en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=24536 Saudi Arabia has blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, along with three other Middle East-based militant groups, The Saudi terrorism list also includes the kingdom’s branch of the Shiite movement Hezbollah and Syria-based militant groups the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front. The Brotherhood challenge Khashoggi said unlike ISIS, al-Nusra Front or Hezbollah, which are all armed groups, the Muslim Brotherhood would pose a particular challenge to authorities in Riyadh because it is not so easy to identify and condemn its members. “What are the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the kingdom?,” asked Khashoggi. “These are not so easy to describe and the authorities will need to answer the question of how they plan to respond the group,” Khashoggi said. The Egypt-army backed government had declared the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group in Dec. 2013, after accusing it of carrying out a series of bomb attacks in Cairo. The 80-year old powerful Islamist group, from which former President Mohammad Mursi hails, has been gradually pushed underground by Egyptian authorities since Mursi’s ouster. Many of its members and top supporters have found refuge in Turkey and in the Gulf state of Qatar.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:18:34 +0000
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