Muslim Brotherhood/Islamist Coup Attempt in Bangladesh

COMMENT: It appears that an Islamist coup attempt in Bangladesh has been foiled (at least for the time being).
Note that the Jamaat-e-Islami (a Mus­lim  Broth­er­hood off­shoot) was a major ele­ment in the coup attempt. If such an future attempt  were to be suc­cess­ful, it would flank India with hos­tile Mus­lim nations–a devel­op­ment that would move the [...]

Al Taqwa Imam Mediating Talks with Taliban?

COMMENT: The Indian media report that Youssef al-Qaradawi is medi­at­ing talks with the Tal­iban. Closely linked to the Bank al-Taqwa, Qaradawi may well be the most impor­tant of the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s reli­gious the­olo­gians.
In part, this devel­op­ment (if true) may well be an out­growth of the State Department’s alliance with the Broth­er­hood, delin­eated in the [...]

Update on Prince Alwaleed, Muslim Brotherhood’s Tech Investor

COMMENT: It’s been a while since we caught up with Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia–a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood func­tionary who has assumed a large pro­file in the invest­ing indus­try, hi-tech in par­tic­u­lar.
Alwaleed has added Twit­ter to the com­pa­nies in which he invests.
Span­ning the divide between West­ern cor­po­rate invest­ing and the realm of Saudi reli­gious austerity [...]

Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

COMMENT: The appar­ent cap­ture and down­ing by Iran of a U.S. drone air­craft raises a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions.
If the account pre­sented in “Debka” can be believed, the pos­si­bil­ity of some sort of “inside job” is one to be care­fully con­sid­ered. (“Debka” is an intel­li­gence newslet­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in Mid­dle East­ern and Israeli national security [...]

Egyptian Army and Muslim Brotherhood Join Forces

COMMENT: While the euro­zone debt cri­sis pro­pels Europe toward German-dominated fas­cism, the “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring” seems poised to bring war and/or fas­cism (“cor­po­ratism”) to the Mid­dle East.
The Egypt­ian army and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood have appar­ently joined forces, amid reports that the Broth­er­hood con­tin­ues to agi­tate for war with Israel.
(The Broth­er­hood is an Islamic fas­cist organization, [...]

Anonymous vs. The Muslim Brotherhood: Hacktivists Deploy against Islamic Fascists

COMMENT: A fas­ci­nat­ing story comes to us from the  vig­i­lant “ter­rafractyl.” The Anony­mous hack­ing milieu has declared war on the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Egypt. I don’t know how tech-savvy the Ikhwan is, or how vul­ner­a­ble their 0perations are to the sorts of gam­bits that can be employed by Anony­mous, but this is a remarkable [...]

Depressing, Terrifying Article about Pakistan’s Nukes

COMMENT: The Atlantic has pub­lished an arti­cle that should scare the Hell out of any­one with half a brain. It is no secret that Pak­istan, while nom­i­nally a U.S. ally  and the recip­i­ent of vast amounts of U.S. aid, actively sup­ports the Tal­iban and Haqqani fight­ers, who are killing U.S. troops, as well as [...]

Update on “A Night in Tunisia”

COMMENT: In the long For The Record series deal­ing with Wik­iLeaks and the Piggy-Back Coups in the Mid­dle East, that tor­tu­ous jour­ney began with the coup in Tunisia, believed by some observers to have been trig­gered by the dis­clo­sure of State Depart­ment cables crit­i­cal of the Ben Ali regime.
As noted by the vig­i­lant “Terrafractyl”, [...]

Oil Importing Arab Economies in BIG Trouble: That Means EVERYBODY Will Be, as well

COMMENT: In the For The Record series about the Piggy-Back Coup(s), we noted that some observers feel that the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood may be hop­ing for the ascent of a sec­u­lar gov­ern­ment, the fail­ure of which would pave the way for their assump­tion of power.
An Asia Times arti­cle fore­casts the col­lapse of the oil-importing Arab economies. [...]

Confirmation of U.S. Support for Egyptian, Mideast Uprisings

COMMENT: A recent New York Times arti­cle pro­vides fur­ther evi­dence of U.S. sup­port for what we have termed “Piggy-Back Coup.
A bullet-point syn­op­sis of this com­plex inves­ti­ga­tion is available.

“U.S. Groups Helped Nur­ture Arab Upris­ings” by Ron Nixon; The New York Times; 4/14/2011.
EXCERPT: Even as the United States poured bil­lions of dol­lars into for­eign mil­i­tary programs [...]