The secrets of the coup .. "in the hands of the military" reveals the scenes that the Egyptian authorities are trying to hide

The "Out of Text" program on (7/7/2020) highlighted the book "In the Hands of the Military" by American writer David Patrick, who reveals facts about Egypt's revolution in 2011 and the events that the current regime did not want to disclose.

It was only 4 months after the book was published that Egyptian authorities prevented Patrick from entering the country while coming from London, forcing him to return again after a 7-hour detention at Cairo Airport.

A few months before the outbreak of the January Revolution, Patrick went to Cairo to work as a reporter and director of the New York Times office, and for about 4 years after that he produced hundreds of reports and newspaper investigations on the Egyptian issue, and during those years he was preparing the material for his book and presented important testimonies and details, some of which were published for the first time, especially Testimonies of personalities active in American politics and their role in the military coup in Egypt.

In this regard, former US National Security Council member Andrew Miller considered that the true contribution of the book prepared by Patrick lies in the fact that he was able to combine his personal knowledge of developments in Egypt with the research and investigations he conducted with the decision makers in this country and American diplomats.

For his part, Tharwat Nafi, a former Egyptian Shura Council member, said that the book presented facts that the current Egyptian regime was trying to hide from the general public, and that is the reason for the extreme sensitivity of the book and its author in particular.

On the other hand, the writer and political analyst Issam Abdullah went on to say that Patrick did not present a complete vision, but rather presented brief and sometimes incomplete facts, and therefore it seems that he was prejudiced against the military establishment.

As for the professor of international relations, Essam Abdel Shafi, he considered that excessive goodwill led to placing misplaced confidence, in addition to that among the mistakes of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is not to deal seriously with the warnings that preceded the military coup.