Saturday 03 March 2012 : 12:40 PM
Senior members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have reacted angrily to statements by US Senator John McCain in which he thanked the group for its role in lifting the travel ban on indicted foreign NGO workers. The US government paid the $330,000 bail of foreign workers in Egypt’s ongoing NGO case, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed on Friday. ... Sixteen of 43 people facing charges in the NGO case are US citizens. ... The NGO workers are accused of working in Egypt and raising US funds without appropriate government authorisation.
McCain said, “Last week in Cairo, we had meetings with the speaker of parliament and... parliamentarians from across the political spectrum, with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and with Field Marshal Tantawi and other members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. These meetings reassured us that people of goodwill in both countries were working diligently to find a positive resolution to the recent crisis. “We are encouraged by the constructive role played over the past week by the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party, the Freedom and Justice Party . Their statement of February 20 was important in helping to resolve the recent crisis.”
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