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'Mubarak is Pharaoh': UK diplomat's scathing assessment of Egyptian leader revealed


Mubarak is Pharaoh : UK diplomat s scathing assessment of Egyptian leader revealed
Newly released documents from 1990s also reveal British officials agreed to share information about dissidents with Egyptian intelligence
Hosni Mubarak (foreground) visits the Pyramids with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2002 (AFP)
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Hosni Mubarak is a “Pharaoh” surrounded by people who “protect him from bad news or unwelcome advice”, the “object of sycophantic adulation” who has run out of steam and ideas as “the Egyptian supertanker drifts”.
This is the withering description of Egypt’s long-standing president contained in a secret dispatch from the British ambassador in Cairo contained in declassified files released on Wednesday. ....

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UK Opposed Clinton Call For UN Push Against Kadhafi: Records


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Britain opposed a bid by US president Bill Clinton to expand UN sanctions on Libya under dictator Moamer Kadhafi, while seeking to extradite the Lockerbie bombers, previously secret government papers showed on Wednesday.
Cabinet Office correspondence, released by the National Archives covering the years 1995 and 1996, showed the UK was concerned at the possible impact of expanded Security Council sanctions on Britain s $230 million annual exports to Libya, especially of oil-producing equipment.
The prime minister at the time, John Major, wrote to Clinton in late 1995 dissuading him from a new resolution, after the US leader had appealed for Britain s support. ....

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From the Archives: Ted Heath's shock visit in the bath among hidden humours


THE National Archives contain reams of secret files which are kept hidden for decades.
While the majority of these are serious papers on subjects ranging from terrorism and spying operations to government plots against the opposition, snippets reveal some of the more light-hearted events that have happened at Westminster over the years.
Ted Heath s unwelcome visitor
A BATHING Ted Heath received an unexpected visitor at his official countryside retreat, Chequers.
A note details how Lord Rothschild, his most senior advisor, complained after walking in on the Prime Minister taking a dip in November 1971.
Rothschild wrote to Cabinet Secretary Sir Burke Trend on November 6 1971, stating that it was not my business but, rightly or wrongly, I was not very happy. about the security at Chequers. ....

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UK opposed Clinton call for UN push against Kadhafi, records say


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The prime minister at the time, John Major, wrote to Clinton in late 1995 dissuading him from a new resolution, after the US leader had appealed for Britain s support.
Britain opposed a bid by US president Bill Clinton to expand UN sanctions on Libya under dictator Moamer Kadhafi, while seeking to extradite the Lockerbie bombers, previously secret government papers showed on Wednesday.
Cabinet Office correspondence, released by the National Archives covering the years 1995 and 1996, showed the UK was concerned at the possible impact of expanded Security Council sanctions on Britain s $230 million annual exports to Libya, especially of oil-producing equipment. ....

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