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Caught On Tape! Egyptian
Lawmakers Plot Nile Dam
Sabotage :Jun 4 (GIN) –
Egypt’s leading politicians,
at a meeting with the
President Monday, shocked
a news-watching public as
they openly proposed using
dirty tricks to stop neighbor
Ethiopia from finishing a
hydroelectric project that
would dam up the ancient
waters of the Blue Nile
and reduce river flow to
water-starved Egypt and
Sudan.
Someone forgot to warn
them that cameras were
rolling and their meeting
with President Mohammed
Morsi was carried live on
TV.
Thinking they were alone
with the President, the
political and religious
leaders openly suggested
bribing local tribes in
Ethiopia or, as a last resort,
blowing up the dam.
Leader of the
ultraconservative Nour
party, Younis Makhyoun,
suggested giving support to
Ethiopia’s rebels “as a
bargaining chip against the
(Addis) government,”
adding: “If all this fails,
there is no choice left for
Egypt but to play the final
card, which is using the
intelligence service to
destroy the dam."
Liberal Ayman Nour
proposed spreading rumors
about Egypt obtaining
refueling aircraft to create
the impression that it plans
an airstrike to destroy the
dam, while Abu al-Ila Madi,
leader of the pro-Morsi
Islamist Wasat party,
suggested that a rumor
that Egypt planned to
destroy the dam could
scare the Ethiopians into
cooperating with Egypt on
the project.
Egypt is already suffering
“water poverty” with access
per person well below the
world average. The Nile is
the sole water source in the
mainly desert country.
Dubbed the Grand
Renaissance Ethiopian Dam
– Africa’s largest – the
hydro project has been
years in the planning but
it hit headlines in Egypt
last week after part of the
Blue Nile was diverted in
preparation for the dam’s
construction.
Confronted with public
furor over their on-air
statements, some of the
red-faced lawmakers said
they were told that edited
excerpts would be aired
later during official news
coverage.
A senior government official
said regretfully that the
meeting had caused “a
huge harm to our case –
both politically and
legally… “Up until that
meeting we were in a very
strong position as a country
that suffers from serious
water poverty and is being
faced with a unilateral
decision of an upstream
state to cut at its legally
stipulated share of water.
Today we are the country
that is openly
masterminding political
unrest and maybe even a
military offensive against
neighboring states; this
could have some serious
legal and political
ramifications.” w/pix of
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