Kerry Releases $250M in Aid to Egypt
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy."
Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt's first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional U.S. assistance would depend on it.
"The path to that future has clearly been difficult and much work remains," Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund.
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"I did not see," insisted Kerry, "Morsi's crossed fingers at the time he [ahem] suggested Egypt's commitment to political and economic reforms."
In other news, Islamists with longstanding ties to Morsi have yet to respond to allegations of a conspiracy to launder money on behalf of anonymous political partisans in the United States.