Posted on 03/01/2012 4:31:46 PM PST by nuconvert
Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and six other U.S. pro-democracy group workers flew out of Cairo Thursday after Egypt lifted a travel ban that had barred them from leaving the country for over a month, democracy groups and Egyptian media reports said.
A U.S. military plane waiting at Cairo airport since Wednesday was transporting the seven Americans and other foreign NGO workers to Cyprus.
A U.S. military plane waiting at Cairo airport since Wednesday was transporting the seven Americans and other foreign NGO workers to Cyprus.
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A 2.1 million dollar bribe is only the tip of the iceberg. No one is commenting on the Muslim Brotherhood’s use of people like this and indigenous secular liberals as the false face of Arab Spring. Egypt and the other countries of the Arab Spring have quickly discarded the soft faces to reveal Islamic theocratic states.
Postscript: Moderate Muslims do exist. They are the ones the Fundamentalist Islamists take such delight in killing.
They should sentence them to death should they ever enter a muzzie country again. Then they’d have to take their “democracy” work to, say, China or Cuba.
There is no telling what the actual ransom is.
I want to know if Lahood used taxpayer money to bail his stupid son and friends out of that situation—or maybe just union dues?
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