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| Egypt said to renew diplomatic relations with Assad |
| 2015-09-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] Shared enemies Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , Moslem Brüderbund and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... drive Cairo, Damascus closer together Egypt is renewing diplomatic relations with the Assad regime, Arab world media has reported. The move comes as Russian troops rush to Syria to aid embattled Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad in what the US and other Western powers fear could mean a further escalation of the country's civil war, which has claimed over 250,000 lives in 4.5 years. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, a top security adviser to Assad, was in Cairo two weeks ago for meetings with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and security bigshots, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, which cited Arab reports. The Assad regime and Cairo share a fight against Islamic State, a major element in the anti-Assad rebellion since 2014 and a growing presence in the Sinai Peninsula, where an ongoing battle between Egyptian security forces and an Islamic State affiliate has claimed the lives of dozens of troops in recent months. Mamlouk and his Egyptian counterparts reportedly discussed the fight against Islamic State, and against other Islamist factions, including the Moslem Brüderbund, which controlled Egypt's government until it was ousted by Sissi in June 2013. Both sides also see Turkey's Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... as an opponent. Egyptian sources told Haaretz that the country's military echelons have always seen the Assad government as a partner, and that relations between the capitals soured under the Moslem Brüderbund government. Mamlouk has also reportedly visited Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Oman for talks on the ongoing civil war. |
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