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Africa North
Saudis and French side with anti -Moslem Brotherhood military
2013-08-19
Saudi Arabia and France have agreed on giving Egypt's roadmap a "chance," Al Arabiya reported the kingdom's Foreign Minister Saudi al-Faisal as saying Sunday.

"We have agreed on giving the roadmap in Egypt a chance to fulfill security and early elections," al-Faisal said after meeting with France's President Francois Hollande.
[the fact that the Saudis would opt for a joint announcement w the French is fairly obviously a slap at Obama]
After ousting Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Muri on July 3, the country's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the roadmap which includes temporary suspension of the constitution, early presidential elections and a review of proposed amendments to the constitution by experts and a wide-range of Egyptians.
[Saudis have been among the most anti MBrotherhood of any country in the MEast, and their money speaks loudly-- presumably they were frightened that the MB would destabilize Egypt irrevocably and that would ultimately destabilize SArabia itself]
The Saudi royals, it is said, also view the highly organized and widely embedded Muslim Brotherhood as rivals for the shaping of the Muslim outlook, both within the Arab world and among the emigre' community -- Saudi Arabia provides teachers, imams and religious schoolbooks, not to mention funds for building fancy mosques, while the Muslim Brotherhood provides CAIR and Moslem Student Associations and all the other political groups that a now entwined with government and public education at all levels.

No reason they can't be multitasking, though...
Posted by:lord garth

#1  I hope the UK/US support the Egyptian Army too as MB is not the way forward.
Posted by: Paul D   2013-08-19 11:14  

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