US-commanded MFO in Sinai under attack -- dead reported in compound

Caroline Glick reports, via JAWA Report:

Enough!

Israel media - Channel 2 - just reported that the US-commanded Multi-National Force Observors headquarters in the Sinai is under assault. Salafists laid seige to the building this afternoon and some 50 armed men stormed it. There is fighting going on in the building and there are dead inside.

The MFO is the force that was established under the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. It is charged with guaranteeing the demilitarization of the Sinai.

What is Obama doing while the world burns?

* Only hours AFTER the news broke that the German embassy in The Sudan had been breached, an Islamic flag raised, and set on fire, Obama sent out an email asking supporters to pitch in $10.00.

*  Obama acted as a sensorship arm for the Islamists.

* Obama attended fundraisers, expensive dinners, as the al-Qaeda flag is raised over our embassy in Tunisia .

 

*  U.S. Did Tech Deals With Egypt and Libya While Embassies Burned

 

American foreign policy in the Middle East may have been hijacked by demonstrations and violent attacks that have besieged diplomatic outposts in the region. But judging from government contracts and solicitations issued while embassies were overrun and consulates smoldered, the business of the United States in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen remains business.

In Egypt and Libya, where this week’s regional conflagration started, Washington is looking to get new technology projects underway. In Yemen and Tunisia, where it spread on Friday, it’s sending new military equipment and aid advisers, respectively. All this occurs as Congress questions whether financial assistance to countries convulsing under the Arab Spring ought to be cut off.

The day after demonstrators allegedly angered by an anti-Islam film hung an Islamic militants’ banner from the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency approved hundreds of thousands of dollars for a “feasibility study” on a “new 1,000 m2 data center” in Cairo, constructed by an Egyptian communications and tech company called Raya Holdings. “A full spectrum of cloud services would be offered,” according to a September 12 solicitation, “including solutions for private cloud deployments; co-location and hosting services; traditional ICT managed services; public cloud services for enterprises; and offerings such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).” The Trade and Development Agency is looking for a U.S. company to conduct the study; it will earn the company $285,804.

Benghazi, site of the Tuesday attack that killed four U.S. diplomatic personnel, is also considered potential tech hub for the Middle East. The same U.S. Trade and Development Agency will construct a series of internet exchange points (IXPs) in Benghazi and Tripoli “to reduce the cost and increase the performance and reliability of Internet access in Libya, and create nuclei for the formation of a domestic private-sector communications industry.” The idea is that the expansion of internet access will encourage “private-sector entrepreneurs seeking to establish Internet-dependent business such as Internet service providers, datacenters and collocation providers, hosted and cloud services companies, and Internet content publishing.” Everyone from the Libyan government to would-be internet startups is invited to “engage” with the Trade and Development Agency, which anticipates spending $80,000 on the effort. The project was announced literally while the Benghazi consulate was under siege, according to a timeline of the crisis provided Wednesday by the Obama administration.

 

Yemen and Tunisia, two other American partners whose citizens stormed U.S. embassies on Friday, are receiving more traditional aid. On Friday, where the U.S. military has a years-long project to bolster the Yemeni military, the Navy announced it wanted to buy 19 rigid-hull inflatable boats for its Yemeni partners, presumably to aid their fight against piracy. And in Tunisia, the U.S. Agency for International Development is seeking a senior manager, working under contract, to “help support rapid international transition programs for priority conflict-prone countries.” (continue at Wired Danger Room)

 

Jay Carney (Baghdad Bob) said that the Middle East protests are not directed at the United States ...

 

Comments

[Leticia]

Just reading this makes angry all over again. Americans are being brutalized, our embassies invaded and Obama APOLOGIZES!!!

He is allowing this to happen and did hear, the Obama administration is pressuring youtube to protect Muslims from getting more angry be removing videos that depict anything negative about Islam or Muhammad?

Really? Reading your post, it really makes you wonder if he is wanting the violence to escalate since he has done nothing to calm the situation.

My gosh!

[PALADIN]

This MNO base in the Sinai has been there since 73 or longer.
I was there in 1987 for a short period doing EOD work , left over munitions from the 73 war.
By the time i got there, there was'nt much left to clear.
The reason for this attack is quite simple, it's to intimidate the UN into leaving , for as long as the UN is there they can't move into this area and build ifastructre to support a war with Israel.
Don't be suprized if this is'nt the first attack.
Last i heard and read (midnight) there were no MFO casualties.

Obummer was in New York doin "bix nood" with Beyonce as the manure is hitting the propellar all over the middle east....no suprize !
How anyone can vote for this turd and not look in the mirror and see the reflection of a total imbecile is beyond me..but then again Liberals are stupid , ignorant , and don't live in reality so again No Suprize.
Liberals are proof of the decline of mankind.

[Skunkfeathers]

Islamofascism is a blight on humanity, and the only "peace" it envisions is enforced submission to Sharia...and death to those who do not submit. Period.

[Right Wing Theocrat]

obama's barely-concealed policy towards Israel is the muslims can murder the whole lot of them and he wouldn't give a damn, it's not his problem and he doesn't care.

All he cares about is securing his own re-election and everything else, including the murder of his countrymen is a distant second.