I don’t know, b. I think Islamic Front we’ll around for a while, assuming that is that Obama can get his $500 million authorization through Congress. IF is too useful; the fiction must be maintained.
Also, I don’t think it is a safe bet that al-Maliki will survive as PM. You have Al-Ahrar, the Sadrists, the second largest bloc in the Council of Representatives, who basically ran on a single issue — dump Maliki. Then you have stories saying Sistani wants Maliki gone. Believe it or not the names one keeps seeing mentioned are Chalabi and Allawi.

Posted by: Mike Maloney | Jul 7 2014 18:15 utc | 3

@3
Mike, I’m inclined to agree about Maliki. The guy has proved to be a total disaster, corrupt, sectarian and incompetent. He has had all the power in his hands for years now and it would appear that he has staffed the military with incompetent cronies and used Iraq’s oil revenues in ways that would make Saddam blush.
It is hard to believe that the shia, who are under grave threat from ISIS would entrust their safety to a government headed by this loser.
Hard to believe that Iran would want to work with him, militarily too or that the Syrian Arab Army is not dismayed by the complete collapse at Mosul.
As to Chalabi he might serve as a figurehead but a less trustworthy man would be hard to find, whereas Alawi is, notoriously, a CIA man!

Posted by: bevin | Jul 7 2014 18:35 utc | 5

@Mike @Bevin
whatever you can say about Maliki he isn’t corrupt – at least not on the level other candidates are.
Sistani today gave an explicit declaration that he did NOT call for Maliki to step down. The rumor that he did, plus the Chalabi and Alawi names put out, are simply U.S. propaganda. These guys have no chance to get elected. The U.S. had called for regime change but Malikis party has won the election (though not a clear majority). He has no reason to step down. The next parliament seating has now been pushed to August. Maliki will stay for now.
As for incompetent generals Maliki put on. He did exactly what the U.S demanded and demands: reconciliation. He put Sunni generals and Sunni troops into the army and (the big mistake) stationed those in the Sunni areas. It were these generals and troops that didn’t fight and left their weapons for ISIS to take. You can be sure that Maliki will not repeat that mistake.

Posted by: b | Jul 7 2014 19:19 utc | 7

Interesting prediction and statements. What do you make of Patrick Cockburn’s article very favorable to Chalabi and harshly critical of Maliki?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ahmed-chalabi-right-man-wrong-time-for-iraqs-onceexiled-opposition-leader-9585859.html
Cockburn also indicated Sistani’s spokesman called for Maliki to step down. Can someone provide ref to story indicating this is not true?

Posted by: rick sterling | Jul 7 2014 19:36 utc | 9

From the article you referenced:
“Nouri al-Maliki is frustrated at the lack of military help from America IRAQ’S beleaguered prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is threatening to tear up a defence agreement with America and build closer links with Iran and Russia instead.”
“His cancellation of the deal would be a further blow to Obama’s standing in the region. ‘If Maliki revokes the agreement, Obama will see both Russia and Iran step in to fill the gap, especially where military contracts and logistics are concerned,’ said one source.”
“While there has been no confirmation from Tehran itself, it is believed that Iranian pilots are flying the Sukhois, while Iraqi pilots are being given flight training by the Russians.”
Imagine the embarrassment when Russia and Iran has to step in to clean up the mess the U.S. has made. I knew there was something going on when Pepe Escobar reported that al-Maliki was present in Shanghai back in June:
“One day before the clinching of the Russia-China gas deal, President Xi Jinping called for no less than a new Asian security cooperation architecturee…echoing Putin, Xi described NATO as a Cold War relic….And guess who was at the announcement in Shanghai, apart from the Central Asian “stans”: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and crucially, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.”
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/05/60469-the-future-visible-in-st-petersburg/

Posted by: madisolation | Jul 7 2014 20:11 utc | 11

as Chussodovsky argues in this interview, ISIS is part of a wider strategy for the destruction of states
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/103872

Posted by: Cu Chulainn | Jul 7 2014 20:22 utc | 13

Has it occurred to any that appointing your own son to a position of power is the natural thing to do in most parts of the world. Consider the bush clan and Kennedy’s I could go on. This is called monarchy and its the natural state of mankind at all levels. Democracy only works if ALL participants play by the rules, good luck with that.

Posted by: bridger | Jul 7 2014 21:45 utc | 15

@14 Maybe top notch American training and ‘primitive’ people don’t mix too well Cold. But keep trying.

Posted by: dh | Jul 7 2014 21:57 utc | 17

with 1 billion + sunni muslims, the IS has plenty of human resources to draw upno, all keen to enter paradise

Posted by: brian | Jul 7 2014 22:27 utc | 19

Re: By the end of the year ISIS will be squeezed from the west, south and east…
Where will ISIS go then? I know a good place. And no, it is not north.
P.S. – What would Arabia be called if it was not ruled by the al-Saud family?

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jul 7 2014 23:48 utc | 21

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jul 7, 2014 7:48:10 PM | 21
“Where will ISIS go then? I know a good place. And no, it is not north.
P.S. – What would Arabia be called if it was not ruled by the al-Saud family?”
😀

Posted by: scalawag | Jul 8 2014 0:16 utc | 23

ISIS Hits 3 Shells Inside Saudi Arabia’s Arar
http://en.shiapost.com/2014/07/08/isis-hits-3-shells-inside-saudi-arabias-arar/
“RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Monday reported three shells hit the Arar area inside the country along its border with Iraq, where jihadist-led terrorists of so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have gone on the offensive.”
I believe this is the first time we have seen any sort of attack taking place inside either Jordan or Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: Jen Psaki | Jul 8 2014 2:03 utc | 25

Iraqis Sunnis opposition are making the same mistake as the Syrian opposition did and are paying a heavy price. They believe that once ISIS has helped them remove Al Maliki, they can easily deal with them.

Interview
Anbar Tribal Leader: Maliki Is ‘More Dangerous’ Than ISIS
…
Rudaw: How confident are you that you can stop ISIS?
Sheikh Hatem al-Suleiman: Our experience in expelling Al-Qaeda in 2006 is the best evidence. The ISIS issue will end easily once we get rid of Nouri al-Maliki.
Incidentally, ISIS doesn’t even represent 7 or 10 percent of the fighters. The only thing ISIS has ownership of is suicide bombers.
http://rudaw.net/english/interview/06072014

Posted by: Virgile | Jul 8 2014 2:29 utc | 27

You’re still sore I called you crone’s boyfriend? Get over it, dickhead.

Posted by: guest77 | Jul 8 2014 2:43 utc | 29

guest – scalawag says the same thing to me when i challenge him.. he’s completely predictable..ignore the doofus. maybe b will follow thru one day on his words from before..

Posted by: james | Jul 8 2014 3:01 utc | 31

Posted by: james | Jul 7, 2014 11:01:09 PM | 30
Right one que, Israeli.

Posted by: scalawags | Jul 8 2014 3:11 utc | 33

Someone wanted collateral on Al-Sistani’s refutation of the story he was against Al-Maliki. It’s one of the links in Bhadrakumar’s latest analysis today, and I’ve clicked through, definitely solid. IOW, Sistani does NOT call for Maliki to go:
I don’t know how people rate Bhadrakumar, I’m a little new to ME analysis, but it seems pretty good to me: Iran corners US in Iraq
~~
Also there’s this: “interview conducted by pan Arab Al-Maydeen TV with Sheikh Nabeel Naiem, who was introduced by the TV presenter as: ‘the former founder of Jihad Organization…'” The interview very matter of factly and clearly reveals the US creation of Daash (the impeachment idea comes from subsequent commentators).
Transcript: ISIS: The Bombshell Interview to Impeach Obama
YouTube w/ English subtitles: Exposing Obama Regime’s Support to Al Qaeda
~~
[All the above btw courtesy of Mindfriedo and comments in his latest SitRep at Saker]

Posted by: Grieved | Jul 8 2014 3:33 utc | 35

Good analysis b, and i agree. Like “the free syrian army”, these usefull idiots will vanish in the near future.

Posted by: Paty Kerry | Jul 8 2014 6:02 utc | 37

Sunni tribes rise against ISIL in northern Iraq
Sunni tribes in the northern Iraqi province of Salahuddin have risen against the Takfiri ISIL militants, killing 30 terrorists, Press TV reports.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/370291.html

Posted by: Paty Kerry | Jul 8 2014 6:12 utc | 39

“with 1 billion + sunni muslims, the IS has plenty of human resources to draw upno, all keen to enter paradise
Posted by: brian | Jul 7, 2014 6:27:23 PM | 19”
How convenient that what the terrorists support is not sunni at all, although they always claim it in the media. The wahhabis/salafis are no moslems at all, but simple heretics and barbarians. Both were created and are still controlled by the british intelligence, so it’s just the expected result.
Their belief is literally against islam, since salafis believe in an antropmorphic version of god as a metrial being, a giant who sits in his actual throne in heaven. As opposed to that, real islam (sunnis are abundant in Turkey for example, much less so in Saudi Arabia nowadays) has the same views as christianity regarding god.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 8 2014 7:08 utc | 41

from b’s link, managing savagery:

This is the likely strategy facing the government of Iraq. Nouri al-Malaki is busy assembling and preparing a vast Shi’a army. Most likely he initially will concentrate on halting ISIS’ momentum, and, by delivering a sharp military defeat, will hope to break Da’ish’s magic spell for the many Sunnis who have been dazzled by its bold advance across Iraq.
He has sought to re-take Takrit, leaving the much more difficult task of digging them out from Mosul to a later time. (Those who remember the siege of the Naher al-Barad Camp in northern Lebanon will recall that it took the Lebanese army three and a half months — at the loss of more than 300 men — to clear this Palestinian refugee camp from no more than a hundred odd ISIS-type jihadists.Naher al-Barad was utterly destroyed in the process).
The success (or failure) of al-Maliki’s defense — against Da’ish – will pivot around the issue of polarization. Too much force, too many civilian casualties, too much heavy weaponry will polarize the Sunni population to Da’ish’s advantage; but too little – may risk adding to ISIS’ inflated reputation.

Posted by: okie farmer | Jul 8 2014 7:46 utc | 43

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 8, 2014 3:08:39 AM | 40
the jihadis claim to be true muslims and shia are not…hence their war ON shia in syria
Your use of ‘heretics and barbarians’ is itself medievel…you’d fit right in!

Posted by: brian | Jul 8 2014 7:58 utc | 45

I should add that Management of Savagery is a good read, and provides important info to understand what’s going on in Iraq precisely, and the ME in general.

Posted by: okie farmer | Jul 8 2014 8:08 utc | 47

re 46 and post. I see that the Management of Savagery was translated – or perhaps written – by a guy from the Haim Saban center at Brookings. You can imagine how reliable it must be.
There are no publication details on the Arabic cover.

Posted by: Alexno | Jul 8 2014 8:51 utc | 49

@ brian: “the jihadis claim to be true muslims and shia are not…hence their war ON shia in syria”
Salafists and Shia are both heretics from the Sunni POV. I explaines the former, while Shia see a different line of successors to Mohammed and worship only Ali as the right one.
“Your use of ‘heretics and barbarians’ is itself medievel…you’d fit right in!”
I don’t see how you come up with that, besides senselessly trying to be an ass. I have proven in reality that it is not the case, by declining to join the slaughter in an actual war. I’m the guy who did not fit in, nor ever wanted anything such.
The “barbarians” part should be rather obvious, all it takes is the videos on Youtube posted by the jihadis themselves (for example the well-known heart-muncher in Syria). They’re cheap crazy killers for the most part, with an IQ way below 90. And they do not make war against Shia in Syria specifically, but against everyone who doesn’t accept their perverted version of faux-Islam.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 8 2014 9:28 utc | 51

An ISIS invasion of Saudi Arabia would be a complete disaster. Saudi has one of the highest inventories of advanced weaponry in the world. If that, and the largest oil reserves on earth fall into the hands of ISIS, we would have an Islamic World War with Syria and Iraq rolling over very quickly, Israel kaput and Iran on the ropes. Also note that oil prices would spike dramatically, Europe would probably drop dead and Eurabia will be born amidst this chaos. The U.S ironically would become the worlds superpower once again since it has 1.) Multiple sources of oil (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, itself) and 2.) A militarily challenging geographical location. That is not what I wan’t. ISIS must be stopped now.

Posted by: Igwe | Jul 8 2014 9:54 utc | 53

“Way better than say China being in that role.”
oh yeah, and why, pray tell, is that?

Posted by: john | Jul 8 2014 10:52 utc | 55

BREAKING:
Cylinders found in rebel-controlled area in Syria contained prohibited gas – OPCW
Laboratory tests performed in the middle of June, 2014, showed that the cylinders seized by Syrian government troops in August 2013 in an area controlled by anti-Assad rebels had contained sarin, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his letter to the Security Council, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
Two ‘abandoned’ cylinders seized in Syria contained sarin – U.N. – Reuters
‘Abandoned’ barrels containing deadly sarin seized in rebel-held Syria
– RT
Two cylinders seized by regime held sarin: U.N. – The Daily Star, Lebanon
Two cylinders seized by Syria forces contained sarin: UN – PressTV
Meanwhile in Western media:
On foreign policy, Obama is succeeding – Boston Globe

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jul 8 2014 11:20 utc | 57

54;Yeah,as the Chinese have always concerned themselves with China,and have no history of imperialism(other than the description of their pre Communist leadership)just why is China singled out?Sheesh,maybe with them in charge instead of our bellicose wackos,civilization might ensue and Ghandis ghost made happy.

Posted by: dahoit | Jul 8 2014 12:13 utc | 59

Alexno, there’s a link in Crook’s article that gives Bakr’s original text (translated), Crook didn’t misrepresent anything. Like Cole, Landis, and others, even a blind squirrel occassionaly finds and acorn.

Posted by: okie farmer | Jul 8 2014 12:43 utc | 61

Syria’s Iraqi Sunnis operators in Iraq
Let us not forget that Bashar Al Assad has given asylum to many pro-Saddam high grade Iraq army officers who ran away from the US crackdown.
Syria was highly criticized by the US and its allies for that. It turned out to be a very smart move that is paying off now.
These Sunni operators are now back in Iraq and have infiltrated ISIS in order to manipulate them to fulfill some of Syria’s immediate goals.
– Push ISIS to crush once for all the rebels Islamist Syrians and their Nusra allies on Syria’s borders.
– Attract the Islamists fighting in Syria to their duty to protect and expand the Islamic Caliphate thus allowing the Syrian army to easily free the rebels held areas in Syria
– Break the Iraqi Kurds arrogance by weakening them militarily and politically (Both Sunnis and Shias have no sympathy for the Kurds allied with Turkey and the USA).
ISIS is now at Kurdistan’s door and they can ignite violence at any time, especially in Kirkuk where Sunnis resent the Kurds occupation. Barzani ( and Turkey) are falling in the trap of antagonizing ever further Arabs and the USA over their intention to allow a Kurdish state on Iraqi soil.
– Push ISIS to perform terrorists attacks in Turkey so as to weaken Turkey’s economy by making trading with Kurdistan more hazardous. That could affect negatively Erdogan’s election.
The reward
As a reward for all that, Syria will make sure that Al Maliki give these Sunni operators a leading role in the Iraqi government, thus reconciling Sunnis and Shias.
Then the war against ISIS will start away from Syria and at the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
In a way, yes, we can say that ISIS is been manipulated by Syria and by its Sunni operators into playing Syria’s game.
If this turns out to free Syria from Islamists extremists and shifting the terrorist threat toward USA allies, i.e Jordan and Saudi Arabia, then no one could deny the genius of Syria’s military strategy.

Posted by: virgile | Jul 8 2014 13:42 utc | 63

@56 RT West
“My understanding is, ISIS has been tremendously bolstered in Iraq by elements of Saddam’s former Bath party, which has ideology in common with Assad as much as a relationship of convenience with ISIS in the ever shifting strange bedfellows that is the middle east (the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ thing.)
“This points to an eventual Sunni civil war, Bathists versus ISIS, within Iraq’s larger Sunni-Shia civil war that had been set up by David Petraeus:…”
The natural course would be for these baathist “remnants” to ally themselves with the shiah majority in Iraq. There is no equivalent amongst the shiah to the takfiris behind ISIS, who, as you say are not going to be allied with the baathists for long.
Back when Allawi and the US (with The Black Watch watching) were engaged in their first major massacres in Fallujah, the Sadrists were very publicly sending aid to their fellow muslims. It was then that the US inspired (at least) attacks on shia shrines took place and the civil war between sunni and shiah- part of the El Salvador option- was set in motion.
There is no real reason why, in these desperate times, the baathists, who merely want, at this stage, national independence, toleration and the use of oil revenues for national/social purposes (yes, idiot NAZI watchers I did use the two words together) should not join Baghdad.
Except that the de-baathification procedures, designed to disenfranchise anyone arbitrary government chose and to reinforce sectarian tendencies, make this natural alliance-which would spell doom for ISIS and similar wahhabist organisations- unlikely.
Chalabi, of course was the first proponent of de-baathification, and, with Sistani, the ideologist of the campaign to ethnically cleanse sunni residents from Baghdad.
On another matter:
b doubts that Maliki is particularly corrupt. He may be right, my point was that he was making no effort to use Iraq’s immense oil revenues to repair the damage done by the war. For example the fact that Mosul’s electricity supply system is barely functioning is likely to have soured residents on the Baghdad regime and opened the way for ISIS. Similarly Maliki seems to have made no effort to rally the population, across sectarian and ethnic lines, behind his government. He appears to be very conservative, narrow minded and hidebound, with an authoritarian’s contempt for the poor and no perspective of revolutionary change, without which Iraq can never develop the energy needed to re-build itself while under constant pressure from its imperialist enemies.

Posted by: bevin | Jul 8 2014 14:08 utc | 65

Correction:
“In other words,there are no grounds for believing that any other potential power on earth contains the genocidal germs to be found in US culture.”

Posted by: bevin | Jul 8 2014 14:20 utc | 67

re61

Alexno, there’s a link in Crook’s article that gives Bakr’s original text (translated)

I was talking about the translation, not about Crook, whom I quite like. Google the translator, as I did, being suspicious. A translation is not always much like the original, and certainly not in the jihadi world, where the mediators often “improve” the originals to make them seem more threatening and frightening to the West.

Posted by: Alexno | Jul 8 2014 15:48 utc | 69

@69
They’re still at it, just now more clandestine than ever…
yeah, even shirking around the Old Executive Office Building.

Posted by: john | Jul 8 2014 16:44 utc | 71

“well, “totalitarian communist dictatorship” doesn’t really describe China, but no, i haven’t. i also haven’t experienced having my own skin shredded by white-hot metal from one of those democracy loving hellfire missiles.”
What do hellfire missiles have to do with the former topic? So China is the good guy because a handful of american criminals are bad? Your “logic” escapes me, sorry.
Feel free to go to China today, it is not like under Mao, but it’s still not a nice place to live. Just ask the Chinese.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 9 2014 6:10 utc | 73

Oh man… you are seriously talking about the alleged indirect “victims” of capitalism and hunger? As compared to well-documented mass murder, with loads of film material, real, material evidence etc. And you’re expecting me to take you seriously, really? What a joke…
I’m asking myself if you ever saw real life outside what you read online or in the third-hand accounts in regime-approved books.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 9 2014 6:24 utc | 75

T2015 @ 73
What do hellfire missiles have to do with the former topic?
brute economic and military force on behalf of our feedom loving democracy have secured all that cheap gas and easy credit that you so evidently covet.
and your logic suggests that at only 20 million dead it’s been a real bargain.
good minion.

Posted by: john | Jul 9 2014 9:29 utc | 77

The Islamic Caliphate is Qatars’ revenge for the destruction of the Moslem Brotherhood, its political and military operators in Egypt and Syria
Qatar has not digested been thrown out of Egypt and Syria by Saudi Arabia with the agreement of the USA. Qatars’ representation in the Syrian opposition is now almost null. The election of yet another Saudi puppet at the head of the so-called opposition is a proof that Qatar has been expelled and that the Saudis want to “possess” Syria the way they “possessed” Egypt after throwing out Qatar’s operators..
It is quite possible that Qatar has understood that the Western-backed Syrian opposition and the rebel fighters on the ground are dead horses. They may have decided that it is their interest that Bashar Al Assad stay in power at least temporarily and that Erdogan, their favorite, should be elected instead of Ihsanoglu, Saudi Arabia’s favorite.
Their strategy is now to weaken Saudi Arabia as much as possible. Therefore they have decided to finance and support ISIS in order to directly threaten Saudi Arabia and Jordan who have been crushing the Moslem Brotherhood. Syria is no more the battle ground. It is Iraq who has borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan
We can see that this strategy unraveling. Most Syrian rebel fighters are joining ISIS or quitting. Saudis is now obliged the increase the pay scheme for the rebels otherwise there would be none left.
The Islamic Caliphate is a direct threat not to Syria or Iraq but to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Therefore the Saudis are obliged to deploy militarily to protect not only their borders but their legitimacy. Qatar and Turkey’s objective is thus to trap Saudi Arabia and its operators in Iraq and abandon Syria to Qatar and Turkey. They have huge business ambitions of reconstructing Syria and building gas pipelines.
It will not be surprising to see the Syrian army liberating all the areas held by the rebels, while leaving the North East to ISIS.
In Qatar and Turkey’s view, ISIS’s fate will be dealt with later. They hope to revive the Moslem Brotherhood on the ashes of ISIS as ‘moderate’ moslems.
In order to boost Erdogan’s chances of election, Qatar is now negotiating with ISIS about releasing the 49 Turkish diplomats kept as “hostages” by ISIS just before the election. If this happens, it will only confirm the collusion between Qatar and ISIS.
Qatar has obviously made a tactical change by supporting ISIS but the aim it shares with Turkey is still to have the Moslem Brotherhood get back some power in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Libya, even it is not full power.
Their main ambition is business in these countries, in particular the huge business of reconstructing Syria and building a gas pipeline crossing Syria.
All their foreign policy is based on expanding their economical power, even if they have to side with the devil.

Posted by: virgile | Jul 9 2014 12:02 utc | 79

Hello you autistic (or illiterate?) moron – I WAS NEVER TALKING ABOUT THAT, but about communist dictatorships. Stop derailing the discussion.
I know what my topic was, as opposed to you, who didn’t even bother properly reading before going crazy with some totally unrelated nonsense.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 9 2014 13:00 utc | 81

oh yes, of course, American is actually British, now i get it. thanks for clarifying everything.
now fuck off, pee-wee.

Posted by: john | Jul 9 2014 13:22 utc | 83

… and by the way if you don’t like it in evil ‘murrica, you can always move to the freedom-loving China. It takes less than a week to get that organised – maybe you should give it a shot? At least you could then speak from real experience.

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 9 2014 13:52 utc | 85

Sure, as a foreigner with enough cash, it’s quite nice…
Head explodes.
Back on topic (sort of):
“Under pressure in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has begun to regroup abroad. It is becoming increasingly evident that it has chosen Londonistan as its new HQ. Following Egypt’s crackdown against the group after the army overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July, hundreds of Brothers came into Britain, ostensibly protected under the wings of the British intelligence. Since then, the Brotherhood has procured an office in London in an area known as Cricklewood, and has assembled around an outfit, World Media Services, set up in 1999 by the Brothers.
Comings and goings of the individuals clearly established the Cricklewood office as the center of the Muslim Brotherhood, designated as a terrorist organization and banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, among other countries, but not in Britain, the founding nation of this murderous sect. Only after January, following the publication of a Daily Mail article that identified the office as “the center of operations for Egypt’s once-mighty Muslim Brotherhood”, did the Cameron government take note of it and move to provide it a cover.
As his first step in providing such cover, David Cameron said that Sir John Jenkins, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, would examine the Brotherhood’s “philosophy and values and alleged connections with extremism and violence” alongside state security chiefs. The launch of the inquiry meant the search for evidence of the Brotherhood’s British operation was on.
Almost six months later, the Saudi news daily, Asharq al-Awsat, published from London, pointed out today, citing Abrar El-Sayed, the Brotherhood’s London-based media relations officer, that the Brotherhood has not at all been affected by the UK probe. El-Sayed, beside denying that the organization has established a headquarters in London, said: “The Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in the UK have not been affected by the investigation. The Brotherhood has no headquarters outside of Egypt. In London, the Brotherhood has a press office that remains to operate from London. The press office has not been affected by the investigation and has not reduced its activities.” ”
http://larouchepac.com/node/31215

Posted by: T2015 | Jul 10 2014 5:50 utc | 87