Amnesty International has called on the United States to clarify the final destination of an arms shipment it said was headed to Egypt, in a statement late on Thursday.
The London-based rights group had earlier said the shipment may be abused by Egyptian security forces, which had fired at protesters in deadly protests in recent months.
But the US Navy said the shipment would not be offloaded in Egypt without clarifying its final destination, the London-based organisation said in a subsequent statement.
Amnesty says the Dutch-flagged vessel, MV Schippersgracht, which left the US Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU), is “carrying a class of dangerous goods that covers cartridges for weapons, fuses and other ammunition” and is headed to Egypt’s Port Said.
Read more at The Arab Times. By the Associated Foreign Press.
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It’s nice to see that some organization is actually paying attention to the stuff O’Bummer does that is WRONG and that the “media” won’t report.
Next thing you know, Pres. Obama will be killing Bin Laden.
This is disgusting !!! Something has to be done about this !!??!?!?
Another FAST & FURIOUS huh? I wonder how these arms will come back to us this time.
We sell/donate weapons all the time. The only difference now is that in the past we usually gave them to friendly countries. Most likely Israel will feel the result of this deal first.
Gee,folks I wonder whose side this regime is on ?Guns to drug cartels to kill Mexican and American Law enforcement ,plus Mexican civilians and now arms to the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt,to killIsIsrael citizens and this is royal the Aruora Shooter got his money for his toys from a 2166$ a month Grant form the USA taxpayers!I guess if your a raghead or OWS or just plain murder this bunch of thugs has no problem with firearms.it’s only the lawful they have a problem with owning guns.