Sleeping With The Devil by Robert Baer

Author:Robert Baer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

IF ONLY EGYPT, which spawned the Brotherhood, had done the same. Instead, it let things drift and paid the price. Even after Nasser banned the Brothers in 1954, al-Azhar University continued to crank out fundamentalist preachers. Modest neighborhoods in Cairo, such as Abdin - where Muhammad Atta, the presumed team leader of September 11, grew up - were heavily under the influence of the Brothers, as were parts of Alexandria and Assyut.

The world witnessed the bloody consequences on October 6, 1981, when Egypt’s Islamic Jihad - another name for the militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood - assassinated Anwar Sadat. I’ll never forget watching the TV clips played over and over the next day. The brazenness of the attack, in broad daylight, in front of the world’s press, in the middle of a military parade, oblivious of Sadat’s bodyguards, suggested a group that would stop at nothing. They all knew they would die in the attack or be executed at the end of a show trial. But death wasn’t a threat, and Sadat wasn’t the end of it. In 1993 the Muslim Brothers, again under the name of the Islamic Jihad, tried to kill the interior minister and later the prime minister. In 1995 they tried to kill Hosni Mubarak while he was visiting Ethiopia. Two years later, the Brothers attacked the temple at Luxor, killing fifty-eight foreign tourists and four Egyptians.

And, of course, they attacked once more on September 11, 2001, in New York City and suburban Washington, D.C. I’ll never forget watching those TV clips over and over, either. The press kept calling the attackers al Qaeda, thanks to Osama bin Laden’s relentless publicity machine, but it was the Muslim Brothers through and through - the same crew we had used to do our dirty work in Yemen, Afghanistan, and plenty of other places. Only now we had become their dirty work, and Saudi Arabia their home.

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