Boehner: Obama a citizen and handled Egypt correctly...3333 commits suicide!

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As Islamists Flex Muscle, Egypt's Christians Despair
Assyrian International News Agency ^ | 6/12/11




QENA, Egypt -- Five weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri's apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists.

Mr. Mitri is a member of the Christian Coptic minority that accounts for one-tenth of the country's 83 million people. The Islamists accused him of having rented the apartment--by then unoccupied--to loose Muslim women.

Inside the burnt apartment, they beat him with the charred remains of his furniture. Then, one of them produced a box cutter and performed what he considered an appropriate punishment under Islam: He amputated Mr. Mitri's right ear.

"When they were beating me, they kept saying: 'We won't leave any Christians in this country,'" Mr. Mitri recalled in a recent interview, two months after the March attack. Blood dripped through a plastic tube from his unhealed wound to a plastic container. "Here, there is a war against the Copts," he said.

His attackers, who were never arrested or prosecuted, follow the ultrafundamentalist Salafi strain of Islam that promotes an austere, Saudi-inspired worldview. Before President Hosni Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11, the Salafis mostly confined themselves to preaching. Since then, they've entered the political arena, drawing crowds and swaying government decisions. Salafi militants also have blocked roads, burned churches and killed Copts.

The Salafi vigilantes who brutalized Mr. Mitri later ignited a bigger controversy that is still playing out here in Qena, an upper Nile governorate of three million people--almost one-third of them Copts. In April, Egypt's new government appointed a Christian to be Qena's new governor, replacing another Christian who had held the post under Mr. Mubarak. The Salafis responded by demanding a Muslim governor and organizing mass protests, showcasing the movement's new political influence.

The crisis in Qena, still not fully resolved, raises.......


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Great fucking job andre! 

Why would andre care? Liberals will tell you that it's OK to kill Christians. Something about some Crusades started after 100+ years of imperialist Arab Muslims terrorizing Christians across the Middle East or some shit 1,000 years ago.

Lock and load, Muslims. You can do no wrong. Kill at will, get rewarded with land, Sharia and more concessions!

[andreisdaman]

you're over the top again as usual dickface.......no one I know of is condoning Islamic violence..maybe in those countries over there, but not here that I know of.....

again..that whole thing is Mubarak's fault for not liberalizing for the thirty years he was in power......

you can blame Obama all you want but thats the reality...that whole revolution started and caught Obama and the rest of the world unaware.....

but in any country when democracy comes in, there is violence..sort of a payback or retribution by certain groups against certain others.....

this happened Russia and the Iron Curtain as well.....its sad but normal

It also happened in Iraq when the Sunnis and Shiites started killing each other

of course you will blame those events on Obama too right???

[Fury]

Another liberal with blood on their hands.

Arab Muslim imperialist = OK.

American imperialist = the DEVIL!

[andreisdaman]

Another liberal with blood on their hands.

Arab Muslim imperialist = OK.

American imperialist = the DEVIL!

I will take the fact that you refused to address my point, which you usually do when I am kicking your ass and point out something substantial, as a tacit admission that I am right in terms of Mubarak not liberalizing when he had the chance, and the consequences which follow when democracies emerge from such societies.....

THANKS

[Fury]

I will take the fact that you refused to address my point, which you usually do when I am kicking your ass and point out something substantial, as a tacit admission that I am right in terms of Mubarak not liberalizing when he had the chance, and the consequences which follow when democracies emerge from such societies.....

THANKS

What point? That you actually think I would hold Obama responsible for the Cold War or dipshit Muslims killing each other in Iraq? Brilliant question, slick!  

You thinking it's Mubarak's fault for not liberalizing shows just how utterly lacking your knowledge of that region and Islam is. Protip: Mubarak was the only thing keeping the Islamists out of power.

Congrats, Muslim Brotherhood! Handed one of the strongest countries in the Muslim world by the God-King Obama! Hooray for Sharia!



Egypt: Cleric Explains It Is Ok To Take Non-Muslim Women And Children As Slaves. . . As Well As Take Women As Sex Slaves

Fuck, YEAH! Bring on that Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt! Islam is so progressive and tolerant! Christians and Jews = EVIL!

[Soul Crusher]

Read that on free republic.   Disgusting. 

[andreisdaman]

What point? That you actually think I would hold Obama responsible for the Cold War or dipshit Muslims killing each other in Iraq? Brilliant question, slick!  

You thinking it's Mubarak's fault for not liberalizing shows just how utterly lacking your knowledge of that region and Islam is. Protip: Mubarak was the only thing keeping the Islamists out of power.

Congrats, Muslim Brotherhood! Handed one of the strongest countries in the Muslim world by the God-King Obama! Hooray for Sharia!

you're hysterical again...calm down...go get your psych medications..WOWWWWW!!!!!!..you are totally fucking clueless and out of it



Egypt: Cleric Explains It Is Ok To Take Non-Muslim Women And Children As Slaves. . . As Well As Take Women As Sex Slaves

Fuck, YEAH! Bring on that Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt! Islam is so progressive and tolerant! Christians and Jews = EVIL!

[Soul Crusher]

Hey Andre - since Obama blames bush so much for everything - if everything or anything turns around does bush get the credit? 

[Fury]

Hey Andre - since Obama blames bush so much for everything - if everything or anything turns around does bush get the credit? 

Bush gets blamed for Iraq. Why shouldn't Obama get blamed for setting the Middle East back decades in the span of 3 months?

Obama has done everything the Islamofascists have asked of him.

[Soul Crusher]

Bush gets blamed for Iraq. Why shouldn't Obama get blamed for setting the Middle East back decades in the span of 3 months?

Obama has done everything the Islamofascists have asked of him.

Amazing how obama has barely said a peep about Syria tegus waging war in lybia.   WTF? 

[Fury]

Amazing how obama has barely said a peep about Syria tegus waging war in lybia.   WTF? 

The Syrians are massacring people left and right, shelling entire towns and yet Obama and the rest of the world stay completely silent. It's beyond embarrassing at this point. Hypocrites through and through.

[Soul Crusher]

New Egypt? 7,000 civilians jailed since Mubarak fell
By Mohannad Sabry | McClatchy Newspapers



CAIRO — Egypt's military rulers told human rights advocates Monday that at least 7,000 civilians have been sentenced to prison terms by military courts since Hosni Mubarak was ousted — an astoundingly high number likely to fuel debate over how much the revolution has changed the country.

Advocates said the military promised to review the cases and vacate any improper guilty verdicts and commute the sentences. But the advocates voiced skepticism and demanded more information about civilians in military custody.

"This is not the first time they've promised," said Mona Seif, a member of a rights group called No Military Trials that met with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt's ruling body. "We were offered no guarantees whatsoever."

The use of military courts to try people who've been detained in anti-government protests in recent months is highly charged here. One of the complaints against Mubarak's regime was that it silenced dissidents by quickly prosecuting them in military courts. The caretaker government that took over after Mubarak's resignation has done little to alter the practice, however.

Seif said the military council told her group that 7,000 civilians had been tried in military courts since Mubarak resigned Feb. 11 and other cases were pending. But the council offered no details, Seif said. "We asked the council to provide the exact number and the names of any civilian held by military police," she said.


Before Monday's meeting, No Military Trials had demanded a halt to military trials of civilians, unless violations occur in military zones or facilities. It also asked that the government guarantee the security of peaceful gatherings and protests and release five oil field workers who were detained during a recent strike.

On Monday, the group announced a hotline to report cases of military violations, detentions or abuse.

Heba Morayef, a Cairo representative for Human Rights Watch who met with the council last week, said the military defended its use of military courts in civilian cases because of the heightened level of crime. She said it was hard to know the accuracy of the 7,000 figure the government cited.

"It includes protesters, activists, thugs, ordinary criminals and innocent passers-by," she said. "They all received jail sentences."

The role of the military in arresting political dissidents and peaceful protesters became a major topic after military police stormed into Tahrir Square on March 9, nearly a month after Mubarak's resignation, and arrested 173 protesters who'd gathered there, including 17 women; military courts subsequently sentenced 123 of them to three to five years in prison.

After two months of protests, the military eventually agreed to retry the 123 and they all were released in May.


But complaints about the military's use of emergency laws that have been in effect since the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat continue.

Last week, a conference on political prisoners hosted by the Egyptian Lawyers' Syndicate and sponsored by the General Human Rights Committee and the Political Prisoners Rights Committee demanded the unconditional pardon and release of all political prisoners jailed during Mubarak's three-decade reign.

"Political prisoners are still suffering injustice and discrimination after the January 25 revolution," said Mamdouh Ismaiel, a member of the lawyers' syndicate's board of directors.

"Some activists were jailed in 1992 after suffering illegitimate and unfair military prosecutions," he said. "They are still suffering behind bars, just as they did under the former regime."

(Sabry is a McClatchy special correspondent.)

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Andre - FAIL 

[Soul Crusher]

Egypt Debt Buoyed by Obama Guarantee for $1 Billion Eurobonds: Arab Credit [ W T F !!! ]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 14 2011 | By Alaa Shahine and Ahmed A Namatall

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President Barack Obama's guarantee on $1 billion of Egyptian Eurobonds is poised to reduce the country's borrowing costs, helping the transition to democracy after six decades of autocratic rule.

The support that Obama pledged last month may cut yields on the five-year debt by 200 basis points, or the equivalent of $100 million, according to the median estimate of five fund managers surveyed by Bloomberg. Yields on Egypt's one-year bills jumped to the highest level since November 2008 following the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February. The country last sold international debt in April 2010.

"The American backing is a complete game changer," Michael Cirami, who helps manage $12 billion in assets for Boston-based Eaton Vance Corp., said in a telephone interview. "There may be a spill-over effect that it's going to reduce the risk premium of their non-guaranteed debt and help them re-enter the market eventually on their own."

Obama is offering assistance for the planned Eurobond sale as the International Monetary Fund forecasts Egypt's economy may grow 1 percent this year, the slowest pace since 1992, and Moody's Investors Service says the country's public finances are "significantly" weaker than countries with similar credit ratings. The budget may post its biggest deficit in at least a decade in the fiscal year ending this month, hampering efforts to create jobs and reduce the poverty rate, reasons that sparked the anti-Mubarak revolt, according to the Finance Ministry.


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[andreisdaman]

The Syrians are massacring people left and right, shelling entire towns and yet Obama and the rest of the world stay completely silent. It's beyond embarrassing at this point. Hypocrites through and through.

me thinks you are the hypocrite, dickface...I have asked you many times what you would do with the Syrian situation and have been met with silence each time.....you have no solution either..yet you come on here to criticize...

from now on please refrain from posting in these threads where serious discussion takes place...stick to the sex threads where you can continue to read all of Bay's homo threads 

[Soul Crusher]

ANDRE - OBAMA - FAIL

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Obama versus Osama: guess who the Egyptians prefer?
Posted By Colum Lynch  Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 9:47 AM   Share


First the good news: U.S. President Barack Obama is more than twice as popular in Egypt as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.

Now, the bad news: the American president's standing has never been worse in Egypt, plummeting since 2008, when he received a 25 percent favorability rating, to 12 percent in 2011.  Even Osama Bin Laden, the late al Qaeda leader, was more popular this year, with a 21 percent favorability ranking. The Iranian leader fared worse, dropping from 21 percent favorability rating in 2008 to a miserable 5 percent.

The findings are drawn from a public poll of Egyptian views in the aftermath of the public uprising that brought about the resignation of Egypt's fallen leader Hosni Mubarak. The poll was commissioned by the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank with close ties to the United Nations and Arab governments.

The poll seeks to capture the mood of the country in the lead up to the Egypt's first post-Mubarak election, and to handicap the presidential campaign. It shows that Egyptians currently fret over issues like the economy, stability, and government corruption more than they  worry about the course of the country's democratic transition.

According to the poll, conducted by Charney Research and based on interviews with 800 Egyptians, Amr Moussa, the outgoing Arab League chief, has emerged as an early frontrunner. Thirty-two percent of respondents say they would vote for Moussa, who once served as Mubarak's foreign minister.

Essam Sharraf, an engineering professor who is serving as the country's interim prime minister, finished second with 16 percent of votes ( though his favorability ranking is higher than Moussa's). And Mohammed Tantawi, the army chief, finished third with 8 percent of those questioned saying they would vote for him. Mohammed El Baradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency who emerged from retirement to serve as Egypt's best known pro-democracy advocate, finished seventh, with only 2 percent of respondents pledging to vote for him.

The poll shows that the Egyptian army, which refused orders to fire on public demonstrators during the country's popular uprising, remains "extremely popular" with 90 percent of Egyptian respondents expressing a favorable view. Egypt's various secular parties also did well, garning 25 precent of respondents' votes, while Islamist parties gained 19 percent. The best-known political parties, the New Wafd Party and the Muslim Brotherhood, received respectively 40 percent and 31 percent favorability ratings.  The Brotherhood's unfavorability rating, at 29 percent, was 10 points higher.

"The military right now is riding a wave of popularity because it is seen as playing two key roles [in Egypt's popular revolution]," Craig Charney, the pollster, told Turtle Bay. "It delivered the coup de grace to Mubarak and did it in a way that maintained a substantial degree of stability."

Charney said that the findings also demonstrated that fears of a religious take over by Islamists are overblown. "The much feared green-tide just isn't there, with the Muslim Brotherhood receiving 12 percent while the Salafists for all their sound and fury came away with only 4 percent," Charney said.

While an exiled Egyptian national, Ayman al Zawahiri, has been selected as the new leader of Al Qaeda, the poll suggested that the terror organization would have been better at influencing events in Egypt under the leadership of their late Saudi leader, Osama Bin laden, who was killed by elite U.S. commandos in Pakistan.

According to the poll, bin Laden's favorability ratings rose from 18 percent of those questioned in 2008 to 21 percent in 2011. In contrast, Zawahiri scored a favorability rating of only 11 percent this year.

Charney said that while other polls have found somewhat higher support for President Obama's response to the Egyptian uprising, he has suffered from a generally dim view of American policy throughout the region.

"Despite President Obama's words and measures in support of Egypt's revolution, he only narrowly edges out the leaders of al Qaeda and Iran in popular regard there," Charney said in a statement. "But our findings do clearly show that Egyptians have little regard for the likes of al-Zawahiri and Ahmadinejad."

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http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/21/obama_versus_osama_guess_who_the_egyptians_prefer

[Fury]

Egypt: Mob Of 200 Muslims Torch 8 Christian Homes On Rumor Of Church Construction

(AINA) — A mob of nearly 200 Muslims torched eight Christian homes on Saturday morning in the Upper Egyptian village of Awlad Khalaf. The attack was initiated by a rumor that a house which is being built by Wahib Halim Attia will be turned into a church. Two Christians and one Muslim were injured, no fatalities were reported.

Wahib Halim Attia obtained a license to build a house in the village on a 95 square meter plot. The house grew to an area of 350 square meters but was still on agricultural land that he owns. This gave rise to the rumor that he intended to build a church instead.

Father Weesa Azmy, the priest at St. George Church in the neighboring village of Negou Madam East, said that someone went to the City Council in Dar es Salam and told them about the irregularities in the house construction, and Wahib was ordered to remove the excess by June 24. “Instead Wahib carried on with the construction, which angered the Muslims, who decided to play God and take the law into their own hands; they attacked the construction site and other Christian homes.”

According to Father Weesa, Muslims broke into the home of Ihab Tamer, who defended himself with a rifle. A Muslim who was there to help Ihab was injured by a bullet in his leg from Tamer’s rifle. The matter was explained and resolved with the family of that Muslim.

According to eyewitnesses the Muslims, mostly Salafists and some youngsters, looted and torched eight homes belonging to Wahib Halim Attia and his two brothers, his three cousins and two other Copts, including Ihab Tamer.

The police arrived three hours after the looting and torching had ended.

http://www.aina.org/news/20110625204733.htm



Egypt sure is turning out well!

[Fury]

Egypt: Two Christian Girls Kidnapped And Forced To Convert To Islam


Cairo (AsiaNews) – Attacks against Copts and the abduction of young women continue in Upper Egypt. Last Saturday, in the village of Awlad Khalaf (Suhaj, Upper Egypt), hundreds of extremists set fire to Christian houses. Three people were injured. In Minya, two young Coptic women were abducted and forced to convert to Islam.

Anti-Christian violence has become a daily event in Upper Egypt, where police and the military often side with Muslims, sources told AsiaNews. In this under-policed area of the country, extremists are pushing Muslim civilians against Christians, using any pretext to destroy churches and homes.

. . . The power vacuum created by Mubarak’s fall has increased the number of abductions of Coptic teenagers and young women. Kidnapped at home or in the street, they are forced to convert and marry Muslim men.

The latest case involves two girls, 14-year-old Nacy and 16-year-old Christine, who disappeared on 12 June. Police found them days later, wearing a niqab but with on cross tattooed on their wrist.

Despite complaints by their family, the two teenagers are being kept in a mental hospital until the end of the investigation.

“The daily abduction and forced Islamisation of Coptic minors, conducted by Muslims funded by Saudi Arabia, has escalated to new levels after the 25 January Revolution,” said Coptic activist Mark Ebeid. It has also “greatly enraged the Copts. Everyone now fears they might not be able to stand any longer continuous Islamist provocations.”

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Eight-houses-burnt-as-anti-Christian-violence-rises-in-Upper-Egypt-21953.html

Silence from the IslamoNazi lovers on the far left.

[Soul Crusher]

Another ObamaFail. 

Create chaos in the ME, drive the cost of oil through the roof, piss on an ally, and then be forced to release oil from the strategic reserve to combat the oil spike cauased as a result of the chaos you created.  Nice.

[Soul Crusher]

Obama to Resume Formal Contacts with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood…
Weasel Zippers ^ | June 30,2011 | Staff

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http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/30/obama-to-resume-formal-contacts-with-egyptian-muslim-brotherhood



The United States has decided to resume formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, in a step that reflects the Islamist group’s growing political weight but that is almost certain to upset Israel and its U.S. backers.

“The political landscape in Egypt has changed, and is changing,” said the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency.”

The official sought to portray the shift as a subtle evolution rather than a dramatic change in Washington’s stance toward the Brotherhood, a group founded in 1928 that seeks to promote its conservative vision of Islam in society.

Under the previous policy, U.S. diplomats were allowed to deal with Brotherhood members of parliament who had won seats as independents — a diplomatic fiction that allowed them to keep lines of communication open.

Where U.S. diplomats previously dealt only with group members in their role as parliamentarians, a policy the official said had been in place since 2006, they will now deal directly with low-level Brotherhood party officials.

There is no U.S. legal prohibition against dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, which long ago renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt and which is not regarded by Washington as a foreign terrorist organization.

But other sympathetic groups, such as Hamas, which identifies the Brotherhood as its spiritual guide, have not disavowed violence against the state of Israel.

The result has been a dilemma for the Obama administration.

Former officials and analysts said it has little choice but to engage the Brotherhood directly, given its political prominence after the February 11 downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak.


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[garebear]

I would have to rate this thread among the 100 best that 333... has devoted to Obama. Top one thousand at least.

[Soul Crusher]

Breaking News   15:01   Bat Yam: Man, 60,_
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Photo by: IDF IDF intel chief: Iran intervening in Egyptian elections
By LAHAV HARKOV 
07/05/2011 13:11


Maj.-Gen. Kochavi says Islamic Republic to have explosive within two years, involved in ‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’ day border crossings.   
Head of IDF Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi warned of Iranian intervention in Egyptian elections, speaking about the regime in a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Tuesday.

“Iraq is attempting to influence the political process in Egypt through efforts to connect with the Muslim Brotherhood,” Kochavi said.

RELATED:
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Kochavi also said that the Muslim Brotherhood is pressing for elections in Egypt to take place as soon as possible, because it is "the only group that's ready for elections."

"The international community is trying to delay the vote so more moderate groups can be better organized," he explained.

In the meantime, the Egyptian army is losing control of the Sinai, according to Kochavi.

The IDF intelligence chief also reported that Iran will be able to produce a nuclear explosive within two years.

"Iran recovered from the last wave of sanctions, even though the international consensus surprised them," Kochavi said.

He also emphasized Iranian influence throughout the region, including Turkey.

"We see closer relations between Iran and Turkey, which are focused mostly on trade, but also include military matters," he said.

“Iran is taking advantage of the upheaval in the Middle East to deepen their infiltration into states and organizations in the region,” he added, saying that the Islamic Republic is working in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza.

"As Iran continues to work on its nuclear project, it works to transfer weapons and instill radical Islamic ideologies throughout the Middle East," Kochavi explained.

In addition "the potential for a cyber-attack is growing, and will eventually be a greater threat than Iran's other weapons."

Kochavi also said that Iran was active in planning the “Nakba” and “Naksa” day demonstrations and border crossings from Lebanon.

“Iran is making efforts to ensure that such events will continue,” he explained, "but they were disappointed that [the border crossings] were not more successful."

"Iran and Hezbollah are actively helping the Syrian regime in oppressing protesters," Kochavi said. "They are transferring means for dispersing demonstrations, knowledge and technical aid."

"They are motivated to help due to their deep fear of the demonstrations' implications, especially losing their partnership with the Syrians and a trickling of protests into their territory," he explained.

Kochavi estimated that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is stable, and will remain so as long as demonstrations do not reach Damascus and Aleppo.

"Assad understands that the way to end this situation is not only military, so he has turned to reform," he explained, adding that the reforms include subsidies and job creation.

"Most of the Syrian army remains loyal to Assad, especially high-ranking Alawite officers, who believe that quelling the demonstrations is a legitimate mission, which will prevent the Alawites from losing control of Syria," Kochavi said. "There is no major phenomenon of defection – only 20-30 officers and a few hundred soldiers have left the Syrian army."


However, Kochavi also said that "if Assad remains in power after the riots, his position will be much weaker."

The IDF intelligence chief stated that Syria continues to send weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, despite the demonstrations.

Kochavi also commented on the agreement between Fatah and Hamas, calling it "unstable."

"The agreement is only for show, it doesn't have any practical content," he explained. "Fatah continues to arrest Hamas men in the West Bank, albeit in smaller amounts."

"[Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas wants to bolster [PA President Salam] Fayyad, because he is an asset internationally, but Hamas sees him as a red flag," Kochavi added.

"Abbas prefers that we restart negotiations, so he doesn't have to take Palestinian statehood to a vote in the UN," Kochavi said. "He'll negotiate if we accept his terms – '67 borders and a settlement construction freeze.



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Just what obama wanted from Day 1.

[Soul Crusher]

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Egypt party leader: Holocaust is ‘a lie’
Wash. Times ^ | 7/5/11 | Ben Birnbaum
Posted on July 6, 2011 12:16:40 AM EDT by Nachum

BUDAPEST — A leader of Egypt’s top secular party says the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were “made in the USA,” the Holocaust is “a lie” and Anne Frank’s memoir is “a fake” — comments sure to roil the post-revolution political debate in the Arab world’s most populous country. Ahmed Ezz El-Arab, a vice chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times last week while in the Hungarian capital attending the Conference on Democracy and Human Rights. He denied that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.

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M-1A1 Abrams To Be Sold To The Muslim Brotherhood
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Posted on July 10, 2011 7:11:19 PM EDT by Amerisrael

On Friday President Barack Hussein Obama informed the US Congress that he intended to sell 125 M-1A1 Abrams Tanks to the Egyptian Military.

With the nation of Egypt in turmoil, and the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is poised to assume total control over Egypt, why would any sane and rational person sell tanks (or any weapon) to a nation bent on not only destroying its neighbor, but who would turn the same weapons on the US to destroy it.

From the Jerusalem Post:

The US signaled last week that it plans to continue business as usual when it comes to arms sales to the Egyptian military, despite the recent revolution in Egypt and continued anti-government demonstrations there.

On Friday, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams tank to Egypt – the first large arms deal since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February – including associated weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support at an estimated cost of just over $1.3 billion.

If approved, the deal would increase the number of Abrams tanks in Egypt from around 1,000 to 1,130.

According to the notification to Congress, Egypt would receive 125 tanks, parts of which would be produced in Egypt, as well as M256 Armament Systems, M2 .50 caliber machine guns, 7.62mm machine guns, spare parts, maintenance, support equipment, personnel training and other related elements of logistics and program support.

The Pentagon told Congress – which has 30 days to object to the deal – that the sale of the tanks would “contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.”

The sale would “provide Egypt with a modern tank fleet, enhancing its capability to meet current and future threats,” the Pentagon further stated.

News of the deal raised eyebrows in Israel, which has carefully watched arms sales to Egypt ever since Cairo began to receive annual military aid of some $1.3b. from the United States following the peace treaty the two neighbors signed in 1979.

Israel has in the past lobbied Congress against specific arms deals to Egypt. In the past few years, Egypt has purchased 24 F-16 fighter jets, Hellfire missiles, Harpoon antiship missiles, TOW anti-tank missiles, Chinook transport helicopters and Apache attack helicopters.

Israel is concerned that Egypt might take a radical shift in elections expected to be held in the fall and might once again turn into an enemy state, depending on the identity of the new president and the number of seats the Muslim Brotherhood wins in parliament.

The IDF has taken a cautious approach to the developments in Egypt, with Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz choosing a long-term plan formulated by the Planning Directorate, under which the army would grow over a number of years and not launch an immediate procurement plan to counter the possible threat evolving in the South.

Gantz’s thinking is based on the assumption that any war with Egypt would not take place any time soon, and that an immediate procurement plan announced by the IDF could be detrimental and increase tension between the countries. The signs point to Egypt attacking Israel within the next 6 months (sooner if they can). The addition of more M-1A1 Abrams tanks will only increase the livelihood of this happening.

Contact your Congressman and let them know that you do not support this idea and demand that they vote against this



http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=228506

[Kazan]

Good idea lets give the Jihadi's tanks The pure fucking stupidity of this administration is mind boggling.

[Soul Crusher]

Gunmen blow up Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel (And Jordan)
MSNBC ^ | 7-11-11 | ASHRAF SWEILAM
Posted on July 12, 2011 12:53:48 AM EDT by tcrlaf

EL-ARISH, Egypt — Masked gunmen on Tuesday blew up a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in a predawn attack, security officials said.

They said the attack was carried out by at least four assailants. The terminal is located at the city of El-Arish in the northern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula some 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of the Israeli border.

The attackers ordered the guards on duty to leave and then blew up the terminal, starting a huge fire that sent flames shooting up and lighting the night sky, according to the officials. There were no casualties, they said.

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