Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Leads, Obama Follows

Egypt’s
Muslim Brotherhood President Leads, Obama Follows
Today, UN
Ambassador Susan Rice explained to Jake Tapper of ABC News that America wasn’t
“impotent” in the Middle East. What was her proof? Let’s look at what’s
happened. It’s quite the opposite of being impotent. We have worked with the
governments in Egypt. President Obama picked up the phone and talked to
President Morsi in Egypt. And as soon as he did that, the security provided to
our personnel in our embassies dramatica increased. 

McCain,
Rogers: Obama’s policy of ‘disengagement’ led to attack on US
posts
Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers and Arizona Sen. John McCain,
the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Armed Services, suggested
President Obama pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, while offering less
than total support for Israel’s effort to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear
weapons, has left an exploitable void in the region. “The Middle East believes
there is a disengagement policy with the U.S.,” Rogers, chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” 

Israeli
Foreign Ministry: U.S. ignored Arab radicalization
For months
before the most recent attacks on U.S. embassies in North African states,
Foreign Ministry and U.S. State Department officials had been arguing over
developments in these countries. Senior figures in Jerusalem claimed that
Washington was burying its head in the sand and ignoring the increasing
radicalization in states such as Tunisia and Egypt.

US
withdraws diplomats from Tunisia and Sudan
The US state
department has ordered non-essential staff from its embassies in Sudan and
Tunisia to leave with their families and warned its citizens against travelling
to the two countries owing to concerns over rising anti-American violence.

Anti-American
Protests Flare Beyond the Mideast
Anti-American rage that began
this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the
Middle East and beyond on Friday, with violent and sometimes deadly protests
that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, breached two more
United States Embassies and targeted diplomatic properties of Germany and
Britain.

State
Department sets up 24-hour monitoring team for embassy
crisis
The State Department has gone into full-blown crisis
mode, organizing a round-the-clock effort to coordinate the U.S. government’s
response to the expanding attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North
Africa. “The State Department has stood up a 24-hr monitoring team to insure
appropriate coordination of information and our response. 

Taliban say
attack on Nato’s Camp Bastion is revenge for film
The Taliban
have told the BBC that they carried out an attack on Nato’s Camp Bastion in
Afghanistan in revenge for a film mocking Islam. At least two US marines died
when militants breached the perimeter of the huge base in Helmand province.