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fanfare in 1869. just seven meters deep and at its widest 90 meters across. the operating company had a 99-year lease. investors, mostly french made vast profits, as did the british. the suez canal, storm center of controversy for weeks, now becomes a cause of war in a lightning sequence of diplomatic and military moves. reporter: in 1956 the canal was nationalized by egypt s president nasser. in this the suez crisis france and britain ultimately lost their controlling influence. war in the middle east. reporter: the canal featured in the arab-israeli conflict in 1967 the so-called six-day war, and remained closed for eight years. now perhaps more than ever the current egyptian government is promoting it as a symbol of nationhood and in its expanded form as some kind of rebirth. this time only egyptians were