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Kerry Announces Millions in U.S. Aid for Egypt
ny times ^ | 3/3/2013 | By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Posted on 03/03/2013 1:33:22 PM PST by tobyhill

Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would provide $250 million in assistance to Egypt after Egypt’s president promised to move ahead with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over economic reforms.

In a statement issued after his two-hour meeting with President Mohamed Morsi, Mr. Kerry said the aid decision reflected Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Mr. Morsi’s assurance that Egypt would reach an agreement with the I.M.F. after more than a year of talks over a $4.8 billion loan package.

The statement issued by Mr. Kerry noted that he and Mr. Morsi had discussed the need to ensure the fairness of Egypt’s coming elections, but it did not mention any specific political commitments the Egyptian president had made to receive the funds.

Parliamentary elections are scheduled for April. Some opposition groups have said they will boycott the vote because of what they see as an effort by Mr. Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement to dominate Egyptian politics.

American officials say that Mr. Kerry asserted that moving ahead with difficult economic changes in Egypt would require a degree of political consensus and was implicitly a promise of some political change.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: defensebudget; defensecuts; economy; egypt; egyptmb; egyptmbforeignaid; federalbudget; imf; israel; kerry; obama; secstatekerry; sequester; waronterror
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To: tobyhill

Aren’t we still sending them billions per year to “keep peaceful” with Israel? Or this that die with the overthrow?

F-16s, 250 billion in cash to build their regime.

We are fools.


61 posted on 03/04/2013 11:00:37 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

62 posted on 03/04/2013 11:40:38 AM PST by pacificpundit (.)
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To: tobyhill

HUNDREDS of millions.

Lies by omission are lies.


63 posted on 03/04/2013 11:54:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: tobyhill

Think about that while you’re job hunting. :P

Now go pay your taxes - the Muslim Brotherhood needs weapons...


64 posted on 03/04/2013 2:02:01 PM PST by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: tobyhill

how big of him. He’ll negotiate with the IMF and accept the money they’ll loan him, and even accept payment from the United States for doing so. The man is a prince. A prince, I say./s


65 posted on 03/04/2013 2:50:58 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: chessplayer
Believe it or not, this even has folks over at DU spinning their heads.

This should have everyones' head spinning. WTH is this garbage? The US needs to stop ALL aid to these countries. No mas for these backward hicks.

66 posted on 03/04/2013 4:15:26 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks tobyhill.


67 posted on 03/04/2013 7:01:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: tobyhill

> Kerry Announces Millions in U.S. Aid for Egypt

Hussein continues to sequester America.


68 posted on 03/04/2013 7:08:28 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Bender2

Did Obama tell you he can be trusted John, or was it Hillary.
her 24/7 Muslim companion probably told the same thing to Ambassador Stevens in the days before Benghazi. What she told the Muslim Brotherhood was another story.


69 posted on 03/05/2013 2:49:01 AM PST by Sicario
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To: tobyhill

Wow. Someone talked to him, ya know- good folks. What a coup for the US. We are so lucky.


70 posted on 03/05/2013 4:56:12 AM PST by RedHeeler
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71 posted on 03/05/2013 5:34:59 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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73 posted on 03/05/2013 5:36:18 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: tobyhill

The American people will strongly favor this; there’s practically nothing a liberal thinks up these days that they don’t fall in line behind.


74 posted on 03/05/2013 5:45:26 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Jyotishi

Truly the American people as a whole deserve all this, but it is the innocent individuals who suffrer. The American people can’t figure it out; they are too drunk on liberalism.


75 posted on 03/05/2013 5:48:35 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The litle American voters saved us from a Kerry presidency but it took the failed GWB to do it. Now we are being punished by the lack of knowledge of all these popular liberals.


76 posted on 03/05/2013 5:51:18 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: tobyhill

Surely they will pay for this by cutting welfare, right? Sorry to say, when the economy is suffering, many people out of work, and the government is supposed to be in a real spending cutback, and they do this as slap in the face to taxpayers, there is no peaceful way out of this.
Tomorrow, Obama will probably announce that he is giving some of our nuclear weapons to Iran, so they can discontinue their own weapons development program...


77 posted on 03/05/2013 6:10:39 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: tobyhill

We just cannot fix STUPID...


79 posted on 03/05/2013 4:09:10 PM PST by madison10
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To: tobyhill

Payoff to the Egyptians by the Obastard regime for
denying U.S. access to the captured Benghazi terrorist. Hussein is using our tax dollars to Egypt as hush money.


80 posted on 03/05/2013 5:33:26 PM PST by Old Yeller
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