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20150319

Obama's Confession (satire)

Hi everyone. My name used to be Barry Soetoro. I changed my name to Barack Obama when I studied with Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brezinski to learn how to be a puppet for big corporations and the ruling elite class that owns me which is controlled by the CIA.

Be sure to not look into my policies or you'll hate me. Cult of personality by living colour is my theme song.

I enjoy pushing for global depopulation through soft-kill weapons like vaccinations and GMO foods. When I'm not acting as a puppet for a nefarious and ruthless elite, I enjoy spinning the truth in public announcements and pretending to be a MLK cultist.

My plans for the future is to destabilize the Middle East by buying off al Qaeda via Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in Syria after facilitating the murder of Gaddafi and quietly bribing the Muslim Brotherhood after both the Libyan and Egyptian government fell during the Arab Spring.

Through our experience in both countries, we managed to depose Morsi in Egypt by not letting its military vette America's bribes given to the Egyptian MB, thanks to the satirical spin of an Egyptian comic who used to be a doctor.

We plan to keep Libya destabilized by bribing MB members of the new government and by ensuring extremists have free reign there to fill the power vacuum left by Gaddafi.

My future hope is to depose Assad in Syria and later punish Iran for thinking it has the right to be a nuclear power by negotiating a complex nuclear deal with the aid of Russia in exchange for lifting of sanctions.

My main job is advise the Middle Eastern nations on making strategic strikes against the Islamic State while it maintains its hold over northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

In the future I plan to pass the torch onto a worthy successor to the Democrat mantle who shall support the West's need for oil by putting the pressure on nations that won't share it with America.

For America is great, one nation under BigOil.


Originally posted: Nov 14, 2013 08:22 PM

20140415

Boston Marathon Bombings Preventable (satire)

So, it turns out most world leaders have committed war crimes since 911. Putin committed it by going after the Chechens.

It is now common knowledge that Chechen militants are being aided by the CIA. However, Putin never says publicly that America is helping the Chechens. He just says that they are terrorists but America calls them freedom fighters.

It is possible that the CIA knew the Boston Bombers had gone militant along with their mother. However, they never acted to stop the bombings. The official word is that they didn't know the Marathon would be targeted.

The reason why I mention the CIA connection is because a male relative of the bombers married a CIA contractor's daughter.

My guess is, the CIA knew and passed on the info to the FBI but because the terrorists were not in the US, they didn't follow up in Chechnya.

So the Boston Marathon bombing was preventable.

This is not a failure of the CIA. Rather, it is a failure of the FBI to anticipate the Boston Marathon would be a target.

As well, it is because there are no Chechens helping the FBI that they didn't go to Chechnya to investigate. This is also why CIA need more Chechens to help them when visiting the small nation.

Now they have kept track of the mother of the bombers, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, because she has radicalized. Her accusations after the bombing hints at it. She denies the brothers played a role in the bombing but were set up by the FBI.

However, Tamerlan's interest in conspiracy theories fed her desire to have deeper spiritual connection with Islam as she and her son bought into the conspiracy that America set 911 up to get the world to hate Muslims.

The truth is, certain Gulf States (Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) fund the spread of Salafi ideology among conservative Muslims in Chechen and Dagestan, throughout the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.

It is most likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a conspiracy theory militant rather than a home-grown Islamic militant. This would put him in league with the survivalists rather than the Islamists.

Therefore the FBI and DOJ are barking up the wrong tree.

Currently, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held on charges of committing the bombing. He has plead not guilty, having being talked into considering his arrest a conspiracy by the FBI to make Chechen Islamic radicalism as bad as the Salafi-inspired radicalism that motivates al-Qaeda and the global Islamic militancy of the Islamists.

If it is a conspiracy theory that 911 was the cause of Islamophobia, then Zubeidat is correct in that part of her ideology. It is likely that she blames the US government for the events leading to what happened on September 11, 2001, especially the ill-advised bombing of a pharmaceutical factory on Sudan by the US military. After that bombing, it turned out that the factory was never a bomb-making facility. In short, whoever gave them that idea probably assumed that the high security implied munitions rather than medication.

However, al-Qaeda is dead wrong about their rhetoric about that mistake since only a single night watchman died in the bombing, not the many lives lost implied by its leader.

In the case of 911, Zubeidat is wrong about America training the terrorists who brought down the Twin Towers in NYC and almost crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Training on jumbo jet simulators does not imply that the US facilitated their training. It only looks that way when you buy into a conspiracy theory that denies that the US government just routinely ignored intelligence shared by Germany due to the politics of the time.

I would also like to point out that the Bush administration never trusted the CIA before 911 as much as the Democrats obviously trust the intelligence community today.

So it should be interesting how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial plays out, considering that he is hedging his bets on the US Constitution to help him avoid the death penalty or a life sentence for the Boston Marathon Bombing.

Just to play devil's advocate, I have an alternative conspiracy theory about the bombing in Massachusetts: both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were influenced by their mother's conspiracy theory about 911, which she learned by discussing the conspiracy theory contained in books Tamerlan was given by a fellow conspiracy theory believer.

My theory is that the conspiracy theory believers about 911 being an inside job morphed into the Tsarnaev's version in which previous bigotry towards the Muslims inspired the US government to facilitate 911 and the Islamophobia which followed in the years after that horrible day was carefully manufactured by bigots among the religious right who support the Republicans.

For it is bigoted Christians with money and power who donate it to the Islamophobes because of their mutual hatred for Muslims.

Back when the Islamophobes were blaming Islam for 911, I pointed out to a few of them that Sayyid Qutb and the rise of Salafi Islam and Wahabbi ideology inspires the Muslim terrorists aligned with al-Qaeda.

However, Muslim fundamentalism such as Salafi and Wahabbi are not violent at all. Indeed, Sayyid Qutb wrote an anti-American book in Arabic which criticized American women, but was inspired by cultural tradition in Egypt in the 1950s that was even more conservative than America was back then.

Yet Qutb never participated in the Islamist revolution that lead to President Nasser's death after Israel won the war with Egypt. All he did was write a few books that inspired the militants. Indeed, his books later inspired al-Qaeda.

Today, it is Imam al-Sharif who inspires non-violence among former militants. This is how Indonesian and Malaysian Islam is less likely to produce terrorists since Mohammad specifically implied that a Muslim killing a Muslim requires an imam to question the killer until he regrets his sin of killing a fellow believer.

Thus, al Qaeda is not motivated by Mohammad but by ancient battles the early Muslims had to wage in order for Islam to survive in the Middle East, all of them glorified to the point of fanaticism. At that point, the jihadis have lost the greater jihad for the sake of glory fighting the holy war that the lesser jihad they choose inspires.

Even though most Muslims believe in jihad, the term "holy war" actually refers to the Buddhist metaphor about the warrior who kills a thousand enemies having lost the most important battle in a person life was, is and will always be with his ego, not another person.

If you lose that battle in your life, then it is like being a child playing with toys in a burning house. If you cannot find someone wiser than you to change your life around, then the rest of your life will be full of suffering.

For Muslims, Mohammad is wiser than the imams and mullahs. Indeed, he is wiser than the men who ignore the imam's judgement on sharia and put the less wiser choice of oppression against any group they think beneath them, be it women or even Jews. It seems that a Muslim who goes by Sharia and bases his violent ways on a wrong-minded interpretation of hadiths cannot even claim to understand the Koran that he has memorized.

Merely deeming other Muslims less bloodthirsty than them to be unbelievers is done by reason not by God's will. In short, militant ideology is not by God's will but by man's will alone.

Even Mohammad knew this. It is why he waited three years before marrying Aisha. It is also why he never led his people against the Christians.

When Muslims came to them, the Christian Arabs of Yemen left their homeland to become Ghassanids in Syria due to their steadfast belief in Jesus and their unwillingness to become apostate by becoming Muslims - because they feared the Hell that would result from converting to Islam.

Perhaps this is why the Islamophobes are so bigoted against all Muslims, and 911 justifies their hatred of them.

Thus, the Tsarnaevs are seen as this by the Islamophobes: a mother who fled America rather than face possible imprisonment for shoplifting and possibly reconciled with her husband, who left her because she was becoming too Americanized. After 911, she radicalizes not because of Islamist ideology but because of the well-founded belief that America hated Muslims since the US government first backed Israel.

All of the billions of dollars of aid the US government has given Israel only proves that America does not love the Muslims. Small wonder that the development of anti-American sentiments is still a national pastime in many Muslim nations which did not overthrow their Islamist leadership during Arab Spring back in 2011.

In conclusion, the Tsarnaev case must require Dzhokhar's parents to attend, because justice also must be served in Zubeidat's case. She too is a fugitive from American justice for her kleptomania, which suggests the likelihood of a character disturbance. The fact that she bought into a conspiracy theory might be proof of this.

However, she may not return to America because it is likely that she fears the stigma of mental illness even though she might call it an American tool of social control rather than a sincere desire to help the extremely nervous.

We will just have to wait and see how the trial turns out to find out.

As the one year anniversary approaches, this bombing has become the best false flag event ever. Indeed, it beats 9-11. In both cases, foreign powers warned DC about "mad bombers" with 9-11 being forewarned by Germany and the Boston Marathon bombing being forewarned by Russia.

When one looks at the Todashev case, one FBI agent is present with Todashev while the other agent was outside, keeping his friend away. Then after Todashev was shot circa 2326 PM, the agent escorts the friend to a restaurant further away. When the friend returns, Todashev's apartment is covered in police tape.

Judging from the evidence the FBI agents violated standard procedure:

Two agents must be present during any interview with a suspect. Having police with them is not standard. FBI likes to work alone without police because the latter tend to protect their turf, thus contaminating a scene.

This is thus an "assassination" to ensure that Todashev does not expose the Tsarnaev brother as what they are: tentative Muslim "extremists" groomed by agents provocateurs employed by the FBI. Thus, the verifiable evidence in mainstream media is a concocted cover to hide the "truth".

Could it have been a black ops by the CRAFT unit, some of whose members might have murdered a fellow agent that talked to much?

Original post: January 20, 2014 0318H PST

Reference:

Boston Marathon bomber a conspiracy theorist militant:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/unlikely-friendship/xQao9NHjkUvtvhTcK1uwCL/story.html

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev

* Zubaidat's entry in this wikipedia article confirms 911 conspiracy theories as etiology of her growing militancy. This more likely is influenced by Chechen struggle for freedom.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/zubeidat-tsarnaeva-mother-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects_n_3176009.html

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution:
http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-defender-of-the-constitution/281363/

Sayyid Qutb:
http://www.kalamullah.com/sayyid-qutb.html

Evidence of possible false flag in Todashev case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev

The CRAFT are the real culprits:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-220413.html

20140330

The Qutbs I Do not Admire (satire)

For the record: I do not admire Sayyid Qutb or his brother Mohammad Qutb, because their membership in Muslim Brotherhood helped spread their anti-American propaganda and distinctly pro-Islamic rhetoric.

Now their words are being misused by Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as al Qaeda globally.

This is also why I do not think much of Muslim Brotherhood fronting political candidates among the Maghrebi Arab Spring participants.

If it is true Morsi in Egypt was receiving payola from US Foreign policy department without oversight from the Egyptian military, a known CIA asset, then this is just wrong. That money should have gone to the military.

Most people do not believe it was the CIA that was bribing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This is why I think that the US embassy also had a separate slush fund for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. In my opinion, this suggests that the US ambassador to Egypt was "donating" money to the Muslim Brotherhood directly without telling his CIA handler.

This suggests that the CIA and US ambassador are at odds about where their bribe money is supposed to go in Egypt.

This revelation makes the Libya scene involving Benghazi an interesting scenario where the US ambassador there might have been "donating" money to the wrong cause while the CIA were trying to "turn" al Qaeda members.

However, Egypt is proof that bribes only work when nobody exposes it.

---Translation: Arabic---

للسجل : أنا لا نعجب سيد قطب أو أخيه محمد قطب ، بسبب عضويتهم في جماعة الإخوان مسلم ساعد انتشارها الدعاية المعادية للولايات المتحدة و اضح الخطاب المؤيد للإسلام.

الآن يجري يساء استخدامها من قبل كلماتهم طالبان في أفغانستان وباكستان وكذلك تنظيم القاعدة على الصعيد العالمي.

وهذا هو أيضا السبب في أنني لا أفكر كثيرا في جماعة الإخوان مسلم المواجه المرشحين السياسيين بين المشاركين المغاربة الربيع العربي .

وإذا كان صحيحا مرسي في مصر و تلقي الرشوة من قسم السياسة الخارجية للولايات المتحدة دون إشراف من الجيش المصري ، و الأصول وكالة المخابرات المركزية المعروفة ، ثم وهذا هو مجرد خطأ . أن المال يجب ان تذهب الى الجيش .

معظم الناس لا أعتقد أنه كان من وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية التي كانت رشوة الإخوان مسلم في مصر. هذا هو السبب في أنني أعتقد أن السفارة الأمريكية كانت أيضا صندوق طين منفصلة ل مرسي والإخوان مسلم في القاهرة. في رأيي ، وهذا يشير إلى أن سفير الولايات المتحدة لدى مصر كان " التبرع " المال ل جماعة الإخوان مسلم مباشرة دون أن يخبر معالج له وكالة المخابرات المركزية .

هذا يشير إلى أن وكالة المخابرات المركزية و سفير الولايات المتحدة على خلاف حول مكان يفترض أموال الرشوة للذهاب في مصر.

هذا الوحي يجعل المشهد ليبيا بنغازي التي تنطوي على سيناريو مثير للاهتمام حيث سفير الولايات المتحدة ربما كانت هناك " التبرع " المال ل سبب خاطئ في حين أن وكالة المخابرات المركزية كانوا يحاولون " تحويل " أعضاء في تنظيم القاعدة .

ومع ذلك ، دليل على أن مصر الرشاوى تعمل فقط عندما لا يعرض عليه.

20121219

Honor Killings Are Still Murder

I could quote from news articles from Middle Eastern and African nations where more madness goes on that is more common than child abuse deaths in America.

In one Middle Eastern country, a Yazidi girl fell in love with a Muslim boy, and the Yazidi menfolk demanded that the Yazidi sheik protecting her release her to her family. Or else.

So the sheik did so, whilst urging the men not to harm her. She ended up stoned to death, merely for falling in love with a Muslim boy.

In Egypt, Coptic girls are routinely harassed by men of Salafi Islam sect, merely for being Christian. The Egyptian government usually looks the other way.

In Libya, blood feuds are going on right now, just because a handful of clans supported its former leader Gadaffi. Yet we never hear any stories from the women of Libya. In fact, the West has been repeatedly told to mind their own business.

In Somalia, a 13-year old girl was stoned to death for reporting a rape to the militia. Before the stoning, witnesses to the rape tried to rescue the child but were shot by militia members.

Imagine how many deaths of Syrian girls are happening right now just because their brother, cousin, or father is a rebel.

However, honor killings are still murder, yet because of the Law of Hammurabi, the men in those countries will get away with it.

Then think about the Palestinian girls caught in the bombing of the Gaza strip by Israel in November 2012, left shell shocked and mourning their loved ones.

I know of one story where a Palestinian girl was shot by an Israeli sniper.

While that's not an honor killing, it is proof that Israel is willing to do anything to keep the big business of warfare alive so the right-wing and religious parties could dominate Israeli politics, using the victimhood of anti-Semitism to ensure its popular vote.

With recent Israeli elections in January 2013, though, the government's political stance has moved slightly to the left from right. Currently the left / centre / Arab parties took 59 seats while the right-wing / religious parties took 61.

All of this killing is terrorism in the Middle East, whereas in America, instead of terrorists, we get school shooters making news during Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and the return to school at the end of August.

Yet the only difference between a terrorist and a school shooter is the former kills to fulfill the demands of his ideology whilst the latter kills due to the misused ideology of his parents.

References:

Yazidi girl stoned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_Du%27a_Khalil_Aswad

Blood feuds threatened by Gaddafi's clan: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-libya-idUSTRE7A36TW20111104

Civilians seize besieged former Gaddafi stronghold: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/us-libya-clashes-idUSBRE89L11B20121022

Coptic Christians harassed by Egyptian Muslims: http://www.charismanews.com/world/34595-coptic-christians-harassed-by-egyptian-muslims

Two Christian Coptic Girls Disappear: http://global.christianpost.com/news/two-christian-coptic-girls-disappear-in-upper-egypt-muslim-youth-believed-responsible-90077/

Child of 13 stoned to death in Somalia: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/child-of+-13-stoned-to-death-in-somalia-20081031

Sectarian violence in the 2011-2012 Syria uprising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_in_the_2011%E2%80%932012_Syrian_uprising

Israeli air strike kills three generations of Palestinian family: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict.html?_r=0

Gaza Ceasefire (source for 166 Palestinians killed in recent Israeli air strike: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/gaza-cease-fire_n_2177031.html

Israeli sniper shoots girl in her home:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-sniper-bullet-takes-12-year-old-girls-life/7403

2013 Israel Election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2013
In 2009, out of a total of 120 seat in the Knesset; the right-wing / religious parties had 65 seats
versus the left / centre / Arab parties having 55 seats.
In 2013, the right-wing /religious parties now have 61 seats to the left / centre / Arab parties having 59.

Christmas shootings:
2012: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/12/26/1-dead-13-wounded-in-christmas-eve-christmas-shootings/
2011: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-bodies-texas-idUSTRE7BO0GV20111228

2012 Sandy Hook shootings: http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/14/deaths-reported-at-us-primary-school-after-shooting/

Easter shooting in 2012:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/us/tulsa-murder-suspects-have-bail-set-at-9-1-million.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/18/opinion/walker-tulsa-shooting

Thanksgiving shooting 2012:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57554348-504083/byron-smith-update-minn-shooting-suspect-says-he-fired-more-shots-than-needed-in-teens-slayings-complaint-says/
http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-28/little-falls-shooting-shooting-victims-may-have-links-other-break-ins


August 2012 school shooting:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57500919/perry-hall-high-school-student-shot-on-first-day-of-school-baltimore-police-mum-on-motive/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-school-shooting-victim-downs-syndrome/story?id=17094155



20110208

Is Egypt Ripe for Democracy?

"Reports from the Committee to Protect Journalists show that 30 journalists and their support staff from both Egyptian and international news organisations have been detained, attacked or had their equipment confiscated in the past 48 hours.

In addition, there are reports that a number of civil society activists have been arrested following a raid on the Hisham Mubarak Centre for Human Rights, the, Egyptian Centre for Political and Social Rights and the Egyptian Centre for Housing Rights." - http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2011/2011_02_04_egypt

I doubt Egypt is ready for democracy, because the poor has been left out of the picture.

Approximately 25 percent of Egyptians are poor, with 14 million living in rural areas of Upper Egypt (south of Khartoum). They include tenant farmers and small-scale farmers, landless laborers, unemployed youth, and women. Few of them have visited Lower Egypt and Cairo.

If Egypt goes democratic, the fallacy that democracy permits corruption of youth and breakdown of society becomes more unreal and untrue.

Yet democracy does not make a nation strong; rather, it makes the voice of the people heard, providing a politically active outlet for activists willing to vote for democracy with their feet, marching for peace. Indeed, democracy may be a tool of the educated to share liberal ideology in an egalitarian manner but for the poor, it offers hope.

For the poor hope that one day, their children will prosper in a democratic Egypt.

Yet the military in Egypt seek to control this peaceful protest because of the irrational belief that such protests foment violence. In actual fact, the Egyptian military turn a blind eye to right-wing militias' help to "control" the democracy advocates in Cairo.

Why suppress democracy?

So that the average rural villager knows her place as servant to the rich. It also does her family no good to have her go to university, when she should be at home for the good of family and motherhood, despite the wretched conditions of birth.

Would Egypt's activists be willing to emancipate the rural poor? Who is to say?

I wonder how this change in Egypt will impact the rural poor trickling into the cities of Egypt in the name of democracy.

For the poor live in the reality of poverty, just barely getting by without any thought for politics, save for the threat of starvation and barely surviving in an unsafe world.

Update:

February 11, 2011: former President Mubarak reigns and leaves Cairo. Vice President Omar Suleiman announces on national TV that Mubarak has stepped down, and that the Egyptian military is temporarily in control. Jubilant crowds celebrate on Tahrir Square.

February 13: high level military command announces both constitution and parliament of Egypt is dissolved. Parliamentary election is to be held in September.

March 19: constitutional referendum is held. Democratic leaders delay election from September 2011 tp November 2011.

April 13: Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt (which is controlled by its military) orders Mubarak and his two sons detained.

August 3: Trial begins for Mubarak who is also investigated for Sadat's death.

October 9-10: Coptic Christian church is torn down in Aswan after Copts refuse to not display cross. In march from Shubra to Maspero, Egyptian army tries to escalate hostilities, first by broadcasting unfounded rumors Copts were attacking the military. Out of a crowd of 240 Copts,

November 28: Egypt holds its first parliamentary election since previous regime was in power. Turnout high and no reports of irregularities or violence. Members of some parties break ban on campaigning at polling places by handing out pamphlets and banners.

February 16, 2012: Coptic activist gets travel ban in Mespero incident. He calls it politicized.

June 2: Mubarak sentenced to life imprisonment.

July 8: Egypt's new president Mohamed Morsi call lawmakers back into session.

July 10: Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt negates decision by President Mohamed Morsi to call parliament back into session

August 2: Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil announces 35 member cabinet comprising 28 newcomers including four from influential Muslim Brotherhood, six others and former military ruler Tantawi as the Defence Minister from previous Government

Freedom House rates Egypt as "Not Free". In their report, it turns out the military was controlling the show until the elections finished in early January 2012. There was regular harassment of NGOs whom the military targets accusing them of being controlled by foreign interests, despite the fact that most NGOs in Egypt are grassroots organizations.

Commentary:

Even though Mubarak had been sentenced to life imprisonment in June, today Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court still remains the pawn of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which had Mohamed Hussein Tantawi as Chairman and chief of state since February 11, 2011. He was only instated as Defense Minister three months ago only to retire on August 12.

Quite possibly Tantawi was a figurehead as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. He was ordered by President Mosri to retire but retained as advisor. It has been speculated that the military junta plans to step down in exchange for immunity.

Until that time, the fruits of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution are not yet ripe for democracy.



Updated 20121117.0432

Reference:

Wikipedia: Egypt: Revolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Revolution

Wikipedia: 2011-2012 Egyptian Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Egyptian_revolution

Mespero demonstrations in Octo 9-10, 2011 show Egyptian military in charge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maspero_demonstrations

USA Today: Train hits school bus in al-Mandara, Manfaloot district, Assuit:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/17/egypt-train-hits-school-bus-22-children-killed/1710935/

Wikipedia: Mubarak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubarak