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Feds plan to give Egypt armed-to-the-teeth ships
WND ^ | Aug. 3, 2013 | Steve Peacock

Posted on 08/03/2013 8:11:55 PM PDT by Steve Peacock

Harpoon missile among weapons aboard patrol vessels

The U.S. Senate has rejected an effort to crack down on U.S. taxpayer monies being forwarded to the violence-ridden nation of Egypt, and now the Obama administration is preparing to send more heavily armed, missile-equipped naval patrol ships to the interim government there.

For that purpose, Washington is hiring private contractors to make the transoceanic delivery on its behalf.

This shipment of Fast Missile Craft, or FMC, comes at a time when congressional interest in suspending U.S. military aid to Egypt had heated up – to the point there was a Senate proposal to cut it off. That aid, according to federal law, must be suspended in response to military coups.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
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To: Yosemitest; VerySadAmerican
You sir/madam are one of FR's best posters. Excellent work, once again. Thank you.

"Lawlessness"..."Lies"..."Exalting himself"...Wicked and divisive...

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" ~ Isaiah, 5:20, KJV

If this man isn't the anti-Christ, then how evil must the anti-Christ be?? The sand in our hour-glass grows short.

21 posted on 08/04/2013 7:08:35 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: USS Johnston
Thank you.
I'm just a retire old disgruntled air traffic controller, who cut meat for a few years, and can't keep a wife.
For some reason, they always think they'reGod ... and I don't.
22 posted on 08/04/2013 7:40:54 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: USS Johnston

Great point on the anti Christ. For some reason every politician in this country is afraid of him.


23 posted on 08/04/2013 8:45:28 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: Steve Peacock

SHIPS??

jeesh


24 posted on 08/04/2013 8:49:09 PM PDT by GeronL
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