1.29.2009

Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world

This is what we get for our money. Egypt is the second largest recipient of US aid after you-know-who, and we basically pay Egypt to behave like this, which helps you-know-who. - Ed.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt aired its grievances against Iran, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, saying they worked together in the fighting over Gaza to provoke conflict in the Middle East.

"(They tried) to turn the region to confrontation in the interest of Iran, which is trying to use its cards to escape Western pressure ... on the nuclear file," Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview with Orbit satellite channel broadcast Wednesday.

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