Major general Mohamed Ahmed Fareed Al-Tuhami ( ar, محمد فريد التهامي; born 1947) is a former Director of the
Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID). Fareed graduated from the
Egyptian Military Academy in
Cairo in 1967. He attended various training courses including the General Command and Staff Course. During his military career he served in leadership positions in the infantry and mechanical infantry, then became commander of a tactical formation, and was appointed as General Director of the military intelligence and reconnaissance department (DIM) of Ministry of Defence (MoD). He has been described as a mentor to General
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current
President of Egypt.
In 2004, President Mubarak appointed him as the Head of the Administrative Control Authority (ACA), a governmental agency set up in 1964 which specialized in combating
corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...
. In September 2012, President
Mohamed Morsi fired him, following reports that he was hiding evidence against former President
Hosni Mubarak.
After the
2013 Egyptian coup d'état
The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected
President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, from power and suspended the Egyptian constitut ...
, acting president
Adly Mansour announced on July 4, 2013, that Fareed would be appointed as the new Director of the General Intelligence, reportedly "one of the most powerful positions in Egypt",
[ replacing Mohamed Raafat Shehata.][ According to journalist ]David D. Kirkpatrick
David D. Kirkpatrick (born 1970) is an American, London-based international correspondent for ''The New York Times''. From 2011 through 2015, he served as its Cairo bureau chief and a Middle East correspondent. He has received three Pulitzer Pr ...
, critics describe him as an influential opponent of any reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
or Islamists, and claim that his return as signaling a "restoration" of the old pre-revolutionary order in Egypt.[
]
References
External links
Egypt interim leader names new intelligence chief, dissolves Islamist-led assemblyShort Biography
in Arabic
Directors of the General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
1947 births
Living people
Egyptian military officers
Egyptian Military Academy alumni
Directors of the Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance (Egypt)
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