Does this aid require Egypt to meet any specific conditions regarding human rights?No. Defense Secretary Gates stated in 2009 that foreign military financing "should be without conditions."
Gates prefaced that comment by saying that the Obama administration, like other U.S. administrations, is "always supportive of human rights."
The administration of former president George W. Bush had threatened to link military assistance to Egypt's human rights progress, but it didn't follow through. When exiled Egyptian dissident, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, called on the U.S. government to attach conditions to aid to Egypt, U.S. officials dismissed the idea as unrealistic.
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