Fishy

I received the news about the Egyptian businessman, Hisham Talaat Mostafa, in deep sorrow. He was referred to the Cairo Criminal Court in connection to the murder of the Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim.

I believe that there is something fishy about the whole story, the murder happened a month ago, they identified the murderer 3 weeks ago, and rumors started surfacing that Hisham is connected to the murder.

The fishy thing is that if you want to murder someone, you don't send someone, that officially works for you, to Dubai on an issued visa sent from your office to kill a celebrity and steel nothing.

This way, you're basically commiting suicide, what about a tycoon like Hisham Talaat Mostafa, who has more than 23 companies, employing more than 10,000 people and has a 10 digit fortune.

What makes it even more fishy, is that the murderer confessed right away, making the connection to Mr. Hisham. The way the news surfaced today about his referral makes it even more fishy. 

LA Times summarizes it in one sentence, "The arrest of such a high-profile politician was unusual in Egypt".

I really hope that if he is innocent (which i believe), that these news will surface quickly.

 

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I came across this blogpost last night by Guy Kawasaki about entrepreneurship which I totally agree with, you can read the full article here....

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China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday. MSNBC
At the same time Google revealed that its index has reached ONE TRILLION unique URLs.
"The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day." Check here...
Wowww!!! The growth of the internet is unbelievable, the era is just about to start...