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Washington still soft to Muslim Brotherhood

2022-12-04

[OneIndia] The US has added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists' but is that enough in current war on Islamist terror?

In a significant development, the United States State department has now added four top Islamic turbans operating in Afghanistan and Pakistain to its list of 'global terrorists'.

Observers say the US announcement follows the decision of the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) to end its ceasefire with the government in Islamabad and resume targeting the security forces across the country. As such this may help, partially at least, Islamabad in combating a resurgence of TTP-generated violence in Pakistain. The bad boy leaders, designed as "global terrorists" belong to the Pak Taliban and an al-Qaeda branch in South Asia. Both bad boy groups operate from Afghanistan. They have hideouts in Pakistain's mountainous north-west and elsewhere as well.

The State Department's decision, however, offers little hope in terms of fighting the current global war on Islamist terror. One of the root causes of Islamist terror across the world is the Moslem Brüderbund. It has been a key ideological source of terror against the cherished values of modern civilization. By its very nature, it poses a threat to the United States and its values. al-Qaeda and most of the other leading terrorist groups have been connected with it. But the United States is still soft to the Moslem Brüderbund.

Moslem Brüderbund propagandist Bahgat Saber is based in New York City. He calls for jihad both in the United States and abroad. He often streams live videos from Times Square. He incites terrorism against Egypt, Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
and the United Arab Emirates. In a March 2020 video, he urged his followers to engage in bio-terrorism in the US and Egypt. In another video the same year, he pressed them to search the internet for manuals on how to manufacture explosives.

Ahmed Andel Basit Mohammed, one of Saber's associates in New York, was sentenced to death in Egypt for his role in deadly terrorist attacks there. Basit has admitted his involvement in jihadist riots in Cairo in 2013 that led to the deaths of 210 people and the wounding of 296 others.

Akram Kassab, New York City-based Moslem Brüderbund theologian and member of the Moslem Brüderbund's International Union of Moslem Scholars, delivers sermons at the Moslem American Society Youth Center in Brooklyn. In a fatwa in May 2015, he said that it was a "religious duty, a necessity, and revolutionary dream" to "get rid" of judges and officials who support the Egyptian government. After Kassab's fatwa, Egypt's leading prosecutor Hisham Barakat was assassinated .

Given the lack of appropriate response by its intelligence and security agencies to the activities of such notorious Moslem Brüderbund elements in the very land of the United States, it is immensely clear that Washington is hardly serious about combating Islamist terror.

Jagdish N. Singh is a senior journalist based in New Delhi. He is also Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, New York

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State Security Court sentences Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Mahmoud Ezzat to 15 years in prison

2022-05-30

Unless it is announced that this is the final ruling, it is only another stage along the intricately winding path that is the Egyptian judicial process, a process that is as much a deliberate punishment as an actual sentence would be. No doubt Hell’s devils are envious...

[AlAhram] A Cairo Supreme State Security Court sentenced on Sunday acting Moslem Brüderbund guide Mahmoud Ezzat and former presidential candidate and leader of the Strong Egypt Party Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh along with 16 others to 15 years in prison on charges of leading an illegal group and spreading false news.

The court also sentenced 15 others to life in prison and two other defendants — including Strong Egypt Party Vice President Mohammed El-Kassas to 10 years in prison.

The high state security prosecution accused Abul-Fotouh and Ezzat as well others in the trial of several charges, including leading the Moslem Brüderbund terrorist organization that attempted to change the regime by force and executing terrorist attacks targeting judges, army and police personnel, and public institutions in order to topple the regime.

Abul-Fotouh was also accused of spreading false news in an interview with Qatar
Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i-based al-Jazeera news agency about the regime.

The 71-year-old physician had been a leading member of the Moslem Brüderbund since his university years in the 1970’s, however, he left the group in 2011 over organizational disagreements.

In June 2012 — following the 25 January Revolution — Abul-Fotouh ran an independent presidential bid in the first presidential elections after Mubarak’s ouster, finishing fourth with 18 percent of the votes in the first round of the election, which was eventually won by the Moslem Brüderbund’s Mohammed Morsi in a run-off against Ahmed Shafiq.

Shortly after the 2012 presidential elections, Abul-Fotouh established the Strong Egypt Party.

Abul-Fotouh was arrested in February 2018 hours after his return from a visit to London, during which he was interviewed by al-Jazeera and reportedly criticised government policies.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
Acting Moslem Brüderbund Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat was arrested in a hideout in Eastern Cairo in 2020 and was sentenced in April 2021 to life over charges of murder and terrorism in a case known in the media as the ’Guidance Bureau Case.’

He was also sentenced in December of last year to life for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.

Moreover, he was sentenced to life in prison in April in the ’Storming of the Eastern Borders Case’ that goes back to 2011.

The Moslem Brüderbund has been designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government since December 2013.

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Acting Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat sentenced to life for storming Egypt’s eastern borders

2022-04-18

[AlAhram] A Cairo Criminal court sentenced acting Moslem Brüderbund leader Mahmoud Ezzat on Sunday to life in prison in the ’Storming of the Borders Trial’, which has been ongoing since 2011.

The process being as much a punishment as the punishment itself is.

Sunday’s verdict is considered a first degree ruling that can be appealed. A life sentence in Egypt carries 25 years in jail.

The Public Prosecution accused Ezzat and other defendants of storming Egyptian prisons and collaborating with Paleostinian Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, the Moslem Brüderbund’s international leadership, and the Lebanese

Hezbollah to create chaos and topple the Egyptian state as well as its institutions. He is also charged with receiving military training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to launch military attacks in Egypt in the trial that goes back to 2011.

Ezzat, who was arrested in 2020, was first handed a death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in absentia in June 2015 in the same case when 20 other defendants received life prison sentences.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.

Mahmoud Ezzat was also sentenced in April 2021 to life in prison over charges of murder and terrorism in a case known in the media as the "Guidance Bureau Case."

He was also sentenced in December to life in prison for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.

The Moslem Brüderbund was designated by the government as a terrorist organization in Egypt in 2013.

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Cairo court sentences 10 to death over terrorism charges; including Yehia Mousa

2022-01-31

[AlAhram] A Cairo court sentenced on Sunday 10 defendants to death on charges of "forming gangs to carry out hostile attacks in Cairo and Giza against police personnel and vandalise public properties and facilities, including power towers."

The court is seeking the opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti on the preliminary verdicts.

The Public Prosecution’s investigation said the defendants between the period of 14 August 2013 and 2 February 2015 led a group that was founded in violation of the law; with the purpose of disrupting the constitution and the state’s laws, hindering the functioning of the state’s institutions, assaulting the personal freedom of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace.

The defendants include Yehia Mousa, the former health ministry spokesperson, who is accused alongside others by Egyptian authorities of orchestrating the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Mousa left for ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on the heels of the ouster of late Moslem Brüderbund president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, with media reports stating recently that ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities have prevented him from departing its lands, as Ankara seeks to restore ties with Cairo after years of deterioration.

The religious opinion of the mufti is non-binding but is a necessary procedure before issuing a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in Egypt, according to the country’s code of criminal procedure.

The court is set to issue its final verdict against the defendants on 19 June.

The Times of Israel adds:

Of the 10 men, nine were in jug while one was sentenced in absentia, the source said.

They were accused of multiple incidents of violence against police in 2015 — a period that saw a spike in attacks targeting security forces.

Egypt outlawed the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group in 2013 and designated it a terrorist organization, following the military ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi.

General-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led Morsi’s ouster, has since led a crackdown on the group, jailing thousands including its top leader as well as its rank and file.

Morsi died in jug in June 2019, after falling ill during a court hearing.

Cairo has handed down death sentence

s or long jail terms after mass trials that have drawn condemnation from the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is carried out by hanging.

Egypt carried out the third-highest number of known executions in the world last year, after China and Iran, according to ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International.

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Acting Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat sentenced to life in prison for espionage

2021-12-20

The hellish process continues.

[AlAhram] A Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat — the acting supreme guide of the Moslem Brüderbund — in a retrial on Sunday to life in prison for collaborating with the Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other foreign organizations and disclosing information pertaining to Egypt’s national security.

According to the prosecution’s investigation on the case that dates back to 2013, Ezzat, along with others, is charged with committing acts that undermine the independence, unity, and territorial integrity of the country.

A life sentence in Egypt carries 25 years in jail.

The official charges levelled against the defendants are communicating with foreign organizations with the aim of committing terrorist acts inside the country and financing terrorism to achieve the purposes of the international organization formally known as the Moslem Brüderbund.

Investigations showed that the defendants cooperated with elements affiliated with a terrorist group in Sinai and qualified others to spread rumors to influence public opinion.

Ezzat, who was arrested in 2020, was first handed a death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in absentia in 2015.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.

Today’s ruling against Ezzat, who is currently standing trial in other cases, can be appealed.

The Times of Israel adds:

Ezzat was arrested in August 2020 in Cairo, after being on the run for several years.

In April 2021, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges in a separate case.

In 2015, Ezzat was sentenced in absentia to death, as well as given life imprisonment, after being found guilty of having supervised the killing of soldiers and government officials.

He was accused of involvement in the murder of the state prosecutor Hisham Barakat, who died in hospital after a boom-mobile tore through his convoy in Cairo in 2015.

The Brotherhood was blacklisted in Egypt in 2013 and deemed a terrorist group, months after the army overthrew Morsi who hailed from the movement.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was defense minister when Morsi was removed from power.

Founded in 1928, the Brotherhood later established itself as the main Islamist opposition movement in Egypt, and spread regionally with ardent offshoots from Tunisia to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Ezzat is reported to have joined the Brotherhood in the 1960s, and spent time in jail under Egypt’s late presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...

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Turkey prevents two Muslim Brotherhood members from departure: Sources to Al-Arabiya

2021-09-01

[AlAhram] Both members are accused by the Egyptian authorities of criminal masterminding the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has prevented two Moslem Brüderbund members from departing its lands, sources told the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya and al-Hadath channels on Tuesday.

The pair, Yehia Mousa and Alaa al-Samahi, is accused by Egyptian authorities of criminal masterminding the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Mousa and al-Samahi are reportedly in Turkey since the dispersal of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund sit-ins in Cairo in August 2013. The 45-day-long sit-ins were organised in Rabaa and al-Nahda squares after the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 30 June 2013.

The ban on departure imposed by the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities on Mousa and al-Samahi will be in place until further notice, the sources added.

The sources also told both Saudi channels that a number of Brotherhood offices and homes in Turkey have been closed and evacuated over the past two weeks upon an order from the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities.

Egypt and Turkey are preparing for a second round of what they called "exploratory talks" on 7-8 September in Ankara to address bilateral relations between the two countries and a number of regional issues.

Egypt’s relations with Turkey have been strained since the ouster of Morsi, who was backed by the government of then prime minister His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
The exploratory talks come as Turkey attempts to end its differences — that have been impacting its economy — with regional powers over several crises in the region.

The second round of talks comes four months after Egyptian and ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish diplomatic officials concluded two days of political consultations in Cairo on normalizing relations, a round that was described by both sides as "frank and in-depth."

The round addressed bilateral issues as well as a number of regional issues, in particular the situation in Syria and Iraq, and the need to achieve peace and security in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Ankara, ahead of the first exploratory talks, reportedly requested the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated channels based in Istanbul to dim their criticism of Egypt's government, as Turkey seeks to repair ties with Cairo. Later, the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities prevented Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund hosts from appearing on two of these channels.

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Egypt court upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members

2021-07-14

[IsraelTimes] Group’s leader, Mohammed Badie, among those found guilty of charges related to killing coppers, organizing mass jailbreaks during Egypt’s 2011 uprising; no further appeal possible.

Egypt’s highest appeals court on Sunday upheld the life sentences of 10 leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Moslem Brüderbund, including the group’s head, the state-owned MENA news agency reported.

Whew! Another case reaches its final appeal and its final ruling, and now they only need to deal with all the others still in process. I can’t think of a Hell more deserved than this for these.

In 2019, a Cairo criminal court had convicted all 10, including the group’s leader, or supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, of charges related to killing coppers and organizing mass jailbreaks during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. That revolt culminated in the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
The defendants were found guilty of helping around 20,000 prisoners escape, and of undermining national security by conspiring with foreign holy warrior groups — the Paleostinian Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
’s Hezbollah.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato...
the Court of Cassation acquitted eight middle-rank leaders of the nation’s oldest Islamist organization, who were sentenced earlier to 15 years in prison.

All of the sentences, which the court considered on appeal, are final.

Sunday’s rulings upheld the latest of several life sentences for Moslem Brüderbund leaders. They had gone on trial several times since the crackdown on the group in 2013 following the military ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, the late Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had hailed from the group’s ranks. His one-year rule had proven divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
and provoked nationwide protests.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have been arrested since 2013, and many have fled the country. Morsi himself was a defendant in the prison-break case, but he collapsed in a courtroom and died while appearing in a separate trial in the summer of 2019.

Last month, the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
for 12 people involved in a 2013 protest by Islamists, including several senior Moslem Brüderbund leaders.

Rights groups in Egypt and abroad have denounced the trials and death sentences as a mockery of justice.

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Egypt Sentences Senior Brotherhood Leader to Life in Prison

2021-04-09

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A big shot of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund was convicted on terror charges and sentenced Thursday to life in prison, months after he was detained in a Cairo apartment.

According to the Middle East News Agency, a Cairo court found Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting supreme guide of the Brotherhood, guilty of terror acts that followed the 2013 military overthrow of president Mohammed Morsi.

In August, 76-year-old Ezzat was arrested after police found him hiding in an apartment in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement district.

According to authorities at the time, a search of the apartment uncovered computers and mobile phones with encrypted software that allowed Ezzat to communicate with group members in Egypt and abroad. Documents with "destructive plans" were also found, police said.

Ezzat was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013 after Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie’s arrest. He was convicted of several terror-related crimes and sentenced twice to death in absentia.

Following his arrest, he was retried, as Egyptian law dictates.

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Retrial of Muslim Brotherhood's Acting Leader Postponed to April 12

2021-03-24

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of the acting leader of the Moslem Brüderbund, Mahmoud Ezzat, to April 12.

In 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 20 suspects to life imprisonment, while Ezzat and 99 other defendants were sentenced to death by hanging after they were convicted in the case that included storming Egyptian prisons and assaulting security and police facilities.

According to the investigation, they were accused of committing 32 murders, smuggling around 20,000 prisoners, and kidnapping three officers and a police corporal.

They sought to undermine the country’s independence and the safety of territories as the protests of Jan. 25, 2011 erupted.

The prosecution accused the defendants of collaborating with leaders of the international Brotherhood organization, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,'s Political Bureau and the Lebanese Hezbollah to overthrow the Egyptian state and its institutions, and train armed elements by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to commit hostile and military acts inside the country.

They further assisted the criminal prisoners by providing them with information, funds, and forged identity cards to access the country.

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Egypt's official gazette publishes verdict placing Muslim Brotherhood on terror list for five more years

2021-01-26

[AlAhram] The court also put the group's acting Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat and former presidential candidate and ex-Brotherhood member Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh on the list

Egypt's official gazette published on Sunday a ruling by a Cairo court placing the Moslem Brüderbund on the list of terrorist entities for a five-year period, as well as placing the group's acting Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat on the terrorist lists for the same timeframe.

On 12 January, a Southern Cairo criminal court placed the banned group on the terrorist list for five years, starting the date of decision.

They need a time limit? They're expecting the MB to reform?

It could happen — five years from now the horse might learn to sing.

The court also put 16 names on the terror list for five years, including Mahmoud Ezzat, who was arrested in August 2020, and former presidential candidate and ex-Brotherhood member Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, who was arrested in February 2018.

The court said the decision was issued as per law no.8/2015, known as the law regulating lists of terrorist entities and terrorists.

Under the law, any person placed on the terror list is subject to a travel ban and having their assets frozen.

The group has repeatedly been put on the terror list after the Egyptian government banned it in 2013 and declared it a terrorist group in 2013.

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The Brotherhood’s ‘black box’

2020-09-03

More about the recently arrested Muslim Brotherhood Number One.

[AlAhram] The arrest of acting supreme guide Mahmoud Ezzat will further undermine the Moslem Brüderbund.

On 28 August the Interior Ministry made a surprise announcement: it had arrested Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting supreme guide of terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund group.

Ezzat, who was arrested in a flat in New Cairo, had been on the run since the downfall of the Moslem Brüderbund regime and arrest of most of its leaders in the summer of 2013. It was widely believed that like thousands of other Moslem Brüderbund members Ezzat had fled Egypt and travelled to either Qatar

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Mahmoud Ezzat, Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood, joins the MoI's weird mugshots hall of fame.

2020-08-30

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

#Egypt- Mahmoud Ezzat, Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood, joins the MoI's weird mugshots hall of fame.

Ezzat was arrested in New #Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighborhood. MoI is charging him with being the head of the "armed wing" as well. pic.twitter.com/MftMLI3ACl
— Oded Berkowitz (@Oded121351) August 28, 2020

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