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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>We just keep breaking our own laws:<BR> <BR><h2>US ships F-16s to Egypt as junta intensifies crackdown</h2><h5> By Bill Van Auken <br> 12 July 2013 </h5>The Obama administration has announced it will go ahead with the shipment of four F-16 fighter planes to the Egyptian military, signaling its intention to ignore US laws requiring a cutoff of aid to countries that have suffered military coups.<BR>This gesture of support to the so-called interim government, which is dominated by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and its top commander, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, comes as the ruling junta is intensifying its police-state crackdown against supporters of ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi.<BR> </div></body>
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