Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood

"To complicate things further, the Qataris reportedly have strongties to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood while the Saudis “don’t want any ties to anything called Muslim Brothers,” says Ahmad Zeidan, the nom de guerre of a member of the Idlib military council."  This is not actually accurate. While Saudi Arabia does not enjoy good relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, it has special relations with the Syrian branch which--unlike other branches of the MS--does not have good relations with Qatar, or has not had good relations. This could change of course.