Flags with a clenched fist in a white circle became a regular landmark in most demonstrations and most political events that Egypt has witnessed during the few years prior to the 25 January revolution. The exact same banner was flown over most opposition movements in the majority of Color revolutions around the world. This banner was first used by Otpor, the Serbian Movement that ousted dictator Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. This movement was financed by the European Security Organization in collaboration with the Humanity in Action Organization and the American Freedom House. After the experiment succeeded in Serbia it was developed to become a world educational institute for nonviolent studies, called the Center of Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). The Serbian revolution was then exported to Georgia in 2003 through the ‘Kamara' (i.e. enough!) movement and nicknamed the Pink Revolution by the media. The movement ‘Kefaya', the Arab word for ‘enough' emerged almost at the same time in Egypt. The Color revolutions moved to Russia in 2005, then to Venezuela in 2007. All these revolutions used colorful slogans for public attraction and they were all related to the Jewish-born American billionaire George Soros. He was the principal financier of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Freedom House. Following incidents in Egypt's Mahalla Al Kobra in 2008, activists founded a movement called ‘6th of April', the most prominent of whom were Ahmed Maher and Esraa Abdel Fattah. Fast, in December 2008, members of the newly born movement traveled to the US to join a workshop to form alliances between active youth members from different movements through the use of the internet. In 2009, communication started between members of 6th of April and the International Republican Institute, a nongovernmental American organization founded in 1983, with headquarters in Washington. It was headed by Lorne W. Craner, former Assistant Secretary of State. This institute aims at upholding democracy and American national interests in the world, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. At that time Maher made an agreement with the institute to establish a Human Rights center for which he received $20 thousand from NED, which supports civil society projects in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. They were especially interested in projects upholding democracy. The movement was also planning to play the role of local monitor for the 2010 parliamentary elections. They started holding intense meetings with a number of politicians known to have good relations with Washington, such as Ayman Nour. The meetings discussed monitoring strategies for the elections which involved recruiting members from the Movement. At this time too, sponsoring entities were plotting to stir trouble in Egypt as part of a larger plan to use the newly born Movement to foment unrest. An agreement was made with lawyers Khaled Mohamed Ibrahim Taha and Ezzat Bedros Bedwani to establish the Human Rights Center that Ahmed Maher had been paid for. However their lack of knowledge as to the nature of the NED organization stopped their activity short. This damned clenched fist After the January 25 events renewed disputes erupted between the movement's members. Some were opposing policies adopted by Ahmed Maher who was running the movement's affairs. Intelligence security sources asserted that during November 2010, activist Esraa Abdel Fattah called Ahmed Maher and expressed her disappointment at the movement not receiving any money from abroad. During the same year, Ahmed Maher coordinated with Sherif Ahmed Mansour, Freedom House Middle East Program Manager and son of Ahmed Sobhi Mansour (who acquired the American citizenship and is presently residing there), to secretly finance their activities. They aimed at launching a campaign called ‘Fighting Corruption in Egypt'. The intention was to use regular media and public demonstrations to compel the ruling party to fight corruption as well as increasing public awareness through Facebook and other multimedia channels; all means to convince the public that it is its right to ouster former President Mubarak. Simultaneously, all these organizations were actively holding training rounds during 2009, in America, Serbia and the UAE for a number of human rights and political activists, coaching them on how to organize public revolutions though internet. Traveling to Serbia Ahmed Maher sent an urgent and confidential letter to one of the Movement's members to fill an application form to attend a training round in Serbia. The aim of this round was for 6th of April to learn about the Serbian experience and how it succeeded in toppling the regime there. 6th of April members together with some Human Rights activists left Egypt on June 14 2009 and joined the training. They worked with Otpor and learned to mimic its mechanisms and slogans. The following names participated in the training: Lawyer/ Ahmed Iraki Mohamed Abdel Rehim Nassar, Muslim Brotherhood member/ Mohamed Adil Mohamed, Omar Tharwat Ahmed Al Baz, Maged Shafik Botros, Rami Mohamed Abdel Aziz Nour, Press member/ Mandy Morad Fahmy Hassan, Mina Rizk Habib Abdel Malak, Sarah Ahmed Fouad Youssef, Shaimaa Mostafa Ibrahim Salem, Mohamed Gabe Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud, Mohamed Sabri Abdel Khalik Metwalli, Atif Ismael Abdel Azim Mohamed, Ramy Abdel Karim Fahmy Mohamed Azaz. After their return form Serbia, intelligence sources monitored a lot of inter-correspondence regarding a special report they were writing on the training's evaluation. Brotherhood member Mohamed Adil Mohamed refused to turn in the report and insisted he would only deliver it to an American aid team. He was known to have sneaked into Gaza to communicate with Hamas. Differences emerged between leaders after the members' return from Serbia. Some of them objected to Ahmed Maher's methods in running the movement's affairs and in dealing with foreign organizations. Heading the wave of objection was Mohamed Abdel Tawab Gomaa, alias, Mohamed Awad. They formed a committee called the Temporary Coordination Committee which held a general assembly on July 17 2009, at the Kefaya headquarters in Abdeen district. They came up with several resolutions, among which: Not to have any dealings with foreign organizations whether tangible or intangible, even for training and to refuse any funds from Egypt or abroad. To permanently expel Mohamed Adil Fahmy accused of being a ‘spy' and revealing secrets about members by hacking their private computers and mobile phones. Freeze Ahmed Maher's membership, the movement's coordinator, for 3 months and to forbid his candidacy for any leading post in the movement for a whole year. Maher had secretly sent members abroad and made solo decisions to deal with suspicious organizations for funds. All the committee's efforts failed and Ahmed Maher kept his post. This in turn caused disputes between members of the committee. The activist Ahmed Adel worked on forming a new movement that he called the ‘Youth Movement for Justice and Freedom.' Traveling to US Security reports attached to the case number 250 reviewed by the National Security Supreme Court for espionage, in 2011, show that activist Bassim Fathy held a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State, October 10-22, 2010. Fathy was board member of the Egyptian Democratic Institute; he is currently Project Manager for the American Freedom House organization and has fled to Washington. The reports also revealed that Ahmed Maher was subjected to pressure from members of the Movement, especially Diaa Al Din Soliman Al Sawi who issued a statement titled ‘A meeting with the American Secretary of State and two members of the Movement'; confirming that the members had traveled on their own. It also mentioned that their memberships had been frozen. Gulf Training sessions In April 2010 Ahmed Maher, Amr Ibrahim Mobarak and Bassim Fathy attended a training session in Dubai on Strategic Planning. Engineer Wael Ghoniem, founder of the internet page ‘We are all Khaled Said' also attended the training. Intelligence sources mention that in July 2010, 6th of April member Asmaa Mahfouz, received a call from a man called Ramy Masry, a resident of Qatar, inquiring about the movement's financial needs. She said that they needed to fund various activities such as public communication through mobile phones, preparing signs and banners, obtaining data for publicity and field trips. They also needed a message server to direct demonstrations organized by the movement. Masry agreed to send funds through a member called Fatema Ramadan. By the end of January 2011 the movement, using the funds, shared in the preparations of the 25 January revolution: Launching a campaign titled ‘How to Change Egypt' aiming at shedding light on socioeconomic problems, and urging the multitudes to play a positive role in confronting them. They managed to hold several meetings with the most prominent political figures to exhibit their views around the development of the present political position. Launching a second campaign called ‘Check-Mate' with the aim to oust former President Mohamed Hosny Mubarak, and encouraging the public to cross all red lines, especially in popular areas. Calling for mass protests across Egypt to coincide with the celebrations of Police Day, January 25. The call was backed by several political powers including followers of the ‘We are all Khaled Said' webpage. Starting a ‘Street War' aiming to topple the regime by exhausting police forces. This new method was carried out for several ways, organizing abrupt protests for short intervals, spray painting the walls of important government buildings, national parties' headquarters and police stations. Security investigations revealed that during February 2011, at the time of the revolution, a member named Amna Wagy Ghoniem, alias Amal Sharaf told Ahmed Maher to open a bank account to receive 4 million dollars. The money was to be sent from a Gulf state through her brother who lived abroad. Ahmed Maher confirmed, end of February 2011 that he had received a transfer through Western Union from Qatar. Differences started again after the January 25 revolution and anger was directed at Ahmed Maher for monopolizing the media and for attempting to transform the Movement into an NGO for easier foreign funding. The rift grew producing two separate fronts: Ahmed Maher's Front: it included the activists Amna Wagdy Ghoniem, Hend Hamed Saad, alias Engy Hamdy and Mohamed Adil Fahmy. The Democratic Front: headed by Tarek Said Al Khouly. Disagreements escalated between the two fronts on the right to speak on behalf of the Movement. In an unprecedented way, Ahmed Maher issued a hard worded statement in which he criticized the Democratic Front and negated its members' affiliation to the Movement. He also said he considered the Democratic Front as consisting of the residues (feloul) of the old regime, aiming at shattering the Movement and distorting its public image. He also denied receiving any foreign funding. The Democratic Front responded by releasing a similar statement saying they were the original founders of the movement and that the differences between the two fronts were not personally motivated. Security reports also confirm that Ahmed Maher was still receiving money: 50 thousand dollars as a down payment from Freedom House for a report on torture in police stations. Asmaa Mahfouz, also received 15 thousand Euros after the revolution to achieve other objectives. The security reports also tracked trips undertaken by several members of the movement: Asmaa Mahfouz travelled to Qatar (11-15 March 2011), then to Switzerland (27 May 2011) and Turkey (3- 8 June 2011). Ahmed Maher travelled to France (1 April -31 May 2009), Turkey (5-7 December 2009), UAE (29 January-2 February 2010), Jordan (3 June-16 July 2010), Germany (10-22 October 2010), transit US, UAE (19-23 April 2010) and Holland (16 April 2011). Amr Ibrahim Mubarak travelled to UAE (19-23 April 2010) and Turkey (3-8 June 2011). Ramy Abdel Gelil travelled to Lebanon (13-16 December 2009), UAE (19-23 April 2009), France (23 March 2011), England (24 April-1 May 2011), Turkey (3-8 June 2011), and Qatar twice, (18- 21 January 2011 and 11-15 March). These trips had no other reason than to meet with intelligence officers of foreign countries that had plans for high jacking the Egyptian revolution and give financial support to those Movements betraying their country. It helped to serve the country on a silver platter to the Muslim Brotherhood through their endless support to Morsi Al Ayat during the 2011 presidential elections. This article will be continued when every traitor is brought to justice and authorities release all the documents relevant to the case number 250 of the National Security Supreme Court for the year 2011.
