US cancels award for Egyptian activist over 9/11 remarks
March 09, 2013  08:58
The United States has cancelled the International Women of Courage Award to the Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim after coming to know that she had in the past praised the 9/11 attacks. 

The embarrassing cancellation of the award was announced yesterday by the State Department only a few hours before she was to be honoured by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, and the Secretary of State, John Kerry, along with nine others. 

"The department has decided not to present her with the award," the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily press conference. Without explaining the reasons for it, she said the US did not consider some of her public statements as "appropriate" and those compromised with its values.
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