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Arab leaders agree on joint military force: Egypt's Sisi

Sisi says Arab representatives would meet to study the creation of the force

Afp March 29, 2015

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EGYPT: Arab leaders have agreed to form a joint military force, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Sunday on the second and final day of a summit.

"The Arab leaders had decided to agree on the principle of a joint Arab military force," Sisi said in a speech at the gathering in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Arab representatives would meet to study the creation of the force, said Sisi.

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The decision was mostly aimed at fighting jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria and won a foothold in Libya, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said ahead of the summit.

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On Sunday, Arabi told the meeting that the region was threatened by a "destructive" force that threatened "ethnic and religious diversity," in an apparent reference to the Islamic State group.

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G. Din | 9 years ago | Reply Last time three Arab armies constituted a unified command was by Egypt, Syria and Jordan, expressly for the purpose of pushing the infant republic of Israel into the Mediterranean. To be sure, they went a step further. They joined the three Islamic republics into one and it was called United Arab Republic. We all know how it ended. Egypt lost the entire Sinai Peninsula, Syria lost the entire Golan Heights and Jordan lost the entire West Bank. Although Liyaqat Ali Khan was commenting about the Non-aligned Movement when he said "zero plus zero plus zero still adds to a big ZERO", it could very well be applied to Muslim armies joining to accomplish herculean tasks. So much for the martial prowess that Islam infuses into its followers. In this case, however, Muslim armies are uniting against other Muslim armies. There is an example of that, too. Remember Saddam's Iraqi army attacking Iran's Shia army/ Ten million people died in that conflict. Who won? Neither did. They just collapsed on each other, exhausted and out of wind.

unknown | 9 years ago | Reply is there any democracy in Arab Countries

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numbersnumbers | 9 years ago | Reply @Weirdity: Are you forgetting that Turkey has a much more modern Army than PAKISTAN, and is not consumed with trying to match India and fighting a long insurgency inside PAKISTAN? BTW, PAKISTAN has won just how many wars????

kani | 9 years ago | Reply @Rex Minor we dont need your advice on what order should Arab countries follow. keep and mind your business to south-east asia

Weirdity | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan should take the lead role in this. Why not make the Pakistan army chief as chief of this force as a practice? So any Pakistan army chief is automatically the chief of this force. This is because pakistan is the strongest force militarily in the ummah. Kind of like the chief commander of the NATO forces is always from the U.S.

Rex Minor | 9 years ago | Reply Democracy should be the first business order for the arab countries and this means the release of the first elected President of Egypt from the Egyptian prison!! Rex Minor

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