"Unlike other countries, including close allies of the US which require up to a week’s notice to allow American warplanes to cross their airspace, Egypt offers the US “near- automatic approval” to resupply the war in Afghanistan through its territory or to carry out operations in the Middle East, Southwest Asia or the Horn of Africa, according to The New York Times. In times of crisis, US warships are also allowed to cut to the front of the line through the Suez Canal even at rush hours when it is swarming with oil tankers. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 - after Turkey refused to allow the US military to use its territory for crossing into Iraq- Egypt gave the Pentagon the green light for two aircraft battle groups and accompanying aircraft to cross the Suez Canal and other parts of its territory, according to Professor Robert Springborg, an expert on the Egyptian military. presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/17/319194/us-fears-losing-an-ally-in-egypt-army/
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