1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Israel’s nuclear power plant comes under fire, if Tel Aviv skyscrapers explode from missile attacks, if Hezbollah manages to turn all of Israel into a kill zone where there is no place to run, Israelis will panic like they haven’t since the 1973 Yom Kippur War when it briefly appeared the Egyptian army might [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE head of Egypt's Suez Canal yesterday said the waterway has been deepened to allow ships with a draft of up to 66ft to pass through.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE head of Egypt's Suez Canal yesterday said the waterway has been deepened to allow ships with a draft of up to 66ft to pass through.
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Btms^ for Tuesday, November 17. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Great Lakes’ Edmund Fitzgerald Beer, 2 toast 2 Canadian singer & songwriter Gordon Lightfoot born 2day in 1938. On this date in… 1800 – The U.S. Congress held its first sessions in Washington, D.C. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas was inaugurated. 1894 – The ”Daily Racing Form”...
a from l (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I read in yesterday’s Guardian that the American ambassador in Afghanistan has publicly (yes PUBLICLY) warned President Obama that the war in Afghanistan risks becoming another Suez. His words are: “You either commit to D-Day and invade the continent or you get Suez. Half-measures end up with Suez. Do it or not do it.” This has bothered me ever since I read it. What exactly is this...
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
At the People's Assembly's procedural session yesterday Fathi Sorour was re-elected speaker for the 20th time, Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Gasgoo.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Shanghai, November 9 (Gasgoo.com) Brilliance Auto has signed a deal on an Egyptian project with China-Africa Development Fund and BAG Group, worth a total of $75 million, Xinhua News reported.
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home. The Chinese-owned Nile Textile Group has set up shop in the Port Said free zone, overlooking the north entrance of the Suez Canal, and developed an industrial estate now hiring 600 workers, 20 percent...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
"This isn't the end. It isn't the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning".
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
DUBAI: China has begun a new round of engagement with West Asia and Africa with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao embarking on a visit to Egypt where he will also participate in a key meeting of the China-Africa cooperation forum. In his ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pilton Sucks dotCom (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Friends and readers. It occured to us while browsing through an atlas one very wet Sunday afternoon, for reasons not known, just curious to see if anything had changed in the last say two thousand years a wet Sunday afternoon can feel like two thousand years, some historical thoughts came to us. A race advancing on the [...]
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