U.S. Will Go Ahead With Delivery Of F-16 Fighter Jets To Egypt, Despite Mursi Ouster: officials Rea

[Purveyor]

The United States still plans to go through with the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in the coming weeks, U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Wednesday, even after the Egyptian military's ouster of President Mohamed Mursi.

The disclosure came as Washington treads a careful line, neither welcoming Mursi's removal nor denouncing it as a "coup," saying it needs time to weigh the situation.
A U.S. decision to brand his overthrow a coup would, by U.S. law, require Washington to halt aid to the Egyptian military, which receives the lion's share of the $1.5 billion in annual U.S. assistance to that country.

The jets, which will likely be delivered in August and are built by Lockheed Martin Corp, are part of the annual aid package, a U.S. defense official said.

"There is no current change in the plan to deliver F-16s to the Egyptian military," a second U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Of course, Lockheed Martin Corp needs its welfare payment from the U.S. Gov.

It works like this.
The U.S. government $1.5 billion in military aid to Egypt, which then pays that moeny to Lockheed Martin Corp. It is the way Empire works in these later days.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Oh goodie!

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USA supplying weapons to keep wars ongoing!

Didn't the USA once upon a time supply weapons to Iraq for a war against Iran?

Decades later they bombed the shit out of Iraq

Did not the USA supply weapons to Afghanistan to fight the Russians?

Decades later they bombed the shit out of Afghanistan

And so on . . .

Egypt - pay attention to history . . .

You may be next.

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