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Africa North
Taking fight to jihadis, Egypt embarks on campaign ‘more crucial than ’73’
2015-02-18
[IsraelTimes] While combating Sinai Islamists, Cairo seeks to organize coalition against IS in Libya; bigwig compares battle to Yom Kippur War
The growing military alliance has also been anchored with a quid-pro-quo: Gulf oil powerhouses Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have given Egypt an estimated $30 billion to rescue its damaged economy and in return Egypt’s military provides manpower alongside its Gulf counterparts.

Egypt is making an ambitious bid to place itself at the center of the fight against extremism across the Middle East.

Beyond fighting gunnies in its own Sinai Peninsula, it is trying to organize an international coalition against the Islamic State
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Yuuup.

EGYPT'S + LIBYA'S + ITALY'S FIGHT AGZ THE ISIS + ALIGNED IS THE US' FIGHT, espec given ...

* FREEREPUBLIC > [BreitBart] ]Michael] MCCAUL [HR R-TX] MEETS WID MUSLIM LEADER WHO SAYS US MUSLIMS ARE "ABOVE THE LAW OF THE LAND".

Above the US Constitution, etc.


Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-02-18 19:25  

#2  A contingent of Egyptian troops is already deployed on Saudi Arabia's border with Iraq

Didn't know that. SA has always been very wary of Egypt's military, just a short boat ride from Jeddah and the populous west coast.

My read on this is SA would be more than happy for Egypt's military to be fully occupied in Libya for a few years.
Posted by: phil_b   2015-02-18 17:50  

#1  The only other real nation-state in the ME and older than that other one.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-02-18 12:02  

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