The claim came as the Obama administration, with the assistance of
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and the open
involvement of the No. 2 man at the U.S. State Department, made a concerted
effort to see Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt released.
In an interview with the News Agency Anatolia in Turkey , Saad Al-Shater, the
son of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater, said his father
“had in his hand” evidence that will put Obama in prison.
In a thinly veiled threat, Saad Al-Shater said a U.S. delegation was sent to Cairo by Obama to press for
the release of the imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including his father
to prevent the release of explosive information.
Arabic-speaking former PLO member Walid Shoebat has translated the
report by the Turkish News Agency Anatolia as follows:
In an interview with the Anatolia News Agency, Saad Al-Shater, the
son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, the detained Khairat Al-Shater, said that
his father had in his hand evidence that will land the head of United States of
America , President Obama, in prison. He stressed that
the senior U.S. delegation currently
visiting Egypt , knows full well that
the fate, future, interests and reputation of their country is in the hands of
his father, and they know that he owns the information, documents and
recordings that incriminate and would condemn their country.
Such documents, he says, were placed in the hands of people who
were entrusted inside and outside Egypt , and that the release
of his father is the only way for them to prevent a great catastrophe. He
stated that a warning was sent threatening to show how the U.S. administration was
directly connected. The evidence was sent through intermediaries which caused
them to change their attitude and corrected their position, and that they have
taken serious steps to prove good faith. Saad also said that his father’s
safety is more important to the Americans than is the safety of Mohamed Morsi.
Writing in his blog,
Shoebat noted that six different Arabic sources confirmed the interview with
Saad Al-Shater and the report of Al-Shater’s claims.
Shoebat said the interview with Saad Al-Shater was Aug. 7, making
it likely the reference to the “senior U.S. delegation currently
visiting Egypt ” was about the trip by McCain,
Graham and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.
On Aug. 6, with interim Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei,
the former general director of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency,
McCain and Graham called Khairat Al-Shater and other jailed Muslim Brotherhood
leaders “political prisoners.” They told reporters in Cairo that failing to release
Muslim Brotherhood prisoners would be “a huge mistake.”
On Aug. 6, the Associated Press reported the Egyptian government planned to
prosecute Khairat Al-Shater and the other imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders
on charges of inciting violence last December when Muslim Brotherhood members
attacked sit-in protestors outside then-President Mohamed Morsi’s office,
resulting in the deaths of 10 people.
ABC News reported that Burns traveled separately late
Sunday night, Aug. 4, to the notorious Tora Prison in the middle of Cairo to meet with Khairat
Al-Shater, despite claims by the Muslim
Brotherhood that Al-Shater refused to meet.
In an Aug. 6 interview with CNN in
Egypt, McCain mentioned jailed Khairat Al-Shater, an openly
acknowledged Muslim Brotherhood leader, when asked about individuals who could
successfully negotiate a future Egyptian government.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, legal representative for
Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson, claimed this week that intelligence
officers with knowledge of the attack on the Benghazi consulate believe it was
was tied to 400 surface-to-air missiles intended for Syrian rebels that U.S.
officials feared could be used to shoot down an airliner or attack a U.S.
embassy.
Two weeks after the Benghazi attack, WND
was the first to report sources
claiming the Benghazi compound was an
intelligence and planning center the CIA used to recruit and arm Islamic rebels
to fight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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