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This week, Christopher de Belleg, looks at the impact of recent events in the Middle East on the Muslim Brotherhood and its global

reach.

In 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and as American forces poured into the Middle East

to expel the occupiers, a meeting was held in distant Pakistan

to protest against this Western interference.

A roll call of senior members and associates of the Worldwide Muslim Brotherhood.

One of them was extraordinary when we met in Pakistan after the invasion of American

and Alliance to the Gulf in 1990.

Because at that meeting, Dr. Travi even came from Sudan.

He was very powerful at that time and Najmudin Arbikin from

Taki from Turkey and the Khadar has said Ahmed

amir of the mad Islami of Pakistan and the Amashur from Egypt and others from Malaysia, from Indonesia.

Kamal-Bawi, a roving ambassador for the Brotherhood at the time.

We had issued a statement at the time and then we thought and implemented a delegation to visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwaiti people, and the Iraqi people and the Iranians

to ask them to find a way out and not to destroy the region.

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