ARmy Rumour SErvice

**OldSnowy** · 01-02-2011, 08:44

Originally Posted by Your_Mums_Pal

You really think that Egypt holds that kind of significance, Gizmo?

I'm really not too sure on these things (having not paid much attention to the news obviously lol)

Even if there weren't eighty million of them, there's still the Suez Canal. Oil prices have rocketed already due to threats to it.

**AlMiles** · 01-02-2011, 15:15

Originally Posted by Your_Mums_Pal

Actually sick of the BBC coverage of this. Haven't been following it square by square but it's impossible to get any other news thanks to their in-depth looks and pointless interviews. The constant cutting to reporters standing around in front of protestors who actually look pretty calm and peaceful is also incredibly dull. I'm not saying that it's all flowers and rainbows at the moment, obviously there's a lot going on, but they're following it like a football match almost in the hopes that they'll get footage of some big kick off.

I might be wrong, but are the media gunning for a bloodbath on this?

It is going to take something on the scale of Tiananmen Square to quell the anti-Mubarak sentiment now.

**ex_colonial** · 01-02-2011, 17:08

Originally Posted by OldSnowy

Even if there weren't eighty million of them, there's still the Suez Canal. Oil prices have rocketed already due to threats to it.

Thats the key & why it is sending shivers around the globe, closing the canal would force oil prices up, even having the threat of an embargo on certain countries ships is a major concern! If the yanks hadn't stabbed us in the back in '56, it may have remained a truly international seaway with us or a international consortium of countries holding the reins!

**bullet_catcher** · 01-02-2011, 17:20

We'd better invade it now then, better late than never. Aiming to bring law and order to the people of course, controlling the Canal would just be a collateral advantage.

**TheIronDuke** · 01-02-2011, 17:27

Originally Posted by KGB_resident

It looks that pro-American regime in Egypt has serious problem.

O'Rielly? Did it look like that to you back in '79 when your Muppets got all sugared-up about deposing Mohammad Pahlavi in Iran? And paved the way for Khomeini and his bunch of Zombies. Which of course, allowed your Alpha and Zenith groups to steam into Afghan at the head of 50,000 badly dressed conscript monkeys....

How did that 'serious problem' work out for your lads, Ivan?

Be careful what you wish for.

**gallowglass** · 01-02-2011, 17:39

Fascinating watching events unfold, but here's one headline I didn't want to see:

"The Muslim Brotherhood has told Sky News it is in talks with other opposition groups and the army about the removal of President Hosni Mubarak."

link here

**BrandySoured** · 01-02-2011, 17:46

Originally Posted by bullet_catcher

We'd better invade it now then, better late than never. Aiming to bring law and order to the people of course, controlling the Canal would just be a collateral advantage.

That's the very reason we should leave well alone and let our *cough* allies across the pond take responsibility. They hold the moral high ground over that real estate.

IMO

**BrandySoured** · 01-02-2011, 18:30

The habit is spreading:

Jordanian King sacks government

**Flaggie** · 01-02-2011, 18:50

Originally Posted by BrandySoured

The habit is spreading:

Jordanian King sacks government

Tahrir Square today, Trafalgar Square tomorrow?

We can but hope.

**TheIronDuke** · 01-02-2011, 19:05

Originally Posted by gallowglass

"The Muslim Brotherhood has told Sky News it is in talks with other opposition groups and the army about the removal of President Hosni Mubarak."

link here

The Muslim Brotherhood is not as sinister as the name might suggest. Formed in (I think) 1947 to give us, as the occupying force, a kicking, they have been pretty cool ever since.