By Raymond Ibrahim
As former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s trials continue, it’s
enlightening to consider what is likely to be one of the centerpieces:
longstanding accusations that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party
worked with foreign terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, against
the national security of Egypt.
Based on these accusations of high treason, Morsi and others could face the death penalty.
Concerning some of the more severe allegations, one of Egypt’s most widely distributed and read newspapers, Al Watan, recently published what it said were recorded conversations between Morsi and Muhammad Zawahiri (see picture, above), Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri’s brother. In these reports, Watan repeatedly asserts that Egyptian security and intelligence agencies confirmed (or perhaps leaked out) the recordings.
Much of the substance of the alleged conversations is further corroborated by events that occurred during Morsi’s one-year-rule, most of which were reported by a variety of Arabic media outlets, though not by Western media.
In what follows, I relay, summarize, and translate some of the more significant portions of the Watan reports (verbatim statements are in quotation marks). In between, I comment on various anecdotes and events – many of which were first broken on my website – that now, in light of these phone conversations, make perfect sense and independently help confirm the authenticity of the recordings.
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As former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s trials continue, it’s
enlightening to consider what is likely to be one of the centerpieces:
longstanding accusations that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party
worked with foreign terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, against
the national security of Egypt.Based on these accusations of high treason, Morsi and others could face the death penalty.
Concerning some of the more severe allegations, one of Egypt’s most widely distributed and read newspapers, Al Watan, recently published what it said were recorded conversations between Morsi and Muhammad Zawahiri (see picture, above), Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri’s brother. In these reports, Watan repeatedly asserts that Egyptian security and intelligence agencies confirmed (or perhaps leaked out) the recordings.
Much of the substance of the alleged conversations is further corroborated by events that occurred during Morsi’s one-year-rule, most of which were reported by a variety of Arabic media outlets, though not by Western media.
In what follows, I relay, summarize, and translate some of the more significant portions of the Watan reports (verbatim statements are in quotation marks). In between, I comment on various anecdotes and events – many of which were first broken on my website – that now, in light of these phone conversations, make perfect sense and independently help confirm the authenticity of the recordings.
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