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Name: Mohammed El-Assar
Position(s): Assistant Minister of Defense
DoB: xx (xx years old)
Previous Positions: xx
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March 2008 - Assar emphasizes African role for Egypt (http://ow.ly/a6Mhh)
  • AFRICOM Commander General William Ward met Egyptian Chief of Staff LTG Sami Enan and Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed El-Assar on at the Ministry of Defense on February 17
  • MG El-Assar noted that it would be a mistake to see Egypt merely as a Middle Eastern nation -- belonging only to USCENTCOM -- and it was important to see Egypt as African, as well
  • GEN Ward agreed, re-emphasizing at the same time the importance of maintaining Egypt's crucial relationship with USCENTCOM. Nonetheless, in its dealings with other African nations, GEN Ward expressed AFRICOM's hope that Egypt will play a leadership role, as it does in the Middle East. DASD Whelan added that emphasizing Egypt's African identity could also help expand the audience of interested parties on Capitol Hill, which could help as Egypt seeks to improve its image there. MG El-Assar agreed, adding that recent congressional action to condition assistance to Egypt was "hurtful."

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Other Links: News, Blogs and Commentary

  • First SCAF member to admit to that virginity tests were in fact conducted on arrested women
                  A Human Rights Watch delegation who had met with Major General ‘Assar on June 7 , who told the delegation: "You have to take into account the differences in culture around the world. There are Asian countries where you are offered the brain of a monkey as a guest. There are differences in cultures… When any woman enters an Egyptian prison, it is a rule that she be subjected to a v irginity test… We hav e issued instructions that this should not take place again."
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