Amerika Syarikat menghantar Mesir Jet pejuang F-16

Amerika Syarikat menghantar Mesir Jet pejuang F-16. Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat merancang untuk menghantar 4 lagi F-16 jet pejuang ke Mesir pada minggu-minggu akan datang, menurut pegawai-pegawai Amerika. "Tidak ada perubahan semasa dalam rancangan untuk menyampaikan F-16 kepada tentera Mesir," kata seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat tidak mahu dinamakan memberitahu Reuters pada Rabu.

Seorang lagi pegawai Amerika berkata penghantaran berkemungkinan bulan depan. 8 lagi jet pejuang F-16 telah dijadualkan untuk dihantar pada bulan Disember. Rancangan Washington datang walaupun penggulingan Presiden Mesir Mohamed Morsi dalam rampasan kuasa tentera pada minggu lepas. Pentadbiran Obama berkata ia masih mengkaji sama ada atau tidak untuk melabelkan penyingkiran Morsi oleh tentera rampasan kuasa.

Pada hari Isnin, jurucakap White House Jay Carney berkata bahawa Washington tidak akan berhenti menyediakan bantuan tentera ke Mesir walaupun penyingkiran Morsi itu. "Kami fikir ia tidak akan berada dalam kepentingan terbaik Amerika Syarikat" untuk menukar program bantuan pada masa ini, Carney berkata.

Menurut undang-undang Amerika Syarikat, bantuan kewangan kepada mana-mana negara yang ketua negara dipilih adalah yang digulingkan dalam rampasan kuasa tentera adalah dilarang. Republikan Senator John McCain juga berkata bantuan Amerika Syarikat ke Mesir perlu dipotong mengikut undang-undang Amerika Syarikat.

"Ia adalah sukar bagi saya untuk membuat kesimpulan bahawa apa yang berlaku adalah apa-apa selain daripada rampasan kuasa di mana tentera memainkan peranan penting," kata McCain.

US to send Egypt more F-16 fighter jets. The United States Department of Defense plans to send four more F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in the coming weeks, according to American officials. "There is no current change in the plan to deliver F-16s to the Egyptian military," an unnamed U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Another American official said the deliveries were likely next month. Eight more F-16 fighter jets were slated to be delivered in December. Washington's plan comes despite the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in a military coup last week. The Obama administration said it is still reviewing whether or not to label the ouster of Morsi by the military a coup.

On Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Washington will not stop providing military aid to Egypt despite the Morsi ouster. "We think it would not be in the best interests of the United States" to change its aid program at this time, Carney said.

According to U.S. law, financial assistance to any country whose elected head of state is deposed in a military coup is prohibited. Republican Senator John McCain also said U.S. aid to Egypt should be cut off in accordance with U.S. law.

"It is difficult for me to conclude that what happened was anything other than a coup in which the military played a decisive role," McCain said.

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