Excerpts: Egypt's Islamists back Baradei against Mubarak.Saudi Arabia
reports Al-Qaeda recruitment of women
June 05, 2010

+++SOURCE: Egyptian Gazette 5 June '10:"Egypt's Islamists back Baradei's
demands "

SUBJECT: Egypt's Islamists back Baradei against Mubarak

FULL TEXT:The banned Muslim Brotherhood announced Saturday(5 June) it would
fully support former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei in
his campaign to amend the Egyptian Constitution as he declared in return the
group was the largest legal political faction in Egypt.

"We are going to collect signatures from all classes of the Egyptian
society in order to support ElBaradei's campaign to amend the Constitution
and reform the political system in Egypt," said Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, the
head of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc.
He added, in a press conference with ElBaradei sitting beside him after
closed talks with the group members, that this would be a first step to back
him.
"We will back his peaceful approach for change," el-Katatni said,
pointing out that his group agrees with the changes ElBaradei demands.
"The Brotherhood is a partner with ElBaradei in the call for change,"
the Islamist MP said.
Of his part, ElBaradei, a potential presidential candidate, said the
Muslim Brotherhood, banned since 1954, was the only legal political faction
in this country.
"The Brotherhood is a model of the strong opposition in Egypt's
Parliament and street. It has a legal standing that the ruling party,"
ElBaradei said.
The Muslim Brotherhood controls fifth of the seats in the People's
Assembly (the Lower House of Egypt's Parliament), which is dominated by the
ruling National Democratic party.
ElBaradei has said he may run in the 2011 presidential vote if there are
constitutional reforms.

+++SOURCE: Saudi Gazette 6 June '10:"Haila Al-Qusayyer funded Al-Qaeda,
recruited women"
By Abdullah Al-Oraifij

SUBJECT: Saudi Arabia reports Al-Qaeda recruitment of wmen

FULL TEXT:RIYADH – Security sources have said that Haila Al-Qusayyer, who
was detained in Buraidah in March, was a “financier of the Al-Qaeda
Organization in the Arabian Peninsula” and that her husband Muhammad
Solaiman Al-Wakeel who was killed in clashes with security forces several
years ago was a member of the organization in the Kingdom.
The sources said that Al-Qusayyer had managed to collect over the last two
years donations for the organization in Yemen by obtaining jewelry as well
as money purportedly for the building of mosques and orphanages in Yemen.
They also said that Al-Qusayyer played a significant role in helping Wafa’
Al-Shehri, the wife of “second man” Saeed Al-Shehri, enter Yemeni territory,
and in recruiting “young girls” from the families of wanted persons and
helping their wives and sisters join up with them in Yemen.
According to the sources, the attempts by Al-Qaeda in Yemen to portray the
female relatives of wanted persons as in the sights of security services are
“no more than a desperate and deplorable attempt to inflame society against
the security services”.
“They are more aware than anyone that the authorities try to protect women
and people’s honor,” they said.
“Whatever the acts of wanted men, no one is responsible for the crimes of
another, and that is the way we deal with all security issues,” the sources
said.
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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA