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2009-04-19 Africa North

ŽAxis of evil tried to overthrow regimeŽ

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 If the wolves fight among them, the farmer should be happy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-19 03:18|| 2009-04-19 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe, g(r)omgoru. But what often happens when wolves fight is that a more powerful alpha emerges, leading a bigger tougher pack. Egypt's current leadership is awful. The Brotherhood in power would be worse, I suspect.

But no good outcomes are likely in any case.

Posted by lotp 2009-04-19 09:35|| 2009-04-19 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood relationship has been cemented by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Ikhwan's spiritual mentor and Egyptian exile who operates from Doha.

Posted by balthazar 2009-04-19 10:28|| 2009-04-19 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 A Brotherhood Egypt won't get weapons from USA, lotp. And there are no Sov U. anymore. That means weapons cost money.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-19 10:47|| 2009-04-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It has the same people running it now as were running it back when it was the Soviet Union. And somehow I doubt Hezbollah was paying retail for all the East-Bloc artillery rockets they have an endless supply of.

And Russia can make a lot of money giving weapons away to the Syrian/Iranian axis to start a war in the Middle East and therefore making money off of the resulting rise in oil prices.

Providing free weapons to a Brotherhood--run Egyptian regime would pay for itself if the result was a shutdown of the Suez Canal at just the right moment.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-19 12:02|| 2009-04-19 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Iran buys weapons for Hizb with petrodollars.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-19 12:19|| 2009-04-19 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 And Russia sells to Iran in hopes that Iran will start an armed conflict that will result in closer of the straits of Hormuz or otherwise raise the price of oil.

Being able to close the Suez Canal would also be economically beneficial.

Russia produces 4.4 million barrels of oil a day. 70% of it is exported.

Increacing the price of oil from $ 50/bbl to $ 120/bbl (which is a very conservative estimate of what I think the price increace would be) would be worth...

$ 70.00 * .7 * 4400000 = 215 MILLION dollars a day.

Which means they could give Egyptian Hezbollah three billion dollars a month in free weapons and still come out three billion dollars a month AHEAD.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-19 12:49|| 2009-04-19 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Andthere are no Sov U. anymore. That means weapons cost money.

Russia will do what it has always done: whatever is favorable to Russia's interest.

Posted by Pappy 2009-04-19 18:45|| 2009-04-19 18:45|| Front Page Top

#9 The Islamist destabilization of EGYPT is important now for the Somali Pirates - iff they do intend to wage "active defense" agz world Navies in defense of thier activities, IMO they will attempt to fall back towards the defensive LR MILITARY + HOPEFULLY NUKULAR UMBRELLAS OF IRAN + OTHER PRO-ISLAMIST NATIONS [read, 2010-2012/2016]. MORE IMPETUS FOR IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM TO NUCLEARIZE ASAP AMAP.

* The "SOMALI MAIN" leads back towards IRAN + PROTO-ISLAMIST SOUTH ASIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-19 23:06|| 2009-04-19 23:06|| Front Page Top

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