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Egypt could become a greatest threat than Pakistan to Britain's security, say analyst

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Egypt could become a greater threat than Pakistan, say analysts | World news | The Guardian

Egypt has the potential to take Pakistan's place as the country posing the greatest threat to Britain's security, intelligence analysts said today.

Political turmoil in a state western counter-terrorism agencies have been able to rely on would also have "far-reaching consequences for the Arab-Israel relationship and regional instability", a former senior intelligence official said.

There would also be serious implications for European security, yet neither Europe nor the US could influence events in Egypt now, analysts warned.

EU countries, including Britain, have been promoting the cause of political and judicial reform as they have in other countries, including Afghanistan.

But European governments, and their security and intelligence agencies in particular, have wanted stability above all. "They have to talk the talk, but don't expect [reform] to happen," is how one observer described their attitude.

Now some more acute officials say reform is needed but not too quickly. John Sawers, head of MI6 and a former British ambassador to Egypt, in the first public speech of a serving head of Britain's foreign intelligence service, referring to the "Islamic world", said: "Over time moving to a more open system of government in these countries, one more responsive to people's grievances, will help.

"But if we demand an abrupt move to the pluralism that we in the west enjoy, we may undermine the controls that are now in place. Terrorists would end up with new opportunities."

Rosemary Hollis, professor of Middle East policy studies at City University, London, suggested the view of western intelligence officials or diplomats would be: "Senior military people should quietly tell him [Mubarak], 'We need a more benign version of you.'"
 
Imperial britain is the biggest threat and motivator of corrupt arab monarchies and wanna be kings like mubarak..
 
yeah and they all are welsh

What?

They have a significant number of muslims there that hold pretty extreme ideas like hizb al tahir and anjem choudary

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Yeah when you don't have responses to anything, or rather when someone doesnt post anti-Pakistan stuff all you guys can do is use smileys
 
What?

They have a significant number of muslims there that hold pretty extreme ideas like hizb al tahir and anjem choudary


You are right. UK should first leash the crazy guys in their own country. That is their biggest threat.
 
Yeah when you don't have responses to anything, or rather when someone doesnt post anti-Pakistan stuff all you guys can do is use smileys
Seriously brother I tried to post some good news regarding Pakistan from a world media but unfortunately almost all world media contains anti-Pakistan stuff.:)
 

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