CAIRO: Youm7 exclusively obtained the full text of investigations wtih the former head of the dissolved State Security Investigation (SSI), Hassan Abdel Rahman. Abdel Rahman was chairman of SSI for seven years, during which economic, financial, political, and administrative corruption increased in Egypt. Investigations revealed there was mutual information and communication shared between the SSI and the military intelligence during Egypt's January 25 Revolution. It was discovered Abdel Rahman called the former Minister of Interior, Habib al-Adly, to ask for the intervention of Armed Forces on January 28. Investigations with Abdel Rahman stared on March 10. Abdel Rahman denied the accusation of ordering the killing of demonstrators by live bullets; he justified by saying the SSI is not authorized to order open fire upon demonstration, its only duty is to collect information. He also denied disobeying the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's order to support the Armed forces to preserve Egypt. SSI is responsible for collecting information about the expected number of demonstrators during any protest and the protestors' demands, as well as who is participating, said Abdel Rahman. The SSI officers took positions near demonstrations to collect information to provide to police sectors afterwards, Abdel Rahman added. The investigator thus accused Abdel Rahman of providing the police sectors false information about the demonstrations' number because the Egyptian Ministry of Interior was not ready to face this great number of protesters. Abdel Rahman submitted the investigator a photocopy of the SSI report about the January 25 Revolution. The reports consist of 12 pages including analyses of success of the Tunisian Revolution and how it influenced Egypt. He said he warned the Ministry of Interior of the bad condition Egypt was in. The interrogator asked him about al-Adly's response to these reports; Abdel Rahman replied the former Minister of Interior told him the reports were referred to political leadership. Al-Adly ordered him also to paralyze the participation of political powers in the meantime. Abdel Rahman confessed he told al-Adly the SSI would coordinate with political powers to not participate in the demonstrations, including the Kefaya Movement, the April 6 Movement, the National Association for Change, and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). SSI had information about the demonstrators' demands and knew Facebook groups and activists called for demonstrations through Egypt's governorates, according to Abdel Rahman. Abdel Rahman was attending the first meeting since the outbreak of the revolution with leaders from the Ministry of Interior on January 27. The meeting tackled all incidents before the meeting was held. He told the attendants the demonstration will be attended by a great number of members of the MB. The meeting called to cancel all football games that day to deploy more security forces in the demonstration. On January 28, the demonstrations escalated, especially in Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. It was then Abdel Rahman called al-Adly to ask for support form the military forces because the situation got out of control but he reported political leadership about this proposal. The military forces deployed in the streets of Egypt after security forces could not control this great number of demonstrators, he continued. Abdel Rahman denied infiltration of elements from Hezbollah and Hamas into Egypt during the demonstration. He said a Palestinian prisoner escaped form the prison and went to his home. The investigator accused the SSI of failure since the body is responsible of securing Egypt. Arabic here.
