online.wsj.com - 4/28/2009
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ABDEL MONEM SAID ALY On April 8, Egypt announced it had uncovered a Hezbollah cell operating inside its borders. This startling pronouncement offers a rare insight into the way Iran and its proxies are manipulating Middle East politics. According to Egyptian authorities, the cell was tasked with ...
online.wsj.com - 5/4/2009
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AMIR TAHERI Convinced that the Obama administration is
preparing to retreat from the Middle East, Iran's Khomeinist...
regime is intensifying its goal of regional domination. It has targeted six close allies of the U.S.: Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Morocco, ...
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As the U.S. Retreats, Iran Fills the Void
google.com - 4/29/2009
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1 day ago CAIRO (AFP) Egypt's lower house
of parliament called on Tuesday for the nation's 250,000...
pigs to be killed immediately because of fears over the spread of swine flu, state news agency MENA reported. "The People's Assembly urged the ...
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AFP: Egypt MPs seek 'immediate death' for ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 5/3/2009
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Egyptian pig farmers have clashed with police in
Cairo, as they tried to stop their animals being...
slaughtered. Hundreds of people at the Manshiyat Nasr slum threw stones and bottles at police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. The ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Clashes erupt over Egypt pig cull
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... after the December-January invasion of Gaza by Israel. "In the eyes of the Palestinians," he said, "Hamas came out a winner." As a result, it might be a lot harder to convince Hamas to make concessions. But both Saudi Arabia and Egypt, of course, are suspicious of Hamas, not only because of its radicalism but because of its ties to Iran. According to the Egyptians, who are sponsoring talks in Cairo between the two Palestinian factions, Iran is pressing Hamas to resist a deal. Writing in the ...
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... U.S. steps up its digital
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Commentary of
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Anne
Applebaum discusses the role of the WHO in the swine
flu outbreak.
Abdel
Monem Said Aly looks at how Egypt’s desire for Middle East peace threatens Iran. The former prosecutor for Yugoslavia at
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Egypt Panics Over Swine Flu, Orders Slaughter of All Pigs —
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Alright, who went and made Joe Biden the president of Egypt? Given that nation's hysterical overreaction to the spreading epidemic, this seems to be the only explanation. We refer to the Egyptian government's declaration that all pigs in the country must be slaughtered post-haste to prevent the ...
Swine Flu Fear Grips Egypt, Pigs Hardest Hit —
JammieWearingFool
Nothing like a calm, reasoned response to the flu outbreak.Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who blocked streets and stoned vehicles of Health Ministry ...
Egypt: Targeting of apostates and Christians on the rise —
Jihad Watch
Which is why one of the most famous Egyptian TV personalities very openly decried the fact that " We [Egyptians] have a major problem on our hands ." "Egypt Ex-Muslim And Husband In Hiding; Violence Kills Two," from Worthy News , April 28: CAIRO, EGYPT (Worthy News) -- An ex-Muslim who ...
LIEBERMAN WASN'T QUITE INVITED TO EGYPT —
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
It was report a few days ago that Egypt went back on its decision to ban Avigdor Lieberman from visiting. Now, it's been reported that this isn't quite so : Cairo's intelligence chief did not invite Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to come visit when the two officials met in Jerusalem on ...
Egypt Suffers 15th Case of Bird Flu —
Drudge Retort
An 18-month old Egyptian girl has contracted the highly pathogenic bird flu virus after coming into contact with infected birds, the latest case in a growing spate of infections in Egypt, state media said on Sunday. The new infection brings to 66 the number of bird flu cases in humans in the ...
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