Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has heightened security measures for U.S. Navy ships in the Suez Canal. Officials said the Egyptian military and security forces intensified measures to protect U.S. warships in the canal. The officials said the measures were imposed amid threats by Al Qaida-aligned and Muslim Brotherhood fighters around Suez. “The American […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt, on the eve of the European season, has reported improved security for tourists in the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has reported that the European Union determined an improvement in security for its nationals in Sinai. The ministry pointed to a travel alert by Germany that allowed its […]
Sol W. Sanders The U.S. is transfixed by the Obama administration’s massively bungled attempt to nationalize one sixth of the economy, the health welfare system. But the rest of the world watches the slow motion unfolding of another debacle: the loss of post-World War II American leadership of the worldwide alliance for peace and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has seized large shipments of weapons believed ordered by Al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood. Security sources said the Egyptian Army intercepted several convoys of trucks with weapons from Libya intended for as many as 10,000 armed insurgents in Sinai. They said the trucks were headed for points near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com [Editors Note: The following report was based in part on a report by the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain which has been disputed by the government of Bahrain and the U.S embassy there. The Gulf Daily news stands by its report. See: Bahrain, U.S. embassy deny reports of statements attributed to Gen. […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The Somali linked terrorist carnage perpetuated in a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall killing 70 innocent bystanders, the attacks on a Pakistani church in Peshwar by Taliban fighters murdering at least 75 worshippers, and the consistent harassment of Christians in Egypt by Muslim Brotherhood militants, offer stark and stunning subjective […]
Sol W. Sanders If the Boston Massacre and the growing Syrian Civil War jihadist outrages were not self-evident, the bloody attack on innocents at the Nairobi, Kenya, mall provide new evidence that the international terrorist conspiracy continues virtually unabated. The perpetrators were Islamic jihadists, apparently members of the al Shahid thugs in neighboring Somalia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has been intervening to protect Egypt’s Christian minority. Officials said the U.S.-Egyptian military dialogue has come to include Cairo’s treatment of the Coptic community, which comprise about 10 percent of the population. The officials said the Coptic issue emerged amid concerns within Congress that the community was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Congress has been examining the plight of Egypt’s Coptic minority. A House delegation toured Coptic communities and met senior Egyptian officials to determine the Muslim Brotherhood threat to the Christian minority. The delegation is said to have urged Egyptian leaders to protect the Copts, who comprise about 10 percent of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy Those who talk about peace between the Arabs and Israel don’t know the half of it. In fact, this peace exists – moreover, in recent years it has become significantly stronger. Obviously, this is not the peace in the style of post-modern culture – peace with open borders, visa-free […]