Special to WorldTribune.com

WASHINGTON — Americans, particularly officials, have come under
increasing threat in Egypt.

Egyptians, led by the media, have been threatening the arrival of
prominent Americans, including envoys of President Barack Obama and
Congress. Those threatened have included visiting Sen. John McCain, the
ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“He should be arrested and tried for trying to destroy Egypt,” Ahmed Zind, chairman of the Egyptian Association of Judges, said.

[U.S. officials said the Obama administration’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood was driving Egypt’s military toward Moscow and endangering the U.S. strategic alliance according to a report by Bill Gertz for the Washington Free Beacon.]

McCain as well as other Americans have been accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in wake of the military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi. The Egyptians have been infuriated by McCain’s visit to Cairo in August in which the senator called for the release of Morsi and visited the financier of the Brotherhood.

“He [McCain] is not a man elected by the American people to speak on
their behalf,” Egyptian analyst Ahmed Mussa, a leading media commentator,
said. “Today, he speaks on behalf of an armed terrorist organization — the
Muslim Brotherhood.”

The U.S. embassy has repeatedly warned the estimated 50,000 Americans in
Egypt to reduce their travel and avoid political gatherings. In August, the
State Department closed its embassy in Cairo and other Middle East capitals
for about a week amid an alert of an Al Qaida strike.

“As a matter of general practice, U.S. citizens should avoid areas where
large gatherings may occur,” the embassy said on Aug. 7. “Even
demonstrations or events intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational
and possibly escalate into violence. U.S. citizens in Egypt are urged to
monitor local news reports and to plan their activities accordingly.”

Diplomats have reported several recent attacks on Americans in Cairo.
One attacker was quoted as saying that he had long targeted Americans in
Egypt.

U.S. analyst Raymond Ibrahim, an associate fellow at the Middle East
Forum, asserted that the visit by McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham highlighted
the “cozy relationship” between Obama and the Brotherhood. Ibrahim said
Egypt has determined that Washington feared that any trial of Morsi and
Brotherhood leaders would reveal U.S. funding of the Islamist movement.

“McCain’s call to release Brotherhood leadership validates the
widespread belief in Egypt that America is a fellow conspirator with the
Brotherhood,” Ibrahim wrote in an analysis. “Egyptians believe the U.S.
fears that Morsi and others, if tried, would reveal the nature of their cozy
relationship with the U.S. government, leading to any number of ugly
revelations — treasonous ties and conspiracies, the exchange of billions of
dollars, and Sinai issues.”

  ‘trying to destroy Egypt’, Ahmed Zind, Alliance with Cairo at risk: McCain and Obama are ‘trying to destroy Egypt’, Egyptian Association of Judges, Egyptians: McCain, Mohammed Morsi, Obama backing MB, Sen. Lindsey Graham