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Former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel held one of the most important roles in the US government when a coup ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, a key Middle Eastern ally of Washington’s, in July 2013. Hagel become a point person for the US government afterward, speaking with coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi “more than 50 times” to steady the US-Egypt relationship.
Background: Hagel served as US senator from Nebraska from 1997-2009; co-chair of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2009-2013; and as secretary of defense from 2013-2015. In the Senate, he was a member of the Foreign Relations and Select Intelligence Committees. He spoke with me in the latest “On the Middle East” Al-Monitor podcast this week.
Here are just a few highlights of the interview:
On Morsi: Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, narrowly won election for president in 2012 after popular demonstrations led to the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. Hagel said that on his first trip to Egypt as secretary of defense in 2013, “I didn’t sense that I was talking to the president of a large and important nation, who really has any confidence in his own decisions, or that he could make his own decisions.” | | | |
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