Ann Wright Detained for 5 Hours in Cairo Airport with 100-Person European Parliamentary Delegation to Gaza

This according to text messages from Ann.

Is this the new Egypt?

UPDATE:

Email from Ann:

I'm finally out of the Cairo airport after 5 hours of being detained.  Egyptian authorities told me that I was on a security risk list and they needed the approval of the US government before letting me in!!

I called the Operations Center of the State Department who then connected me to the Consul General of the US Embassy in Cairo whom I met in December, 2009 during the Gaza Freedom March (wonder if he put me on the security risk list?)  He said the US government has nothing to do with whom the Egyptians keep in or out of the country.

I reminded him that I was kept out of Canada because the US put me on the NCIC list and gave the list to the Canadian government.  He was suddenly silent.

We are off to Gaza tomorrow.  Pam Bailey and I are the only Americans with about 100 persons from 15 countries on the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR).

More to follow.

Ann