Posted on 09/13/2014 3:50:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
John Kerry on Saturday held talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, as well as meeting the head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby.
"Egypt is on the frontline of the fight against terrorism, particularly when it comes to fighting extremist groups in Sinai," Kerry told a Cairo news conference alongside Shoukry, referring to the Sinai Peninsula, where terrorist groups battling Egyptian forces have expressed support for the Islamist "Islamic State" (IS) organization, which has seized large areas of northern Iraq and Syria.
Shoukry said regional terror groups in Egypt had to be dealt with and that the international community was an international responsibility. "Ultimately this extremist ideology is shared by all terrorist groups, he elaborated. We detect ties of cooperation between them and see a danger as it crosses borders."
Kerry visited Egypt to gain support for a broad coalition of countries to fight IS, reported Deutsche Welle. He had already secured the backing of 10 Arab governments, including Egypt, alongside Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and six Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"As an intellectual and cultural capital in the Muslim world, Egypt has a critical role to play in publicly denouncing the ideology that ISIL disseminates," Kerry said, referring to the group by its former name, an acronym for "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant."
Kerry addressed human rights issues with President al-Sisi, Shoukry and others, in a "frank discussion about concerns that have been expressed."
However, "the United States doesn't ever trade its concern for human rights for any other objectives,"...
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The ruling caste in Egypt is probably very amused by the SoS’s comments, as hard as this administration tried to install the terrorist-friendly Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo.
Knowing what al-Sisi knows of Obama’s role in pumping up the islamist threat, he’s got to be wondering if Kerry is trying to troll him. Or, he’ll just write Kerry off as insane.
This is rich...How many months after Egypt toppled Morsi did this administration keep telling them to put Morsi back in charge...
Y-you mean Egyptians don’t like Obama? B-but w-w-why? (tearful face like eight-year-old with run-over puppy corpse still warm in hand)/sarc
Gilbert and Sullivan meet Lewis Carrol, with Ogden Nash and Tom Lehrer on lyrics.
Exactly, no thanks to the Obama administration.
John Kerry is only the tip of the iceberg too...
John Fraud was for the terrorists before he was against the terrorists.
That’s about it too.
johnnie must be a complete psychopath...otherwise he would off him self. What an idiot...albeit, a rich idiot.
Maybe if we make fun of him enough, he’ll lurk here one day and have an epiphany, sort of like James Taggert in Atlas Shrugged at the end. Probably wouldn’t off himself, but he might retire from public life and spend his time doing penance for the harm he’s done and his many many many crimes.
It’s a long shot, but even if he doesn’t, he’s such a pleasure to raz.
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