[Via CBN News]
As former Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s trials continue, it’s enlightening to consider what is likely to be one of the centerpieces of the trial: longstanding accusations that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party worked with foreign terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda, against the national security of Egypt.
Based on these accusations of high treason, Morsi and others could face the death penalty.
Concerning some of the more severe allegations, one of Egypt’s most widely distributed and read newspapers, Al Watan, recently published what it said were recorded conversations between Morsi and Muhammad Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri’s brother.
In these reports, Watanrepeatedly asserts that Egyptian security and intelligence agencies confirmed (or perhaps leaked out) the recordings.
Much of the substance of the alleged conversations is further corroborated by events that occurred during Morsi’s one-year-rule, most of which were reported by a variety of Arabic media outlets, though not by Western media.
In what follows, I relay, summarize, and translate some of the more significant portions of theWatan reports (verbatim statements are in quotation marks). In between, I comment on various anecdotes and events—many of which were first broken on my website—that now, in light of these phone conversations, make perfect sense and independently help confirm the authenticity of the recordings.
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The first recorded call between Muhammad Morsi and Muhammad Zawahiri lasted for 59 seconds. Morsi congratulated Zawahiri on his release from prison, where he had been incarcerated for jihadi/terrorist activities against Egypt, and assured him that he would not be followed or observed by any Egyptian authorities, and that he, Morsi, was planning on meeting with him soon. Prior to this first call, Refa’ al-Tahtawy, then Chief of Staff, mediated and arranged matters.
The presidential palace continued to communicate regularly with Muhammad Zawahiri, and sources confirm that he was the link between the Egyptian presidency and his brother, Ayman Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born leader of al-Qaeda.
It should be noted that, once released, the previously little-known Muhammad Zawahiri did becomevery visible and vocal in Egypt, at times spearheading the Islamist movement.
The next recording between Morsi and Zawahiri lasted for 2 minutes and 56 seconds and took place one month after Morsi became president. Morsi informed Zawahiri that the Muslim Brotherhood supports the mujahidin (jihadis) and that the mujahidin should support the Brotherhood in order for them both, and the Islamist agenda, to prevail in Egypt.
This makes sense in the context that, soon after Morsi came to power, the general public did become increasingly critical of him and his policies, including the fact that he was placing only Brotherhood members in Egypt’s most important posts, trying quickly to push through a pro-Islamist constitution, and, as Egyptians called it, trying in general to “Brotherhoodize” Egypt.
This second phone call being longer than the first, Zawahiri took it as an opportunity to congratulate Morsi on his recent presidential victory—which, incidentally, from the start, was portrayed by some as fraudulent—and expressed his joy that Morsi’s presidency could only mean that “all secular infidels would be removed from Egypt.”
Then Zawahiri told Morsi: “Rule according to the Sharia of Allah [or “Islamic law”], and we will stand next to you. Know that, from the start, there is no so-called democracy, so get rid of your opposition.”
This assertion comports extremely well with his brother Ayman Zawahiri’s views. A former Muslim Brotherhood member himself, some thirty years ago, the al-Qaeda leader wrote Al Hissad Al Murr(“The Bitter Harvest”), a scathing book condemning the Brotherhood for “taking advantage of the Muslim youths’ fervor by … steer[ing] their onetime passionate, Islamic zeal for jihad to conferences and elections.” An entire section dedicated to showing that Islamic Sharia cannot coexist with democracy even appears in Ayman Zawahiri’s book… Keep reading

Jay Boo says
When Pres. Obama first started ‘selling’ the Muslim Brotherhood as a new and improved kinder gentler MB in order to groom us for Morsi, radio station NPR immediately started marching in lockstep while singing praises to Morsi and not doubt clapping like trained seals as well.
The NPR drone continued daily flaunting NPR’s superior enlightenment of ‘the peaceful Islamic MB’ while implying that only a Neanderthal right wing bigot would see a problem with the MB.
Jim says
Wiretap evidence like this is incredible. It’s the strongest form of candid incrimination and Morsi and Zawahiri don’t disappoint. I wonder if the MSM will dare report on it. Won’t they have to if it’s accepted as central to the case against Morsi? One would think ….
Truthiocity says
Al Quada IS the Muslum Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood IS Al Quada.
The amount of Muslim Brotherhood members who have been connected in court to Al Quada, either for material support or for becoming members and engaging in terror is far too large for there not to be a fundamental connection between the two.
Mohamad Attah, Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, Awlaki and the Tsarnaev brothers (who attended not one but two MB mosques started by a man now directly connected to terrorism) are just some of the most notorious. There are many many more who are not as well known to the public.
The number is far too large to be put down to individual choice.
The relationship appears to be exactly the same as the relationship between Sinn Fein and The IRA. With one facet being the public face for interfacing with the governments and the public, while the other facet used for violent direct actions.
The violent facet is kept at arms reach from the political facet for purposes of deniability. Communication between the two facets is either secret or indirect. I.e. via public statements that don’t appear to be directed. Though the communication is indirect it is heard and the facets act upon it.
We saw it in Jordan last year. The MB gave the king an ultimatum to effectively turn the country over to them as happened in Egypt. After the deadline passed Al Quada was found hatching terrorist plots.
This is not the 1st time The Muslim Brotherhood appears to have done this. The same thing was done with Gamaa al Ishmalaya, the organization that commited the Luxor Massacre.
We’re always hearing they have the same exact goal. But the sick truth is they are also the exact same thing. The exact same organization. One side used for political warfare and the other for kinetic. Both the political and the kinetic serve to further the goals of each other.
The British government pretended to accept that believable deniability so it could engage in dialogue with the Irish seperatists through Sinn Feinn. But should US citizens reaction be to our government doing the same?
Al Quada IS the Muslum Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood IS Al Quada.
dumbledoresarmy says
And both are…Islam. The Ummah, the Mohammedan Mob, the allah gang, the de facto empire of Islam.
ApolloSpeaks says
IBRAHIM’S ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION
that Mohammed al-Zawahiri was one of the organizers who planned the rowdy, US flag burning, pro-al Qaida protests on 9-11-2012 outside of the US embassy in Cairo-which Morsi tolerated for four days until he was forced by Obama to stop it.
Moreover, on October 1, 2012 The Wall Street Journal ran a story that US intelligence officials believed M. al Zawahiri put one of the suspects responsible for the terrorist attack in Benghazi in touch with his brother. See Militant Link to Libya Attack – WSJ.com
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: Exposed – The Muslim Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda Connection
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Proof of this alliance should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
It’s good to have a “smoking gun”, though.
Ant this makes Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood even more appalling.