Big shocker that the Obama administration would support the Muslim Brotherhood:
WASHINGTON TIMES – The Obama administration issued a quiet warning to Egypt on Thursday using diplomatic and veiled language: Quit arresting members of the Muslim Brotherhood, or the United States will freeze up aid.
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Meanwhile, the new military powers have been detaining key members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the group’s spiritual leader and nine other leading Islamists, accusing them of inciting riots, The Associated Press reported.
The White House advised Egypt’s government to cease and desist.
“The only way this is going to work successfully for the Egyptian people is if all parties are encouraged and allowed to participate and that’s why we’ve made clear that arbitrary arrests are not anything that we can support,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said, AP reported.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki went further: “The arrests we’ve seen, of course, over the past several days targeting specific groups are not in line with the national reconciliation that the interim government and military say they are pursuing. If politicized arrests and detentions continue, it is hard to see how Egypt will move beyond this crisis.”
And, she added, AP reported, that policy heads are considering the arrests as they make their funding decisions.
“We’re looking at what happened last week and how things are certainly handled moving forward,” she said, AP reported. “Those are all factors in our decision-making around our policy as it relates to Egypt.”