Cairo Criminal Court judge Mahmoud Kamel Al-Rashedy brought down the curtain on the "Trial of the Century" when he dismissed murder charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister, Habib Al Adly, and aides in connection with the Jan. 2011 killing of protesters. Setting aside the superficial arguments of conflict addicts, this historic judgment begs a question: who then killed the protesters? In my opinion the answer is crystal clear. Hamas, the armed wing of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, stormed prisons, attacked police stations, killed policemen and soldiers, burned down state institutions and security agencies headquarters, according to a plan described extensively by late Colonel Mohamed Mabrouk in his investigations report. The report has been included in the espionage case against ousted president Mohamed Morsi and his inner circle. Mabrouk had been monitoring the MB's plan from the very first mentioning, in the testimony which would cost him his life, a meeting held in Damascus in November 2010, two months before the January 2011 uprising, under the auspices of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and in coordination with the group's international organization. Imam Khomeini adviser Ali Akbar Welayati, leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) Ali Fadwa, and Head of Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Mashaal, were present at the meeting and agreed to the training by IRG of a number of elements from Gaza to enter Egypt after January 25th mass demonstrations. While Palestinian Hamas leader, Akram al-Agouri, was to be responsible for the logistics of said members entry from Gaza to Egypt, due to his excellent ties with the Sinai Bedouins and arms traffickers. During the meeting, Mashaal handed Fadwa ten Egyptian passports to facilitate Lebanese Hezbollah elements entry in the country. The plan's main objective was to deliver a powerful blow to the Egyptian police, paralyzing its ability to move by targeting one hundred and sixty police stations simultaneously while storming prisons to smuggle Hamas and Hezbollah elements, as well as Bedouins that had participated in the Taba, Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab bombings. They also let loose the prisons inmates, increasing the state of chaos in the country. Mabrouk did not only give sufficient evidence supporting Mubarak's and his aides' innocence, he also established the MBs implication, when they made a deal with Hamas to penetrate Tahrir Square and squares in other governorates to shoot protesters and then blame the police for their deaths. He explained that the plan began when those elements infiltrated North Sinai through border tunnels on Jan. 28th with the help of a number of Bedouins and MBs who live in the region. He mentioned them by name in his testimony, adding that were driving SUVs and were armed with machine guns. Mabrouk was not the only one to provide evidence supporting Mubarak's acquittal in the case relating to the killing of protesters. In his testimony, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi adamantly denied the presence of police snipers in Tahrir Square. He confirmed that such rumors, mainly spread by pseudo revolutionaries who still believe it to this day, are completely baseless; explaining that the Central Command was providing him with a day to day detailed report of events throughout the country which never mentioned any of this. Tantawi added that the Central Command leader told him that MB members were observed shooting protesters from rooftops surrounding Tahrir Square. The same with Major Murad Mowafy's testimony, former head of the General Intelligence Agency, when he stressed that the late Omar Suleiman informed him of the presence of Hamas elements in Tahrir Square. Mowafy affirmed, in a crucial testimony, that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the violence and killings of the January 2011 events, pointing out that they aimed to break the ‘articulations' of the state, namely the police and armed forces. In reality, the events subsequent to January 25th Revolution so far, have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the MB and their terrorist allies of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and the Islamic State are behind all the violence and killings that took place and are still happening in the country. We said from the first day that no officer had received an order to open fire on the Egyptian population, a fact confirmed by recent events and highlighted by the historic court ruling in Mubarak's retrial. The political, social and economic corruption of Mubarak's regime in its last years is a different issue. History, with a capital H, already gave its verdict by ousting him from power through a popular revolution hijacked by the Brotherhood. Since then, we've been facing renewed attempts by the terrorist group and its allies to wreak more havoc in the country similar to what happened in January 2011, either by exploiting Mubarak's acquittal to cause a new wave of protests or by discussing the verdict politically leading to the same result. Finally, the first issue of Albawaba daily newspaper was published Monday, hoping to be the voice of truth, however bitter, as we have always done no matter the cost... Your warm welcome gives our spirits the strength to complete the journey, in total confidence.
