Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns seemed to take more interest in the elder al-Shater than any other Brotherhood leader. Burns met with al-Shater for 90 minutes under the cover of darkness in an apparent attempt to work out a solution between the Brotherhood and the new Egyptian government. According to ABC News, attempts were made to downplay the content, duration, and significance of the meeting by a Brotherhood spokesman. Did this meeting include any discussion about what al-Shater might have on Obama? This was the same week that Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went to Egypt to plead for the release of Muslim Brotherhood leaders as well. That same ABC article reports McCain and Graham were “dispatched” by Obama, essentially as emissaries instead of doing so on their own. Why? To work for the release of Muslim Brotherhood leaders on behalf of Obama, not independently as members of a “co-equal” branch of Government. If Hamid is sympathetic to the Brotherhood, why would he help bring Egyptian newspapers that are exposing the Obamas, more exposure?
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:53:15 +0000
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