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Egypt to cooperate with Israel on military intelligence in 'sea change' TEL AVIV � Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has agreed to begin the exchange of intelligence between the Egyptian and Israeli militaries, Israeli officials said. They said Mubarak and Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi said representatives of both militaries would meet to discuss the plan. "We are talking about a sea change regarding Egypt's attitude toward military cooperation with Israel," an Israeli official said. "There's a lot that must be done, but until now Egypt has never even considered real military cooperation." The intelligence exchange would focus on information regarding Al Qaida and related insurgency groups, officials said, including threat assessments and ways to combat them. The Egyptian and Israeli militaries will also discuss threats to the Gaza-Egyptian and Israeli-Egyptian border. Officials said the cooperation is part of an Israeli commitment for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, including the 8-kilometer border between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, the focus of weapons smuggling for Palestinian insurgency groups. Representatives of Israel's army, navy and air force will meet their counterparts this year. A schedule of meetings could be drafted over the next few months. Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz relayed the Egyptian agreement during the visit to Sharm e-Sheik on March 10. Mofaz met Mubarak and Tantawi and discussed cooperation in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts as well as a joint approach toward securing the Egyptian-Israeli and Egyptian-Gaza borders. Egypt has proposed sending 750 police commandos and armored vehicles to help patrol the Gaza border. "The talks will have a real result on the ground," Mofaz said. "We reached an understanding regarding everything related to the deployment [of troops], coordination and the fact that this force must be task-oriented against the smuggling." Since the 1979 peace agreement, Egypt and Israel have engaged in low-level security cooperation. For years, Egypt's military refused to meet its Israeli counterpart, a situation that changed under U.S. urging in the late 1990s. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
