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To: sea_urchin who wrote (24021)1/2/2006 6:03:46 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 81040
 
Re: "I told you we want $100 billion," [Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid] repeated in response to a question why Cairo had not expelled Israel's ambassador to Egypt.

He knows he won't get the money, so he's quite safe making that statement.


Indeed. After all, Saddam Hussein too threatened Israel... and ended up "safely" under US custody. Besides, Egypt has good reason not to feel immune to Western occupation/attack --just remember "Suez 1956"....