The ships are said to be carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles The US Navy is moving warships through Egypt's Suez Canal to position them closer to Iraq for possible military action. At least seven of the ships, cruise missile-bearing submarines and destroyers, have already passed through the canal. The move is controversial in Egypt, where anti-war demonstrators have demanded that the 105-mile (170 km) canal be made off-limits to ships that could attack a fellow Arab country. The US military are not advertising their presence here, but I have just seen a large military destroyer thread its way slowly south...