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US Embassy Cancels Funding for Egyptian Police Soccer Program

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Feb 25, 2011
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The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has cancelled plans to fund an Egyptian Interior Ministry youth soccer mentorship program because of the ministry’s brutal use of police and security forces to crackdown on protesters that earlier this month forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years in office.

In a letter to Congress obtained by The Cable, a Foreig…

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