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2020-09-03 Africa North
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The Brotherhood’s ‘black box’
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More about the recently arrested Muslim Brotherhood Number One. [AlAhram] The arrest of acting supreme guide Mahmoud Ezzat will further undermine the Moslem Brüderbund.
On 28 August the Interior Ministry made a surprise announcement: it had arrested Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting supreme guide of terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund group.
Ezzat, who was arrested in a flat in New Cairo, had been on the run since the downfall of the Moslem Brüderbund regime and arrest of most of its leaders in the summer of 2013. It was widely believed that like thousands of other Moslem Brüderbund members Ezzat had fled Egypt and travelled to either Qatar
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
via Sudan.
The Interior Ministry described Ezzat as "the Brotherhood’s most wanted man, the group’s black box and criminal mastermind".
The Interior Ministry’s statement said that "the search of the flat where Ezzat was living produced a cache of computers and mobile phones with encrypted software necessary to secure his communications with leaders and members of the group’s International Organisation inside and outside the country" as well as papers containing plans to target the state. So 2% or so.
Somebody is going to have fun exploring that... Following the arrest of the Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohammed Badie, Ezzat, 76, was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013. He was also the head of the Brotherhood’s London-based international organization.
"It would have been difficult to locate Ezzat without the security forces being given information from Brotherhood members who were in contact with him and knew his whereabouts," says security expert Khaled Okasha.
A thought to keep the Brotherhood’s former Number Two up at night... "Ezzat’s strategy had been to change his hideouts regularly, and spread rumours that he had fled Egypt. But security officials knew he was still here and that he was trying to mislead them. What helped him escape arrest for so long was probably the fact he depended on a very limited number of aides."
Former deputy interior minister Mohammed Noureddin said in a TV interview that the laptops and mobile phones which security forces found in Ezzat’s flat will provide a treasure trove of information about the terrorist group.
Maher Farghali, an expert on Islamist movements, said the fact that Ezzat was temperamentally an isolationist had allowed him to escape the security radar for years. "Even during the massive Moslem Brüderbund sit-ins organised in public squares in Cairo and Giza in the summer of 2013, Ezzat, unlike other leaders, chose not to appear in public, even though he was the one orchestrating the sit-ins."
"The arrest of Ezzat will, for a while at least, disrupt links between Moslem Brüderbund elements inside Egypt and branches of the international organization abroad."
According to the Interior Ministry, Ezzat was in charge of forming the Brotherhood’s armed wings and oversaw major terrorist operations.
"Operations criminal masterminded by Ezzat included the liquidation of former prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015, policeman Wael Tahoun in 2015, army officer Adel Ragei in 2016, and the attempted liquidation of the prosecutor-general’s former aide Zakaria Abdel-Azim in 2016." The Interior Ministry statement further accused Ezzat of planning a deadly car blast outside Cairo’s main cancer hospital in August 2019 which killed 20 people, overseeing "the Brotherhood’s cyber militias which spread fake news to stir up confusion and provoke public opinion in Egypt", and managing the "movement of the group’s funds to sponsor terrorist activities".
Security expert Magdi al-Bassiouni, a former deputy interior minister, believes that during his years in hiding Ezzat also orchestrated terrorist activities carried out by the Brotherhood’s armed wings, Hasm
...Decisiveness or Determination, which along with the probably now defunct Lewaa al-Thawra (The Revolution Brigade) are the “fighting arms” of the Muslim Brotherhood — established in 2016 to punish Egypt for the overthrow of President Morsi. It is hypothesized that Hasm is also connected to the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Mourabitoun organization, founded in Libya by the formerly free former Egyptian army officer Hesham El-Ashmawy... and Gond Masr (the Soldiers of Egypt).
...in our archives for some reason as Ajnad Misr. After breaking off from Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, which was then still linked to Al Qaeda, they possibly allied with the Muslim Brotherhood after the Egyptian army evicted the MB from the government. But at any rate they ranked #12 on the UAE terror blacklist, which is always worth reviewing. They mostly blew up Cairo policemen with IEDs they made themselves, but as of 2017 their founder was killed and most of the membership jailed...
Farghali argues the arrest of Ezzat "is a debilitating blow to the Brotherhood both organizationally and in psychological terms.
"The Brotherhood will now resort to its usual narrative of victimhood as it tries to mobilise international human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
organizations against the regime in Egypt."
That process has already begun. On 28 August a Moslem Brüderbund statement said Ezzat was suffering chronic health problems.
Okasha thinks the Brotherhood may now name a younger leader to replace Ezzat as acting supreme guide, and break with the convention the acting guide be present in Egypt. He suggests Mahmoud Hussein as a likely replacement.
Ezzat, born in 1944, joined the Brotherhood in 1962, when he was just 18. In 1964 he was arrested, alongside Badie, and convicted of leading a conspiracy against the regime of Gamal Abdel-Nasser.
Ezzat was released from prison in 1974 under pardon from late president Anwar al-Sadat. In 1981 he was named a member of the Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau, and put in charge of its economic activities. In 1995 he was arrested once again and sentenced to five years in jail.
In 2009, Ezzat was one of the group of hawks who took over the leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. He was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013, following the arrest of supreme guide Badie.
He has received several sentences in absentia, including a death penalty
 , during mass trials of the Brotherhood’s leading members.
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