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Source: http://www.nysun.com/article/56899
Bush Weighs Reaching Out to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
[New York Sun] Eli Lake - The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam - the Muslim Brotherhood. The current American deliberations take on new significance in light of Hamas' successful coup in Gaza last week. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is widely reported to have helped create Hamas in 1982. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research will host a meeting with other representatives of the intelligence community to discuss opening more formal channels to the Brotherhood.