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Egypt Will Try Son Of Former Illinois Congressman
My Stateline (Fox 39) ^ | February 6, 2012 | Colin Clarke

Posted on 02/06/2012 9:30:39 AM PST by Qbert

(Cairo, Egypt)  --  Egypt is set to try 19 Americans, including the son of former Illinois Congressman Ray LaHood.

Egyptian officials announced yesterday that Sam LaHood is among the 43 people to be tried for what prosecutors called using funds from their non-profit organizations to foment unrest in their country.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabspring; egypt; fomentingunrest; lahood; marxistbrotherhood; muslimbrotherhood; ngos; raylahood; samlahood
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To: Qbert

LaHood is of Arab Christian ancestry (I think Lebanese Catholic).


21 posted on 02/06/2012 10:08:44 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: PapaBear3625
I thought the same thing at first, but (FWIW) Lahood's group is putting the blame on this, "in part by Mubarak-era holdovers." If so, I wonder if this could get really messy, really fast- another blunder by Obama.
22 posted on 02/06/2012 10:17:45 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Outlaw Woman
LaHood is a R serving the marxist

R or D, it's all the same these days.

23 posted on 02/06/2012 10:19:19 AM PST by bgill (The Obama admin is staging a coup. Wake up, America, it's almost too late.)
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To: Qbert

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???


24 posted on 02/06/2012 10:26:06 AM PST by proudpapa
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To: marstegreg
Anyone else think this is a set up for a prisoner swap from Gitmo?

Agreed. Egypt didn't do this on their own. They had to have been given a green light on it. Something's up and whatever it is it isn't good for the US.

25 posted on 02/06/2012 10:26:12 AM PST by bgill (The Obama admin is staging a coup. Wake up, America, it's almost too late.)
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To: Qbert

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???


26 posted on 02/06/2012 10:26:12 AM PST by proudpapa
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To: Qbert

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???


27 posted on 02/06/2012 10:26:47 AM PST by proudpapa
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To: Qbert

The Arab Spring Blossoms


28 posted on 02/06/2012 10:57:52 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Qbert
It's my understanding that these people are currently staying in the US Embassy. If we had a president with a set (someone other than Obama). They would have already flown in a marine helicopter, picked up the 19 and told Egypt to just try and do anything about it.
29 posted on 02/06/2012 11:06:48 AM PST by apillar
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To: Qbert
Egypt is lost, and obviously grasping at straws (or papyrus, as it were).

Spengler has a recent column on Egypt. Well worth the read.

Egyptian disaster

30 posted on 02/06/2012 1:59:55 PM PST by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
LaThug is an Illinois Combiner. So is Emperor Zero.

He was my congressman as was his mentor, master rino Bob Michel.

31 posted on 02/06/2012 4:04:22 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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32 posted on 02/06/2012 4:24:08 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
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To: proudpapa
Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???

Im my opinion, it's just the opposite. Egypt is putting the Americans on trial because they know Obama won't do one damn thing about it.

33 posted on 02/06/2012 4:27:44 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Graybeard58
But Bob Michel was so nice, so accommodating.
34 posted on 02/06/2012 4:39:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
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To: apillar
If we had a president with a set (someone other than Obama).

Buzzy Ginsburg could have brought them home, but I don't thing she brought them up, to busy telling them the US Constitution was obsolete.

35 posted on 02/06/2012 5:07:26 PM PST by itsahoot (I will Vote for Palin, even if I have to write her in.(Previous tag line reactivated))
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To: marstegreg
I'm surprised they haven't asked for the Blind Sheikh of 1993 World Trade Center bombing fame. One of the perils of keeping these critters alive as criminals rather than dead as terrorists is that sooner or later their buddies will try to spring them. There's been several efforts so far to gain his release but all were failures. It will be interesting to see if we get a request for the Blind Sheikh's release in this instance.

It's hard to look like a tough country when perps from that and the 1998 US embassy bombings are still safe and sound getting three squares a day in our comfy prisons and not a one of them was given the death penalty. Paying tribute to Egypt while they hold our people- which is how it will be seen- is going to make the US look weak enough for all these terrorist loons to come out and demand prisoner swaps.

On the other hand, the bad guys have to LOVE seeing the US so fouled up under Obama's bad management that it might be to their advantage to let Obama's state dept "win the hostages' freedom" - in time to give him a bounce in the elections.

36 posted on 02/14/2012 9:58:21 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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