“Brigadier Gamal Hammad came to see me today and handed me the attached letter. He told me that he seeks your confidence and that he would like to meet with you, as he has in information on the armed forces and the behavior of some of its officers, the likes of Saghloul Abdel Rahman (he refused to tell me names). He went to Gaza today, waiting for your orders.” Sami 24.9 The above is a 47-year-old memo written by Sami Sharaf, the Information Secretary of President Nasser, to which a 4-page letter from Brigadier Gamal Hammad was attached. A copy of it was printed in Sunday's edition of Al-Arabi newspaper, in an exclusive coverage by Abdallah el-Senawi, the chief editor. Ahmad Mansour, the Muslim Brotherhood advocator and host of Al-Jazeera's ‘Time Witness' talk show, has interviewed Brigadier Hammad. Mansour never ceases to insult the leaders of Egypt on his satellite channel. He believes the memo is a significant document that should be studied. I think it was a mere memo written in standard format. Perhaps Sami Sharaf should tell us about it now. If it is an original, how was it leaked from the archives of the presidency? And if it is a copy, where is the original? Is it at the place of one of the Nasserites of today? I fear it would fall in the hands of their children, who might make a paper boat of it and sink it in the tub. I do not believe that any Nasserite has the right to possess documents of that era. Parliament should pas a law that forces them to hand over any such document in their possession. Or is there someone in parliament that can stop this? What is worse is using such documents to settle old accounts. And what I have mentioned above is tantamount to a robbery of the documents of the Egyptian State in the Nasser era. Heikal, the chief of the Nasserites, possesses many such documents. And now others are imitating him, perhaps including Sami Sharaf himself. But those documents should not be exclusive to Al-Arabi. Awaiting Sami Sharaf's reply, I am eying Heikal.
