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2013-04-10 Africa North

US teargas arrives in Egypt for Muslim Brotherhood use

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-10 07:47|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Well, that's 140,000 less for use in the U.S. this summer...

Posted by Pappy 2013-04-10 10:31|| 2013-04-10 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't know whether to laugh or cry there Pappy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-04-10 11:16|| 2013-04-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 One could ask the obvious, what other items have been provided ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-10 11:26|| 2013-04-10 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The Egyptian government paid the freight fees.
And no doubt the Champ paid for the goods.
As the say in the back streets of Cairo "America's a voonderful country"

Posted by tipper 2013-04-10 12:09|| 2013-04-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Reads like someone leaked the cargo manifest. I'm sure Mo Public doesn't like english first aid instructions tattooed on their foreheads. An inquisitive reporter might even ponder whether arming morsi is counter to the arid spring movement, but, you know, with the sequester its hard to ask questions over the loud memphis soul music.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-04-10 13:39|| 2013-04-10 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 This story is a follow-up to an earlier one, where the Interior Ministry had purchased the canisters from a U.S. source, but the freight forwarder was unable to arrange for air shipment aboard a commercial aircraft (Hence the intended shipment via Egyptian military aircraft.)

No doubt the purchase was legal and didn't require USG approval for miltary sales, since it's technically not 'arms'. But Dept. of Commerce can be a pain if the paperwork's not right.

Posted by Pappy 2013-04-10 15:51|| 2013-04-10 15:51|| Front Page Top

#7 any American-made hollowpoint ammo?

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-10 21:34|| 2013-04-10 21:34|| Front Page Top

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