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| Egypt imports 140,000 teargas canisters from US |
| 2013-02-23 |
| [Egypt Independent] In January, the Interior Ministry ordered the import of 140,000 teargas canisters from the United States at a cost of LE17 million. Letters between Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry officials revealed that the order was made to address the country's shortage of teargas after months of violent festivities between police and protesters. When the shipment was delayed via sea, the Defense Ministry was asked to transfer the shipment by military jet, according to a 30 January letter from Major General Osama Ismail, head of the Interior Ministry's department of information and public relations, to Staff Brigadier General Mohamed Farid Hegazy, secretary general of the Defense Ministry. "In light of the ongoing incidents and growing need for gas bombs to deal with rioters and preserve the nation's safety, Al-Guindy Company for Imports and Exports, a representative of the US Combined System Company in Egypt, has been contracted to import 70,000 gas bombs and 70,000 long-range gas projectiles from the US to Egypt," the letter stated. "Due to the company's failure in importing the shipment, citing the difficult procedures governing importing from abroad, and the Interior Ministry's urgent need [for teargas], we thought we would write to you to take the necessary steps to approve transferring the shipment on board of a military jet from the US to Egypt. Al-Guindy Company is willing to pay for the shipping costs," Ismail continued. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 When the shipment was delayed via sea, the Defense Ministry was asked to transfer the shipment by military jet...Due to the company's failure in importing the shipment, citing the difficult procedures governing importing from abroad... Let's hear it for U.S. Customs,Homeland Security, et al. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-02-23 21:18 |
| #2 It's different, now, Thing. It's not in our national interest, therefore Obama is all for it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-02-23 20:27 |
| #1 I really lack the heart to come up with adequate snark for this. We are shipping them mass quantities of the stuff we figuratively kneecapped Mubarak for using. |
| Posted by: tfsm on the rd 2013-02-23 20:01 |