We'll Block the Nile! ; British in Bizarre Plot to Dry Out Egypt Over Suez Crisis
Daily Mail › December 01, 2006
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IT was September 1956 and the Suez Crisis was nearly at its height.
Desperate to destabilise the Nasser dictatorship in Egypt, officials at the Ministry of Defence hatched a bizarre plot.See the full content of this document
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We'll Block the Nile! ; British in Bizarre Plot to Dry Out Egypt Over Suez Crisis
They decided that reducing the flow of the Nile to a trickle would have devastating 'psychological impact' on the Egyptians.
According to secret papers released yesterday, t...See the full content of this document
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