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Tunisia will not follow Egypt in listing Brotherhood as terrorist group
2014-01-12
[Al Ahram] Tunisia's presidential chief of staff, Adnan Nasr, said Saturday that his country will not follow Egypt's decision to list the Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist group.

"Tunisia has great reservations over how the crisis in Egypt is being managed. We know that in all political crises need peaceful solutions. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
there doesn't seem to be any ... and for that we expect difficulties in exiting the crisis," said Nasr in interview with Algerian Al-Shorouk newspaper.

Nasr further added that his country is not "obliged or concerned" by the recent memo issued by the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
informing its members of Cairo's desision to tag the Islamist group as terrorist.

On 25 December, the interim government declared Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
's Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist group, accusing it of links with recent attacks on state institutions and on churches since Morsi's ouster.

The Islamist group denies the accusations.

Rached El-Ghancouchi, the head of Tunisia's defacto ruling Al-Nahda Islamist party, which is ideologiclly affaliated with the Moslem Brüderbund, also critcised Egypt's decision to ban the Moslem Brüderbund.

In a statement on 27 December said that the Egyptian government's move aimed to target the gains of the January 25 revolution, freedom and democracy, and was singling out a political group that is committed to democracy and peaceful activism.

Last Week, Qatar a firm backer to the Moslem Brüderbund, said designating the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist group was "a prelude to a shoot-to-kill policy" against demonstrators.

In response, Egypt summoned Qatar's envoy in Cairo to protest what it described Doha's interference in Egyptian internal affairs.

The decision to designate the Brotherhood a terrorist group also raised the concern of the US State Department, which feared it might hinder the transitional roadmap announced since Morsi's ouster 3 July 2013.

US officials have added that the administration of President Barack Obama
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is not considering, or even discussing, designating the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization.
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