Er zijn duistere krachten in het spel:
When is a coup not a coup? When Washington says so.
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Egypt is the second largest recipient of US aid after Israel, garnering about $1.5 billion yearly. After the fall of longtime US ally
Hosni Mubarak in 2011, US arms sales to Egypt slowed considerably. Defense contractors are eager to get back a share of the
market, but right now military aid is the only game in town. Since 2003, Washington has supplied Cairo with an abundance of
hardware, including F-16 fighter jets, Abrams tanks, Hellfire missiles and Apache, Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters.
This past January, four American-made F-16s arrived in Egypt. The United States plans to deliver four more F-16s in the
coming weeks, US defense officials said on Wednesday, regardless of the military-backed overthrow of the country’s elected
president. "There is no current change in the plan to deliver F-16s to the Egyptian military," one US official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130711/egypt-military-coup-washington-aid