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<p><strong>By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat *, from Alexandria, Egypt for Sabbah Report</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Military vehicles on the Egyptian streets</p>
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<p>History  has always been one of my passions. Every passing moment has in a way  contributed to our history on earth but only some of those moments made a  change of history.</p>
<p>From the monotheism of Akhenaten in ancient Egypt  to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, from the medieval crusades to the  war in Iraq and from the French revolution to the fall of Berlin wall,  those are some of the crucial moments that made a change of history and  shaped our life.</p>
<p>Of all the uprisings and revolutions I&#8217;ve read  about in history books, I never thought I&#8217;d be experiencing one in my  life time. What is taking place right now in Egypt is undoubtedly a  popular revolution against dictatorship that has been stifling the  Egyptians for decades now. I myself have been a living witness to many  years of corruption by that dictatorship but what Egyptians have  actually lived and endured during the last days in Egypt was beyond  anybody&#8217;s imagination. What the whole world is witnessing now in Egypt  is not only a regime crumbling down but a whole age of authoritarianism  in the Arab world fading away.</p>
<p>What the ordinary Egyptians have done on Tuesday 25<sup>th</sup> January is by no means unprecedented, they managed to not only defy the  oppression and arrogance of a self serving political regime but they  also proved the expectation that never saw them capable of challenging  and revolting against dictatorship wrong.</p>
<p>Likewise, the reaction  of Mubarak and his thugs of the ruling party-NDP- to this patriotic  uprising has also been unprecedented. No one with the least level of  conscience and human integrity could have planned and actually carried  out such a dirty and shameful scheme.</p>
<p>The uprising started on  Tuesday with beautiful and magical scenes of thousands of Egyptians of  all walks of life- men and women, old and young and Muslim and  Christian- taking to the streets of Cairo and all major cities of Egypt  nonviolently chanting out their frustrations and aspirations. On the  spot, demonstrators were intercepted and dealt with by what seemed to  all viewers around the world as an organized and ruthless army of  security forces.</p>
<p>Water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas  canisters were being shot at protestors at will and as soon as they were  forced into side streets they were subjected to physical violence and  intimidation.</p>
<p>The brutality of the Egyptian regime in the way it  was trying to abort this nonviolent uprising and which was transmitted  live by international news channels might have come as a shock to a lot  of viewers around the world but for Egyptians it seemed rather expected  and typical of a regime that turned their life into a dark tunnel of  fear and degradation throughout the years.</p>
<p><strong>The police conspiracy and the fall of the president</strong></p>
<p>The  police department in any free society is supposed to serve and protect  the people and not the other way round. But in dictatorships its role is  primarily to look after the dictator in return for privileges and  authorities offered to them by the regime.</p>
<p>And as the dictator gets more deluded and paranoid over the years so does his security apparatus of officers and detectives. <strong>The  dictator- people relationship is primarily of fear and submission. You  take that fear and submission out of the equation and the relation is  redefined again and so disturbed to the verge of uprising.</strong></p>
<p>For  ordinary Egyptians the ballot posts and the police stations used to be  the most unlikely places they wanted to go to for both were directly  connected to the deception and might of the regime. The parliamentary  and presidential rigged elections never did anything except securing  another term of autocratic power to Mubarak and his chosen ring of  corrupt politicians. And likewise, police stations only meant one thing  to any average Egyptian and that is humiliation and intimidation by the  police thugs of officers and small detectives.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t get to  call or address any police officer in Egypt by his job title, no, that&#8217;s  a taboo, you can only address or refer to him as Pasha – a title  equivalent to lord in England- which gave any police officer the  satisfaction he needed to feel superior and authoritative. Ordinary  people answered to the Egyptian police officer anytime – especially  under the implementation of Mubarak&#8217;s emergency law- while he answered  to no one.</p>
<p>Lately the security apparatus has started to use  innovative ways of securing and fortifying the grip of the regime over  the Egyptians. They started to use criminals, inmates and thugs to  intimidate people away from demonstrations and from ballot posts.  Whenever came a time for elections or probable rallies the police  stations would release all the into-custody drug dealers and robbers  under detention and let them infiltrate protestors in rallies or voters  heading to ballots centers to scare them off and even try and physically  harm them so that they would refrain from thinking of voting or  demonstrating ever again.</p>
<p>This has noticeably been resorted to as a  routine and guaranteed approach since 2005 by the Egyptian security  high ranking officials and mastered by most of the on field police  officers and detectives in the country.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Criminals let loose by the police in Egypt</p>
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<p>The  detectives in almost every police station in Egypt have been regularly  taking bribes from outlaws especially drug dealers and robbers in return  for police raids intelligence and facilitating their release from  detention in case of arrest.</p>
<p>Criminals and detectives began to act in  collaboration and as days went by it seemed that they both were pursuing  the same goal of illegal self gain. Moreover people in Egypt began to  find it hard to tell the detective from the outlaw except by the police  ID card.</p>
<p>Given that, the police chiefs along with the Egyptian  minister of interior, Habib Al Adli while working on standard plan (A)  for confronting the protestors of January 25<sup>th</sup> did not forget to come up with a dirty plan (B)</p>
<p><strong>Plan (A)</strong></p>
<p>The  regime knew very well that the thousands of Egyptian protestors  wouldn&#8217;t have managed to contact each other, organize their movements  and galvanize on the concept of uprising without using the internet and  especially social media like facebook and twitter so the regime first  blocked those social media but that was not enough so they shut down the  internet and even the mobile phone text messaging… and as the so called  anti-riot forces were desperately trying hard with their gas canisters  and rubber bullets to crush the protestors and disperse them the orders  for plan (B) were already underway.</p>
<p><strong>Plan (B)</strong></p>
<p>At  the Friday sunset and as the protestors were keeping their ground and  bracing for another round of courageous confrontations, the police  forces -and all of a sudden -withdrew from the streets to be replaced by  small and rather symbolic infantry units of the military.</p>
<p>The  protestors cheered on watching the military units and people clustered  around the armed vehicles and shook hands with the soldiers but little  did they know what the regime had in store for them.</p>
<p>As night was falling over Cairo and major cities of Egypt the police conspiracy or rather<strong><em> the treason</em></strong> was already in play;</p>
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<li>All  police stations around Egypt have become simultaneously deserted; all  police officers were given an open home leave until further notice.</li>
<li> The police stations were left with detectives and soldiers in charge  without superior command and moreover with instructions to discreetly  let the criminals loose.</li>
<li>In few hours almost every police station in the country and every major city police headquarter had been looted and set on fire.</li>
<li>A number of jail breaks began to occur the same night and the following day.</li>
<li> Many incidents of looting and breaking entries began to be heard of  around most cities of Egypt and reported by the state television.</li>
<li>A nationwide panic and intimidation have begun to sweep across Egypt.</li>
<li>With  the absence of security forces the people began to form community  watches to patrol the streets all night protecting properties and their  loved one from possible attacks by the looters</li>
<li>The overwhelming  sense of insecurity has led a considerable fraction of the Egyptian  people to look at the uprising from a pain-benefit perspective and be  inclined to see an end to it one way or another and to even side with  Mubarak who seemed to them as the only option to guarantee the security  and stability they have sacrificed.</li>
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<p>And this exactly what plan (B) has been all about, only people who fell for it never managed to figure out the conspiracy behind<strong>. The security vacuum that scared most Egyptians was nothing more than another dirty scheme by the Mubarak&#8217;s regime. </strong></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Military vehicles on the Egyptian streets</p>
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<p>Theoretically  speaking the security vacuum that follows any revolt never takes place  except after the regime has completely fallen and which has not been the  case in the Egyptian uprising. And since the Egyptian regime knew very  well that the security vacuum is the thing Egyptians dread most and  which could make them reconsider supporting the uprising, <strong>so the  security high officials thought why not create this premature and fake  vacuum just to terrorize the people into abandoning the uprising and to  make them clear the streets and stick to their homes.</strong></p>
<p>It  seemed like ingenious plan but it was far from being perfect; a lot of  the arrested looters proved to be carrying the police identity card and  others were using the missing guns of the police stations in a clear  indication to the conspiracy been carried out by the police, not to  mention hundreds of escaped inmates whom were easily captured again but  only after they have been filmed and put on farcical display on the  state TV for the provocation of more fear and respect for the might of  the regime</p>
<p><strong>Fear is the name of the game in these days of  unrest in Egypt during which the regime will do absolutely anything to  cling to power including all sorts of deception of the masses. The  police dirty conspiracy is far from over as we can watch now the armies  of thugs and criminals being depolyed by the interior ministry high  officials to start the violent confrontations with the peacefull  protestors in a desperate polt to abort the Lotus uprising in Egypt.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Israel watching the uprising in Egypt </em></strong></p>
<p>The  world interest in the crisis in Egypt has a lot of reasons. Egypt is  undoubtedly a pivotal nation in the Arab world and the Middle East; it  is the main American ally in the Arab world and the recipient of the  second largest American military aid. But most importantly because it is  the biggest Arab neighbor country to the state of Israel with which it  signed a peace treaty in 1979 after a long history of animosity and  military confrontations.</p>
<p>On Sunday night, 30<sup>th</sup> January  and on one of the live news shows that was discussing the uprising in  Egypt, Omar Afifi, a former Egyptian police captain told BBC Arabic TV  that – according to his resources in Washington- there is a close  cooperation now between Mubarak and Israel as to how to control and  subdue this uprising. Even more, he said that a cargo of special  automatic sniper rifles were being shipped from Israel to the Egyptian  internal security forces to be used to take down the leaders of the  protestors in case the demonstrations were growing in number and getting  out of control.</p>
<p>Any way and despite the fact that the veracity of  those statements remain hard to verify but it goes without saying that  Israel is watching this dramatic scenario of a close ally to Israel  going down with great concern.</p>
<p>Israel enjoys a 30 years old peace  treaty with Egypt- Camp David accords- during which Mubarak has kept not  only its terms carefully observed but he also kept quiet borders with  Israel and in a great way has helped Israel to tighten its siege on  Gaza.</p>
<p>America and Israel are now contemplating the post-Mubarak  scenario with fears that the shift of Egypt toward democracy and free  elections would bring Islamists to power.</p>
<p>After almost 30 years of  supporting a dictatorship in Egypt they hate to see another Iran or  Hamas on the western borders of the Zionist state of Israel.</p>
<p>But  that is unlikely to happen, not for the sake of Israel, but because  Egypt is a country rich not only in history and culture but in its  people and educated elites who never showed any inclination to adopt  extreme trends of thinking or behavior and that is one sure thing that  history tells us.<br />
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<p><em>*  Dr. Ashraf Ezzat: Apart from the medical experience, he&#8217;s always been  engaged in writing activities. He writes articles about ancient Egyptian  history, Ancient Near Eastern history, comparative religion and  politics especially the Arab- Israeli conflict. Founder and board member  of the bibliotheca Alexandrina friends society. Some of His articles  have been published in Egyptian magazines and online publications.</em></p>
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