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For the next decade, Banna played a complex game of three-dimensional chess in Egyptian politics. He enjoyed intimate relations with the royal entourage around King Farouq, getting financial support and political assistance and providing the king with intelligence and shock troops against the left. “Certainly by the 1940s the Ikhwan has an on-and-off close relationship with the palace, and a lot of money was changing hands, and the British would be involved in that,” says Joel Gordon, a Muslim Brotherhood expert. “Anything the palace does is linked to the British.” Banna also developed close ties to two key Egyptian officials, Prime Minister Ali Mahir, an ardent advocate of pan-Islamism, and General Aziz Ali Misri, the commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces. Devils Game How the United States helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam Robert Dreyfuss
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:15:26 +0000

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