amarna in Middle Egypt. It is Amarna that has  given its name to the period encompassing the reigns of Akhenaten and  his brief successors. Because Akhenaten and his activities were reviled  soon after his death, virtually all of his monuments were dismantled and  his name was erased from those that remained. Consequently, it was not  until the work of 19th-century archaeologists that the history of the  Amarna period began to be reconstructed from the many surviving  fragments.&lt;br /&gt;then we have those in the 21 st century AD,    often I  see here in Luxor  or Thebes as Akhenaten would have known this area,   People with the same features as the ancient Pharaohs,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2810" style="width: 460px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5060022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2810" height="603" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5060022.jpg?w=450&amp;amp;h=603" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;unlike  the ancients who seemed to adore the sculptors making images of them,  the ladies of today do not like infidels taking their pictures so I have  had to blur the photo a little., not that I should care after the way  these people treat me, welcome to luxor they all say, do not believe it,  all they want is our money,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://symbolankh.devhub.com/img/upload/jtdyjyjyjt.jpg" /&gt;   Nefertiti,   well those  Germans are still adamant they have papers to  say they own the bust, and I hope they do  Egypt cannot even look after  what it has.&lt;br /&gt;what with all the lies as to what went missing from the collections etc.,&lt;br /&gt;my post from last february&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Sphinx head uncovered in Luxor&lt;/h1&gt;I am sorry to tell those of you who criticize my blog like jakresal@yahoo.com &lt;br /&gt;I  am not a reporter or a news commentator. if you do not like what i  write go to another blog but as you will find there are no blogs on the  truth in Egypt it annoyed me to see this 3500 year old site being dug up  by earth removers, under the blessing of our great minister of  antiquities Dr Zahi Hawass. 4/3/2011 now he has stepped down who will  get blamed for all this destruction of antiquities?????&lt;br /&gt;today the  13th January 2011 , The almost complete head of one of the sphinx from  the avenue that goes from Luxor Temple to Karnak Temple was unearthed,&lt;br /&gt;these date back 3500 years and are a major find here in Luxor,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_959" style="width: 301px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3129.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="&amp;quot;sphinx head&amp;quot;" class="size-medium wp-image-959" height="300" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3129.jpg?w=291&amp;amp;h=300" title="sphinx head" width="291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;The Head is almost complete.... since the revolution the head has gone missing,'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and today the 16th feb .after the unrest here in Egypt this head has disappeared,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_960" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-960" height="289" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3130.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=289" title="sphinx head" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;this one was also found but in 3 pieces,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_961" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3131.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-961" height="130" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3131.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=130" title="IMG_3131" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the two pieces were dug up quite close together&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_962" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3156.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-962" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3156.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200" title="sphinx head" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the site of the find&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_966" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3344.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="&amp;quot;luxor temple&amp;quot;" class="size-medium wp-image-966" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3344.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200" title="luxor temple" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;luxor temple and part of the new avenue of the Sphinx the existing avenue of the Sphinx looking towards Luxor Temple.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_967" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3342.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-967" height="168" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3342.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=168" title="luxor temple" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;Looking  towards Karnak Temple the crane and pylon is clearly visible from two  and a half kilometres away.half a kilometre from here is luxor Temple&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3330.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-968" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3330.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_3330" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This  site is just behind the Coptic church here in Luxor the whole three  kilometre of the avenue is now dug up this and three more holes are yet  to be explored. they , the ministry of antiquities know that this is a  major dig to uncover Egypt,s antiques but the whole 3 kilometre was dug  up by large excavators taken away by the 50 ton lorries and dumped on  landfill this area where they are now is being explored by hand, in the  first day of digging they find these two pieces , they say there was  once 1000 sphinx along this avenue, so why did they dig so deep by  machine, and where are the rest of the sphinx,&lt;br /&gt;one day we will have another Dr Zahi Hawass digging in the landfill, claiming he has found another avenue of the Sphinx,&lt;br /&gt;I  have been watching this dig for the past 4 years, and all I see is a  slap dash way to do things no care is taken in what they dig out or  rebuild, and we have the &lt;a href="http://www.drhawass.com/events/secretary-general-supreme-council-antiquities"&gt;Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities&lt;/a&gt;,shouting  at the rest of the world to take care of Egypt’s treasures, the Obelisk  in Central park has come under threat to be taken back if its not  looked after, is it in a worse state of repair than the one here in  Karnak Temple,click on the image to see there are no hieroglyph on half  of the artefact,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3762.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_3762.jpg?w=200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor egypt"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/avenue-of-the-sphinx-luxor/" rel="tag"&gt;avenue of the sphinx luxor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-zahi-hawass/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr. Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2782 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-egypt tag-mosquitoes tag-thomas-cook" id="post-2782"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/thomas-cook-in-luxor-egypt/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Thomas cook, in luxor egypt"&gt;Thomas cook, in luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;May 4, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2782&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     well its a first  I actually got my money back from  Thomas cook branch in luxor Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;wonders will never cease   just goes to show how in the right they were over this matter of telling lies.&lt;br /&gt;and yes it was Qatar airlines who cancelled the flight, the only bit if truth in the whole saga,&lt;br /&gt;this money will be put to one side   as soon as my court case is finished  I will be out of this country and back to Wales.&lt;br /&gt;at  least there  I will find some honesty,  I know in a few weeks the pain  of arthritis will start again and I will be back in a wheelchair,&lt;br /&gt;I just cannot cope  with all these liars  its as if they tell the truth  the whole of Islam will come crashing down,&lt;br /&gt;and  there in the security of my homeland I can write the truth about this hell hole they call Egypt,&lt;br /&gt;lovely country  shame its full of Egyptians,  as one  Englishman said a few years ago.,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_4723.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2783" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_4723.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_4723" width="630" /&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one thing I will miss is being able to walk in the sun every day, I will miss the sunsets and  birdwatching,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5020008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2784" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5020008.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but I will be glad to get away from the mosquitoes. I have shown this area before    50 yards from the Winter Palace Hotel,&lt;br /&gt;here  we have a cesspit  from the horse shit and piss,  now its a breeding  pool for the mosquitoes. who have a tendency to look for us foreigners   what its like in the hotel itself is another question,  if its bad in my  flat 400yds away.  the beer gardens  Hamees and Sinbads   are the best  places to go for a night out  there you can give blood at leisure while  having a cheap beer.  not only do the mosquitoes bite  but sinbads  has a  tendency to sting  those who drink  a few beers,  even though he is a   Muslim selling the infidel beer,  also be a bit weary of the food,  it  tends to give one the delly belly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2790" height="383" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040013.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=383" title="P5040013" width="630" /&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;another   4 hours  spent in the waiting room of the guvorner of Luxor’s Office. I  saw this photo hanging on the wall where once a photo of the  young  president  Hosny mubarak hung, rather a pun”  as some say he is going to  hang from the neck until dead for crimes committed against the people.&lt;br /&gt;but  like this photo its  very nice on first glance  unlike the  people who  come to visit the guvorner   I see the flaws  in this photo its not real   just like Egypt is not real and full of lies,   take a good look at  the photo    its like a game of spot the difference  but this is in one  photo.  this is a bottom half  photo of the  cornish (promenade)taken  from the new winter palace building  at about 12 noon. this building was  taken down in 2008.  the sunset is also a real photo. but the sun does  not set in the  south  here in luxor the sun sets in the  winter at 40 d   north west  in June it sets behind the Valley of the queens at  90d  north west.  but its a rather pleasant photo  much better than the  previous one hanging there. while admiring the view of the nile and  thebes mountain range  that’s home to over 100 tombs and temples I could  reel them off as most I have visited and &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/thebes.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;photographed,you can see them or some of them on this link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  apart from the new tombs unearthed over the past 3 years after the  demolition of the tomb robbers houses,  not that the tombs are worth  visiting all they are now are holes in the ground  thanks to the  incumbency of the great Dr Zahi Hawass, allowing 50 years of desecration  of these tombs.   and to my mind  Hawass was nothing more than a tomb  robber,  harsh words \i hear you say after all Zahi did for Egyptology    corruption is corruption no matter what colour its painted,  and it  seems the corruption is still here  he gets  a year in jail for land  theft  and another year for letting space in the museum  but has been  made head of antiquities, how is he going to do his job from a prison  cell.&lt;br /&gt;here my problems have come to another door, well the same  door  but this time the door should have been opened  as it was the army  general Mohamed . who wanted a word with Mohamed / sheikh.&lt;br /&gt;Now  lets see who has tried to get my problem sorted,  first there Was AND  IS, Achmed Agab  who took over from the corrupt Dr Samir faraq, his last  phone call a month ago told me to go and collect my money,&lt;br /&gt;then  the new Governer Khaled Took office, he said he had seen the sheikh    but never said anything about my problem he in turn referred me to  general Mohamed who said he was going to have a word with the sheikh  last night,  and he will phone me at 9 in the morning,  I asked him you  sure 9 in the morning,  well its now 12.03 in the afternoon  even though  I sent general a text  stating that he too has come to a closed door,   he still has not phoned me  maybe he is not well enough to get to his  mobile at 2.00 this afternoon I shall phone him  that will have given  him 24 hours to get back to me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2788" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040010.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nice  car   no 1 reg is for the guvorner of luxor.  Khaled is also  a nice  man and a good choice to be Luxors new guvorner . HE HAS ONE HELL OF A  HARD TASK  PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHT AFTER THE LAST GUVORNER  DR SAMIR  FARAQ. WHO IS NOW IN JAIL  ALONG WITH THOSE OF THE OLD REGIME  CALL HIM A  FALL GUY, AS NOT ONLY HE WAS CORRUPT HERE IN LUXOR,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110046.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A ” T 55″ RUSSIAN MADE TANK ON DUTY  IN KARNAK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="264" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p3110045.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=264&amp;amp;h=264" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="post-2424"&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div id="attachment_1047"&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_1400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="306" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_1400.jpg?w=460&amp;amp;h=306&amp;amp;h=306" title="IMG_1400" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;samir faraq his photo taken from one of the protest banners&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2789" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5040011.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FEEL  SAFE IN LUXOR WITH THE ARMY ON DUTY, THIS IS ONE OF THEIR VEHICLES LIKE  MOST OF THEIR TANKS ETC THESE DATE BACK TO THE 50S AND 60S&lt;br /&gt;BRINGS  TO MIND MY  DAYS SPENT AS A YOUNG MAN  IN THE TERRITORIAL ARMY  COLWYN  BAY BRANCH  OF THE 372 REGIMENT RA , HERE AT THE RIPE OLD AGE &lt;img alt="RL Photo 3" height="483" src="http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/classic-car-images/rl-2.jpg" width="577" /&gt;OF 17 I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST  WITH A BEDFORD TRACTOR  TOWING A 25 POUNDER . &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:25_Pounder_Gun.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="25 Pounder Gun.JPG" height="225" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/25_Pounder_Gun.JPG/300px-25_Pounder_Gun.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOT  AN EASY TASK AS THE GREAT ORME WAS THE DRIVING COURSE OF THE TEST, BACK  TO BARRACKS  AND THE LAST  PART OF THE TEST WAS TO DRIVE FROM COLWYN  BAY TO HEADQUARTERS IN PRESTATYN IN AN AUSTIN CHAMP . THE CHAMP HAD A  ROLLS ROYCE ENGINE AND DID 8 MILES TO THE GALLON 4 MILES LESS THAN THE  BEDFORD LORRY,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://austinchamp.com/03%20Register/-theregister/FV1801/6000_7000/6000-6100/6091.htm"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="511" src="http://austinchamp.com/6091.jpg" width="723" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;THERE  I RECEIVED MY LICENCE,  A MILITARY LICENCE SAYING I COULD DRIVE  ANYTHING ON THE ROAD  BAR A STEAM TRACTION ENGINE,  AND THERE WAS NOT  ANY OF THEM ABOUT IN THE EARLY 60S,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor egypt"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/mosquitoes/" rel="tag"&gt;mosquitoes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-cook/" rel="tag"&gt;thomas cook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2773 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-city category-uncategorized tag-bloody-liars tag-egypt-culture tag-egypts-corruption tag-hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt tag-luxor-egypt tag-thomas-cook" id="post-2773"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/thomas-cook-liars/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt."&gt;Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/thomas-cook-liars/#respond" title="Comment on Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt."&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;May 1, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2773&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/11727/Business/Economy/Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.aspx"&gt;http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/11727/Business/Economy/Thomas-Cook-reports-loss-on-Egypt.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thomas  cook have an office in luxor a prime site next to the winter palace  hotel.  where they have at least 10 staff a manager  2 office managers ,    no wonder they claim a loss Europe’s second-biggest travel firm said  on Monday it expected around 35 million pounds (US$57 million) to be  knocked off its profits in the second half of the year compared with its  initial projection of 20 million.  is that £ $ Euro or EGP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;luxor airport&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5010005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2776" height="322" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/p5010005.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=322" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st  MAY.2011, 21.00, At this very minute i should be in Doha flown there on  flight no QR 517 that’s Qatar airways 517, there I had to wait 2 hours  for my connection flight to Bali Denpasar airport is where my daughter  was going to meet me off the plane and we were going to spend a few days  together its almost 10 years since I last saw my daughter, but thanks  to Thomas cook staff here in Luxor Egypt my plans have been scuttled  mainly by lies, 5 days ago quatar air had cancelled the flight QR517,  but Thomas cook did try and phone did come to look for me , but I gave  them the wrong mobile number and they could not find my address. lets  start with the mobile no. I can never remember my no, so I have to look  it up in my phone directory first I ask for the number I need to ring ..  dail the number so by magic my phone no is implanted to the mobile I  need to contact and all I need to do then is press memorize and that  number is stored and vice versa he then asks for a name and presto we  have each others phone numbers, cant be to many tony in luxor now can  there   , WOULD HAVE A REAL JOB FINDING   MOHAMED YES&lt;br /&gt;a very  angry Tony on arriving at luxor airport finds out about the cancellation  of a flight he had booked, and phoned Thomas cook Mustafa answered the  phone and blurted out his lies, and I was getting more and more angry so  rather than him making a fool of himself and more to the point umwaa. I  walked out of the airport . with some very bemused police I had just  entertained with my broken Arabic questions , they must have thought the  stupid man had come a day or two to early. realizing my mistake I left  the airport terminal in a hurry to save any more embarrassment . 30 le  to the airport from luxor so I flagged a taxi down and another one came  stopping with screeching brakes. he jumped out of his vehicle and  started shouting at the driver I had stopped, me i was off down the  road, bollocks to more hassle . i intended to walk half a kilometre and  get a service bus that will cost 1 le into the city centre, then this  other screeching of brakes. jump in he said this car was first in line,  30 le i said luxor centre , OK he said , then as if by magic this taxi  driver had lost his English where go he asked. after 8 years I know the  game, and its time to play games back.&lt;br /&gt;as the driver turned to  take the longer 100le route to the centre of Luxor. all was nice and  quiet not been on this route for a long time so enjoyed the scenery&lt;br /&gt;not  in any hurry to get back and have a face to face with the liar from  Thomas cook, this route is about 10 k longer than the direct route to  the centre of Luxor. so i knew there was more agro coming from this  driver. on arriving at the Isis hotel that’s 2 kilometre from my flat.  the driver again asked where i go. well i said is this the centre of  luxor. yes it is. the new governor of luxor has moved things about has  he is he another samir faraq, i asked. the only thing the driver  understood was samir faraq,&lt;br /&gt;he is in jail I was told in Arabic,  yes i know, you should also be in jail , I said. OK where you go , HANY  WAHIB SHOP, YOU KNOW HANY WAHIB SHOP OH YES” HE SAID.&lt;br /&gt;AS WE HEADED INTO THE CENTRE OF TOWN WHICH WAS A DIRECT ROUTE TO MY FLAT HE MADE ANOTHER TURN TOWARDS THE STATION.&lt;br /&gt;NO  POINT IN GETTING CROSS ITS JUST WHAT THESE PEOPLE LIKE, MAKES A MEANING  TO THEIR BORING DAY. AFTER A FEW MORE TURNS WE ENDED UP BY THE COPTIC  CHURCH. NOT HERE I SAID HANY WAHIB SHOP NEAR THE TEMPLE ENTRANCE. AS WE  GOT TO THE ROAD THE NEAREST ROUTE TO THE AIRPORT, THIS BUGGER WAS ABOUT  TO TURN RIGHT HEADING BACK TO THE AIRPORT, NO NOT kARNAK TEMPLE.  REMEMBER i ASKED FOR LUXOR CENTRE 30LE.&lt;br /&gt;YES HE SAID , well this  is luxor centre as I got out of the car a making sure my bag was also  out I gave him the thirty, 100le he shouted as i slammed the door shut,  goodby&lt;br /&gt;I said, and i heard another screeching of tyres. must have  burnt a good 30 le off between all the 3 lots of screeching he did. by  the time i got in my flat it was 6.30. drop the bags off and just enough  time to get to Thomas cook office for a showdown, no point in leaving  it until the morning as agreed on the phone from the airport. by then  morning staff would be on and no bugger would have a clue as to what i  was there for, on entry in the office a very worried Mustafa was  confronted by a very angry Welshman, while in the taxi I went through  what exactly was said when i decided to buy my travel tickets to Bali,&lt;br /&gt;what’s  with all these fukin lies mustafa, what with sheihk tyeb the judges,  lawyers and police lying its enough being lied to without a travel  company such as Thomas cook lying, you can save all the lies for those  first time tourists , But Mr Tony not our fault, never is I said, so  whose fault is it , Qatar , oh no i said you knew this flight had been  cancelled days ago, do you not think I had a right to know before i got  to the airport, and again the bastard lied, saying I gave him the wrong  number, oh I said so why did you not send someone to my flat 5 minutes  walk from here, You gave us wrong address, to make it worse he said , we  send someone to your address but you gave wrong address, well I said  opposite my front door there is a furniture painting shop outside there  is a very nosy man all he does is sit guard to the shop. I asked him  seeing you already said i give you the wrong address, anybody look for  Mr Tony . no he said. and i said I gave you my address from a bank  letter my visa card came in . how did the bank get my visa to me if its  the wrong address, no answer came, he made a few calls. and said come  back at 9.30 in the morning and we go see Qatar air office , first i  said can you get me to Bali on the 3rd, yes he said another lie, there  are no flights until the 4th, look it up before we waste any more time, I  will be here at 9.00 just to collect my money plus compensation,&lt;br /&gt;now  he tried to get hold of his manager, while doing so I told Mustafa of  all the problems i had,, You Mr Tony from the hotel west bank, yes I  said. then he said a German lady has been looking for you can I give her  your telephone no, then his manager phoned to say I can see him in the  morning, well that will be nice I said and started to leave, can I give  the German lady your number, Yes I said and left.,&lt;br /&gt;as i said the T  C office is just around the corner to my flat, just as I got in my flat  put a cuppa on the mobile rang, its me she said, not in any mood to  have friendly banter with some stranger. I just said” ooh that’s nice,  the line went quiet so I said how can I help you. its me she said again ,  without going into what was said, this is the lady the rep from Thomas  cook was on about, I wonder how she got my phone number, and all the way  from Germany, Thomas cook had just said I gave them the wrong number.&lt;br /&gt;so here i will stay hoping to get my probl&lt;a href="http://www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com/"&gt;e&lt;span style="color: #993366;"&gt;m sorted out, http://www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #993366;"&gt; ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-city/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor city"&gt;luxor city&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Uncategorized"&gt;Uncategorized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/bloody-liars/" rel="tag"&gt;bloody liars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypt-culture/" rel="tag"&gt;egypt culture&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypts-corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;egypts corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;hot air balloons luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-cook/" rel="tag"&gt;thomas cook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2765 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb category-uncategorized tag-dr-samir-faraq tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-egypts-corruption tag-gamal-mubarak tag-hosni-mubarak tag-luxor-egypt tag-maritem-kings-island-resort" id="post-2765"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/will-egypt-get-justice/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Will Egypt get justice’"&gt;Will Egypt get justice’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/will-egypt-get-justice/#respond" title="Comment on Will Egypt get justice’"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 29, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2765&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;h1&gt;Sheikhs ,ARE THEY  above the law .&lt;/h1&gt;Now  that the initial surge of the locals demands to getting their  rights  back are being dealt with things seem to have  quietened down,&lt;br /&gt;its  OK it seems that the locals can claim their stolen land back and  rightly so, many are claiming for land that was not theirs  i.e.  government land,   so  who is going to say what is what.          On the  end or the beginning of the cornish we have the Iberhotel, and across  the road  opposite the main lobby entrance  there was a curved  building    this was the land registry office  a place I spent a few hours  looking at plans of the west bank  mainly the  Memnon amenhotep111  temple  area,  it took quite some time to get to see detailed map of the  areas   the maps showed all buildings that where existing before 1972,   why  is quite simple there has not been one single building built on  the west bank  with building consent  not even the police station or any  of the schools, IN 2010 THIS BUILDING  WAS  DEMOLISHED   AND QUITE A  FEW OF THE LAND REGISTRY  FILES  DISAPPEARED IN THE MOVE TO THE NEW  OFFICE,  NO  RECORDS ARE OR HAD BEEN  PUT ON COMPUTER, SO NOW SINCE THE  2011 REVOLUTION  NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IS AGRICULTURE LAND OR WHO OWNS WHAT,  CONFUCIUS WAS BORN AGAIN WITH THE HELP OF DR SAMIR FARAQ,&lt;br /&gt;Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the Egyptian Government following the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1952"&gt;Egyptian Revolution of 1952&lt;/a&gt;.  pre 1952  of course the Nile inundated  the land, Gamal Abdel Nasser   SAW THE DIVISION BETWEEN RICH AND POOR  AND GAVE THE POOR THEIR OWN LAND  JUST ENOUGH TO FEED THEIR FAMILY, and in 1998 Mubarak made a law  no  building on Nile land that meant  no building on land inundated by the  Nile waters .  covered his  GREED FOR LAND quite well  as not much land  was  covered by nile water  after the building of the high dam in Aswan.   THEN CAME THE REGIME  UNDER MUBARAK  MUCH OF THE NILE LAND WAS GIVEN  TO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SONS,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elephantine,_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="188" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Elephantine%2C_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night%2C_Aswan%2C_Egypt%2C_Oct_2004.jpg/320px-Elephantine%2C_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night%2C_Aswan%2C_Egypt%2C_Oct_2004.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elephantine,_Oberoi_Hotel_by_Night,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A night view from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan"&gt;Aswan&lt;/a&gt;, looking west, towards EYESORE OF  Moevenpick Hotel on Elephantine Island&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Elephantine  was a fort that stood just before the first cataract of the Nile.  During the Second Intermediate Period (1650 – 1550 BCE), the fort marked  the southern border of Egypt,  BUT WAS OF NO IMPORTANCE TO MUBARAK AND  HIS REGIME THEY BUILT THE OBEROI HOTEL  AND SOLD IT TO  MOVENPICK  FOR  200 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2003.  ANOTHER ISLAND  WAS ALSO SOLD TO BUILD THE  ISIS HOTEL  THIS WAS  WILDLIFE PROTECTED LAND.&lt;br /&gt;COMING CLOSER TO  MY HOME WE HAVE THE KINGS ISLAND ONCE KNOWN AS CROCKODILE ISLAND ANOTHER  ONE OF MUBARAKS LAND GRABBING SCHEMES RECENTLY SOLD FOR 600MILLION  STERLING. IT TOO WAS  WILDLIFE PROTECTED LAND. ,&lt;br /&gt;WAS  Dr Samir  Faraq the only bad boy in luxor, I fear not  there is no doubt he was   corrupt,  but he was not the only one. some sheikhs and head of villages  got colossal amounts of money to put street lighting in  the villages,  some got money to build unneeded bridges across the canals, millions of  Dollars have been squandered some sheikhs did quite well  soon after  receiving monies these sheihks  were turning up at the begging bowl   in  new cars at the new office in Awameia, this office got the brunt of the  destruction during the recent riots. as the people knew it as Samir’s  office,                      who were the kingpins  distributing this  new found wealth???, question is,  ARE THEY  above the law .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;maritem kings island resort&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Hossen Galem an old friend of Hosni mubarak’&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;first reported on February 23, 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Still  the British embassy has not got back to me so I am still on my own  fighting for my rights, today I went to see Mr Ahmed Agab. Mr Agab has  the enviable job of putting luxor to right after the Corruption of the  guvorner DR Samir Faraq, first I reported on My findings on land  grabbing and planning on dwellings on the island by&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jolieville-hotels.com/HotelSection.aspx?ItemID=120&amp;amp;ModuleID=2&amp;amp;HID=1"&gt;maritem kings island resort owners, click on to see what the island  is supposed to look like,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;Not  as if there should be any buildings on this protected land anyway,&lt;br /&gt;Ahmed   who is now looking into the matter of land fill on Nile land and a  protected area. as you leave the luxor area Ie turning point for the  Sheraton hotel the road has been widened to take 3 lane traffic each way  IE its a motorway many people have had the land stolen from them for  this rather elaborate road to service the Jolly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jolieville-hotels.com/HotelSection.aspx?ItemID=120&amp;amp;ModuleID=2&amp;amp;HID=1" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to maritem kings island resort,"&gt;maritem kings island resort Luxor &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;not  one person was paid for this land. bad things were happening here I  hear reports that some people who refused to give up the land were  threatened with Jail,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="225" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230010.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=225&amp;amp;h=225" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="225" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230011.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=225&amp;amp;h=225" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="even today they are still destroying arableland this is just outside the entrance of jolly ville" height="225" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/p2230020.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=225&amp;amp;h=225" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1891"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="199" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8068.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=199&amp;amp;h=199" title="IMG_8068" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;looks like they are going to build a four lane motorway with all this land they have stolen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1892"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="199" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8074.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=199&amp;amp;h=199" title="IMG_8074" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the end of the four way lane motorway as it turns into a two way lane to the Island&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1893"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8078.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="199" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8078.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=199&amp;amp;h=199" title="IMG_8078" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the  stagnant pool this road I am standing on is built on Nile land causing  the Nile water to stop filling the reed beds and pools most of the fish  in this pool have died from toxic pollutants from the banana island/  Awameia land fill area that I asked the Governor of luxor to stop  filling even gave him photos of the toxic waste but he did nothing,&lt;/div&gt;I IN 2009 sent an email to the minister of the environment but my mail was returned as spam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1894"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="199" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8079.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=199&amp;amp;h=199" title="IMG_8079" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the  land fill to the left this part of the outlet goes through reed beds to  the Nile so what they did was cut the pool in half if they had piped  the base of the fill the water could have fed the stagnant pool&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1896"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8081.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="199" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8081.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=199&amp;amp;h=199" title="IMG_8081" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the farmers house he lost half his home and 2 x 300meters of arable land to the road widening and the widening of the bridge,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1897"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="79" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8084.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=79&amp;amp;h=79" title="IMG_8084" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the  land grabbing looking at this photo is more than three meters,this was a  single road with a single lane bridge one was traffic lights were  installed&lt;/div&gt;they also built a control room for security on banana island land,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1898"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8089.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8089" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;this is a village not a resort with single floor dwellings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1899"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8092.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8092" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the buses all lined up waiting for the tourists to come back,and the taxies wonder why they have no work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1900"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8094.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8094.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8094" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;looks like this is not the end of the building the next lot of buildings my get a view of the Nile&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1902"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_80971.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="73" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_80971.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=73&amp;amp;h=73" title="IMG_8097" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;certainly  was vision and devotion, devotion to ruin the land of Egypt.and a  vision to make money with total disregard for the environment and its  people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_81031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="140" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_81031.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=140&amp;amp;h=140" title="IMG_8103" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1906"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8106.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8106" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This  is a friend who often took me around the island to photograph birds.  one year ago the police put a stop to any fishing or boats going on this  stretch of water, now I can see why.&lt;/div&gt;today security tried to  stop me going down to the bridge, but as you can see I went on Banana  island land to the bridge to take photos and I went on the bridge until  security appeared on the Island end of the bridge, what is wrong what  are they afraid of?? &lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8108.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8108.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8108" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and a rather good photo of my friend the fisherman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8110.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8110" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; several trees were also taken down in the widening of the road to the bridge, just one bloom of the remaining two trees ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1909"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8129.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8129.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8129" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All this destruction to the land and village Of Awameia&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8130.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8130" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_1911"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8131.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_8131.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;h=200" title="IMG_8131" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the  end of the mubarak touristic route,everywhere i look on this route land  has been stolen just to feed traffic in and out of the kings Island.&lt;/div&gt;enough cried the people no more taking down,&lt;br /&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/sheikh-al-azhar-ahmed-al-tayeb/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb"&gt;Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a 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category-nile-pollution-2 category-uncategorized tag-egypt-nile-pollution tag-horses-in-egypt tag-nile-pollution tag-the-nile-in-egypt" id="post-2657"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/2657/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to diarrhoea , horse shit"&gt;diarrhoea , horse shit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/2657/#respond" title="Comment on diarrhoea , horse shit"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 16, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2657&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2691" style="width: 640px;"&gt; &lt;dd class="wp-caption-dd"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4170005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2692" height="840" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4170005.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=840" title="P4170005" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mceTemp"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="wp-caption alignnone"&gt;&lt;dt class="wp-caption-dt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2658" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160040.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;Luxor  is getting to be the shit hole of Egypt this hole was dug as a  continuation of the wall to the avenue of the sphinx not 200 yds from  the main Temple of luxor now its being filled in with unwanted garbage  ie what is not of any value , so its mainly sand and animal shit,.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2659" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160039.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2660" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2660" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160043.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;here  opposite the temple entrance in my block we have more rubbish this has  been here for a few days and attracting a lot of flies, i suppose bad  food tastes better than horse shit and gives the flies a varied diet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2661" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2661" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160030.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;horse  drivers heaven the hose shit collected in the sacking can just be  tipped out some he will put in the street trash bin, not much room for  any rubbish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2662" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2662" height="338" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160028.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=338" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;garbage  is collected as soon as the bins are full but only the paper plastic  and cans will be sorted for the lorry the rest horse shit and sand will  be collected in a few days and we knw now where that is tipped.this  garbage bin is opposite the horse shit bin near the local ferry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2663" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2663" height="280" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160029.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=280" title="P4160029" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;here  the carriage driver can have lunch (kusherie )in the shade on his own  private garden roundabout while his horse has to stand in the blistering  sun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2664" height="403" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3079.jpg?w=392&amp;amp;h=403" title="IMG_3079" width="392" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2665" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3082.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2665" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3082.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_3082" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;these are the kids that harass the tourists; please give me money I am so hungry,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2666" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2666" height="492" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3083.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=492" title="IMG_3083" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;A  farmer working the land gets on average 225 per month,Mc D beefburger  coke and chips is 30 egp. so these kids can squander 90egp, 50 yards  from here I get my lunch 2 fool and falafel with some meat 2egp , if i  want chips that s an extra 1 egp,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2667" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3085.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2667" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3085.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_3085" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;lunch  is over and the shoe sine boss needs his share of the money, so he can  get himself some fool and falafel or kusherie at 2 egp.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2669" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3086.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2669" height="380" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_3086.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=380" title="IMG_3086" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;I  have never seen this man cleaning shoes all he does all day is go  around the beggars. and try to exchange forged euros. paper and coins,  once he makes an exchange he leaves the square before the person he has  ripped off comes back he will then come back a few hours latter,these  kids get so bored they are always fighting each other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4160026.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;here  we are near the place the tourists disembark from the buses, for most  its their first taste or is that smell of the cultural centre of the  world,here the carriages are strategically placed so the tourist gets a  real stable feel and can get a hands on (feet in) experience of horse  shit and piss, and if they think this smells  wait until tomorrow when  they can smell their own excrement as they find themselves on the pan  for most of the voyage of a lifetime down the polluted Nile river, here  they will find out that cleaning  and cooking food no matter how nice it  looks after the chef has finished , will give them a dhely belly as 90%  of tourists have already found out to their discomfort,  they also  bathe  some will  clean teeth,  in the polluted waters that is pumped  direct on board , the good news is mineral drinking water is supplied   but only after they purchase  a bottle for ex amount,   I paid 10 pound  with my first meal  on board, when I got back to my berth there was  enough water i.e. 3 bottles for the 3 day journey, my journey was  thoroughly enjoyable as I knew before hand about the water    cleaned my  teeth with mineral water, and laid off any veg that had to be cleaned   before distribution on the plate,  my photos of the nile journey are on  my website&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.myegypt.co.uk/index.php?f=data_home&amp;amp;a=5"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://www.myegypt.co.uk/index.php?f=data_home&amp;amp;a=5 .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/page/3/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Nile pollution is on this page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/nile-pollution-2/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in NILE POLLUTION"&gt;NILE POLLUTION&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Uncategorized"&gt;Uncategorized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/egypt-nile-pollution/" rel="tag"&gt;egypt nile pollution&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/horses-in-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;horses in Egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/nile-pollution/" rel="tag"&gt;nile pollution&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/the-nile-in-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;The nile in Egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2647 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-luxor-egypt tag-deborah-lehr tag-dr-zahi-hawass tag-hot-air-balloons tag-luxor-egypt tag-luxor-temple tag-smoking tag-sugar tag-thebes" id="post-2647"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to hot air balloons luxor egypt"&gt;hot air balloons luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/hot-air-balloons-luxor-egypt/#respond" title="Comment on hot air balloons luxor egypt"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 14, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2647&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Deborah Lehr, Zahi Hawass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2951.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="ballons in the mist or is that smoke" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2648" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2951.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_2951" width="630" /&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;many  people take a trip of a lifetime in a hot air balloon over the area  known as Thebes,  some lucky ones get to look down at the Valley of the  kings and queens  even get to see the locals who sleep on their roof,  and some get to glide serenely over the sugar cane fields. but all too  often between December and May  the sugar harvest season, they get an  eye opener of a view  or is that an eye watering view through the smoke  of the burning sugar cane grass, some like the Chinese come ready  prepared with smog face masks. the Muslim ladies will also be well  prepared with the burka, not as if Muslim women would spend money on  such an enjoyable thing as a balloon ride over world famous  antiquities,,&lt;br /&gt;Today my problem rises over a Muslim problem[excuse  the pun]  and I have to go and talk with the army general  to ask some  advice on how I can end my delicate problem with the sheikh who promised  to pay me every six months &lt;a href="http://www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com/"&gt; read this link tells some of my story on being caught up in corruption,&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;, www.westbankhotel.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/a&gt;  there is even a photo of an 18th dynasty piece in the hands of the   swindler Mohamed Awad.  its not only smoke that blinds people as recent  events in Egypt has proven,  some of this smoke is not just from the  sugar,  especially on Fridays  when Thursday night sees a surge in  wedding and other ceremonies, where the hash is passed around with  whatever people prefer to smoke it in,  not mr Awad he prefers his  opium, for his sinus problem,  and whiskey in a 7up bottle,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2950.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2649" height="420" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2950.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=420" title="IMG_2950" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2650" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2650" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130034.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;Luxor temple at dusk can even see the mountains of Thebes in the distance before they make the fires,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2651" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130043.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bloodylyingbastards.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-mails-to-and-from-zahi-hawass.html"&gt;http://bloodylyingbastards.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-mails-to-and-from-zahi-hawass.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drhawass.com/blog/call-protect-egyptian-antiquities"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="121" src="http://www.drhawass.com/sites/drhawass.com/files/u8403/Deborah%20Lehr_2.jpg" width="183" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drhawass.com/blog/call-protect-egyptian-antiquities"&gt;A Call to protect Egyptian Antiquities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;March 24th&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt; I  would like to thank Deborah Lehr, through George Washington  University’s Capitol Archeological Institute, for organizing a petition  calling for the protection of Egypt’s antiquities, monuments, and  archaeological sites.&lt;br /&gt;He could or would not protect antiques   from his own countrymen&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/dr-zahi-hawass-3/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;,http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/dr-zahi-hawass-3/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor egypt"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/deborah-lehr/" rel="tag"&gt;Deborah Lehr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dr-zahi-hawass/" rel="tag"&gt;Dr. Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hot-air-balloons/" rel="tag"&gt;hot air balloons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-egypt/" rel="tag"&gt;luxor egypt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-temple/" rel="tag"&gt;Luxor Temple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/smoking/" rel="tag"&gt;smoking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/sugar/" rel="tag"&gt;sugar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thebes/" rel="tag"&gt;thebes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2628 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-insects category-luxor-city tag-flie tag-horse-shit tag-insects" id="post-2628"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/flie-diptera-on-the-wall/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Flie (Diptera )on the wall"&gt;Flie (Diptera )on the wall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/flie-diptera-on-the-wall/#respond" title="Comment on Flie (Diptera )on the wall"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 13, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2628&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2641" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2641" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130001.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the tail of the beast can be used for swatting flies, now isn't that a useful bit of information.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2629" height="551" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_2871.jpg?w=472&amp;amp;h=551" title="IMG_2871" width="472" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flie   basking in the early morning sun;  True flies are insects of the order  Diptera . They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of  halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax.&lt;br /&gt;the  reason for this blog  is;With the horse stables out side of the Temple  of Luxor  my flat has become home to lots of bloody flies, this photo is  one of the largest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_0018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_0018.jpg?w=300" /&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this  is one from my garden in Wales and is thinner than the Egyptian fly,  just goes to show how much food there is here in horse shit.&lt;br /&gt;and a few more flies  from my blog&lt;a href="http://insectsonwings.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; http://insectsonwings.blogspot.com/,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_7081.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_7081.jpg?w=300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_7075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_7075.jpg?w=269" /&gt;‘&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_6503.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_6503.jpg?w=300" /&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1301.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="267" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1301.jpg?w=400&amp;amp;h=267" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1305.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1305.jpg?w=232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1306.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/img_1306.jpg?w=286" /&gt;,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2642" height="250" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130002.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=250" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2643" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2643" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130004.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;,the telephone bicycle parking lot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2644" style="width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2644" height="472" src="http://nilecruise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/p4130005.jpg?w=630&amp;amp;h=472" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="630" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;the lower promenade path. never seen the place so quiet,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;         &lt;span class="categories"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/insects/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in insects"&gt;insects&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/luxor-city/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in luxor city"&gt;luxor city&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/flie/" rel="tag"&gt;flie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/horse-shit/" rel="tag"&gt;horse shit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/insects/" rel="tag"&gt;insects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-2618 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-police-corruption tag-antiques tag-cairo tag-egypt tag-giza tag-mubarak tag-museum tag-relics tag-stolen-antiques tag-tombs tag-tutankhamen" id="post-2618"&gt;    &lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/dr-zahi-hawass-3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Dr Zahi Hawass"&gt;Dr Zahi Hawass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-info"&gt;     &lt;div&gt;      &lt;span class="comments-meta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/dr-zahi-hawass-3/#respond" title="Comment on Dr Zahi Hawass"&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      Posted by &lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/author/nilecruise/" title="Posts by A Roberts"&gt;A Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span class="time"&gt;April 12, 2011&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;a class="post-edit-link" href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2618&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Edit Post"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;div class="widget-content" style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;h1&gt;UNESCO&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Egyptian-worker-cleans-some-archeological-pieces-inside-Egyptian-Museum-February/photo//110410/photos_wl_africa_afp/2b94f4eb93a8ab59cc99660d407d8d20//s:/afp/20110410/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeologypolitics_20110410093016;_ylt=Aj6EI9shwqcb.YQwxQaLvIybOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTE5NDU5bnBuBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDYWJvdXRhbXAzOTEw"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;cite&gt; &lt;/cite&gt; –     &lt;abbr title="2011-04-10T02:30:13-0700"&gt;Sun Apr 10, 5:30 am ET&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Thieves  stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archaeological sites across  Egypt since protests against the government broke out in January,  Egypt’s minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass said Sunday in a newspaper  interview.&lt;br /&gt;“We are investigating all the incidents to find the  items. Up until now we have identified many culprits, criminals who were  looking for gold or mummies and who lacked knowledge of the value of  the items they stole,” he told Spanish daily El Mundo.&lt;br /&gt;“They were  not organised, they lived near the archaeological sites where the  objects were kept. They would take advantage of the night to enter the  archaeological sites and pillage,” he added.  &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  “A Roberts  adds” there are no police  on duty as we all know they are  sulking  because the corruption has stopped.  so why would they  apprehend a thief in the daytime never mind in the dark hours,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“About  1,000 objects were stolen, none of them major items. There is an  inventory of everything and it will be difficult for the items to leave  the country.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;no one had any problems before Mr hawass,                       never heard of parcel post? that is what the police said to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  inventory of all the items that were stolen during the uprising and the  weeks of unrest that followed will be given to UNESCO, the UN cultural  agency, Hawass said.&lt;br /&gt;The tomb of Hetep-ka at Saqqara and the tomb  of Em-pi at Giza as well as the Egyptian museum in Cairo, which houses  most of the King Tutankhamen collection, were among the places targeted  by thieves, he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;during  the riots 28th Feb, most of the looting of Jewellery shops etc was done  by the secret police thugs, so maybe you should be checking them,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hawass  was named minister of antiquities last month. He had served as head of  the Supreme Council of Antiquities and later became minister of state  under ousted president Hosni Mubarak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;and  this story is a load of bollocks, they had not finished the inventory  of the  cellars of the museum. they knew pre 25/1/11  many pieces had  been pilfered  at the time  they claimed it was security staff.  when  asked how long will it take to make the inventory of the thousands of  pieces  in the cellars   they said at least 2 years, so how come  suddenly they can give the list of stolen items  to UNESCO, the UN  cultural agency as  Hawass said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Is  the good doctor going to explain  to UNESCO ” who put an order on the  demolition of the tomb robbers houses  in Thebes in 1972″,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;where  has all the carvings and wall paintings  gone from the tombs they found  after the demolition in 2009 the robbers had almost 40 years of  unhindered theft /pillaging of the tombs and the two underground  temples, not one wall   or ceiling  was found intact,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;,  one item from luxor, the complete head of one of the sphinx, that  disappeared  and was not on any inventory, I saw and photographed this  being unearthed 13/1/2011, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/sphinx-head-uncovered-in-luxor/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/sphinx-head-uncovered-in-luxor/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nilecruise.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/sphinx-head-uncovered-in-luxor/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  In 2006 I gave The police and Zahi Hawass a cd with several photos one  being 18th dynasty part of a coffin, that was sold to a German named  Jurgen Engels who also has a collection of 250 funery cones, nothing was  done to retrieve these pieces of antiques, by hawass or the antiquity  police of Luxor. two Ramases 111 statues were unearthed while excavating  for footings for a house near Seti 1st temple in Gurna. My camera and  computer was used to distribute these photos by the dealer Mohamed  Achmed Mohamed Awad, these where sold to a Saudi Arabian dealer for 3  million $, the corruption here was not just with mubarak and his cronies  but almost every high ranking officer, no one pissed here without them  knowing, [who am I ] just someone who was conned out of my money and  home with the help of people like Zahi Hawass,  Judges and &lt;/span&gt;police,,   &lt;a href="http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/02/attempted-murder.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; http://westbankhotel.blogspot.com/2011/02/attempted-murder.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="About 1,000 relics stolen during Egypt ..." src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110410/capt.photo_1302427768551-1-0.jpg?x=400&amp;amp;y=266&amp;amp;q=85&amp;amp;sig=84kMGc1FwEUdge6GVpF0Wg--" /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;cite&gt;AFP/File – An Egyptian worker cleans some of the archeological pieces inside the Egyptian Museum on February 16.&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;cite&gt; last  year I visited the museum and it was just like Indiana Jones and the tomb raiders  I had to wipe cobwebs off my face,&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Mohamed and his  piece of a pharaonic coffin 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="attachment_499"&gt;&lt;a href="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/aaaa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="300" src="http://myegyptblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/aaaa.jpg?w=114&amp;amp;h=300&amp;amp;h=300" title="aaaa" width="114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;MOHAMED AWAD&lt;/div&gt;GETTING  THE PHARONIC HEAD OF A COFFIN INSPECTED FOR AUTHENTICITY By Professor  Strawinsky  from the polish dig Above Hatshepsut Temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"&gt;And here in Luxor&amp;nbsp; espesially the west bank. it seems all the crooks of egypt have ascended on this part of Egypt&amp;nbsp; .&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;footer&gt;&lt;div class="footer-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="fauxborder-left footer-fauxborder-left"&gt;&lt;div class="region-inner footer-inner"&gt;&lt;div class="foot section" id="footer-3"&gt;&lt;div class="widget Attribution" id="Attribution1"&gt;  &lt;span class="widget-item-control"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="footer-cap-bottom cap-bottom"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/footer&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content-cap-bottom cap-bottom"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8553219411230405998-8325785881758787100?l=westbankluxor.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/feeds/8325785881758787100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/8325785881758787100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8553219411230405998/posts/default/8325785881758787100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://westbankluxor.blogspot.com/2011/11/ahmed-mohamed-el-tayeb.html' title='Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb ( أحمد محمد الطيب‎;'/><author><name>wildaboutwales</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03108245713567134230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-znkDEEWXapE/TrgwQKyZHuI/AAAAAAAAACk/1gByuvx7eV4/s220/robin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rm-M8vAFbzQ/Tc1zfm5cmiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7Vz0NMTTues/s72-c/P5130044.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
