Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Amir Ayad lies in a hospital bed after he was beaten by Islamic hardliners who stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo. (MidEast Christian News) Excerpted from FOX NEWS: Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case of ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LA TIMES: CAIRO -- The Islamist-led government escalated tensions with opposition parties Monday after Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered the arrest of five activists, including a prominent blogger, for violent protests against the Muslim Brotherhood over the weekend. The arrest warrants and complaints against scores of opposition figures came a day after President Mohamed Morsi threatened ...
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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS: - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi threatened on Sunday to take unspecified steps to "protect this nation" after violent demonstrations against his Muslim Brotherhood, using vague but severe language that the opposition said heralded a crackdown. In remarks following clashes outside the Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters on Friday, Mursi warned that "necessary measures" would be taken ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TOWER: The Tower has learned that just days before President Barack Obama arrives in Israel for discussions on sensitive regional issues, a high-ranking group of Egyptian army intelligence officers has made a quiet trip to Israel to meet counterparts. The discussions this week come at a time of increasing strain between Hamas, the Iran-backed ...
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WATCH – Warning Graphic: Blood Thirsty Muslims Strip & Hang 2 Alleged Thieves In Crowded Bus Station
Mar 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: — Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, stripped them half-naked and hung them by their feet in a crowded bus station roughly 55 miles north of Cairo on Sunday, according to security officials. Both men died. A witness said some in the crowd of about 3,000 people who watched ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: The Obama administration is providing the Syrian opposition with $114 million in aid, more than previously revealed, to help topple Bashar Assad, U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford told Congress on Wednesday. Ford briefed House appropriators in a closed-door hearing following Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement last month that America would provide $60 million ...
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Mar 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: Secretary of State John Kerry had hoped to offer considerably more aid to Egypt than the $250 million he announced during his trip to Cairo but was blocked by Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said. “This is not the aid package that the administration wanted to announce,” ...
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Mar 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: — Thousands of low-ranking policemen on strike across Egypt on Thursday refused orders to work and protested what they claim is the politicization of the force in favor of the president’s Muslim Brotherhood party. The strike, in its fourth day, is a rare show of defiance by policemen against their superiors. It ...
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Mar 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from EGYPT INDEPENDENT: Protesters in Damietta burned two Freedom and Justice Party offices and attacked other buildings to protest the killing of an opposition activist. Thousands of people held a funeral service for activist Mohamed al-Shafie who was found dead in unknown circumstances. Dozens of the protesters then headed to the FJP headquarters in ...
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Mar 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.” Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who ...
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Feb 21, 2013 No Comments ›› littlebytes
Via War Against Islam: Since when did Egypt get one of the leaders of the Benghazi massacre in their custody??I wonder how Obama is going to get them to allow US officials to interrogate him, by sending more F-16's and tanks??
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Feb 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Israel National News: In many ways, the Arab Spring that Westerners thought would bring democracy to the Middle East has actually been the prelude to an Islamic revolution that seems set on sweeping away all opposition to the harshest of Islamist tenets – even at the expense of much of the culture that the Arab ...
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Feb 14, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
YnetNews-Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said. The network of tunnels is a vital lifeline for Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30% of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel ...
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Feb 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
CAIRO — An Egyptian court ordered a one-month ban on YouTube on Saturday, after it said the video-sharing Web site had failed to remove an American-made anti-Islam video. Cairo’s administrative court ruled in response to a suit filed by an independent Egyptian lawyer. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq, who presided over the case, said the ban would also ...
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Feb 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Israel National News: An Egyptian citizen attempted to assault Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Cairo on Thursday evening. According to a report in the website of the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm, the assault occurred at the residence of Mojtaba Amani, the acting Iranian ambassador in Cairo, during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the ...
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Feb 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Egyptians trying to break down the doors of the Presidential Palace earlier today. They were driven back by police and security forces using tear gas and water cannons.
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Feb 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from RT News: Cairo police dispersed petrol bomb-throwing protesters with teargas and birdshot, arresting and injuring dozens. Protests have once again turned violent in key Egyptian cities as thousands take to the streets demanding the end of Morsi’s government. At least one protester was killed and over 50 injured during clashes in Cairo on Friday. “He ...
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Jan 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said on Wednesday vitriolic remarks he made against Jews and Zionists in 2010 had been taken out of context and said he was not against the Jewish faith. "As I have said before the quotes were taken out of context... I am not against the Jewish ...
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Jan 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Times Of Israel: Amid rumors of Hamas involvement in support of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, a Gaza newspaper has accused a Coptic Egyptian organization of fabricating the reports in order to incite against the Islamic leaders of the Gaza Strip. Earlier this week, Egyptian media reported that 7,000 Hamas operatives had infiltrated the ...
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Jan 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) — Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist president and the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, demanding his ouster and virtually declaring a revolt against his rule, as the head of the military warned Egypt may collapse under ...
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Jan 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Investigative Project: The New York Times' January 14 report on the Middle East Media Research Institute's (MEMRI) videos of Egyptian Mohamed Morsi's 2010 anti-Semitic statements inexplicably omitted the larger story of the Muslim Brotherhood's decades-long intrinsic anti-Semitism. The Investigative Project on Terrorism has uncovered comments going back to 2004 showing a pattern of ...
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Jan 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: The State Department has refused to cancel or delay the delivery of several American-made F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, claiming that the arms deal serves America’s “regional security interests,” according to an official State Department document obtained by the Free Beacon. The news that the Obama administration would uphold an ...
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Jan 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CAIRO — Nearly three years ago, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood delivered a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists. In a television interview months later, the same leader described Zionists as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and ...
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