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US blasts Egypt over political crackdown

HARSH TACTICS A White House statement said the detention of an opposition leader was deeply troubling, but still said that the country was heading in the right direction

AFP , WASHINGTON

"We do derive some benefits from those aid programs. We derive quite a few benefits from the military-to-military relationship with the government of Egypt," McCormack said.

He shrugged off a report issued last week by the watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) that said the US administration had no mechanism to assess whether military aid to Egypt was being used effectively.

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