{"id":34703,"date":"2024-10-18T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=34703"},"modified":"2024-10-18T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:31:10","slug":"appointment-of-rashad-as-new-head-of-egypts-general-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/appointment-of-rashad-as-new-head-of-egypts-general-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Rashad as New Head of Egypt\u2019s General Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Egyptian presidency announced yesterday the appointment of Hassan Mahmoud Rashad as the new head of the General Intelligence Service, succeeding Major General Abbas Kamel, who had led the agency since 2018. Rashad, who previously held the position of deputy director of the intelligence service, was sworn in before President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Rashad graduated from the Military Technical College, which supplies the army with engineers, and rose through the ranks within the General Intelligence Service. Kamel has been appointed as an advisor, envoy for the president, and coordinator of security agencies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A security source informed Asharq Al-Awsat that the change is a \u201cvery natural move,\u201d explaining that \u201cthe decision suggests a new approach to the work of security agencies and their coordination, an approach adopted in some countries.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian presidency announced yesterday the appointment of Hassan Mahmoud Rashad as the new head of the General Intelligence Service, succeeding Major General Abbas Kamel, who had led the agency since 2018. Rashad, who previously held the position of deputy director of the intelligence service, was sworn in before President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Rashad graduated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34704,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions\/34704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}