Website for this image -British soldiers sit on a captured gun outside of Port Said, Egypt in 1956.Things are stirring in the part of Egypt called the Sinai, next to the Suez canal.
There has been news of a deadly soccer riot, the kidnapping of Americans, the shooting of a French tourist, the kidnapping of Chinese workers and attacks on gas pipelines.
(French tourist killed in shooting in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt /Abducted female tourists in Egypt / group of 25 Chinese workers was kidnapped /Blast hits Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel )
The flow of arms into the Sinai from Libya "is turning into a flood."
"Terrorist organizations are taking over Sinai and Egyptian authorities appear helpless." (Egypt and the US friendship?)
By alexandria42
Back in 1956, French prime minister Guy Mollet, UK prime minister Anthony Eden and Israeli leader David Ben-Gurion met in secret and agreed to make a joint attack on Egypt.
(Israel would like the Sinai to be part of a Greater Israel)
On 29th October 1956, the Israeli Army invaded Egypt.
Two days later the British and French bombed Egyptian airfields. British and French troops landed at Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal on 5th November.
"By this time the Israelis had captured the Sinai peninsula." (Suez Crisis)
1956 invasionOn 3 February 2012, we learn of the Americans kidnapped in the Sinai. (Washington Post (blog))
Bedouin gunmen attacked and robbed a tourist minivan in St Catherine, in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
The minivan contained Americans and other nationalities.
Two American women were driven off into the mountains and held captive for around six hours.
A few days earlier, 25 Chinese factory workers were kidnapped from a bus in Sinai.
Around the same time, a soccer riot in the Sinai left about 70 people dead.
ISRAEL'S PLANS FOR EGYPT
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