Egypt flux ‘could trigger US aid backfire’

April 16, 2012 12:04

The US move to resume annual military aid to Egypt has sparked concern the money will no longer be able buy the loyalty of the changing country. Cairo’s unclear political future could now result in a conflict with Washington and its key ally Israel.

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Nick (unregistered) 26.04.2012 23:15

The US does not care who governs. As long as they can be bought off and controlled, they're just fine with uncle SCam.

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New World Order 16.04.2012 19:20

This report shows that Islamic brotherhood and the military are one and the same-- here we see tatical alliance between U.S imperialism and Islamic Salafism. What is also very interesting Syria is the only country in the Arab world in which the military is not funded and controlled by the CIA and the Pentagon. Islamic brotherhood- like the military believe in the American dollar. Neither the Islamic Brotherhood nor the Egptian military has moral dignity. This is the shameful status of Egpt today. It is broken and humiliated country.. the same is true of Pakistan and all the Muslim countries in which Salafism cooperates with U.S imperialism..

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Tomek (unregistered) 16.04.2012 17:55

Hmmm, I heard rumours that Muslim Brotherhoods is controlled by CIA... It is easy to take over power in Egypt by strong antiisraeli retorics, but only facts are counts! What they really do when they get power? They can go Saudi Arabia's road as well, stay proislamists and proamerican puppet country what automatically means proisraeli....

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STOP THE LYING, THIS IS ABOUT SECULARISM VS ISLAM 16.04.2012 17:23

secularism does not allow religious scripture to dominate govt which means secularism does not include religion as a legitimate political party in its "democracy". Egypt has been majority islamic for 2000 years. Its about time we respected the majority will even when it is religious. Its not like we dont have two whole continents to be secular in!. The religious also need their own space to live as they want!. This is the true definition of freedom.

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Im sure all that money is sent out of concern for the human rights of egyptians 16.04.2012 17:16

NOT!

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CON 16.04.2012 16:52

The new Egyptian parliament should tell the US to stick their bribes. The receipt of outside money erodes the independence of sovereign states, look at the effect of all that cash on the U.S.political system. Their will be a lot of dire warnings about losing the bribes from America but in the long term the Egyptians will be better off without it. American money is a cancer in other state's interna l affairs.

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just king 16.04.2012 14:38

"Now that the Brotherhood is firmly in control, they question how the State Department can possibly conclude that Egypt is moving toward to democracy."   The State Department knows that they're not moving towards democracy. The aid they've been receiving isn't to support democracy. Whoever thinks it is must be half retarded... or watching cnn/fox

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