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What, did the KGB, its families and children, just retire to their houses in Cannes?

Research:
USSR > non-Aligned movement > Nasser > Muslim Brotherhood

“USSR Prime Minister Kosygin and Egypt’s President Nasser”

“The Soviet Union and the Outbreak of the June 1967 Six-Day War”
by Galia Golan
“Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 8, Number 1”
Winter 2006, pp. 3-19
“MIT Press”
“Project MUSE”
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_cold_war_studies/v008/8.1golan.html

“An interview with Ayman Al Zawahri’s uncle “
http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=3463

“Abd Al-Nasser asks Soviet Union for help”
http://visualrian.com/images/item/88528

“Abd Al-Nasser asks Soviet Union for help “
http://yom-kippur-1973.info/eng/before/Soviet.htm

“Nasser, Gamal Abdel” (”Slave of the People”)
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser

“Islam and Nationalism in the Formerly Soviet
Central Asian Republics”
by James G. Mellon
“The Journal of Conflict Studies”
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS/Winter05/mellon.pdf

Research the ‘Seven Sisters’

Example:
“Oil and World Power”
by Peter R. Odell
http://www.newint.org/columns/media/books/1979/10/01/over-a-barrel/

“The Economics and Politics of Oil Production and its Impact ...”
“The seven largest oil companies called the “Seven Sisters” managed to ... This was more threatening since new oil reserves found in what was the USSR and Libya ... “

http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/the%20seven%20sisters%20ussr%20oil/1/417/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true

“WAHHABISM” IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: A REAL THREAT, OR JUST AN EXCUSE TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE OPPOSITION?
Publication: Prism Volume: 4 Issue: 16 August 7, 1998”
By: Igor Rotar
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7214

“Syria’s Ba’athists loosen the reins”
By Sami Moubayed
“Asia Times”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GD26Ak04.html

Research to do:

—Turkish capitulations
—Royal Dutch Shell
—Muslim Soviet Republics in Central Asia
—Georgia and oil ports
—Turkey, Macedonia and oil ports
—USSR and natural gas in E. Mediterranean (and under
—Israel, including oil discovery)
—Gazprom
—Standard Oil

...and

—Baku

Example:
“9/17/02
Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline: The Biggest Development In the Caspian Sea Since the Collapse of USSR”

Bahman Aghai Diba, PhD. Int. Law

http://www.payvand.com/news/02/sep/1060.html

Finally, research the choke points, e.g., Straits of Malacca, Suez Canal, Gulf of Hormuz and Straits of Gibraltar.

Hint:
“World Oil Transit Chokepoints”
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/Background.html

As an aside:
Remember, Democrat congressmen went to Turkey ahead of US invasion of Iraq. Later, Turkey denied agreed upon access to it for the purposes of a pincer move, killing more American troops. Coincidence?