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Friday, December 01, 2006

Remembering Suez: Britain 'planned to cut off Nile'

Egypt's nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 changed the world. Britain drew up plans to cut the flow of the River Nile to Egypt to force President Gamal Abdel Nasser to give up the Suez Canal in 1956, files reveal.

Full story BBC 1 Dec 2006.

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