May 6, 2011, "Egypt Demands Repatriation of the Blind Sheikh," Investigative Project on Terrorism
"The Egyptian government reportedly has asked the United States to release the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and send him back to Egypt, according to the Open Source Center, a government clearinghouse of publicly available foreign intelligence.
Abdel-Rahman is the former spiritual leader of the Egyptian terrorist organization, Gama'a al-Islamiyya. He is considered the spiritual inspiration behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and is serving a life sentence in connection with a subsequent
- plot to bomb New York landmarks and tunnels.
But his continued imprisonment could spur anger in Egypt and other Islamic states, said his son, Abdallah Abdel-Rahman. Keeping his father in custody would show that the United States did not seek to combat terrorism, but rather sought war on Islam.
He asked Egyptian officials to make a similar request, and an official at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice indicated that had been done. The official recommended Abdallah Abdel-Rahman make his own request to the U.S. government for his father's repatriation since the two countries have no joint agreement for the exchange of prisoners.
Last month, hundreds of Gama'a members protested near the U.S. embassy in Cairo demanding Abdel-Rahman's release."
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4/21/11, "Annals of the Arab Spring: Egyptians Demand Blind Sheikh’s Release," National Review, A. McCarthy
"The Islamic Group (Gama’a al-Islamiya) is the Egyptian terrorist organization led by Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. penitentiary for conspiring to wage a terrorist war against the U.S., conspiring to murder former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and other charges. With Mubarak now sacked, and Egypt enjoying that spontaneous urge for democracy, the IG and its Islamist allies have renewed their campaign to pressure the United States for the release of Sheikh Abdel Rahman....
Yes, spring is in the air!"
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5/13/11, "The Muslim Brotherhood's Salafi pact puts Egyptian Christians in great danger," UK Telegraph, Michael Weiss
"Well, here’s another dismal “unity” pact for you. The Muslim Brotherhood has announced an electoral coalition with a host of Salafi groups in Egypt, under the banner of seeking an Islamic state. “It was the recent attacks on the Islamic groups that brought us together,” the Brotherhood’s lawyer Sobhi Saleh explained to an Egyptian newspaper on Tuesday....
Among the Brotherhood’s new parliamentary partners is Jama’a al-Islamiyya, a Salafi group that played a role in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and recently advocated the formation of a Saudi-style “modesty police” for Egypt. But these are peccadilloes compared with Jama’a’s other claims to notoriety..."...
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Russia names Muslim Brotherhood on list of terrorist groups
7/28/2006, "Russia names 'terrorist' groups," BBC News
"Russia has published a list of 17 groups it regards as "terrorist organisations", including al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban....
The list also includes: the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, the Congress of the Nations of Ichkeria and Dagestan, Jamaa al-Islamiya and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Mr Sapunov said the main reasons for inclusion on the list were:
Activities aimed at changing Russia's constitutional order through violence, including terrorist methods
- Links to illegal armed groups and other extremist organisations operating in the North Caucasus
- Association with, or links to, organisations regarded as terrorists by the international community."
George Bush was a big fan of the Muslim Brotherhood and tried to strong arm Mubarek long before Obama was on the scene.
11/25/10, "Mubarek snubs call for US election monitors, Washington Times, Eli Lake
"The 2005 (Egyptian) elections followed a push from the Bush administration to open authoritarian societies in the Middle East.
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke on June 20, 2005, at the American University in Cairo,
urging Mr. Mubarak to allow for free and competitive elections."...
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