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Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 08:29 PM Mar 2014

Saudi lists Brotherhood as 'terrorist' group

** Wacko, truly wacko.

Islamist group branded along with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, as kingdom cracks down on those it sees as threats.


Last updated: 07 Mar 2014

Saudi Arabia has listed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation along with two al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria.

The decree against the Brotherhood, whose Egyptian branch supported the deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, was reported on Saudi state television on Friday.

Egypt in December listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, prompting the arrest of members and associates and forcing the Islamist group further underground.

Saudi Arabia also listed Jabhat al-Nusra, which is al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has been disowned al-Qaeda, as "terrorist organisations".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/saudi-lists-brotherhood-as-terrorist-group-20143714839487518.html

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