By Kim Brown, Rob Sachs, Jessica Jordan, Elly Mui,: The recent unrest in Egypt has left many dead with 43 pro-democracy groups under investigation for politically destabilizing the country through foreign aid. U.S. officials are weary of relations with Egypt as the crackdown on non-government organizations in Egypt has threatened its 1.3 billion dollars of annual U.S. military aid. Yesterday the Egyptian military delegation abruptly ended their meeting with the U.S. lawmakers to return to Cairo amid warnings that the U.S. military aid could
be threatened due to the crackdowns on NGO groups. Over the past 30 years Egypt has received the second largest funding of foreign aid right behind Israel averaging around 2 billion dollars a year. In 2010-2011 the U.S. invested 1.3 billion dollars into Egypt’s army. The prosecution of 19 Americans for violating foreign funding laws including Sam LaHood, son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the Middle East Program Director for Freedom House Charles Dunne has put the U.S. officials up in arms over the crackdown. Tags:
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By Kim Brown, Rob Sachs, Jessica Jordan, Elly Mui,: The recent unrest in Egypt has left many dead with 43 pro-democracy groups under investigation for politically destabilizing the country through foreign aid. U.S. officials are weary of relations with Egypt as the crackdown on non-government organizations in Egypt has threatened its 1.3 billion dollars of annual U.S. military aid. Yesterday the Egyptian military delegation abruptly ended their meeting with the U.S. lawmakers to return to Cairo amid warnings that the U.S. military aid could
