Egypt

Egypt
Egypt
Capital city	Cairo
Location	Middle East, Africa
Leader	President of Egypt;
Type	nation state
Interest of	CENTCOM
Member of	Arab League, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, La Francophonie, Organisation of African Unity, Safari Club, UN
Subpage	•Egypt/Deputy Prime Minister; •Egypt/President; •Egypt/Prime Minister; •Egypt/Vice-President;
	Strategically important due particularly to the Suez canal.

Egypt occupies a strategic position in Africa, connecting it to the Middle East.

History

CIA/Deep State operative Frank Terpil admitted to working for the Egyptian government.^[1]

According to UNICEF, there are 1 million children living on the streets in Egypt.^[2] Other researchers estimate the number to be some 3 million.^[3]

Event	Description
2011 Egyptian Revolution
Lavon Affair	A false flag bombing campaign carried out in Egypt against US, UK and Egyptian targets. Israel was caught and exposed - and officially admitted responsibility some 51 years later.
Metrojet Flight 9268	Metrojet Flight 9268 disappeared from radar at 31,000 feet, exploded and crashed killing everyone on board.
Six Day War
Suez Crisis

A Group Headquartered Here	Description
Arab League	Pan-Arab organisation.
Cairo University	Most important university in Egypt.
Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority
Muslim Brotherhood
Victoria College (Alexandria)	Founded in 1902 to educate Arab upper class loyal to Britain; nationalized in 1956.

Title	Born	Died	Description
Mohamed Al-Fayed	27 January 1929
Mohamed Atta	1 September 1968	11 September 2001	One of the 19 hijackers blamed for 9-11.
Henri Curiel	13 September 1914	4 May 1978	International left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down.
Dodi Fayed	15 April 1955	31 August 1997
Mohamed El Ghanem
Saad Eddin Ibrahim	31 December 1938
Abu Hamza al Masri	15 April 1958	30 November 2005
Hosni Mubarak	4 May 1928	25 February 2020
Nabil Na'eem	1956
Gamal Abdel Nasser	15 January 1918	28 September 1970	Egyptian President who died of a heart attack in 1970.
Anwar Sadat	25 December 1918	6 October 1981	As a peace-making Egyptian leader, an obvious enemy of the MICC.
Emad Salem			FBI informant and key witness in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Ayman al-Zawahri	19 June 1951

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A Cautionary Tale	article	3 February 2011	William Blum
Document:Britain and the Muslim Brotherhood	book extract	18 December 2010	Mark Curtis
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East	Article	10 October 2018	Ted Snider	Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump.
Document:Ukraine and How the West Treats Comparable Events in Satellite and Non-Satellite Countries Differently	article	27 January 2014	Stephen Gowans	A pithy, succinct illustration of how, in matters of foreign affairs, the language and terminology of western media coverage changes according to the status of the government/country being reported on, as either approved or unapproved of by western geo-political interests. More subtle than "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", but analogous.