U.S. Officials Met With Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – U.S. Diplomat

[Purveyor]

U.S. officials met members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt’s biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted. Washington announced the plans in June, portraying such contacts as the continuation of an earlier policy. But analysts said it reflected a new approach to the way it dealt with a group which Mubarak banned from politics.

The Brotherhood is one of Egypt’s most popular and organised groups, with a broad grassroots network built up partly through social work even in Mubarak’s era.

The contacts may unsettle Israel and its U.S. backers. The Brotherhood renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt years ago. But groups like Hamas, which have not disavowed violence, look to the Brotherhood as a spiritual guide.

Under the previous policy, U.S. diplomats were allowed to deal with the Brotherhood’s members of parliament who had won seats as “independents” to skirt the official ban. This provided a diplomatic cover to keep lines of communication open.

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http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/10/02/u-s-officials-met-with-egypts-muslim-brotherhood-u-s-diplomat/

[AverageJoe90]

1. This is some sick shit.

I can remember many a time when the anti-fascist radio host Dave Emory talked about the Muslim Brotherhood, just what they were up to, and just what they were really about; sure as HELL weren't the moderates they claimed to be, that's for sure!

(Also, Hamas is Basically a just another branch of the M.B.)