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Richard, the Angry Arab, and DEBKAfile all have their time and place, but since the Brotherhood goes to the trouble of maintaining a very professional English-language Web site, which has been trumpeting the January 25 mobilization for days (http://www.ikhwanweb.com), I see no need to rely on them for speculation under these circumstances. Currently at the top of Ihkanweb's "breaking news" column: "Protest organisers announce general strike Wednesday and Thursday." On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Gary MacLennan <[email protected]>wrote: There is also a note on the role of the Muslim Brotherhood which has > according to > some reports criticised the mobilisations and according to others adapted a > hands off approach. > > It is probably a good guess that the 'lousy" Brotherhood as the Angry Arab > describes them has misread events and underestimated the capacity of what > appears to be the secular opposition to mobilise against Mubarak. > > It is the opinion of debka.com that if the Brotherhood come out against > Mubarak then he is in trouble. My own prejudices and hopes are that the > secular Arabs can bring down the regime without the help of the > Brotherhood. > -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
