Tweet Ahmed Tharwat Commentary A democratically elected president, ousted by a military general, imprisoned and systematically mistreated. Familiar tale. By Ahmed Tharwat JUNE 19, 2019 — 6:00PM On June 17, 2012, Mohammed Morsi was elected as the president of Egypt. On the same date seven years later, having been ousted from that role, he died in court while on trial for bogus charges such as conspiring with Qatar and Hamas, breaking out of jail, and letting prisoners escape during the chaos of the 2011 revolution. Morsi did not have much leadership experience, he wasn’t a military man, he showed a great level of incompetence and political naivety, he was…
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WHY THE SON OF ARAB LEADERS MAKE LOUSY DICTATORS
Tweet Why Arab leaders’ Sons make lousy dictators!! One of the most astonished supporters of Mohamed Bin Salman, known by MBS. As the Guardian reported, is Ali Shihabi, the head of the Arabia Foundation , a thinktank lobby group that basically a Saudi Royal family operative its main job is to wash off Saudi dirts in the US, Mr. Shihabi an ex banker once said “MBS has “balls”, but still young” , incidentally Thomas Friedman in his latest love letter to the crown prince, tells us that MBS the reformer now has the “ball” in his hands, I hope it is not one of the “Balls” that Ali Shihabi was…
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When Head of States, Act like Thugs…, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi!
Tweet Everyone knows by now, unless you live in Saudi Arabia, that Washington Post writer and Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi was kidnapped, interrogated, and tortured, dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey in the presence of the Saudi consulate himself. The horrible fate of Mr. Khashoggi was undertaken ‘mafia style’, taken directly from the Corleone family’s bloody playbook. The killing of Mr. Khashoggi, reported was on the order of the highest level of the Saudi family. Which probably means MBS himself who, after taking power from his ailing father, is running the Royal Saudi family as the hard-headed Sonny of the Corleone family,