Now THIS is a great idea!
Let's hope Egypt has the ability to follow through.
John Knight
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>>>>> EGYPT THREATENS US WARSHIPS CANNOT USE SUEZ
> CANAL
>> MER - Mid-East Realities - www.MiddleEast.Org -
> 8/21/2002: At first blush, no one can remember a
> public threat of this kind coming from the Egyptians
> since the end of the 1973 war and the Camp David
> agreement that followed 5 years later. And the
> threat was publicly articulated from one of the
> great political survivors in Egypt, no matter how
> much people long ago concluded that Dr. Osama El-Baz
> was not a man of principle but rather a man
> primarily interested in holding onto position and
> influence come what may -- thus in a sense making
> the "threat" at this time somewhat more credible.
> El-Baz was in fact the deputy to Foreign
> Minister Ismail Fahmy who resigned in 1977 when
> President Anwar Sadat abruptly announced his "visit
> to Jerusalem". He stayed on essentially heading
> the Egyptian Foreign Ministry when Boutros Ghali was
> appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,
> more connected with Vice-President Hosni Mubarak
> than with Sadat in those years. And he stayed on
> again when Sadat's friend of some 40-years, Ibrahim
> Kamal, then the Foreign Minister, resigned at Camp
> David after warning Sadat of the future consequences
> of agreement to a deal that Ghali and El-Baz also
> opposed (but not wanting to lose power swalled and
> endorsed).
> After Sadat's assassination El-Baz made himself
> essential as foreign policy adviser and
> trouble-shooter for Mubarak, himself a military man
> of limited knowledge of world affairs.
>>> EGYPT THREATENS TO PREVENT U.S. WARSHIPS
>> FROM USING SUEZ CANAL !
>> AMMAN, Aug. 17 - Dr. Osama Al Baz, political advisor
> to the Egyptian president, said Egypt will not allow
> passage through the Suez Canal of US ships headed to
> strike Iraq.
>> In statements published here Saturday he added Egypt
> rejects any military operation against Iraq, its
> territorial unity, independence and safety of Iraqi
> people, adding any military attack on Iraq
> represents a vary dangerous step endangering the
> security of the region.
>> Dr. Al Baz said the question of UN weapons
> inspectors is an issue which concerns the UN and the
> Security Council and not Washington and the US has
> no right to take any military action against Iraq
> nor has the right to interfere in the internal
> affairs of another country and impose a set-up of
> new leadership on its people. (QNA - Qatar News
> Agency)
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