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Egypt
Dec 11, 2012 15:36:48 GMT -5
Post by boxcar on Dec 11, 2012 15:36:48 GMT -5
The U.S. government will give Egypt 20 F-16 fighter jets with delivery to start in January as part of American aid to that country despite President Mohammed Morsi's power grab and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The jets are part of Egypt’s $1 billion U.S. foreign aid package, with the shipment dating to a 2010 order when Hosni Mubarak was still in power that has been kept in place since his fall and Morsi's election, reported Fox News. The $213 million order was approved by Congress in 2010, with the first Lockheed Martin-constructed jets due to arrive in Cairo on Jan. 22. The new F-16s will join a fleet of more than 200 fighter planes mostly bought and built by the U.S. Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Egypt-jets-turmoil-Brotherhood/2012/12/11/id/467264#ixzz2EmGVJvLn Important: Do You Still Support Obamacare? Vote Here Now! (It seems to me that we picked a very bad time to be giving Egypt any foreign aid)
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Egypt
Dec 20, 2012 14:29:12 GMT -5
Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 20, 2012 14:29:12 GMT -5
So much for democracy in the mid-east SSIUT, Egypt – A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution they deeply oppose, residents say. The disenfranchisement is hiking Christians' worries over their future under empowered Muslim conservatives. Around a week before the vote, some 50,000 Islamists marched through the provincial capital, Assiut, chanting that Egypt will be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians." At their head rode several bearded men on horseback with swords in scabbards on their hips, evoking images of early Muslims conquering Christian Egypt in the 7th Century.
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Egypt
Dec 21, 2012 3:15:46 GMT -5
Post by Swampy on Dec 21, 2012 3:15:46 GMT -5
Thanks, Jerry - I'll put that on our FB page.
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Egypt
Dec 25, 2012 17:10:26 GMT -5
Post by Sir John on Dec 25, 2012 17:10:26 GMT -5
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