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“CAIRO—Egyptian security forces seized computers, printers and documents from offices of at least 17 nongovernmental organizations Thursday, including three American groups, further straining the fraying ties between Egypt’s interim military leadership and its allies in Washington.
The U.S. said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about the raids. It raised the specter of clamping down on funding to Egypt’s powerful military, one of Washington’s closest military allies in the Middle East.
Special-forces units of the Egyptian military, accompanied by state prosecutors and uniformed and plainclothes police officers, searched the offices of human-rights and pro-democracy groups in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. Among the offices raided were those of Washington-based Freedom House, National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute. Security officers seized papers and hardware, forbidding the NGOs’ employees from leaving or making phone calls.
Egypt’s military leadership has often blamed the country’s ongoing violent protests on what they call a foreign-backed conspiracy to create chaos and undermine the Egyptian state. While prosecutors declined to discuss the action, the Egyptian state news agency, Mena, said prosecutors were seeking evidence of foreign funding at the groups. In Egypt, such funding must be approved by the government.….”
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The National Democratic Institute, Freedom House and the two other Washington-based groups were among the so-called pro-democracy and human rights organizations raided this week in Egypt.[i] All of the above receive federal funding from the U.S. government.
While the Obama administration decries the raids by the Egyptian military, Progressives from Obama’s mentor, George Soros to the Obama administration itself to Obama’s buddies Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn to Code Pink to Wade Rathke and organized labor have made no effort to hide their involvement in the uprising that began last year in Egypt.[ii]
So what did the Obama administration in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood, an entity that is far more dangerous than former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak expect?
As for the Egyptian military, the United States provides $1.3 billion annually to the military. That amounts to 20% of the Egyptian military’s budget.
No doubt, these funds could be better spent addressing our national debt.
In lieu of the raids, we can expect tensions to escalate between the Obama administration and the Egypt government.
[i] Simply because the Progressive media and the Obama administration refer to the Egyptian uprising as a democratic uprising, do not make it so. What the world witnessed in Egypt was a revolution.