GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Netanyahu warns against radical Islam

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: UPI

08February2011 9:15amEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: JERUSALEM — The uprising in Egypt could result in the country falling into the hands of radical Islamists, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned.

Speaking to a delegation of 400 European lawmakers and members of European Friends of Israel who visited the Knesset Monday, Netanyahu said Islamists may try to take advantage of the situation in Egypt, Haaretz reported Tuesday.

"Egyptians can choose a state with secular reforms. However there is also another possibility, that the Islamists will exploit the situation in order to gain governance over the country and lead it backwards," the Israeli daily quoted the prime minister saying.

"The third possibility is that (Egypt) will go in the direction of Iran" and "oppress the country and threaten all those surrounding it," Netanyahu said. (read full report)

 

 

 

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