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Foreign firms eye Oman power plant plans

ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

GE, Mistubishi, AES, Suez-Tractabel eye bids for Barka, Sohar plants due on Dec 7.

The final humbers of the arms haul....

GayandRight (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Gee, do you think the UN will do anything about this'?? The IDF issued Thursday what it said were damning photos showing Katyusha rockets discovered last week by UNIFIL troops in Lebanon that are of the same make as the rockets seized by the Navy when it boarded the Francop cargo ship Wednesday. On Thursday, the IDF finished removing the weaponry from the containers and transferred it from Ashdod to...

Egypt offers India exclusive industrial zone

Trade Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Egypt Oct 29 offered India an exclusive industrial area in the Suez Canal Development Zone, located on the north-west coast of the Gulf of Suez that links Europe and Asia. India is the first country to which Egypt made this rare offer, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said after meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. “Nazif offered us to establish an India Industrial...

"Staying Strong" :: Docstalk

Israelated (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Arlene Kushner Israel is launching a massive PR campaign in the face of the capture of the arms ship yesterday. All ambassadors to Israel from foreign nations were summoned to the Ashdod port to see for themselves, as Foreign Minister Lieberman put it, "lethal weapons meant entirely to be aimed at civilians." More than 3,000 missiles were on this ship. I am waiting -- having picked up nothing...

Captured Iranian arms ship tip of the iceberg of vast weapons sealift to Hizballah

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Debka: Captured Iranian arms ship tip of the iceberg of vast weapons sealift to Hizballah November 4, 2009, 11:03 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report that a mammoth arms train has been running to Hizballah for months via Egypt. They identify the ship which offloaded the arms shipment at the Egyptian port of Damietta, where it was picked up by the Francop as the Iranian...

From Iran with Gov

Power Line (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Below John refers to Israel's seizure of weapons from Iran bound for Syria and Hezbollah on board the Francop . The weapons seized on the ship included some 3,000 rockets of various types, as well as 60-millimeter mortars, 7.62-rifle Kalashnikov-ammunition, F-1 grenades and 122-millimeter Katyusha rockets. The ship's cache was reportedly ten times the size that of the Karine A' s that Israel seized...

Suez Environnement EBITDA slips 3%

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- French waste and water treatment group Suez Environnement said third-quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization fell 3% to 1.5 billion euros, as revenue fell 2% to 8.92 billion euros. Analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had expected EBITDA of 1.47 billion euros on revenue of 8.91 billion euros. Comparable revenue fell 3.5% on a decline in European...

How Iran tried to dupe Israeli intelligence....

GayandRight (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Fortunately, they are no match for the Israelis... The Hezbollah-bound arms shipment that was seized by Israel Navy commandos Tuesday night left an Iranian port 10 days ago aboard a local merchant ship. The weapons and ammunition, including 106 mm shells, 107 mm and 122 mm rockets, hand grenades, mortar shells, anti-tank missiles and ammunition for AK-47 rifles, were hidden in polyethylene bags. Following...

Arms ship: How Iran tried to dupe Israeli intelligence

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

The Hezbollah -bound arms shipment that was seized by Israel Navy commandos Tuesday night left an Iranian port 10 days ago aboard a local merchant ship. The weapons and ammunition, including 106 mm shells, 107 mm and 122 mm rockets, hand grenades, mortar shells, anti-tank missiles and ammunition for AK-47 rifles, were hidden in polyethylene bags. Following a 2,500 mile journey, the FRANCOP vessel docked...

The French China

Zoomie Station (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

My paternal grandparents had a marvelous life in the Navy. My grandfather graduated from the Naval Academy in the class of 1900 and, despite the frequent separations, they had a happy married life. My grandmother used to love to say with a twinkle, "Navy wives are happy half the time; I'm not saying which half." In their day, even junior officers rated help in the house and they were posted...

Sir Donald Logan obituary

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Career civil servant who knew the secrets of the Suez crisis Sir Donald Logan, who has died aged 92, played a small but important part in the Suez affair of 1956, the most turbulent of Britain's 20th-century political crises and a watershed for its global standing. Suez was the most talked-about part of an otherwise conventional diplomatic career that spanned more than 30 years. Logan, born in London...

Israeli Navy Boards Iranian Arms Ship in Mediterranean

News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Israeli naval commandos on Wednesday seized a ship laden with arms on-loaded in Iran and believed to be bound for Syria, its cargo for Hizbullah in Lebanon. The ship – flying the flag of Antigua -- reportedly stopped in Sudan and Yemen after leaving Iran, and sailed through the Suez Canal. The Israelis boarded the vessel in the Mediterranean, about 100 miles off the Israeli coast. The ship was...

• Israelische commando's bestormen schip uit Iran met wapens voor Hezbollah - Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog
• Israel seizes ship 'carrying weapons for Hezbollah' - The Guardian
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

GDF SUEZ Subsidiary Hosts ERCOT Energy Seminar in Houston

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA, the retail energy business of GDF SUEZ Energy North America, will host an ERCOT Energy Seminar on November 12, 2009 from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm at Hotel ZaZa in Houston. GDF SUEZ Energy Resources’ commercial and industrial customers and prospects will have the unique opportunity to hear from a panel of industry experts about ERCOT market fundamentals,...

Sir Donald Logan: Civil servant who assisted the Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd during the Suez crisis

The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Donald Logan's place in post-war political history is assured, as he was the only British representative present at the two secret meetings at Sèvres, near Paris, at the height of the 1956 Suez Crisis.

The Great Connection ~ Wal-Mart & China...11/02/09

Underdog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

The Emma Maersk (part of a Danish shipping line). What a ship....no wonder 'Made in China ' is displacing North American goods big time. This monster transports goods across the Pacific in about 5 days!!! This is how Wal-Mart gets it's stuff from China . 15,000 containers and a 207' deck beam! The crew-size: 13 people on a ship longer than a US aircraft carrier (which has a crew of 5,000). Notice that...