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Egypt to look beyond U.S. for arms: foreign minister(geopolitical disaster continues)
Reuters ^ | 2013/11/2 | Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy

Posted on 11/02/2013 9:29:27 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Egypt to look beyond U.S. for arms: foreign minister

Reuters

By Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said on Saturday that Egypt would look beyond the United States to meet its security needs and warned Washington that it could no longer ignore popular demands in a changed Arab world.

Speaking ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Fahmy said the United States must take a long-term view of its relations with Egypt and understand that in the wake of the Arab Spring, "it would have to deal now with the Arab peoples, not only with Arab governments".

Emphasizing the "turbulent" state of Washington's ties with its longtime Arab ally after U.S. military aid curbs in response to the army's overthrow in July of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Fahmy said Egypt would have to develop "multiple choices, multiple options" to chart its way forward - including military relationships.

Fahmy, in a rare interview, also sent this message to the United States: "If you're going to have interests in the Middle East, you need to have either good relations with the country that is the focus of the Middle East, or at the very least well-managed relations".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreuters; egypt

1 posted on 11/02/2013 9:29:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

But they will take the free F-16’s and all the foreign aid $$$$, right?


2 posted on 11/02/2013 10:14:29 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This is through sheer ineptitude and stupidity, this administration is losing critical chess pieces on the world strategic stage. It's not like there was an anti-US coup or anything, we're talking about an Egyptian military tossing out the Muslim Brotherhood, a sworn enemy of the US and the West.
Putin and all of America's enemies are just sitting back, watching the US and her interests implode on itself. Just friggin'’ unbelievable.
3 posted on 11/03/2013 1:03:57 AM PDT by Netz
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Egyptians are not Arabs.


4 posted on 11/03/2013 1:33:49 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Netz
Putin and all of America's enemies...
Frank Dashwood on Jeopardy...

THE DAILY DOUBLE... category: world leaders

“This country has a 13% flat tax, no capital gains tax, soldiers on their borders, and no fággots in their army...”

I’ll go with - who is Vladimir Putin? - for the win Alex...


5 posted on 11/03/2013 1:36:45 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Putin knows what he's doing, Obama, after 5 years clearly does not. The Red Army has fags in the army, they just keep themselves in the closet. If it is discovered, they get the crap kicked out of them, that's all.

Russia is a country that always, mercilessly looks out for it's national interest, Obama’s America looks out for...its golf game scorecard.

6 posted on 11/03/2013 1:41:33 AM PST by Netz
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Obama The Destroyer strikes again. Obama insists on Muslim Brotherhood or else no aid. From Egypt to Libya and now Syria Obama has been overthrowing governments and installing MB/Al Qaeda.


7 posted on 11/03/2013 4:51:08 AM PST by Ray76
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Technically true, yet the father of the Arabs was half-Egyptian via his mother Hagar.


8 posted on 11/03/2013 9:29:35 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Ray76

Did Lurch deliver 0bama’s cheque to the Egyptian Government?
Will the Mursi trial now suppress all Treason and Criminal actions by 0bama?


9 posted on 11/04/2013 4:21:06 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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