Comrade Hossam

Hossam speaks for me on Egyptian affairs: "Those activists want us to trust Mubarak's generals with the transition to democracy – the same junta that provided the backbone of his dictatorship over the past 30 years. And while I believe the supreme council of the armed forces, which received $1.3bn from the US in 2010, will eventually engineer the transition to a "civilian" government, I have no doubt it will be a government that guarantees the continuation of a system that never touches the army's privileges, that keeps the armed forces as the institution that has the final say in politics, that guarantees Egypt continues to follow the much hated US foreign policy." (thanks Yasmine)