Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Lotfy, I appreciate your testimony. Having firsthand information like this is very, very valuable to this committee.
It strikes me that the world community was somewhat naive. We had a situation where the removal of a leader was called a regime change, and they left all the other folks who did the dirty work pretty much in place.
I was in Saudi Arabia 33 years ago when I first came across conversations about female mutilation. It's shocking that it is still.... I guess we were deceived into believing that Egypt was more progressive than it actually was.
In your testimony you talked about the fact that there was dialogue with all political parties. Did you have a sense coming from that dialogue that they were prepared to abide by international law and uphold it?