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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is one busy place. If you want to learn more read on through our highlights but make sure to read the complete article. Our highlights is just a sample of what’s going on. From the Article: The International School of Information Science (ISIS) a research institute affiliated with the BA [Bibliotheca Alexandrina], [...]
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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...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Egypt has offered India an exclusive industrial zone near the Suez Canal, a sea route through which 30% of the world trade consignments pass through.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
CAIRO: In recognition of India’s growing role as an industrial and economic power, Egypt on Thursday offered India to set up an “India Zone” along the Suez Canal development area. This was to create an India-specific ...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
. 29, the 302nd day of 2009. There are 63 days left in the year.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Cairo - The trial of 26 men accused of plotting attacks and spying on Egypt on behalf of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah resumed in Egypt on Wednesday, officials in the Ministry of Interior confirmed. The case has highlighted tensions between pre...
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Nasa (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Ships line up to pass each other in the Suez Canal’s Great Bitter Lake in this astronaut photo from October 2, 2009.
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The Galilean Word (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Courtesy: Emmanuel Navon http://www.navon.com In one of the many phone calls that Golda Meir made to Henry Kissinger during the Yom Kippur War, she thought it would be a good idea to pull the Jewish emotional trick in order to speed up the urgently needed arms delivery. Kissinger got quite annoyed. "Let me explain something to you, Golda" he said. "I am, first and foremost, an American....