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Nat’l Intelligence Director: Hard to point to specific agenda of Muslim Brotherhood
Posted on February 17, 2011 by creeping
The “largely secular” Muslim Brotherhood that is. Replacing Carter Clapper is long overdue. via AFP: US spy chiefs grilled over Muslim Brotherhood.
WASHINGTON — Top US intelligence officials faced tough questions from lawmakers Wednesday over Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, acknowledging the spy agencies lack certainty on the opposition group’s views.
The intelligence chiefs struggled to answer questions about the agenda of the Islamist movement, amid accusations the spy services were caught off-guard by the unrest in Cairo that forced Egypt’s strongman Hosni Mubarak to step down last week.
National Intelligence Director James Clapper told senators at a hearing that the group did not speak with one voice and that he was unsure about the Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on Iran, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty and weapons smuggling into Gaza.
“It’s hard to at this point to point to a specific agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood as a group,” he said.
A dissatisfied Dianne Feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee, said the spy agencies needed to do better at understanding a group that could shape events in Egypt’s political vacuum.
“From an intelligence perspective, it is critical that we know what is that position (of the Muslim Brotherhood) and what is apt to happen. Egypt is the key country in the Middle East. And I worry about that,” she said.
Clapper said the intelligence agencies would bolster their efforts.
“This is obviously something we’re going to watch. We’re going to have to step up our observation,” he said.
Step up our observation? WTF? Egypt had a well publicized election late last year that had a years long run-up featuring the Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration was advised by a team of so-called experts not to worry about the Muslim Brotherhood’s chances in that election. And after the elections, the Obama administration criticized the outcome. Observation was pretty good just a few months ago. Obfuscation aside, the Ikhwan isn’t hiding their agenda, as Ryan Mauro noted in The Case for Firing James Clapper:
The Brotherhood recently said it would use its influence in the next Egyptian government to revoke the peace treaty with Israel and told Egyptians to “prepare for war with Israel.” Those are not the commands of a non-violent organization.
…A secret Brotherhood document stated that its “work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house…” FBI Director Robert Mueller said on the same day that the Muslim Brotherhood has supported terrorism inside the U.S. and outside the U.S. In order to agree with Clapper, you must believe that the Brotherhood of Egypt is more moderate than the Brotherhood of the U.S.
…Supreme Guide Muhammad Badi is rabidly anti-American. In September, he branded Muslim regimes that prevent its citizens from waging jihad against Islam’s enemies as traitors and apostates. He predicted the demise of the United States, expressed his solidarity with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and called for Muslim unity because “resistance is the solution.” He explicitly marked the U.S. and Israel as enemies to be fought.
“Resistance is the only solution against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny, and all we need is for the Arab and Muslim peoples to stand behind it and support,” he said. The Brotherhood’s disagreement with Al-Qaeda is based on strategy and tactics, not goals.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto lends some insight into their agenda as well Mr. Clapper.
Nat’l Intelligence Director: Hard to point to specific agenda of Muslim Brotherhood
Posted on February 17, 2011 by creeping
The “largely secular” Muslim Brotherhood that is. Replacing Carter Clapper is long overdue. via AFP: US spy chiefs grilled over Muslim Brotherhood.
WASHINGTON — Top US intelligence officials faced tough questions from lawmakers Wednesday over Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, acknowledging the spy agencies lack certainty on the opposition group’s views.
The intelligence chiefs struggled to answer questions about the agenda of the Islamist movement, amid accusations the spy services were caught off-guard by the unrest in Cairo that forced Egypt’s strongman Hosni Mubarak to step down last week.
National Intelligence Director James Clapper told senators at a hearing that the group did not speak with one voice and that he was unsure about the Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on Iran, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty and weapons smuggling into Gaza.
“It’s hard to at this point to point to a specific agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood as a group,” he said.
A dissatisfied Dianne Feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee, said the spy agencies needed to do better at understanding a group that could shape events in Egypt’s political vacuum.
“From an intelligence perspective, it is critical that we know what is that position (of the Muslim Brotherhood) and what is apt to happen. Egypt is the key country in the Middle East. And I worry about that,” she said.
Clapper said the intelligence agencies would bolster their efforts.
“This is obviously something we’re going to watch. We’re going to have to step up our observation,” he said.
Step up our observation? WTF? Egypt had a well publicized election late last year that had a years long run-up featuring the Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration was advised by a team of so-called experts not to worry about the Muslim Brotherhood’s chances in that election. And after the elections, the Obama administration criticized the outcome. Observation was pretty good just a few months ago. Obfuscation aside, the Ikhwan isn’t hiding their agenda, as Ryan Mauro noted in The Case for Firing James Clapper:
The Brotherhood recently said it would use its influence in the next Egyptian government to revoke the peace treaty with Israel and told Egyptians to “prepare for war with Israel.” Those are not the commands of a non-violent organization.
…A secret Brotherhood document stated that its “work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house…” FBI Director Robert Mueller said on the same day that the Muslim Brotherhood has supported terrorism inside the U.S. and outside the U.S. In order to agree with Clapper, you must believe that the Brotherhood of Egypt is more moderate than the Brotherhood of the U.S.
…Supreme Guide Muhammad Badi is rabidly anti-American. In September, he branded Muslim regimes that prevent its citizens from waging jihad against Islam’s enemies as traitors and apostates. He predicted the demise of the United States, expressed his solidarity with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and called for Muslim unity because “resistance is the solution.” He explicitly marked the U.S. and Israel as enemies to be fought.
“Resistance is the only solution against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny, and all we need is for the Arab and Muslim peoples to stand behind it and support,” he said. The Brotherhood’s disagreement with Al-Qaeda is based on strategy and tactics, not goals.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto lends some insight into their agenda as well Mr. Clapper.
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