Intelligence in Sudan and Egypt… what a night like yesterday – Journey – ✍️ Mahfouz Abdeen
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a decision appointing General Rashad as director general of intelligence, and General Abbas Kamel, the former director, was named coordinator of security services and adviser to the president on affairs security.
This step comes in light of the changes taking place on the regional scene.
When Egypt takes such a step, the analyzes do not stop because Egyptian institutionalism still prevails in public work.
This change coincided with the same move in a number of neighboring countries, with a change in security and intelligence officials, such as South Sudan and Chad.
In 2009, President Omar al-Bashir removed Lieutenant General Salah Gosh from his post as director general of the National Security and Intelligence Service, and his place was replaced by Lieutenant General Mohamed Atta. director, Abbas Kamel, Salah Gosh was appointed security advisor and coordinator of security agencies. Salah Gosh began constructing a huge building near the Armed Forces Mosque in Khartoum and very close to the General Command to become the headquarters of the National Security Advisory Council. Salah Gosh believed that he would be the head of the director of the security service, the director general of the police and the head of intelligence of the armed forces through his new position, and that his advisor would be an alternative to National. Security Council which was headed by Al-Bashir, but the development of events within the ruling system and the struggle for power which ended with the end of the ruling regime was designated as the headquarters of the Rapid Support Forces . , who wanted to engulf the Sudanese state by controlling the country through its rebellion in April last year.
The changes in Egypt are not far from the recent statements of the commander of the Rapid Support Militia, in which he attacked Egypt and accused him of killing his soldiers by flying towards Mount Moya in Sennar, and after the statements of the commander of the rapid support militia. , the horns of Rapid Support sounded, threatening Egypt to hit the High Dam from time to time and mobilize the Sleeper Cells of Rapid Support that had entered Egypt in large numbers after the war in Sudan and the chaos in Egypt that led to the disappearance of Egypt. Sissi's reign.
But Egypt is ready to face any threats that affect its national security, whether they come from Israel in the east, Libya in the west, Sudan in the south, or from behind, like the threats launched from time to time by the Ethiopian authorities.
He therefore considers all possibilities and anticipates all circumstances.
This change could occur, which allowed Major General Abbas Kamel, coordinator of security services and security advisor to the president, to be better able to manage security operations in light of all the complications observed in the neighborhood and the surrounding areas of Egypt.
Major General Abbas Kamel is considered a close associate of President Sissi, as he was the director of his office when Sissi was in charge of intelligence in the Egyptian army and even when he assumed the defense ministry at the time of President-elect Dr. Mohamed. Morsi, may God have mercy on him.
It is not far from this stage that Major General Abbas Kamel would be in charge of files having an impact on Egyptian national security, as was the case during the era of President Hosni Mubarak when Major General Omar Suleiman carried out the same mission. It is not unlikely that General Abbas Kamel will assume the post of Egyptian vice-president, as General Omar Suleiman did during the Mubarak era.
This measure is in the interest of General Abbas Kamel because it brings him closer to Egyptian government authorities and allows him to move with greater freedom than before, contrary to what some thought that this measure was a measure of restraint, the hidden dimensions, or the diplomatic route, because he may have failed in this file, which is as important as the Sudan file, and this is the reason for his withdrawal from this post, and it is a low possibility.
