Biden administration to deny $130 mln in military aid to Egypt - sources

[Natal]

Source: Jerusalem Post

By REUTERS Published: JANUARY 28, 2022 19:59

The Biden administration is set to deny $130 million of military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, three sources familiar with the decision told Reuters.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in September that the aid would be withheld if Egypt did not address specific human-rights related conditions.

Rights groups had called on the administration to block the entire $300 million of Foreign Military Financing to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government. Sisi, who ousted the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, has overseen a crackdown on dissent that has tightened in recent years.

One source said members of Congress had been briefed on the administration's decision to withhold the aid, which accounts for 10% of the $1.3 billion that Egypt is still expected to receive from the United States this year. As of now there are no plans to withhold the rest of that aid, the source said.

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-694897

[peppertree]

1. Human rights atrocities? From Trump's buddy Al-Sisi?

Say it ain't so!



"Three kleptocrats walk into a bar..."

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Good.

[Mysterian]

3. Stop giving taxpayer money away to dictators

Good move.

[former9thward]

5. Its just a 10% cut.

Very minor.

[niyad]

4. Hey, jp, it is Antony, not Anthony.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Egypt is a dictatorship. Military. Excellent decision. Now, what about Saudi Arabia??

Good start…now cut the rest. Why do the dictators need it…to feed the American factories, that’s why. And there’s the hypocrisy thing.

And Stand back a bit from the OIL, isn’t Saudi much worse, exponentially, than Egypt?

But theres the OIL…so… and there’s the hypocrisy thing, again..Americans might not notice, or care, but the world does., very much take notice, and care.

P.S…that picture must have been taken in Hell.

[Dopers_Greed]

7. I bet Fucker Carlson will start bowing down to al-Sisi on his show now