Egyptian government caught discussing sabotage of major Ethiopian dam project.

[Tesseract]

A major scandal:



Without knowing their comments were being aired, Egyptian politicians at a meeting chaired by Mr Morsi began to suggest ways to stop the project - including backing rebels to sabotage it.

Ayman Nour, head of the liberal Ghad Party, suggested spreading rumours that Egypt was buying military planes in order to create the impression that it was planning an airstrike to destroy the dam.

He also suggested Cairo send political, intelligence and military teams to Addis Ababa because "we need to intervene in their domestic affairs".

Yunis Makhyun, who heads the conservative Islamist Nur Party, said the dam constituted a "strategic danger for Egypt", requiring Cairo to support Ethiopian rebels "which would put pressure on the Ethiopian government".



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-05/egyptian-politicians-caught-in-on-air-ethiopia-gaffe/4733544

[TigaHawk]

There is allways two sides to the story.

I wonder if it's a similiar situation like how india put up dam's, which then had the ripple effect of cutting off water to bangladesh, which has caused famine and poverty.

If they planned to sabotage the dam's that were cutting off water to their country, a news article just like that would go up, they'd totally omit the reasons why they were going to blow the dam, they'd just be labeld as criminals and terrorists for doing so, and the public would jump on the bandwagon immediately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYYxCwk8thU

The difference in the situation with India and Bangladesh and here with Egypt is - Egypt has the power to fight back. Bangladesh does not.

[Sidney]

All I can say is What a Dam mess.:p