{"id":652953,"date":"2017-01-23T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/01\/23\/cutting-the-ikhwan-out-of-the-picture-leaves-room-for-greater-threats\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T04:40:17","slug":"cutting-the-ikhwan-out-of-the-picture-leaves-room-for-greater-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/01\/23\/cutting-the-ikhwan-out-of-the-picture-leaves-room-for-greater-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the Ikhwan out of the picture leaves room for greater threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cutting the Ikhwan out of the picture leaves room for greater threats:<\/strong> While their strength does represent a threat to the United States, pushing the Ikhwan entirely off the board \u201cmay snowball into a far more perilous status quo,\u201d as it creates room for ultra-extremist groups to advance. A recent research report from the CIA, picked up by Asharq Al-Awsat<\/a>, argues that (as Hosni Mubarak had in the days before his ouster) the Ikhwan \u201care an essential curbing factor for all extremist groups,\u201d although \u201cCIA intelligence experts have warned as well that the fundamentalist organization cannot be trusted.\u201d The report suggests that the Mubarak-era paradigm of a half-baked alliance with the group might be best.<\/p>\n

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