Egypt's presidential candidate and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, attends an interview with Reuters in Cairo May 14, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
CAIRO, (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted an elected Islamist president and is set to become Egypt’s next head of state, called on the United States to help fight jihadi terrorism to avoid the creation of new Afghanistans in the Middle East.
In his first interview with an international news organisation in the run-up to the May 26-27 vote, Sisi called for the resumption of U.S. military aid, worth $1.3 billion (776 million pounds) a year, which was partially frozen after a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
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