The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on January 26, 2012, 02:13:10 PM
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A lot of ignorant pinheads supported the overthrow of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
You wanted it, you got it. TS
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/egypt-bars-son-us-transportation-secretary-ray-lahood-155413441.html
Egypt bars son of US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, NGO colleagues from leaving
Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the head of the International Republican Institute's (IRI) Cairo office, was blocked from departing Egypt earlier this week. He, along with a dozen other American NGO colleagues, have been placed on an Egyptian "no-fly" list, officials with IRI told Yahoo News Thursday.
The younger LaHood was blocked at passport control when he went to the Cairo airport Saturday, Lorne Craner, the head of the IRI, a Washington-based pro-democracy non-government organization, told Yahoo News.
The organization is raising awareness of the situation now because, despite calls from several high ranking American officials to Egyptian leaders to discuss the case, the situation does not appear closer to being resolved.
President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns, and Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), the chairman of IRI, "have all been calling, they have all had very honest conversations with Egyptian leaders," Craner said. "And not only is nothing getting better, things are getting worse."
"We are all scratching our heads over here," Craner continued. "I did two tours at State and one at the NSC. If the president called someone, something gets worked out."
The White House and State Department acknowledged ongoing efforts to try to resolve the matter.
"Yes, we have raised the issue of several U.S. citizens not being allowed to depart [the country] with the Egyptian government, along with the broader issue of NGOs," an administration official told Yahoo News Thursday.
"Several US citizens have been questioned by judges in connection with the Egyptian government's investigation of NGOs and are currently restricted from leaving Egypt," a State Department official told Yahoo News Thursday. "We are working with the Government of Egypt to lift the travel restrictions and allow these individuals to come home as quickly as possible."
Last month, Egyptian police raided the Cairo offices of IRI and several other NGOs, including the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, confiscating records and computers. The raids were ordered by the Egyptian prosecutors' office, which is purportedly investigating alleged foreign funding of NGOs operating in the country.
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At the rate the Islamic Brotherhood is being appointed, and
bribing, winning rigged elections, things should work out well going forward....
A true blessing from an Arab Spring,.....(sarcasm and head shaking added)....
What was the old Toyota commercial?
You,.... asked for it, you got it,,, Obama.....
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I'm still waiting to laugh at "democracy in Libya" as well .
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You forgot Tunisia which fell before Libya. That one is lost to the "brotherhood" too.
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You forgot Tunisia which fell before Libya. That one is lost to the "brotherhood" too.
But they had not been long time US allies on the scale of Egypt or Libya .