Egypt's press today focused on the phone call between the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Hussein Tantawi, and Egyptian ex-Minister of Communication Tarek Kamel during the January 25 Revolution. The media also covered other issues including SCAF's rejection of amending law of the People's Assembly and Shura Council, and former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly's notification to Mubarak about killing demonstrators by police gunfire. Youm7 Youm7 exclusively published an interview with the top expert of the Illicit Gain Authority, Refaat al-Shafei, who said experts did not delay in referring the cases of the accused to the courts, but gave the accused a space of time to be investigated about the documents against them, as there are around 300 cases that should be considered. Illegal actions at the High Dam in Upper Egypt happened under former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former Minister of Water and Irrigation Mahnoud Abu Zeid. These illegal actions wasted billions of pounds, said the general auditor of the High Dam's accounts. Al-Ahram: Al-Ahram reported that SCAF head Tantawi made a phone call to former Minister of Communication Tareq Kamel. Tantawi told Kamel, "ask those who ordered you to cut off the services – telecommunication and internet – to order you to return them back again." Thus the phone call revealed that Tantawi is not responsible for telecommunication blackout. Al-Masry Al-Youm: Al-Masry Al-Youm published a confidential note revealing that the armed forces asked the Egyptian governorate to cultivate 400,000 acres in North Sinai to settle around one million citizens there by 2036. The note also revealed that ousted president Hosni Mubarak had issued a presidential decree in 2006 to cancel the holding company of North Sinai development without any legal reasons. Al-Akhbar: Nominations for Peoples' Assembly elections will begin September 29. Elections will be held in three phases. 50 percent of the seats are allocated for Party-list proportional representation and the other half for individual representation. Former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly confessed that he was informed that demonstrators were killed by police gunfire during the revolution and that he informed Mubarak of all reports about the demonstrations. He said he could not tell Mubarak that the Egyptians demanded to change the government and prosecute all corrupted figures. Al-Adly's lawyer said he will reveal surprising statements in the coming trial on August 14. Al-Shorouq: Independent newspaper al –Shorouq tackled the rumors of the death of Pope Shenouda III, head of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, on twitter, and the new U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Paterson's visit to the Egyptian Museum. Al-Gomhorreya: Al-Adly's two former assistants who are accused of killing demonstrators said that the remains of bullets on roof of the American University in Cairo are not used by the police forces, so meaning foreign elements were shooting the demonstrators.
