US Sending 20 F-16s to Egypt

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US Sending 20 F-16s to Egypt​

by Breitbart News
10 Dec 2012


Let’s say a would-be Egyptian dictator tosses the head of the military, supports a terrorist assault on Israel, and threatens to send tanks into the streets to fight any opposition. Let’s also say you’re the President of the United States.
Would you:

(a) threaten to cut off aid;
(b) actually cut off aid;
(c) send 20 F-16s to Egypt?​

If you’re Barack Obama, your clear answer is C. Beginning January 22, the first portions of America’s $1 billion foreign aid grant to Egypt hits the ground in Cairo – four F-16 jets. The last time the United States greenlit aid to Egypt was 2010, when deposed authoritarian Hosni Mubarak was in power. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said, “The Obama administration wants to simply throw money at an Egyptian government that the president cannot even clearly state is an ally of the United States.


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[Glensather]

Ahahaha!
"Hey, let's be friends. I'm going to give you 20 jets that are 20 years out of date, that way if you ever turn on us we can blow you out of the sky before you have a chance to fight back."

 

[BlindBoo]

Who gets the 1 billion?

 

[mudwhistle]

Obama supports torture I guess.


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Al-Masry Al-Youm Reports On Brotherhood Torture Chambers - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

 

[waltky]

Mooslamic Brotherhoodlums tryin' to overthrow other Gulf states...

Muslim Brotherhood Again Accused of Attempting to Destabilize Gulf States
January 2, 2013 – Weeks after a group of Egyptians was arrested in the United Arab Emirates, media in the Gulf state reported Tuesday that investigators suspect the men of working on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, seeking recruits and giving lectures on bringing down government in Arab countries.

In Egypt, dozens of people protested outside the UAE embassy and representatives of medical and engineering organizations urged the foreign ministry to intervene. Doctors and engineers were among the 11 men detained, according to UAE reports. Egypt’s state news agency MENA put the number at 13, said they included doctors, engineers and journalists, and that no reasons had been given for the arrests. There has been no formal confirmation from the UAE authorities. The reported arrests look set to increase bilateral tensions that have emerged since the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power in Egypt following the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime. Last October UAE foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said the Muslim Brotherhood “does not believe in the nation state” and urged neighboring Gulf states to join forces against what he said were its plots to undermine their governments.

The police chief of the UAE emirate of Dubai, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan, earlier gave similar warnings. Last summer UAE authorities arrested 60 Islamists belonging to an UAE group called Al Islah, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate. Prosecutors said they had confessed to plans to work towards the establishment of an Islamist government, using funding from the Muslim Brotherhood abroad. They are facing charges of violating a law banning the formation of any organization that compromises the security of the state. Allegations about the latest group of men arrested was leaked to a UAE daily, Al Khaleej. A security official told the paper they had held secret meetings, recruited Egyptian expatriates, collected money to send illegally to the Brotherhood in Egypt, and had gathered confidential information about UAE defense capabilities – all in continuous coordination with the mother organization in Egypt.

Hundreds of people were connected with the network, said the source, alleging “conspiracies” against UAE state security. Some of the suspects had been put on a list banning them from flying out of the country pending interrogation. UAE media reports said some of those detained had worked in the country for many years. In Cairo, relatives described them as devout Muslims who were not linked with the Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood assistant secretary-general Abdullah Al-Karioni said in a statement “post-revolution” Egypt would not accept the violation of the rights of Egyptians and warned that such actions would have a negative effect on relations between Egypt and the UAE. Founded in the 1920s with the goal of restoring the Islamic caliphate, the Muslim Brotherhood in time became the most important political organization in Egypt despite being formally banned and the target of state repression.

It later also became active in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states and in 1987 established the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip. The so-called “Arab spring” brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt and empowered Islamists across the region, prompting concerns among leaders of the Gulf monarchies and other autocratic states. When Kuwait witnessed an unusually large public demonstration last October, media outlets in the country accused the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating the event. Officials in Cairo denied the charge. After the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi became president of Egypt last June he said during an inauguration ceremony that the organization would not interfere in other countries’ affairs or seek to “export the revolution.”

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Elections in 2013 to Give Pointers to Future Direction of ‘Arab Spring’
January 2, 2013 – Among dozens of elections scheduled around the world this year, several in countries across the Middle East will provide further clues about the future of a movement that sparked much optimism when it erupted two years ago, followed by doubt and disillusionment as it began to derail during 2012.

Two of the countries at the forefront of the “Arab spring,” Tunisia and Egypt, will hold elections in 2013, as well two other Arab states that have thus far sidestepped citizens’ demands for meaningful change, Jordan and Lebanon. For the second time in a year, Egyptians will be returning to the ballot box within the first two months of this year to elect a national parliament, the People’s Assembly. In the last election, held in November 2010-January 2011 the Muslim Brotherhood and hardline Salafists between them took about 70 percent of the seats. That parliament was dissolved by court order. The upcoming election follows the recent approval by referendum of a controversial Islamist constitution, and observers are keenly watching for signs that deep divisions over the document may energize the non-Islamist opposition.

The National Salvation Front, a coalition of secularist and liberal parties, is planning to run on a single joint list, a move expected to enhance their prospects of weakening the Muslim Brotherhood’s hold over the 498-seat legislature. Its leaders include some of Egypt’s most prominent non-Islamist politicians, former presidential election hopefuls Hamdeen Sabbahi and Amr Moussa – who came in third and fifth place respectively in that contest, won by Muslin Brotherhood flagbearer Mohammed Morsi – and the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei.

Tunisians last year elected a constituent assembly to draft a new national constitution, and the Islamist party Ennahda won a plurality of the seats, giving an early indication of the direction the small North African country’s political transition may take. This year the country that ignited the “Arab spring” will have the opportunity to either fortify the Islamist trend, or rein it in. In June Tunisia will hold its first parliamentary and presidential election since the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Opinion polls show the parliamentary race to be a likely tussle for dominance between Ennahda and Call of Tunisia, a grouping of liberals, secularists and some remnants of Ben Ali’s former ruling party.

The main contenders in the presidential contest include the current prime minister, Hamadi Jebali of Ennahda, Beji Caid el Sebsi of Call of Tunisia, and the current interim president, Moncef Marzouki, a centrist ally of Ennahda who has been the target of protests by Tunisians who say the revolution has not improved their lives. Which of the country’s twin elections ultimately proves more important remains to be seen, as constituent assembly members are split over whether the new Tunisia should have a presidential or parliamentary system of government.

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Why not the f-22? We don't seem to want to make anymore for ourselves.

 

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US Sending 20 F-16s to Egypt​

by Breitbart News
10 Dec 2012


Let’s say a would-be Egyptian dictator tosses the head of the military, supports a terrorist assault on Israel, and threatens to send tanks into the streets to fight any opposition. Let’s also say you’re the President of the United States.
Would you:

(a) threaten to cut off aid;
(b) actually cut off aid;
(c) send 20 F-16s to Egypt?​

If you’re Barack Obama, your clear answer is C. Beginning January 22, the first portions of America’s $1 billion foreign aid grant to Egypt hits the ground in Cairo – four F-16 jets. The last time the United States greenlit aid to Egypt was 2010, when deposed authoritarian Hosni Mubarak was in power. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said, “The Obama administration wants to simply throw money at an Egyptian government that the president cannot even clearly state is an ally of the United States.


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Obama is trying to win his support, which isn't a good idea with this.

Would you give someone who absolutely despised you a gun, in hopes of becoming best friends, when Islam is the problem? I wouldn't.


I say cut off all aid.

I don't give warnings.