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Naila Gabr, the Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organization Affairs and the person responsible for a the nominations of Egyptians for international positions, held a meeting with the ambassadors of Asian and Latin American members of the Executive Board of UNESCO on Thursday, where she asked them to continue their support for the Egyptian candidate, despite international pressures contrary.

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Cunningham had been ‘obliging enough to scatter the 7th Armoured Division all over the desert’, but his generosity was spurned.11 If the two panzer divisions had combined that morning against either the 4th Armoured Brigade at Gabr Saleh or the 7th Armoured Brigade at Sidi Rezegh, they would likely have won a crushing victory, and quite possibly forced the British to abandon the whole offensive.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

On the previous evening the latter had requested–and been refused–permission to mount an exploratory attack in the direction of Gabr Saleh.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

The British thrust towards Bardia had been a figment of Italian imagination–the British armoured spearhead was actually at Sidi Rezegh, poised to advance on Tobruk, with another large armoured force guarding its flank at Gabr Saleh.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

By nightfall the leading British units of the 7th Armoured Brigade had reached Gabr Saleh, around halfway to Tobruk, without encountering any resistance.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

Still unaware of the mauling that the 22nd Armoured Brigade had received at Bir el Gubi, he ordered it east to join the 4th Armoured Brigade at Gabr Saleh, on the reckless assumption that their combined strength would prove a match for two panzer divisions.

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Last November, when it became clear then-President-elect Obama would speak from an Islamic capital, Gabr wrote to the incoming commander in chief and urged him to select Cairo for the speech.

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The 22nd Armoured Brigade had to disengage, refuel and re-form before heading east, and darkness would be falling when it finally reached Gabr Saleh.

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The city, wrote Gabr, was "the overwhelmingly logical choice" and his presence would "signal the start of a new and hopeful chapter in US-Islamic relations."

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Cunningham made up his mind, and even the news that the 15th and 21st Panzer were now headed towards Gabr Saleh and the 4th Armoured Brigade failed to change it.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009