*What a fantastic spectacle. So much for the Czech "velvet revolution" notion that civil society should have a careful "lustration" of its secret-police underworld.
*Naturally there have to be prurient sex files involved. Without some kind of "centipede" angle, nobody pays attention.
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"Media hosts and prominent journalists were named in many of the documents handed over by protesters. One file states that TV host Amr Leithy obeyed state security's order not to host opposition figure and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour on his show, which is broadcast on independent satellite channel Dream TV. Nour said this week that he was never scheduled to appear on the program.
"In addition to documents, a number of videotapes and compact discs were apparently found at state security buildings. One tape was labeled "a videotape of a female member of the Kuwaiti royal family having sex with an Egyptian businessman."
"A CD with phone recordings of calls supposedly made between former Interior Minister Habib Adli and ministry officials regarding the decision to fire live ammunition at protesters during early days of the January revolution was obtained by Dream TV host Mona Shazli. She said the recordings were forwarded to the attorney general's office.
"Daily newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reported that a document obtained by its reporters apparently revealed that Sunni cleric Mahmoud Amer, who previously issued a fatwa calling for the killing of reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, was cooperating with state security officials.
"Dissolving the state security network has been one of the revolution's main demands. Thousands of protesters broke into state security premises in a number of governorates in recent days days to save whatever was left of documents not destroyed by police officers...."
