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August 5, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-top-us-official-meets-with-powerful-muslim-brotherhood-figure-in-detention/2013/08/05/1e3419c4-fda7-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html

Top U.S. Diplomat Meets Jailed Egyptian Brotherhood Leader

(AP-Washington Post) U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met in prison on Monday with Khairat el-Shater, the powerful deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood, as part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's military-backed government and protesters supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Burns was accompanied by the foreign ministers of Qatar and the UAE as well as an EU envoy. El-Shater is charged with complicity in the killing of anti-Morsi protesters.

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