American system to monitor Egyptian border for $100 million

The United States has officially agreed to sell its border security system to Egypt for the agreed price of $100 million.

This decision was finally approved by the US State Department, the final decision Egypt needed for the completion of the deal, following the prior approval of the US Department of Defense and the Congress.

The Washington Post reported on 7 July that, “the Egyptian authorities want to buy high-tech American border surveillance equipment, the Pentagon said Wednesday, citing Cairo’s desire to better monitor its borders with Libya specifically and other countries, as well.”

The Pentagon said in a statement that the State Department has entered an agreement with Cairo to sell the equipment for an estimated $100 million, a deal which had been approved by Congress, the Department of Defense and now the State Department.

The US State Department said in a statement on Saturday that it will not release the details of the “mobile surveillance” system, adding that the Egyptian government intends to use it to monitor the situation on the Egyptian-Libyan border in order to prevent the infiltration of “terrorists”.