Egypt orders arrest of US-based Copts over film

Egypt orders arrest of US-based Copts over film. “Authorities in Cairo have ordered the arrest of seven US-based Egyptian Coptic Christians for their alleged involvement in an anti-Islam video.” “An arrest warrant has also been issued for US Christian pastor Terry Jones.” Anybody want to give odds on the probability of King Barack the Buttsmoocher extraditing them?

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  • I'm pretty sure we don't have an extradition treaty with the new Egyptian government. And by the time the get around to trying to get one, O will be gone. Good thing for the accused!

  • Interpol. They will ask, and we should tell them no. They will then threaten to exclude the US from Interpol info sharing.

  • Once again, many thanks to President Training Wheels for the bang-up foreign policy job in Egypt.

    Way to go there, champ.

  • Week by week, almost day by day, my threshold of thinking "Good God, even Sock Puppet can't get THAT low," itself gets lower and lower. I'm still thinking --just barely-- "No, he couldn't. That's sheer lunacy, literally."

    We'll see. And if he does -- well -- I won't even say what should happen to him.