مقال في نيو يورك تايمز بتاريخ ١١ مارس 2011
يتحدث المقال عن علاقه المشير محمد حسين طنطاوي بالرئيس المخلوع محمد حسني مبارك ، وتم وصف المشير ب-" كلب مبارك الأمين " ثم عرض المقال سيرة ذاتية للفريق سامي عنان ووصفه بأنه رجل عسكري محافظ على التقاليد العسكرية .وأنه رجل الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية المفضل فى الجيش المصري. وعرج المقال على حياه الفريق عنان الشخصية في زياراته إلى واشنطن وكيف أنه يصطحب زوجته إلى أحد المراكز التجارية ويتسوق الكثير من الأجهزة الاليكترونية و الملابس وخاصة سراويل " الجينز " ولم يغفل المقال عن التعليق على عاداته الشخصية ومنها أنه يحتسي الخمر في المناسبات .
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Sami Hafez Enan
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Sami Hafez Enan is the chief of staff of Egypt's military.
A favorite of the American military, General Enan is the second in command among the group of generals moving toward some form of democracy in Egypt. In meetings of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, he sits to the right of its leader, the 75-year-old defense minister, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and is considered his potential successor. In the meantime, American officials say, General Enan, in his early sixties, has become a crucial link for the United States as it navigates the rocky course ahead with Cairo.
General Enan and the military government have been in power since a youth movement toppled President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011, but their reforms have so far been mostly cosmetic. Protesters continue to demand change even as the military appointed a new prime minister acceptable to the demonstrators, in March 2011.
Until the creation of the council, Egypt's powerful armed forces had mostly stayed on the sidelines as unrest swept the country early in 2011. But a key turning point in the protest came on Feb. 1, when the military announced that it would not fire on demonstrators.
It was General Enan that famously appeared before a crowd of anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, On Feb. 10, 2011, where he pledged to safeguard the people’s demands and their security. Thousands of protesters roared in approval.
Some experts on the Egyptian military have suggested that General Enan could be a presidential candidate, a proposal swiftly dismissed by Pentagon officials and the Egyptian military. No one disputes, though, that General Enan will play a central role in Egypt’s future government, more likely from behind the scenes, where the country’s powerful and traditionally secretive armed forces are still most comfortable. There, out of sight of most Egyptians, they run national security policy and operate lucrative businesses as part of a parallel “Military Inc.” economy that produces electronics, household appliances, clothing and food.
In contrast to Field Marshal Tantawi, a government loyalist whom junior military officers referred to as “Mubarak’s poodle” — and who is seen by the United States as mired in Military Inc. and resistant to economic reform — General Enan is considered more of a traditional military man focused on Army operations and modernization. Like other Egyptian officers of his generation, he has studied in Russia, and has taken courses in France. He drinks occasionally, according to two Egyptians close to the military, and speaks some English and a little French.
He was born in Mansoura in the Nile Delta in northern Egypt and came up through the military’s Air Defense branch, where he commanded battalions responsible for launching Egypt’s missiles. Unlike a younger generation of Egyptian officers, he has not studied or trained in the United States, the Egyptian military official said.
At the Pentagon, General Enan is known as self-effacing, deferential, humorous and conservative. He also is said to have a fondness for American consumer goods.
During his trips to Washington, officials have always scheduled a day of shopping for him and his wife, as they did for other Egyptian officers, at the Tysons Corner mall in suburban Virginia, where the Egyptians liked to buy electronics, jeans and other clothing. The couple has three children.
According to his official web page, Mr. Anan was born in 1948 and became an officer in 1967. He was a member of the air defense service, and became a battalion commander in 1981. The site lists his combat experience as the "war of attrition'' and the 1973 conflict with Israel.
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