By Stanley A. Weiss and Raphael BenaroyaGSTAAD AND CAIRO–In the early 1990s, Robert Pelletreau, the United States Ambassador to Egypt, met with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Washington, DC. Pelletreau had been asked by then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher to discuss the possibility of Egypt relaxing its repressive stance towards the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political party with a long history of being alternately tolerated and oppressed by the Egyptian government.
“I’ll never forget what happened next,” Pelletreau told the journalist Robert Dreyfuss. “Mubarak sat up sharply, rigidly. ‘These people killed my predecessor!’ Then he raised this huge fist, and he …read more
Source: The Huffington Post