Posted on 07/15/2013 9:05:51 AM PDT by bkopto
The first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army toppled its elected president was snubbed by both Islamists and their opponents on Monday.
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in a divided capital where both sides are furious at the United States, the superpower which supports Egypt with $1.5 billion in annual aid, mostly for the army that deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi two weeks ago.
Crisis in the Arab world's most populous state, which has a peace treaty with Israel and controls the strategic Suez Canal, has alarmed allies in the region and the West. Thousands of supporters of the ousted leader took to the streets on Monday.
Washington, never comfortable with the rise of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, has so far refused to say whether it views Mursi's removal as a coup, which would require it to halt aid.
The State Department said Burns would meet "civil society groups" as well as government officials, but the Islamist Nour Party and the Tamarud anti-Mursi protest movement both said they had turned down invitations to meet Burns.
"First, they need to acknowledge the new system," Tamarud founder Mahmoud Badr said of the Americans. "Secondly, they must apologize for their support for the Muslim Brotherhood's party and terrorism. Then we can think about it," he told Reuters.
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Wow! The Egyptians are smarter than the America electorate!
Morsi’s team murdered and raped the Ambassador and
murdered US patriots, and the terrorist-fawning
envoy was “slighted” ... and pretend to play “victim”.
huh?
Hah! As if Harry Reed and the Dems in the Senate would ever vote for impeachment....oh, wait.
“Just give us our billion dollars and get lost, sonny.”
Good luck with that. Us American citizens are still waiting for Obama to apologize for provoking racial terrorism by falsely accusing Neighborhood Watch Captain George Zimmerman of racism and manslaughter. Provoking community activism and terrorism seems to be the main talent that this community organizer has developed over the years. Just look at Chicago.
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