[…] current dictator. We do not know, at this stage, who is on the list and who is not. If Saudi Arabia is not on the watch list, Egypt is being pressured to get off it by putting in some rules for its presidential elections that show at least a willingness to accept the principle […]
[…] escalating tension between the West and the Soviet bloc. The second factor was the Suez crisis. The failure of the USA to support the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt led to different reactions in London and Paris. The British determined never again to fall out of step with Washington on strategic issues. The French however […]
[…] and special forces.(1) The robust Anglo-American position was not shared by others: there was to be no reemergence of the 1991 anti-Iraq coalition. Within the middle east Egypt dissented and Saudi Arabia made it clear that it would not provide a base for US troops in action against Iraq. The Russians, the French and […]
[…] May 2003 and, most recently, on BBC2, on 4 June 2003. Mitchell’s long, detailed study suggests that the attack was an attempt by the Israelis to get Egypt blamed for it in the hope of dragging the US into the war on the Israeli side. The subject arose on the Website of American neo-con […]
[PDF file]: […] to be prowest but agnostic in that regard. Nasser was happy to deal with the Soviet bloc and initially reliant on various German (some ex-Nazi) advisors as Egypt became a leading player in the non-aligned group of nations. When the US tired of Nasser’s manoeuvres (July 1956), they withdrew funding for the Aswan Dam […]
[PDF file]: […] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]
[PDF file]: […] in world oil prices.’9 (emphasis added) Tracking the events leading up to the Arab oil embargo, Engdahl claims the October 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Syria and Egypt launched a preemptive attack on Israel, had actually been ‘secretly orchestrated by Washington and London’. Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly had primary responsibility […]
[PDF file]: […] is at . 2 Ploch pp. 9-10. From the late-19th century until the late-20th, Britain controlled/created a vast number of African countries, nearislands, and regions, including: Botswana/Bechuanaland, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho/Basutoland, Malawi/Nyasaland, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Somalia/Somaliland, St. Helena and Dependencies, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania/Tanganyika, Uganda, West Cameroon, Zambia/Northern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe/Southern Rhodesia. The […]
[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]
[PDF file]: […] the decade. In the medium and longer term the UK economy does not experience the ‘stop-go’ features that characterised the ‘50s and ‘60s. Suez (1956) A fter Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal, Britain and France attack Egypt, with the aim of re-establishing a Suez Canal Zone (that they will control), taking the canal back […]
