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?Has America?s Playing Nuclear Patty-Cake With Egypt Been A Bad Idea??

By Sean Osborne

by Sean Osborne 27 February 2011: It was just too hard to resist making the title of this report a parody of the Geico rhetorical question advertising campaign featuring actor Mike McGlone. So tell me, “has America’s playing nuclear patty-cake with Egypt been a bad idea?” After reading this article you will know why it was a very bad idea. Now that the restraining influence of President Hosni Mubarak is gone, it would appear to be a very bad idea. And the strong support former President Mubarak’s government had previously received from most of the key nations involved in the Middle East for the past 30 years, primarily Israel and the United States, will now come into clearer into focus and scrutiny. You see, Hosni Mubarak was the key figure in keeping a previously clandestine Egyptian nuclear weapons program under tight controls; a nuclear weapons program manifest in the Argentina-built 22-megawatt reactor located in Egypt’s Nile Delta town of Inshas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).