Egypt, Sudan contingency plans to secure Nile water resources from Ethiopian Dam -WeakiLeakes
September 2, 2012 in Egypt's contingency plan against the Dam, Water Crisis


If it comes to a crisis, we will send a jet to bomb the dam and come back in one day, simple as that. Or we can send our special forces in to block/sabotage the dam. But we aren’t going for t he military option now. This is just contingency planning. Look back to an operation Egypt did in the mid-late 1970s, i think 1976, when Ethiopia was trying to build a large dam. We blew up the equipment while it was traveling by sea to Ethiopia. A useful case study.
Blue Nile River near Ethiopia’s Lake Tana. The Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon, another source, told Stratfor analysts that Egypt would do anything to prevent South Sudan from gaining independence in March 2010. The ambassador believed the Nile issue was so important that Egypt could not afford to deal with two separate Sudans on the issue. According to the ambassador, Egypt even tried to urge the Arab League to cooperate and invest in Southern Sudan so the Southerners would choose to remain united with the North at the 2011 referendum. At the same time, Ethiopia was working to aid South Sudan in gaining its independence, confident that a new South Sudan state would side with the upper Nile countries, led by Ethiopia, on the Nile dispute. A later email in July 2010 cites the same ambassador as saying that Egypt had given up its hopes on South Sudan’s unity with the North, and that the Egyptian government planned to shower South Sudan with aid and money once the new state declared independence. Reports in the past few months, including the August report of Egypt’s cash flow to South Sudan, have shown Egypt giving aid to be used for irrigation development. The death of Ethiopia’s long time Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on August 20, 2012 is suspected to bring certain new challenges to a resolution of the Nile water dispute. Written by @NoelClyde1 and edited by WikiLeaks Press