Plundringen av Egyptens fornminnen

Åter till plundringen av Egyptens forn-

minnen under anarkin den senaste månaden.

Det ser bekymmersamt ut sedan armén

börjat strunta i vakthållningen kring muséer

och utgrävningar. Istället hänvisar de till

de dåligt beväpnade och underbetalda

turistpoliserna. Grävningsplatser och

magasin över hela landet plundras nu

på nätterna av tungt beväpnade ligor.

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Riksantikvarien och Arkeologiministern

Zahi Hawass har därför beslutat avgå.

På sin blogg avfyrar han en rejäl salva

mot regeringen, armén och ohederliga

kollegor, som säljer antikviteter till

handlare över hela världen….:

“I am leaving because of three important

reasons. The first reason is that, during

the Revolution of January 25th the Egyptian

Army protected the antiquity sites.

And they protected Cairo Museum. But in

the last 10 days the Army left. Actually,

they have other tasks to do. Those who

are now in charge of the protection of

the antiquity sites are the Tourist Police.

But there is no Tourist Police to protect the

sites. Therefore, what happens? Egyptian

criminals, thieves (you know, in every

Revolution bad people always appear…),

began to destruct tombs.

They stole a tomb at Saqqara (the

tomb of Hetepka) another tomb at

Abu Sir (the tomb of Ptahshepses),

another tomb at Giza. They attacked

a storage magazine at Saqqara, they

opened all the storage magazines.

We don’t know how many artefacts

are missing. They opened 2 storage

magazines at Giza. One tomb dated

19th Dynasty, actually it is only one in

the Delta. It was destructed, at Ismailiya.

A store at El-Qantara-east has been

broken and they took antiquities. They

began to build houses, they began to

excavate at night, everywhere.

I had to write a report and to send it to the

Director of UNESCO. That’s why at the Egyptian

cabinet, yesterday, I had my speech and I said:

“I cannot stay in Egypt and see antiquities

being stolen, and I cannot do anything”.

This is not me! I have been always fighting to

return artefacts. I did fight Ahmed Ezz, the man

in the Parliament, who was the most powerful

man:

he wanted antiquities to be sold in Egypt.
The second reason: crooks in the Antiquities

Department. There are two of them… They have

been accused of stealing antiquities. They have

been accused of doing illegal things, all the time…

Their files talk about this. A third person was a

professor at the University who stayed almost

6 years as Antiquities Director, and he never

did anything. As a corrupt man, he even signed

for a rich lady from an Arab country to take

manuscripts out of Egypt.

These 3 people brought kids against me, to shout

that they need jobs. I cannot give a job to everyone…

They began to say in Egypt that I am stealing

antiquities.

How? How a man who gave his life to antiquities

can steal antiquities? Therefore, I found that if I

stay for six months from now in Antiquities, I will

never be able to protect antiquities and I’ll never

be able to work during this mess…

During all my life, I have been excavating,

discovering, writing books, giving lectures all over

the world.

Actually, I am responsible for bringing many tourists

to Egypt, because of all the activities that I did. But,

at the same time, now I cannot do this! Therefore,

I decided to resign”.

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Hela bloggen

Här är ytterligare en lista från dr Hawass

över plundrade och vandaliserade grävningar,

magasin och muséer. Och ett tillägg.

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En alltför optimistisk artikel....?

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"Plundrarna svärmade som gräshoppor"

Köln - berättelsen om två borgmästare

Saxat ur The Brussels Journal:
"Once, Cologne had a mayor to be proud of.

Konrad Adenauer, mayor of Cologne from 1917 to

1933, was a devout Catholic. An outspoken opponent

of the Nazi regime (1933-1945), he played no political

role in Germany until the end of the Second World

War when the Americans reinstalled him as mayor

of Cologne but the British dismissed him after a couple

of weeks for “alleged incompetence.”

Following this dismissal for “incompetence” he founded

the German Christian-Democrat Party CDU and

became the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic

of Germany (1949-1963) and the “father” of the

modern, democratic Germany.

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Cologne’s current mayor (since 2000), Fritz Schramma,

is also a Christian-Democrat. He governs a city that

is one of Germany’s oldest. Its Catholic Cathedral

(the Dom) is the largest Gothic church in Northern

Europe and until 1884, with its two spires of 157

metres, it was the tallest structure in the world.

Cologne (“Köln” in German) is Germany’s fourth

largest city, after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich,

but has dramatically changed since the days of

the great Adenauer. 330,000 people, which is

36 percent of Cologne’s inhabitants, are

immigrants, most of them Turks or people of

Turkish descent. Mayor Schramma needs their

support in order to remain in power.

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Cologne’s Turks want to build Germany’s largest

mosque. The building will have two minarets of

55 metres high. The mosque is being built by

Ditib, the Cologne branch of Diyanet, the depart-

ment of religious affairs of Turkey, which reports

directly to the Turkish Prime Minister.
Last month, Mayor Schramma’s own CDU

voted against the building project which it deemed

“too provocative.” The mayor, however, did not

vote not with his party because he is in favor of

the mosque. As only the CDU (without the mayor)

and the city party Pro Cologne (Pro-Köln) voted

against the mosque, the project obtained the city

council’s approval, albeit by a narrow margin.

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In 2004, Pro Cologne, which grew out of a grass-

roots organisation of indigenous locals who oppose

the mosque, obtained 4.7% of the votes and five of

the 90 seats in the Cologne city council. The party,

which is conservative, is being depicted by its

adversaries as a “fascist” and/or “Nazi” grouping,

though it has no links to German neo-Nazis.

It has become the nucleus of Pro North Rhine

Westphalia, a party on the state level (the state

of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), to which

Cologne belongs), and Pro Germany, a party

on the federal level. Polls predict that Pro NRW

may win up to 10% in next year’s state elections.
Today, Pro Cologne is holding an “Anti-Islamisation

Conference” in Cologne. As soon as the party

announced its intention to hold its rally, the

Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)

protested and OIC member Iran called on

France, which currently chairs the European

Union, to intervene and ban the “Islamophobic”

event. German leftist organisations, including

the trade unions and the churches, called for

a counterdemonstration.

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Jürgen Rüttgers, NRW’s prime minister (CDU)

claims Pro Cologne is “against tolerance, re-

conciliation and humanity.” He called on

people to demonstrate peacefully against the

conference, which his friend, Mayor Schramma,

calls “a huge stomach ache.”
The mayor is pleased with the counter-

demonstration. “I am happy that Cologne shows

its true face of tolerance,” he said, calling for

“intolerance” to Pro Cologne. The mayor has

asked the local shops to remain closed today

and join the counterdemonstration.

“Shut your windows and doors, lower your shutters.

Make it clear to Pro Cologne and its camarilla:

you are not welcome,” he said.

Pointing out that “50% of Cologne’s children are

German and 50% are of foreign origin,” the mayor

added that Cologne is “probably the most tolerant

city in Germany, but I hope that this time it will

show itself to be intolerant.”

**
Yesterday, on the eve of the conference,

“anti-fascists” attacked Pro Cologne

sympathisers. Stones were thrown

at a river cruiser on which the party

intended to hold a press conference.

Michael Kucherov, a 45-year old

Jewish member of the federal executive

board of Pro Germany, was beaten up

on his way to the press conference.

Unlike his predecessor, Konrad Adenauer,

Cologne’s current mayor “lowers his

shutters” when evil forces take over his city."

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PI-News har senaste nytt och

filmbilder från dagens pöbel-

upplopp i Köln.

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UPDATE:

Se Islamofobens vettiga kommentar

Från det ESF-ockuperade Malmö....

Sydsvenskan:

"Jag har aldrig sett något värre"

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SR: Våldsam demonstration i Malmö

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Mannen försökte hindra aktivisterna och misshandlades.

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DN: Stenar regnade mot polisen

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RECLAIM MALMÖ:

Släng ut Slöddret !!!!