Egypt
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Economy
Syria: Update on maritime matters
In a destabilizing region, the hits will come from all sides. Egyptian authorities are confirming reports that terrorists with RPGs…
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Foreign Affairs
Memo: Egyptian church burnings had blessing of Muslim Brotherhood
Remember President Obama’s outrage in 2011 when American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan burned copies of the Koran?…
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Foreign Affairs
Egypt: This is big
One way to gauge the import of the conflict erupting in Egypt is by looking at the character of media…
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Foreign Affairs
A unified theory of Benghazi
There are several threads that converge in the emerging drama of the Benghazi attack on 9/11/2012. One relates to the…
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Foreign Affairs
Egypt launches 'Operation Desert Storm' against Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists
While more than a few nations in the Muslim world slide further toward Islamism, Egypt represents the other side of the…
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Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Affairs
Obama to Egyptians: Stop arresting Muslim Brotherhood members or else
Egypt’s Christians caught in the middle… again. A key spokesman for the Obama administration stated in no uncertain terms that…
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Foreign Affairs
Morsi down, Saudis up in battle for Syria
Mohammed Morsi’s call for holy war in Syria spooked the Egyptian military, and it alarmed the Saudis too. I suspect…
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Foreign Affairs
Egypt: McCain's stance more Obama than Obama's
Arizona Senator and former presidential hopeful John McCain has spoken out against the military-backed ouster of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi…
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Foreign Affairs
Jonathan Alter: Obama gets credit for overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
So Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet after all! The true inventor, it appears, is Barack Obama. Of course, I’m…
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National Security
Obama's Egypt decision: Side with ousted Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government
Six-plus hours from the moment the Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces announced to his nation that the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government…
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Foreign Affairs
It’s on: Muslim Brotherhood influence rejected in two nations
It’s a little early to predict the exact outcome of the Morsi-military smackdown underway in Egypt. (Update as this goes…
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Foreign Affairs
Egyptian crisis: It’s the 'holy war,' stupid
It took a couple of weeks for the crisis to come to a head. But the origins of the Morsi…
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Foreign Affairs
Democrat Fools on al Qaeda's Syrian Hill
Bill Clinton says jump and Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama’s administration asks how high? Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that Obama should…
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Foreign Affairs
Iran deepens ties with Egypt, MB infiltrates National Military Academy
“[Unlike Egypt] the active-duty Marine Corps has less than 150 M1A1 Abrams tanks in its inventory at any given time…”…
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Foreign Affairs
Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey: Pax Americana crack-up watch
If you want to know what it will look like for the status quo crack-up to actually happen, as the…
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Foreign Affairs
Millions of locusts swarm Jewish homeland
Passover seems to come earlier each year. The New York Times reports that Israel has been on ‘locust alert’ since Monday, when…
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Foreign Affairs
Who do you believe?
In a January 8 letter sent to Congressman Inhofe, the State Department explained its decision to allow the transfer of…
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Foreign Affairs
We must be nuts
For reasons I have great difficulty understanding, U.S. policy has supported the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.…
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Foreign Affairs
Scientists warn of Egypt’s ‘Arabization’ of education, science, and knowledge
According to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases.
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Foreign Affairs
Promising the good life in Syria
In case you missed it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Dublin on December 3 about the need to…
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Foreign Affairs
There’s a new Pharoah in town
Eyes on the ball, folks. In strategic terms, the most important thing that has happened in the last 10 days…
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Foreign Affairs
Gaza: Least likely place to use US Marines to rescue American citizens?
Why are we sending an amphibious readiness group (ARG) with a Marine expeditionary unit (MEU) embarked to sit off the…
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Media
Dead child in Egyptian prime minister’s arms killed by Hamas, not Israel
Elder of Ziyon has the story. The four-year-old boy, whose lifeless body Egyptian prime minister Hesham Kandil was photographed holding…
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Foreign Affairs
14 November 2012: Israel, Hamas, PA encounter the paradigm shift
Not all the news was good today, but some of it was heartening. In response to days of rocket attacks…
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