[Al Ahram] Egyptian journalist Adel Al-Gogari, 56, died Wednesday night while discussing the crisis in Syria during a live televised broadcast on Iraqi Al-Hadath private channel in Media Production City, Cairo.Al-Gogari, editor of Egypt's Al-Anwar newspaper and Al-Ghad Al-Arabi magazine, suffered a blot clot following a heated phone debate about Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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regime with Brigadier-General Hossam, a member of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), who Al-Gogari had called a "runaway soldier."
Al-Gogari, a Nasserist, also accused the FSA of being funded by Israel during the show.
Al-Gogari was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
The late journalist's family announced on Facebook that they will receive condolences on Friday in his birthplace Abu-Suweir city in the canal governorate of Ismailia.
Al-Gogari recently appeared on Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
Arabic's controversial programme "The Opposite Direction", where he vehemently defended the Syrian regime, claiming that what is happening in the war-torn country is "an international conspiracy" against Al-Assad.