On 11 October, Ibrahim Mounir, the London-based acting supreme guide of the Moslem Brüderbund, dismissed six of the group’s leaders — Mahmoud Hussein, the Brotherhood’s secretary-general; Mohammed Abdel-Wahab, chairman of the Association of Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund Expatriates; Hammam Ali Youssef, chairman of the Brotherhood’s office in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..., and three members of the Brotherhood’s Shura Council, Medhat al-Haddad, Mamdouh Mabrouk, and Ragab al-Banna — all of whom currently reside in Istanbul.