Egypt: General Intelligence Chief Replaced
Director of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, and the head of the
war on terror in Sinai, was replaced by the head of the national security
agency. Egyptian officials "the replacement – on health grounds", others
say: "there might be a connection to the reconciliation with Qatar"
IsraelDefense 21/12/2014
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Egypt: General Intelligence Chief Replaced Egyptian intelligence chief,
Mohamed Ahmed Fareed Al-Tuhami, is replaced by the head of the national
security agency General Khaled Fawzy. Informed sources told the media that
the replacement is related to "health issues", but others believe that it is
actually a dismissal because Tuhami "failed in his mission to fight
terrorism in the Sinai, and that the dismissal has a connection to
reconciliation attempt between Egypt and Qatar".

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, appointed Tuhami to head the
General Intelligence Directorate in July 2013 after overthrowing the "Muslim
Brotherhood". Tuhami is considered a bitter enemy "of Hamas and the Muslim
Brotherhood organization". Some media outlets reported that the date of the
announcement of replacing Tuhami is probably not accidental.

The announcement came in light of the President al-Sisi's meeting with the
Emir of Qatar in an attempt to heal the conflict between Qatar and Egypt,
caused by Qatar's support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. However, as
said, Egypt emphasizes that there is no connection between the two issues
and that the replacement comes in light of the health condition of the
outgoing intelligence chief.