US Sec of Transportation Ray Lahood's son detained in Egypt.

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FTR most of these NGOs are funded by George Soros or other powerful globalists and ex-government officials in the West. They were instrumental in the Otpor movement that toppled Milosevic in Serbia (note that some of the detainees are Serbian nationals, veterans of Otpor) as well as the later "themed" revolutions in East Europe as well as the Middle East, eg the Rose Rev. in Georgia and Orange Rev in Ukraine. Currently they're working on the Snow Revolution in Russia. Southeast Asia is probably next.

The son of a senior US cabinet minister is among several foreigners working for civil society groups who have been banned from leaving Egypt.
Sam LaHood, the son of Transport Secretary Ray LaHood, was stopped as he tried to board a flight leaving the country.
His organisation, International Republican Institute (IRI), was one of 17 recently raided by authorities.
IRI is a US-funded non-profit that encourages democratic governance.
Egypt's military government has vowed to investigate how pro-democracy and human rights organisations are funded, and has said repeatedly it will not tolerate foreign interference in the country's affairs.
In a raid in late December, Egyptian officials confiscated documents and computers at the non-government organisations (NGOs).
Mr LaHood found himself stopped from leaving Egypt when an official stopped him from boarding a plane in Cairo on Saturday, reports said.

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South East Asia? Is there a Brunei Rainy Season in the works?

[Kitsunegari]

Java Coffee Party IMO

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Starbucks baristas as fifth columnists?

[Trey]

One more drop in the bucket. The Egyptian military has been systematically targeting NGOs that promote democratic governance and human rights. Can't have those dangerous ideas, or people who report their failings.

[Kitsunegari]

Iwonder if the Egyptian military is using this to persuade Washington to stop funding these groups?

We continue to follow the story of those Americans – including the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood – who have been working on U.S.-funded pro-democracy projects in Egypt and are now barred from leaving the country. Sam LaHood, director of the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Cairo office, said he was turned away at the airport as he sought to fly out of the country. And now he tells Alex MARQUARDT the local investigation could result in a trial. ”I don’t have any concrete reason to be optimistic at this point,” LaHood said. “I do think there’s something larger at work here, there’s a lot of speculation about what’s behind this.” A number of other employees of foreign NGOs have been barred from leaving, stemming from the December raids by Egypt’s ruling military on their offices, including those of the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Though both NDI and IRI are non-governmental organizations, most of their funding comes from the U.S. government. As the Christian Science Monitor writes, “if Egypt’s ruling generals were looking for a way to push the Obama administration in that direction, targeting the son of a cabinet secretary and others would be a very good way to go about it.”