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| Egypt Fails Effort to Prevent Marriage of Christian-Moslem Couple |
| 2004-05-27 |
| Thirteen months after Egypt jailed and tortured a Coptic Christian pharmacist for marrying a former Muslim woman, Boulos Farid Rezek-Allah Awad was finally allowed to emigrate from Egypt to Canada in March. A few weeks earlier, his wife Enas Yehya Abdel Aziz had escaped the country to claim refugee status abroad. Egyptian security police officials told Rezek-Allah last November that he was permanently blacklisted from leaving Egypt; they vowed to track down and punish his wife for her âillegalâ marriage to a Christian. During his two subsequent attempts to leave for Canada, he was turned back by Egyptian authorities. Rezek-Allah told Compass that he assumed that the Egyptian authorities somehow learned that his wife had managed to slip out of Egypt without being identified and arrested. âSo after they lost hope of catching Enas, they allowed me to depart from Egypt,â he said. His wife plans to enter English language classes and he is studying for his final pharmacy-license exams in Canada this coming August. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #5 Actually, the money was more to buy Jimmy Carter a legacy. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-27 10:50:10 PM |
| #4 Steve, we do get a reasonable amount of the money back in military orders. However, most of that is in supplying parts for assembly in Egypt. like the M1A1 tanks assembled at Abu Zaabal Tank Repair Factory (Military Factory 200). These are really make work, "prestige" projects - pretty much a waste of taxpayer money. The Egyptians haven't been real good with machinery since the pyramids. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-27 10:49:15 PM |
| #3 And it's a good thing that Egypt have more military equipment why? |
| Posted by: Nero 2004-05-27 2:00:28 PM |
| #2 RWV, since it's widely assumed that the Israelis have nukes, I don't see that we have to pay the Egyptians not to attack Israel -- the Isrealis have the perfect deterrent already. I think the money is more to keep Mubarek from doing other stoopid stuff, like sucking up to the Russians. And I think we get a fair amount of the money back in military equipment orders. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-05-27 1:51:06 PM |
| #1 Seems to me that the $2B-$3B annual bribe that we have been paying since Camp David (1979) to the Egyptians to refrain from attacking Israel could be put to better use. Let Mubarek and Egypt sink into perfect Islamic squalor. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-27 10:42:52 AM |