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U.S. Reexamining Its Relationship with Muslim Brotherhood


(Washington Post) Craig Whitlock - As it braces for the likelihood of a new ruler in Egypt, the U.S. government is rapidly reassessing its tenuous relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, an opposition movement whose fundamentalist ideology has long been a source of distrust in Washington. It marked a change from previous days, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials expressed concern that the uprising in Egypt could shift power to an Islamist government much like the one in Iran, where ayatollah-led factions elbowed aside other groups to seize control of the country in 1979.
2011-02-03 08:36:45
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