Inner Eye

WE ARE LOSING OUR EYES AND DISBELIEVING THEM 

WHEN WE SEE

an inference articulated in a Yousri Foda interview:

".... hosting journalist Youssri Foda gives space to three of our injured comrades to speak as well as to the well known journalist Bilal Fadl. The dentist Ahmed Harara, the blogger and activist Malek Mustapha and the photographer Ahmed Abdel Fattah of the Egyptian daily al-masry al-youm all lost their eyes due to deliberate shooting from close distances with what we call khartouche ammunition, a projectile with between 13 and 16 small bullets of different sizes, made of either hardened plastic or metal. Fired at close distances it can be lethal and if targeted at eyes, the eyes are destroyed. Ahmed Harara is a close friend of mine. He lost his right eye during the first revolution on 28 January 2011 and 4 days ago he lost his left eye. He will be forever blind but he went back into Tahrir square, right after his operation in the hospital. In the TV program you will see the young officer who fired the bullet and you will hear the voice of a shooting officer proudly reporting to his superior that he managed to get another eye…it was a premeditated campaign… "

 

                  Ahmed Harara (dentist.. no thug!) who lost one eye in January and the other in November 2011

“Egyptian shebab* will never give up, none of us will give up any more”, Report from Cairo Posted by Niel - O.T.R.O on 11/26/2011                                                                      * youth

http://takethesquare.net/2011/11/26/egyptian-shebab-will-never-give-up-none-of-us-will-give-up-any-more-report-from-cairo/

Getty images:

For more brutally graphic images of atrocities and injuries, visit: 

Blinded by The Eye Hunter: Egyptian police expert marksman 'takes out eyes of five protesters with rubber bullets'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066537/Egyptian-protesters-blasted-policeman-targets-eyes.html#ixzz1eur85nQZ

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egypt+fury+over+police+shooting+at+protesters+eyes/-/1066/1278060/-/ljsr4r/-/index.html 

mASKs ON

Readers do not have to be familiar with the Arabic language in order to follow the first one or two minutes of the following broadcast link.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRO8clDGryA 
for Mona Eltahawy's interview in English go to:  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066157/Mona-Eltahawy-Columnist-sexually-assaulted-Egyptian-military-police-shows-casts-hands.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Most sinister is the new appearance of 'the efficient gas mask' as worn by the very officials perpretating utterly unjustifiable, monstrous attacks; 'disproportionate' would be an understatement. Sniper shots are fired simultaneously. The nature of aggression although clear to a layperson is perhaps  one for psycholanalysts to elaborate upon, exhaustively. These officials, faces hidden, appear much more deft and confident than the Egyptian police force members have ever appeared before ... The novel  pliant leather glove accessories are also unreflective of Egyptian police uniforms which are much more basic and void of such paraphernalia. Furthermore, mode of attack and shooting manoeuvres denote a much more military inclination.
Conspiracy theories may indeed be rife but many are substantiated and even plausible through the visuals and mobile phone snaps captured. Authorities do not tire from referring to such as fabrications, but that is to be expected. The isolated robot soldiers, origin questioned, here captured on film are of course accountable but do their seniors doling out the orders get away scot-free?

With considerable evidence of nerve gas being used the term 'chemical warfare' mentioned in previous post would not seem entirely misappropriated. However, the authorities claim that the canisters of 'tear gas' in use involving a 10 year lapse expiration date cannot be causing any harm and are, if anything, less effective. The reported asphyxiation and deaths due to seizures would seem to denote otherwise and severely question brazen blatancy involved.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/27537.aspx

Gassing the revolution: The US origins of Tahrir's tears

The liberal use of US-manufactured tear gas on protesters in recent days has raised questions about its public health effects - and who is actually ordering its use

Ahmed Feteha, Michael Gunn, Thursday 24 Nov 2011

"Canisters found on the battle-scarred streets around Tahrir Square bear the manufacturing stamp of Combined Systems Inc (CSI), a US-based firm that provides equipment to military forces and law enforcement agencies around the world..."

 http://www.antiimperialista.org/node/7163 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15861106

masks off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=HK-aNVdgqAE


Don't shoot, don't shoot! Protestors shout. With chemical warfare being rampantly used masks are no protection. Doctors trying to help the wounded are nabbed and held in custody probably to be court-martialled, a jurisdiction now generously extended to peace-adhering civilians, whilst members of the fire brigade are shot at while climbing ladders to put the fire out. 
Protestors come to their aid and fight their way through. They are impeded at every turn and those who have lost one eye in January now risk losing another.  
Shots are heard even in areas considerably distanced from Ta7rir Square.  
 The Ministry of Interior, with tarantula acumen, has left its doors wide open but the protestors have dodged that spider's web so far and stood their ground saying they would have and could have barged in long ago since all back streets are known to them. But even though, so far, the protestors have refrained from transgression they are being continuously provoked, incited and attacked so that the situation is very precarious indeed. One protestor has said : All it takes is for one weakened, tired protestor to snap and there will be a massacre. The cheers of protestors when the fires are extinguished ring loud. Morale is what it is, never entirely lost even though submerged in a labyrinth of chaos and despair.  

NO to the sentencing of civilians by military tribunal

Pictured above: Alaa Abdel-Fatah, holding up the slogan for the primary objective of his campaign.
Alaa, among so many others, was unduly arrested and awaits his fate patiently.