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Name: Ismail Othman
Position(s): Currently Unknown
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Previous Positions: Former SCAF member (head of Morale Affairs department)
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Post-Revolution News Events

Removal from SCAF
  • The military source linked the dismissal to renewed discussions of Maspero violence in October and the summoning of an official state TV presenter, Rasha Magdy, who is charged with inciting people to clash with Maspero protesters. 
  • Another reason for Etman's removal is that people have not responded to SCAF head Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi's speeches, 
  • A third reason for the dismissal was Etman’s appointment of former Luxor Governor Major General Samir Farag to work with him in the military's Morale Affairs Department, even though the latter is charged with squandering public money. 
  • Egypt's military leaders dismissed their media spokesperson over the aftermath of the Maspero violence last year, among other reasons, a military source speaking on condition of anonymity has told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
  • While Major General Ismail Etman, 60, was at retirement age, the source said several members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces are above that age, including Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sami Anan, 66.
  • Little is known about Etman's successor, Abu El-Dahab, and it remains to be seen whether the change will alter the army's public affairs policy. (http://ow.ly/ar3oQ)


Virginity test Fiasco
  • General Etman, chief of morale affairs for the military , told ShahiraAmin in a telephone conversation on May 27 as she was interviewing him for a story for CNN: "The girls who were detained were not like y our daughter or mine. These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)…. We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place."
Decleration of July 25th as a National Holiday

  • Etman described last year’s 18-day revolution as “the biggest and greatest event” in Egypt’s contemporary history, and equal to the July 23, 1952 revolution led by military officers that ended the monarchy. 
  • “Five months only remain before power is handed over, on a golden plate, to an elected civilian regime,” said Etman, referring to presidential elections due in June.
  • He also insisted that for Egypt’s military rulers, “stability is the main goal until the wheel of investments, tourism and economy starts turning.”
  • According to Etman, three major celebrations will mark the revolution, symbolized by the protests in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir (liberation) Square on January 25.
  • They will be as important as “anniversaries for the October (6, 1973) victory against Israel and the July 23 (1952) Revolution” that toppled the monarchy, Etman said.
  • The armed forces will organize parades, air shows and fireworks displays across Egypt, and military helicopters will drop prize certificates in 19 governorates.
  • In addition, “all the leaders of the armed forces who witnessed the January revolution will also be honored,” added Etman.
  • According to Etman, a third of army recruits over the past year hail from revolutionary youth ranks, and some confronted protesters in the clashes that shook the capital last October and November. 

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