Interesting story, but we are missing a link to the source material.

Originally posted by boncho
Interesting story, but we are missing a link to the source material.

Apologies!

Fixed it.

A couple interesting points in the story:

The criminal prosecution is a rebuke to Washington in the face of increasingly stern warnings to Egypt’s ruling generals from President Obama, cabinet officials and senior Congressional leaders that it could jeopardize $1.55 billion in expected American aid this year, including $1.3 billion for the military. But for Washington, revoking the aid would risk severing the tie that for three decades has bound the United States, Egypt and Israel in an uneasy alliance that is the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order.

There must be a ton of stuff happening behind the curtains right now with the people handling US - Egypt relations.

The Americans facing criminal charges include Sam LaHood, director of the Republican Institute’s Egypt operations. He is the son of Ray LaHood, the secretary of transportation and a former Republican congressman from Illinois.

This is another interesting part. One of the people accused is the son of a congressman.

Talk about international incident.

Just saw this on the news.

Its so obvious the west is fuelling the unrest in the middle east.

I think it is going to blow up in their faces.

the "aid" was to support their dictator, mubarak, for 40 years.

the same one who probably had a hand in assassinating sadat and the same one that is on trial for war crimes.

more than likely, a few of them will get the death penalty.

I suspect that the Suez canal will be a bone of contention and the west will take over itsmanagment should the regime get too damn uppity.
The comming Iran Confrntation will start a few other moves in other unexpected directions i believe.
Should war break with Iran, i think the entire might of the west will be used to swiftly as possible ovewhelm some of the other countries around isreal....
Lebannon, Syria,Saudi Arabia even may not be immune to this kind of dirty pool.....
truthfully, i see a much wider scope of conflict, with a much more inflated agnda than merely Irans puny military.....The kind of assets that will be assembled against Iran, will be very easily used to subdue a few of the small countries which have no way of protecting themselves....
Yemen,Libya,Somalia, and other gulf states too....
The entire northern part of Africa, and the coasts of the gulf will become one huge battleground for the oil beneath it.

I heard through the grapevine...

The NGOs are nothing but trouble, do not trust any