Wolf Blitzer asks two top diplomats if it is time for the U.S. to suspend its $1.6-million military aid package to Egypt.
President Barack Obama canceled Operation Bright Star plans for joint American-Egyptian military exercises Thursday, announcing the first U.S. reaction to the spiraling violence in Egypt.
If the U.S. were to declare Morsi’s ouster and arrest a coup by the military, the Obama administration would be legally required to cut off military aid. So far the “language” of the overthrow has avoided words “military coup.”
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Operation Bright Star is a series of joint training exercises led by American and Egyptian forces in Egypt very other year. Operation Bright exercises began in 1980.
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