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The U.S. embassy ended up contacting him, and the Amn el Dawla, the regime's secret police, put him under surveillance.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

The U.S. embassy ended up contacting him, and the Amn el Dawla, the regime's secret police, put him under surveillance.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

There's the practicality of espionage: If they are watching us, does that mean that they watch our friends, our family, our communities the storming of the notorious Amn Dawla State Security offices in Egypt would answer yes, rooms full of tapes and documents and files of yes answers?

Fatima Bhutto: HuffPost Review: The Imperialists Are Still Alive! Fatima Bhutto 2011

The U.S. embassy ended up contacting him, and the Amn el Dawla, the regime's secret police, put him under surveillance.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

There's the practicality of espionage: If they are watching us, does that mean that they watch our friends, our family, our communities the storming of the notorious Amn Dawla State Security offices in Egypt would answer yes, rooms full of tapes and documents and files of yes answers?

Fatima Bhutto: HuffPost Review: The Imperialists Are Still Alive! Fatima Bhutto 2011

There's the practicality of espionage: If they are watching us, does that mean that they watch our friends, our family, our communities the storming of the notorious Amn Dawla State Security offices in Egypt would answer yes, rooms full of tapes and documents and files of yes answers?

Fatima Bhutto: HuffPost Review: The Imperialists Are Still Alive! Fatima Bhutto 2011

The state security agency, known as Amn al Dawla in Arabic, was the main tool of political repression by the Mubarak government, spying on citizens and using a network of thousands of informants.

Egypt Arrests Security Officials David Luhnow 2011

Under Mr. Mubarak, who was the target of an Islamist assassination attempt, the country's vast state security apparatus, known in Arabic as Amn al Dawla, harshly repressed the Islamist militancy, often torturing suspects and rounding up entire families.

Egypt Amends View of Islamists Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

When Mansour el Essawy took over as interior minister in March, he pledged to reform the police, first by dissolving the feared Amn al Dawla state security agency and introducing a differently named "homeland security" division.

Egypt's Police Face New Duty: Protect, Serve Matt Bradley 2011

There's the practicality of espionage: If they are watching us, does that mean that they watch our friends, our family, our communities the storming of the notorious Amn Dawla State Security offices in Egypt would answer yes, rooms full of tapes and documents and files of yes answers?

Fatima Bhutto: HuffPost Review: The Imperialists Are Still Alive! Fatima Bhutto 2011