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...Without Success." Until then, Nasser says, operations were not going badly in Sinai: "All our operations had been defensive. For us, war had not begun." His main forces, not yet engaged, planned to mount a counterattack on the seventh or eighth day. The decision to withdraw from Sinai was easier made than carried out. With Egypt's airfields under Anglo-French attack, Nasser could not give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian...
...Losses." When it came to explaining his failure to rush reinforcements in to counter the Anglo-French landing at Port Said, Nasser was considerably less explicit. "We may not yet be finished with the British and French," said he, "and I don't want to talk about strategy." By implication, however, he seemed to concede that the Egyptian army, after its frantic rush back from Sinai, simply wasn't able to mount a major effort at Port Said. "We were so deceived about British intentions," said he, "that one of the first things we did after the Israeli...
...critical question of what happened to Egypt's air force, Nasser insisted that, except for one Ilyushin that cracked up on a takeoff, all of Egypt's bombers had escaped to other Arab lands. In addition, said he, some of his MIG fighters had taken refuge in Syria. Among the fighters that he had packed off to Syria, Nasser revealed, were some of the new twinjet, supersonic MIG 17s. "Nobody knew we had any 17s," he boasted, "until one day early in the fighting, when three of them were surprised near an airfield in the Canal Zone...
Where else besides Syria had his planes taken refuge, Nasser was asked. "After enemy forces withdraw from our territory." grinned the Egyptian strongman, "we shall have many stories to tell...
Last week Libya's aged King Idris showed himself surprisingly independent of his ambitious neighbor Nasser. Opening the Libyan Parliament, he stressed the "strongest resentment at the aggression of which our sister state, Egypt, has been a victim," and asked for a "review" of Libya's treaty with Britain. But this done, Libya itself bravely stood up to Egypt. The Colonel. Chief provocation was one Colonel Ishmail Sadek, who had turned up in Libya as Egypt's military attache. He proclaimed something called the "Front for the Struggle of the Libyan People," with the announced objective...