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Oops – ‘John McCain Blasts Obama-Raul Castro Handshake, Forgets He Met With Al-Qaeda Fighters’

Selective memory is one of his strong points – that’s why he did so well in the race he lost – grin.

The Last Of The Millenniums

Sen John McCain – “It gives Raul some propaganda to continue to prop up dictatorial, brutal regime, that’s all it is,” the Arizona Republican insisted.“Why should you shake hands with somebody who’s keeping Americans in prison?” “I mean, what’s the point?” he added. “Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.”
@ : http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/10/john-mccain-al-qaeda-fighters/

Ummmm….

‘Oops! Sen. McCain Met Syrian Rebels Accused of Kidnapping’
‘Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his goal of openly intervening in the Syrian conflict on behalf of the foreign-backed rebels — many of whom openly fight under the banner of al-Qaeda — suffered a major setback this week after a public relations stunt backfired in spectacular fashion’.

‘Media reports that surfaced Thursday claimed some of the opposition fighters he met and posed for pictures with during a recent trip to Syria were actually extremists’.

‘In fact, the radicals are accused of kidnapping Lebanese pilgrims from a village in…

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Egypt-Turkey: Long, turbulent history

Nervana

Initially published in Islamist Gate 

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Ottoman Sultan Selim I, the conquerer of Egypt
“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This famous quote by Mark Twain is highly relevant to the relationship between Egypt and Turkey. Egypt’s decision to expel the Turkish ambassador from Cairo has a historical precedent. In 1954, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled the Turkish ambassador in the presence of relatively similar events, but under dissimilar circumstances.
Undoubtedly, the tense relationship between Turkey and Egypt reflects the current policy of the leadership in both Egypt and Turkey. The two countries are now acting like rivals. Even their two powerful men, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Egypt’s military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, were locked in a popularity competition for the Time 2013’s Person of the Year poll .  However, this tension is also indicative of a widespread messiness in the region that has its…

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