The Obama Administration Is Setting up a Bloodbath in Egypt

PJ Media ^ | 7/9/12 | David P. Goldman

[Nachum]

Egypt has enough foreign exchange on hand to cover six weeks’ of its imports (US$7.8 billion in liquid reserves, against a $5.5 billion monthly import bill). It would have run out of cash in June except for emergency loans from Saudi Arabia, which backs the Egyptian military but abhors the Muslim Brotherhood, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won Egypt’s presidential election last month. Total reserves are listed at $15 billion, but this includes gold, International Monetary Fund (IMF) drawing rights and other non-liquid items.

The economic context is necessary to make sense of Egypt’s politics: it points to an important conclusion, that no path exists to stable rule by the Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi help has kept Egypt’s economy away from the brink of collapse, but only just. A paralyzing fuel shortage threatens to shut down essential functions, including bread supplies. If the Muslim Brotherhood were to push the military out of power, the Saudis almost certainly would pull the plug and leave Egypt in chaos. Advertisement

Figure 1: Egypt’s Liquid Reserves Cover Six Weeks of Imports

[little jeremiah]

Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/

snip:

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.”

[little jeremiah]

Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Leader Calls for Jihad on Israel

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157636

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls every Muslim to save Jerusalem from the “Israeli rapists.”
By Elad Benari

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Humanitarian aid gone terribly awry.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/11/egypt-hepatitis-c-infection-reaches-alarming-figures.html

It is incredibly tragic, almost hard to imagine.

[AdmSmith]

8 million of them have Hepatitis C.

According to this site http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dewolfe/Epidemic.html the prevalence is even higher and the spread is mainly due to use of non-sterile equipment at hospitals and at the dentist, using the same latex gloves for more than one patient etc.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for the answer. Beyond horrible. I have had two good friends (so far) die from Hep C and it was neither quick nor painless.

[rfreedom4u]

are lots of them homosexuals or mainline drugs? Or is it just re-using needles for medical use?

My guess is all of the above.