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Tribes Threaten to Attack Suez Canal if Mubarak Does Not Step Down
World Threats/Time ^ | 1/29/11

Posted on 01/29/2011 3:33:57 PM PST by therightliveswithus

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Do we get involved if they do?
1 posted on 01/29/2011 3:34:00 PM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: therightliveswithus

With our CIC on whose side?


2 posted on 01/29/2011 3:35:32 PM PST by Hang'emAll
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To: Hang'emAll

I don’t think we have a side in this.


3 posted on 01/29/2011 3:38:39 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: Hang'emAll

“I will stand with them [the muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”


4 posted on 01/29/2011 3:39:43 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 739 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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5 posted on 01/29/2011 3:41:49 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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The Suez Canal currently is where a third of the world’s oil and six percent of all products passes through.”

Only a couple percent of the world’s oil supply flows through the Suez as opposed to the Strait of Hormuz where roughly 20# of the world’s total supply passes. Still, any disruption probably would send oil past that $110 region noted.

From the sound of things Mubarak is toast. Probably the quicker he steps down the better as hanging on only creates more instability and chaos which opens the door wider for the hard core Islamists to slip in.


6 posted on 01/29/2011 3:44:08 PM PST by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: Hang'emAll

Limp wristed Obama telling Mubarak to be bold. Love to hear how that was received!


7 posted on 01/29/2011 3:45:27 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Damn! They’ve got Obi Wan! We’re so hosed....


8 posted on 01/29/2011 3:46:05 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Jubtabulously We Thrive!)
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To: therightliveswithus

Was chatting about the Suez Canal security situation.

Here’s what we came up with,

Steal 5 full size dumptrucks and one front loader. Fill the dumptrucks up with 15 tons of boulders. Drive the 5 dumptrucks to one of the maintenance access ramps then along the levee, and drive them all into the canal at the same location.

The canal would be shut down for unknown amount of time as the Army sources winches and transportation for the winches to the locations of approximately 95 tons of boulders and heavy dumptrucks in the canal.

Would take less than a night to fill the trucks if they had access to a quarry... there are abandoned quarries that are decades and millenniums old along the canal zone.

Could be done with as little as 6 men, with one knowing how to use a front loader and then driving the getaway vehicle, and 5 knowing how to drive a commercial dumptruck.


9 posted on 01/29/2011 3:48:03 PM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Perhaps the last watchable movie made by the Hollywood studio system.


10 posted on 01/29/2011 3:49:43 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Red_Devil 232

“I know - let’s just take Aqaba!”


11 posted on 01/29/2011 3:50:45 PM PST by Argus
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To: null and void; Hang'emAll

“I will stand with them [the muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

So when it’s muzzies agin muzzies he’s free to just sit on his ass and do nothing.


12 posted on 01/29/2011 3:51:54 PM PST by bigheadfred (As a rapturous voice escapes I will tremble a prayer and I'll ask for forgiveness)
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To: Hang'emAll
With our CIC on whose side?

I think he's too busy... Superbowl coming up, campaign trips, basketball, vacations planned... there's only so much we can expect from the man.

13 posted on 01/29/2011 3:53:01 PM PST by Cementjungle
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"The Suez Canal currently is where a third of the world’s oil and six percent of all products passes through.”"

Wow. I knew it was a lot, but I had no idea it was that much. Even if you just delay 1/3 of the world's oil supply, it would had dramatic, perhaps catastrophic economic impact.

Of course, I'm sure Obama has thought all this through. Chris Matthews assures me he's very smart.

14 posted on 01/29/2011 3:53:01 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

It was definatly a good movie - To bad Lawrence was a lib


15 posted on 01/29/2011 3:53:43 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Cementjungle
"I think he's too busy... "

Plus, Spartacus is back on Starz. Obama loves him some oiled, rippling-muscle men rolling around in sand and whatnot. He's artsy that way. Subsequently, we know his Fridays for the next 3-months are booked solid.

16 posted on 01/29/2011 3:55:21 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: bigheadfred
So when it’s muzzies agin muzzies he’s free to just sit on his ass and do nothing.

Don't be absurd. Of course he's not sitting around doing NOTHING. Why just this afternoon he was at his daughter Sasha's basketball game. (I am NOT making it up)

17 posted on 01/29/2011 3:57:18 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: bereanway

Oil will spike, no matter what happens, but the alternative is the horn of Africa. Costly, but not prohibitive.


18 posted on 01/29/2011 3:57:37 PM PST by umgud
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To: bigheadfred

Or to support the strictest side.


19 posted on 01/29/2011 3:58:12 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 739 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: WestwardHo
"Limp wristed Obama telling Mubarak to be bold."

Reminds me of that pic where barry is hiding behind mooshelle during that wrestling match.

20 posted on 01/29/2011 3:58:37 PM PST by NoGrayZone (WTF?)
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