Posted on 06/12/2013 1:39:45 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Just last month, Secretary of State John Kerry quietly sent Egypt an additional $1.3 billion, even though Egypt has failed to live up to democracy standards. That largesse didn’t stop a prominent Egyptian politician from talking about Egypt’s “enemy” the United States in what some pundits are classifying as a classic and embarrassing “hot mic” moment.
President Mohammed Morsi gathered a group of politicians last week who thought they were speaking privately at a parliamentary meeting. But as seen in an Egyptian television video of the meeting — excerpts of which were later translated by the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) — they were actually on live television, cringingly discussing secret ways to stop Ethiopia’s Nile River dam project which threatens water flowing to Egypt.
The New York Times blog reports:
Unaware that their words were being broadcast live on a state-owned television channel, many of those seated around the table said the dam was in fact a secret American and Israeli plot to undermine Egypt that must be stopped at all costs.
The participants learned they were on live TV only after Magdi Ahmad Hussein, chairman of the Islamic Labor Party, suggested that all present vow not to leak any information to the media. Before being told he was on television, Hussein described the U.S. as an enemy [emphasis added]:
I’m very fond of battles. With the enemies, of course – with America and Israel, but this battle must be waged with maximum judiciousness and calm. Even though this is a secret meeting, we must all take an oath not to leak anything to the media, unless it is done officially by sister Pakinam [el-Sharkawy, a Morsi aide]. We need an official plan for popular national security, even if we…
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Egyptian Blooper: Politicians, Unaware They Are on Air, Threaten Ethiopia over Dam Construction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sSxkori-tPw
You don’t think THE FOREIGNER would send any money to our allies do you.
To heck with Ethiopia. He said they were at war with US!!!!
Why would you think that? America’s enemies are Obama’s friends.
Go back and re-read my post.
Go ahead. We’ll stomp all over you.
Gotcha.
Just great. Send em a few more F-16’s.
We’d better hurry if we’re to get the F-16’s and M1-A1 Abrams to them in time!
Hopefully all that high tech weaponry we gave them was made with a secret backdoor shutdown.
Video
Egyptian Blooper: Politicians, Unaware They Are on Air, Threaten Ethiopia over Dam Construction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sSxkori-tPw
speaking of the Blaze...has Glenn Beck made he “change history forever” announcement yet, or is that scheduled for tomorrow?
I didn’t know anything about that.
Earlier today this was posted.
Anyone listening to Beck right now?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3030312/posts
One of these days there is going to be a hot war between the West and a large part of the Islamic world. No one should be surprised because they tell us exactly what they think and exactly how much they hate us and they demand the West’s conversion to a Medieval version of Islam and the West refuses to hear it.
and the West refuses to hear it....Don’t read much, do you?
You silly Egyptians, just for that I'm sending you another Billion dollars!
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