Oh it just got worse...

[Webdude]

Egypt and Israel just declared war on each other... I feel sorry for Egypt... They are bombing each other and have all the tanks and ground troops out.

Now I KNOW there are people from Israel here...what's the news??

[DCI]

WHOA!!!!!! Whats the story behind this.

[Giancarlo]

That is false! The DefenseLink.mil, CNN, Yahoo News has nothing on this.

President Mubarak would never do such a thing!

[DCI]

eh?

Where did you hear this?

Cnn doesnt have it.

EDIT: GC said it.

[Giancarlo]

And Egypt is very powerful possessing over 700 Combat Worthy Aircraft.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020403/wl_nm/mideast_dc_1293

It only says Egypt is cutting off ties.

[Webdude]

CNNHeadlines. My wife called me in and I caught the end of it...waiting for them to get back to it. I just know the small parts I heard.....That's why I am asking here...

[Giancarlo]

Bull. I have this new ticker with about six different new agencies and nothing shows up.

If it is true, this will be very bad. Egyptian Pilots are trained by the US now.

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~bjordan/airforce33.html

[cheatpark]

I saw nothing on the news about it. It can't be true.

[Giancarlo]

The Egyptian Economy could collapse if it declares war on Israel and the Egyptians most certainly know this because of vital economic importance with the US. Not to mention the late Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat signed peace accords ruling out war with Israel no matter the costs, and Hosni Mubarak pledged to stick to that.

I would check your sources.

[Webdude]

Ok...like I said, I just knew what I heard and saw as I walk back there. They were talking about Egypt cutting off ties or something like that.....then on screen I saw the words "war in the middle east" and it showed Israeli military vehicles. If you read my first post, you'll see I wasnt so much telling news, but asking for more. Given the particular part I walked in on....it's not hard to see how it could be seen as war.. I was watching TV in here and they were talking about bombing in Israel...so mix that in....and I thought all hell was about to break loose over there..LOL

[Giancarlo]

Hehe... you got confused... and nearly scared the living crap out of me. Israel is attacking Palestinian gunman with approximately 400-500 Tanks. Around one city. Also with F-16s. On the West Bank.

This is Mubaraks reaction, and he is very pissed off:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/04/03/us.egypt.mideast/index.html

[megapuzik]

There is no war with egypt

[Giancarlo]

Thank goodness....

In the Mubarak reaction article, he said he wouldn't go to war with Israel. (What he didn't say his economy could go down the tubes if he did)

[Webdude]

I jumped the gun over that little mix of stuff I heard because a war between Israel and Egypt was the very last thing I would have expected to hear...Irag, yes..Egypt, no..

[Giancarlo]

Did you know Egypt gets $3 Billion US Dollars from the US in the form of Military aide? That is extortion... ROTFLMAO The US is bribing Egypt to keep their mouths shut. :D

[Giancarlo]

Some briefings that may be of some use:
http://www.defenselink.mil/briefings/

Click on the latest one. It has Donald Rumsfeld talking about the middle east...

[trenzterra]

I read the news everyday about the war by Isreal and Palestine.