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| Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood filling pro-Western military's ranks with Islamists |
| 2013-03-31 |
| Wait till they get their planes and tanks from the gun runners in the Pentagon and the jihadists will be able to look like real military. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt's military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. What brilliant insight. Morsi's been doing this from about day one and the Washington Times just noticed? According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the government of President Mohamed Morsi is covertly taking steps to take control over the pro-Western military and the police forces as part of a campaign to solidify Islamist control. Egypt for decades had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist groups from both the military and police academies after Islamic terrorists in the military assassinated Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in 1981. The Egyptian military also for decades has maintained close ties to the U.S. military. Analysts in the U.S. intelligence community and the military are viewing the introduction of Islamists into the national military academy, disclosed last week, with concern. Muslim Brotherhood members and hardline Salafi groups are regarded as dedicated first to jihad, or holy war, and other Islamist principles rather than to the country. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Overt operations, I'd say... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-03-31 20:08 |
| #6 I am SHOCKED I tell you, I am shocked at this revelation. Who would have ever thought they would do that? Well, let them keep memorizing the Quran. Their neighbors will keep reading Clauswicz and Von Moltke...we'll see who gets the better of that education. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-31 18:22 |
| #5 Or tuning the Webers properly. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-03-31 18:09 |
| #4 Never mind flying the things -- it's consistently cleaning the sand out of the gears that matters. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-31 17:24 |
| #3 Exactly, Frank. Memorizing the Quran doesn't teach you to fly an F-16. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-03-31 16:35 |
| #2 and their military effectiveness degrades a notch with each of these beturbanned toadies |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-03-31 15:32 |
| #1 is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. Covert? Covert? I don't think that word means what they think it means. Could they be anymore blatant? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-03-31 13:18 |