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Ikhwan: The Muslim Brotherhood

During the spring of 2007, the Bush administration began expanding its diplomatic engagement with independently elected Muslim Brotherhood officials in Egypt. The Brotherhood (known as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen in Arabic), is an influential transnational Salafist movement based in Egypt with affiliates in an estimated 70-odd countries worldwide. In actions that seemed partly influenced by leading analysts’ recommendations, the United States government’s outreach to the Brotherhood renewed contacts that had not cultivated through non-covert channels since 2001...