Mohamed Fareed

{{Short description|Egyptian Intelligence director (1947–2024)}} {{for|the Pakistani Mufti|Muhammad Fareed}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mohamed Fareed | native_name = {{nobold|محمد فريد التهامي}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Director of the General Intelligence Directorate | president = Adly Mansour <small>(Acting)</small> <br> Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | term_start = 4 July 2013 | term_end = 21 December 2014 | predecessor = Mohamed Raafat Shehata | successor = Khaled Fawzy | birth_date = {{birth date text|1947}} | birth_place = Egypt | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|07|22|1947|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | party = | allegiance = {{flag|Egypt}} | branch = Egyptian Army | service_years = 1967–2006 | rank = 100px Major General | commands = | battles = Yom Kippur War | awards = }}

Major General '''Mohamed Ahmed Fareed Al-Tuhami''' ({{langx|ar|محمد فريد التهامي}}; 1947 – 22 July 2024) was a former director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID). Fareed graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo in 1967. He attended various training courses including the General Command and Staff Course. During his military career he served in leadership positions in the infantry and mechanical infantry, then became commander of a tactical formation, and was appointed General Director of the military intelligence and reconnaissance department (DIM) of Ministry of Defence (MoD). He has been described as a mentor to General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current President of Egypt.<ref name=back>{{cite news|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David D.|title=Ousted General in Egypt Is Back, as Islamists' Foe|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/world/middleeast/ousted-general-in-egypt-is-back-as-islamists-foe.html?src=recg&_r=0|accessdate=13 April 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=30 October 2013}}</ref>

In 2004, President Mubarak appointed him as the Head of the Administrative Control Authority (ACA), a governmental agency set up in 1964 which specialized in combating corruption. In September 2012, President Mohamed Morsi fired him, following reports that he was hiding evidence against former President Hosni Mubarak.

After the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, acting president Adly Mansour announced on July 4, 2013, that Fareed would be appointed the new Director of the General Intelligence, reportedly "one of the most powerful positions in Egypt",<ref name=back/> replacing Mohamed Raafat Shehata.<ref>{{cite web|title=Egypt interim president appoints new intelligence chief|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/75788/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-interim-president-appoints-new-intelligence-.aspx|publisher=Ahram Online|accessdate=13 April 2014|date=5 July 2013}}</ref>

Critic Hossam Bahgat has complained that the claimed corruption charges against Fareed disappeared following the coup.<ref name=back/> According to journalist David D. Kirkpatrick, critics describe him as an influential opponent of any reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood or Islamists, and claim that his return as signaling a "restoration" of the old pre-revolutionary order in Egypt.<ref name=back/>

Fareed died on 22 July 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=حارب \"الإخوان\".. من هو اللواء محمد فريد التهامي وسبب الوفاة؟ - المشهد", |url=https://almashhad.com/article/773112298002792-News/684258490926070-من-هو-اللواء-محمد-فريد-التهامي-وسبب-الوفاة/ |access-date=25 July 2024 |publisher=Almashhad |date=23 July 2024}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_07_05/Egypt-interim-leader-names-new-intelligence-chief-dissolves-Islamist-led-assembly-6766/ Egypt interim leader names new intelligence chief, dissolves Islamist-led assembly] *[https://archive.today/20130706123959/http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&article=735147&issueno=12639%23.UdgMjPntZC4 Short Biography] in Arabic

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fareed, Mohamed}} Category:1947 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Directors of the General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt) Category:Egyptian military officers Category:Egyptian Military Academy alumni Category:Directors of the Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance (Egypt) Category:Egyptian Military College alumni