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20 May 2005, http://www.communa.ru/news/detail.php?ID=10500&print=Y - Col. V[alery] Mallin, “Boevye sluzhby baltiyskoy morskoy pekhoty,” website of the Baltic
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dakh morskoy pekhoty,” was published in Morskaya Pekhota in 1997 and reproduced in
abridged form in Filonik, Komandirovka, pp. 143–51. - Kimche, Last Option, pp. 11–12. He cites “Admiral Fahmy,” apparently Mahmud Abdel
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ru/h/smirnov_ai/index.html; Boris Krokhin, “Dubl: Kak dva molodykh rossiyskikh ley-
tenanta byli ochevidtsami egipetsko-izrail’skoy voyny,” http://www.hubara-rus.ru/dou-
ble.html. Eg ypt’s Home Guard was formally organized only after an Israeli raid in November
1968. - CIA Directorate of Intelligence, “Arab–Israeli Situation Report,” 2 July 1967, http://
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- CIA, “Arab–Israeli Situation Report,” 2 July 1967.
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puts its departure on 10 July, indicating a routine stopover in Hungary. - Shmu’el Segev, Ma’ariv, 22 June 1967, p. 3. Two Eg yptian commando battalions were
flown to Jordan before the war and positioned in the West Bank for a mission against
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p. 203. - Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 2 July, pp. 1, 3, and 3 July 1967, p. 3. Maj.-Gen. Evgeny Malashenko,
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https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=453698. The article is a review and summary of
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