Posted on 09/04/2014 6:14:33 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Nabil Fahmy, the former Egyptian foreign minister and a previous ambassador to the US, said that relations between Cairo and Washington remain strained because of the US’s insistence of allowing Islamists to participate in the political process.
In an Egyptian television interview on Sunday evening, Fahmy said that “the Americans have not appropriately learned the lesson of dealing with terrorism” and that they “contacted us constantly in order to integrate streams of political Islam into the political process,” the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm reported.
He added, however, that Egypt “pursued the will of the people” and did not give in to outside pressure.
Fahmy also said that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would give a historic speech at this year’s UN General Assembly session to be held later this month in New York.
Egypt-US relations have deteriorated since Sisi came to power in a coup, which the Obama administration criticized. The US has sought to pressure Cairo to ease its clampdown on the Brotherhood – by freezing aid and weapons deliveries.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Habib, a former deputy Brotherhood leader, who left the group last year in protest at its post- Mubarak policies, said that the Brotherhood communicated with extremist groups in Sinai and set up training camps with them, after president Mohamed Morsi was elected in June 2012, the El-Watan newspaper reported on Monday.
In related news, Maj.-Gen. Sayed Safiq, assistant to the interior minister, said he discussed the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood members who fled Egypt with Interpol, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported on Monday.
Some Gulf states allied with Egypt against the Brotherhood have already arrested members from Egypt.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have arrested two members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo’s request for committing violence in Port Said before fleeing abroad, Egypt’s prosecutor’s office said in March.
The arrests were the first reported cases of Egypt’s Gulf allies detaining members of the Islamist group on its behalf.
Egypt designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization in December, escalating a state crackdown on the organization.
Hundreds of members and supporters have been killed, and thousands more, including the movement’s leadership, are in jail.
Separately, Sisi met with a visiting US congressional delegation on Tuesday, which ended its visit and departed on Wednesday after discussing regional and domestic issues.
Sisi told the delegation that developments in the region confirmed Egypt’s policy, and its warnings to the West about the spread of terrorism in the Middle East. He said that the West should support moderate countries in the region that are fighting against this threat, Egyptian media reported.
On Wednesday, a policeman was shot dead in El-Arish in Sinai, the Aswat Masriya website reported.
Amidst ongoing military operations against terrorists in Sinai, an attack on a convoy killed 11 members of the country’s security forces in the Peninsula on Tuesday, security and medical sources said.
Ya think? I suppose he wanted “gay rights” in traditionally Muslim countries, too?
Val-Jar?
So, Bammy being a Muzzie Bro causes troubles? Who’da guessed?
There have been people saying that this administration is very pro-MUSLIM BROTHER HOOD for the longest time, and until now, no one wanted to believe us. Well, is there any doubt in any one’s mind about it now? This administration will brow beat Egypt, until that country succumbs to Washington’s demand that they include the MUSLIM BROTHER HOOD in their congress. My suggestion to Egypt? Tell this administration to mind their own business.
Obama is determined to play an important part in the formation of the new Caliphate.
some call it treason
when Egypt is smarter than we are, that means trouble
That is all we needed to know, now we really know who's side he is on
The perpetual tutelage of this eternal neophyte is no longer a joke.
“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
Obama may be very good at inspiring Democrats to donate their money to him, but Obama may even more of a fundraising inspiration to ISIS.
One year after B. Hussein Obama was legally empowered to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America,” ISIS was born in 2010. Since then, ISIS has grown in numbers and conquered area. ISIS has also financially benefitted by the erasure of Obama’s “Syrian Redline,” Obama’s abandonment of Military support for ally Iraq, and a pledge to not send US Marines or Army Troops back into Iraq.
Obama has doubled the US National Debt, downsized the US Military, and avoided developing a strategy for 5.5 years. Withe the USA thus weakened by Obama, ISIS is poised to treat Obama’s “transformed” USA as the irrelevant Obamanation that it actually is.
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Paraphrased from "Letters from John Adams"
What the F business is it of the U.S. gub mint what any other country does or doesn’t do?
NO KIDDING!!!
and he has never submitted a budget
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