(Guardian-UK) During a Feb. 8-9, 2006, visit to Egypt, FBI Director Robert Mueller met with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman, who noted that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was "neither a religious organization, nor a social organization, nor a political party, but a combination of all three." The principal danger, in Suleiman's view, was the group's exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public. Suleiman asserted that the MB has spawned "11 different Islamist extremist organizations," most notably the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Gama'a Islamiya (Islamic Group). Suleiman termed the MB's recent success in the parliamentary elections as "unfortunate," adding his view that although the group was technically illegal, existing Egyptian laws were insufficient to keep the MB in check.
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