Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
No Sequester for Egypt – Kerry gives Morsi $250 million in Economic Assistance
While America is under forced budget cuts because of Sequestration, Secretary of State gives Egypt $250 million dollars. Why no statement how many kids will not get to go to Head Start or receive immunizations. Or how many college kids wont get Pell Grants, or Seniors loss of access to healthcare due to these Millions going to another country? Cairo - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made quick work of incoming U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Sunday, prodding the Democrat to give Egypt $250 million in immediate “economic assistance.” Sunday’s meeting served as a precipice for similar giveaways to come, even as Kerry insisted Egypt would need to make some economic and political reforms before he releases the next batch of U.S. funding to the Islamic government. Mr. [...]
Readout of the President’s Phone Call with Egyptian President Morsy
Readout of the President’s Phone Call with Egyptian President Morsy President Obama spoke with Egyptian President Morsy today to reaffirm the United States’ strong commitment to the Egyptian people as they continue their transition to democracy. The President welcomed President Morsy’s commitment to serving as a President for all Egyptians, including women and people of all faiths, and emphasized President Morsy’s responsibility to protect the democratic principles that the Egyptian people fought so hard to secure. President Obama encouraged President Morsy, and all political groups within Egypt, to work to build consensus and advance the political transition. The two leaders also discussed Egypt’s economic situation and the importance of implementing reforms that have [...]
Kerry to visit Middle East will skip Israel
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Middle East and other countries from February 24- March 6. He will visit Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The State Department spokesperson stated that Kerry will visit Israel during Obama's visit later in March John Kerry will tour the Middle East during his first foreign tour as U.S. secretary of state, but will visit Israel two weeks later with President Obama. Kerry's itinerary, announced Tuesday for his Feb. 24-March 6 trip, includes Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. In Italy, he will meet members of the Syrian opposition in the country's civil war. The former Massachusetts senator said [...]
White House Press Briefing by Jay Carney – Monday Jan. 28, 2013 – Skeet Shooting
PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY James S. Brady Press Briefing Room MR. CARNEY: Thanks for bearing with us today. A lot going on at the White House. Before I take your questions I just wanted to note that the President and the Vice President completed a very productive meeting with law enforcement officers, chiefs of police, and sheriffs from around the country, including from Oak Creek, Wisconsin; Aurora, Colorado; and Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the head of the Major Cities Police Chiefs organization and the Major Counties Sheriffs organization. This all as part of the effort the President has undertaken to press forward on common-sense measures that can help reduce the scourge of gun violence in this country. Separately, I wanted to say that the [...]
Egypts Morsi Hiding his Ambitions
This week President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi signed Egypt’s new constitution into law. When one thinks of a constitution the words “free people” or “democracy” may come into mind, but in this case, “controversial” and “unfair” now pops into the conversation. America held very high hopes that after months of violent turmoil in Egypt following President Mubarak’s ousting, that freely elected Morsi would bring in a Golden Age of democracy and freedoms onto the Egyptian people. Right off that bat the name of Morsi’s political party ‘The Muslim Brotherhood’, has made critics skeptical. Now as a new and restricting constitution has passed public vote, there are many fears Egypt will retreat into a Sharia law state. Although the Egyptian people passed the [...]
Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas will take effect 9 p.m. local, 2 p.m. ET
Egypt announced on Wednesday that a ceasefire had been reached to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, ending a week of violence in and around the Gaza Strip that killed more than 150 people. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr made the announcement in a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying the ceasefire would come into effect within less than two hours. “Egypt has made great efforts ... since the start of the latest escalation in the Gaza Strip,” Amr said. “ will come into effect at nine Cairo time,” 1900 GMT, he added. “These efforts and contacts have resulted in understandings to cease fire and restore calm and halt the bloodshed that the last period has seen,” he added. “Egypt calls on all to [...]
Barack Obama’s Pursuit Of Carter’s Second Term Is In Full Effect
Anti-American protests break out in the Middle East: U.S. diplomatic compounds came under attack Tuesday in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. envoy Christopher Stevens (pictured above), and three other U.S, diplomats were murdered. Image Credit: Washington Post By: Edmund Jenks - West Coast Editor Outside of a really, really bad economy and inept public sector leadership, the one thing that the 39th Presidency of Jimmy Carter principally known for is direct attacks by Islamist mobs against American embassies in the Middle East. Today, Americans are waking up with news on Google, cable, TV, and what few newspapers folks read anymore, to the news that U.S. Embassies in Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya were over run by mobs and a U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and [...]
Egypt’s New President Vows to Win Release of World Trade Center Plotter
Egypt's president-elect has vowed to win the release of an Egyptian cleric jailed by the U.S. for planning the first attack on New York's World Trade Center. Omar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheikh," is serving a life sentence in a federal prison for his role in the 1993 bombing that killed six people in lower Manhattan. The attack on the World Trade Center launched by al Qaeda eight years later on Sept. 11, 2001, killed nearly 3,000 people. ""I see banners for Omar Abdel Rahman's family, and for prisoners arrested according to martial rulings and detainees from the beginning of the revolution," said Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Morsi to a buoyant crowd of Islamist supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday. "It is my duty to make every effort, and I will beginning tomorrow, to [...]
Egyptian ex-president Mubarak Not dead but on life support
Egyptian ex-president Mubarak on life support Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown by last year, was on life support in hospital, military officials said on Tuesday, but they denied a report he was clinically dead. Earlier the state news agency, amid high tension over the election of a new president, quoted medical sources as saying the former head of state, aged 84, was "clinically dead". That description was used also to Reuters by a hospital source. But three sources in the military and security services, which retain control following the revolt, said Mubarak was being kept alive and said they would not use the expression "clinically dead" to describe his condition. via Egyptian ex-president Mubarak on life support | Reuters.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mursi Claims victory in Egypt – United States of the Arabs with Jerusalem as Its Capital
There are already killings on the border of Egypt and Israel.. What could go wrong after ousting the man who signed a peace deal with Israel some thirty years ago. I mean its not like the new leader will cry, United States of the Arabs with Jerusalem as Its Capital.. opps! The Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate won Egypt’s first free presidential vote, with Mohamed Mursi beating out Hosni Mubarak’s last premier to become the first Islamist in modern history to head the Arab world’s most populous nation. The announcement by the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party was disputed by rival Ahmed Shafik. It came hours after the ruling military council issued a constitutional declaration that curtailed the president’s powers by giving it the authority to pull together a [...]
