(UPI/Washington Times) Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, plans to introduce legislation to convert Egypt's annual $1.3 billion in military aid into economic assistance, claiming that country is stockpiling weaponry amid diminished threats. Egypt has created 11 battle units for the navy, Lantos said, and has procured the Harpoon-2 and fast-attack craft. "Egyptian military exercises are ominously geared toward an Israeli enemy that doesn't obviously exist," Lantos said.
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