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April 11, 2023

Egypt's President Sought to Covertly Ship 40,000 Rockets to Russia
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The Washington Post is reporting President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt
- a U.S. ally and major recipient of U.S. military aid - recently
ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly
shipped to Russia. President Sisi reportedly tried to keep the shipments
a secret "to avoid problems with the West." Democratic Senator Chris
Murphy of Connecticut responded, "Egypt is one of our oldest allies in
the Middle East. If it's true that Sisi is covertly building rockets for
Russia that could be used in Ukraine, we need to have a serious
reckoning about the state of our relationship." The revelations came as
part of classified U.S. intelligence documents found in a trove of files
leaked online earlier this year. We'll have more on that story later in
the broadcast.


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