I think president el-Sisi has been awesome in Egypt! Our president and his secretary of state are just sissies.
Posted on 08/26/2014 9:26:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senior U.S. officials said Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have launched airstrikes against Islamic militants in the Libyan capital twice in the past week.
U.S. officials told reporters that the move caught the United States by surprise, potentially dealing a blow to relations between Washington, Cairo and the Emirates.
U.S. officials said Egypt provided the base for the launch of the airstrikes, and the U.A.E. provided the aircraft and pilots.
Egypt has not publicly acknowledged any role in the air strikes. The UAE had no immediate comment.
The first strike took place in Tripoli a week ago and targeted Islamist-alligned militant-held facilities, such as a weapons depot, and killed six people, according to The New York Times.
The second airstrike hit militant-controlled rocket launchers, military vehicles and a warehouse in Tripoli, killing a dozen people.
U.S. officials, according to the Times, say the strikes have, so far, proved counterproductive. The militants gained control of the Tripoli airport just hours after the second attack.
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Looks like some Arab countries can’t wait for 2017 either . . .
The Egyptians are doing what we refuse to do.
Egypt needs to invade and take over Libya.
Another surprise for the State Department...
How did the UAE get aircraft over Libya? That’s a long way, and I don’t expect the UAE has tanker aircraft....
This is what happens when you spend all your time playing golf at Martha’s Vineyard, you don’t know what’s going on in the world and other countries have no respect for you.
“Egypt provided the base for the launch of the airstrikes, and the U.A.E. provided the aircraft and pilots.”
Whoa. Guess I could read....
That seems to be the start of almost every overseas news story these days.
What the Eyptian military did is impressive. They didn’t wait when they saw that the MB was a threat, and got rid of them when they had a chance. If only the US had done that with ISIS when the nature of the beast became obvious.
“...potentially dealing a blow to relations between Washington, Cairo and the Emirates.”
With Elmer Fudd in the White House, they don’t give a rat’s *ss.
You’re on to something...ask yourself how did we miss the movement of that many aircraft?
But I thought Obama was incredibly in the loop even when he’s on vacay! Marie Harp and Joltin Jen Psaki as well as the state media have been hyperventilating since the Bamster has been on the links that the WH knows all and sees all!
I think president el-Sisi has been awesome in Egypt! Our president and his secretary of state are just sissies.
Its obvious. Obama would have informed the militants. He and his folks can’t wait to restore his m.b. buddies.
I think president el-Sisi has been awesome in Egypt! Our president and his secretary of state are just sissies.
Egypt and the UAE undoubtedly remember when we had Bib Laden and his terrorist training camp in our sights back in the waning days of the Clinton administration and Madeline Albright thought it was more necessary to give Pakistan advance warning than destroy the target.
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