Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Newly-emerged video appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by - and even helping attackers during a deadly assault earlier this month on a Coptic cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims. The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News, shows a ...
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Apr 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - A congressional report released Tuesday on the terrorist attack on the U.S. State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya says there is “ample evidence that the attack was planned and intentional” and that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia joined in carrying it out. The report also notes ...
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Apr 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Look at the fear in his eyes at Benghazi coming up in the debate. You know he's hiding some bad, bad shit on this topic that could just destroy him. Oh, and thanks, Mitt for blowing it, and refusing to go in for the kill while he was down and you had the knife ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Abu Islam: We have four large Islamic groups: The Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and Al-Gama’a Islamiyya. These are the four significant powers. Is there anyone more qualified to lead the country than the Muslim Brotherhood? Then let the Muslim Brotherhood assume this responsibility. ...
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Apr 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - On his TV show “El-Bernameg” (The Show), Egyptian comedian and satirist Bassem Yousuf did a segment in which he compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Nazis. “I hereby declare my total support of all that is Muslim Brotherhood. After all, they are our masters now. Where else can you find such a ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A prominent Egyptian blogger known for his pivotal role in country’s 2011 revolution warned during a Tuesday meeting with reporters that U.S. aid to Egypt is “directly” funding an increasingly oppressive regime “that tortures people” and flouts international laws governing human rights. The more than $1 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP CAIRO – An Egyptian security official says a Coptic Christian has died of burns sustained during sectarian clashes, raising the death toll to eight since the weekend. The official says attackers doused Saber Helal, 26, with gasoline and set him on fire during clashes over the weekend between Muslims and Christians in Khosoos, ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was aborted on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the case and referred it to another court, causing an indefinite delay that sparked anger in the courtroom. Lawyers said that while the transfer would give prosecutors more time to draw on new evidence in an ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
RELATED: Obama Administration Gives Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood 4 More F-16 Fighter Jets Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES The United States sent four more top-of-the-line F-16 fighter jets to Egypt on Thursday, as part of a foreign aid promise that critics blast as aid for an anti-Israel entity. “Friends don’t send U.S. taxpayer-funded F-16s and tanks to the enemies ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Four more F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. on Thursday headed for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package that has generated controversy given the political upheaval in the Mideast country. Critics say the military aid should stop because the president Egyptians elected last year has led the Muslim Brotherhood, called President ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP The Public Prosecution is probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for "insulting Pakistan" and "spreading atheism," judicial sources told AFP on Tuesday. The wildly popular Youssef -- whose weekly political satire program Al-Bernameg has spared few public figures of merciless critique —¬¬ is currently on bail pending investigation into charges ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE COMMENTATOR A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Egyptian Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. Five containers carrying around 140,000 teargas canisters were apparently shipped to the Egyptian Interior Ministry by the Aramex International courier service. The Egypt Independent reports ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
CAIRO (AP) — A mob threw rocks and fired birdshot Sunday at several hundred Christians marching in a protest against Egypt's Islamist government after the funeral of four Christians killed in sectarian clashes over the weekend. The Christians were chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, just as several thousand did earlier during the funeral service ...
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Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NY POST CAIRO — A Cairo court turned down on Saturday a suit filed by a Muslim Brotherhood lawyer demanding that a popular Egyptian satirist's TV show be banned for allegedly insulting the president and excessive sexual innuendo. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq said that the lawsuit against Bassem Youssef's "El-Bernameg," or "The Program," was dropped because ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP DUBAI - Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab states are often wary of subversion from their powerful Shi'ite neighbor Iran, but Dubai's veteran police chief reserves most of his wrath for the "dictators" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Dhahi Khalfan's suspicions focus mostly on the Egyptian branch of the Sunni Islamist organization, propelled to power in the ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP:\ The U.S. Embassy in Cairo shut down its Twitter feed Wednesday following a public fight with the Egyptian Presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood over the arrest of an Egyptian television star. "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" reads the banner atop the site where the @USEmbassyCairo Twitter feed sat until this morning. A cached ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood lashed out Tuesday against State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after Nuland criticized the Egyptian government for stifling freedom of expression. Nuland dressed down the Egyptian government for a series of actions against its domestic critics, including the detention and interrogation of Bassem Youssef, Egypt's answer to The Daily Show's Jon ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the U.S. State Department for expressing concern over the jailing of an Egyptian satirist who was accused of insulting Islam and President Mohamed Morsi, stating that denigration of the Muslim religion is a “serious breach of law.” “The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has strongly criticized remarks made ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence ...
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U.S. Officials: Jihadis Enter Military In Egypt As Part Of Muslim Brotherhood Effort To Take Control
Mar 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A prominent Egyptian cleric said U.S. aid to Egypt is a mandatory tribute that America must pay to honor the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian revolution. This taxpayer aid constitutes a “poll tax” that America must pay to placate the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Khaled Said, a cleric who serves as the official ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Related - Obama Rewards Egypt With $250 Million Within Minutes After Kerry/Morsi Meeting Related - Congress Blocked Kerry From Offering More Aid Than Just $250 Million To Egypt Excerpted from Human Events: According to a new report from the Arabic-language website Misr al-Gidida [translated for this story by the author], during Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi’s recent visit ...
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