 Complete the following phrase:  On the second day of the war, Arab state-run media reported that American and British troops were fighting on Israels side. Radio Cairo and the government newspaper Al-Ahram made a number of claims, among them: that U.S. and British carrier-based aircraft flew sorties against the Egyptians; that U.S. aircraft based in Wheelus Air Base-Libya attacked Egypt; and that American spy satellites provided imagery to Israel. Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the chief of Al-Ahram in the Nasserite period, repeated similar claims at Al Jazeera channel. Later, Muammar al-Gaddafis Libyan government confirmed these claims also only to get a pretext for the 