hillary names muslum brotherhood supporter to post

chefdennis · Jan 10, 2009

Something tells me this is NOT about keeping your enemies close to you.........Yea, osamaba is extending a hand to the mUSLUM bROTHERHOOD.......

January 10, 2009
Jihad Watch

Secretary of State Hillary to name advocate of engagement with Muslim Brotherhood as her top adviser on Mideast, Iran

Ross: Brotherhood advocate

Surrender? Complicity? Cluelessness? Some combination of the three?

The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

That's from "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," a 1991 presentation by Muslim Brotherhood operative Mohamed Akram.

This is the group with which Dennis Ross thinks the U.S. should be working.

"Incoming secretary of state Clinton to name Dennis Ross as top adviser on Mideast, Iran," from The Associated Press, January 10 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):

Dennis Ross, a former Middle East peace envoy who served under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, will in all likelihood be appointed a special adviser for the Middle East and Iran under incoming secreatry [sic] of state Hillary Rodham Clinton....
The incoming secretary of state also plans to name former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke to be special adviser for Pakistan and Afghanistan, they said....

Ross was the lead U.S. negotiator in Mideast peace efforts for both Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton. He played a major part in an interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians in 1995 and worked on the failed effort to arrange peace between Israel and Syria and the ultimately unsuccessful 2000 Camp David talks between Israel and the Palestinians....

Holbrooke brokered the peace deal that ended the 1992-1995 Balkans war....

Jeffrey Imm also sends along some background links:

-- U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project - Leadership Group on U.S.-Muslim Engagement

RossDennis Ross' role with U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, which calls for engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood and a change in the U.S.'s stance on Hamas and Hizballah

-- U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Calls for Engagement with Muslim Brotherhood

Background on the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Report

-- Incoming secretary of state Clinton to name Dennis Ross as top adviser on Mideast, Iran - Haaretz - Israel News

U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Critical of U.S. Government's Stance on Hamas and Hizballah

-- Incoming secretary of state Clinton to name Dennis Ross as top adviser on Mideast, Iran - Haaretz - Israel News

U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Calls for Engagement with Muslim Brotherhood

-- Dennis Ross was previously with the Washington Institute for

Near East Policy (WINEP)

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Last update - 11:40 10/01/2009

Incoming secretary of state Clinton to name Dennis Ross as top adviser on Mideast, Iran
By The Associated Press
Incoming secretary of state Clinton to name Dennis Ross as top adviser on Mideast, Iran - Haaretz - Israel News

Dennis Ross, a former Middle East peace envoy who served under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, will in all likelihood be appointed a special adviser for the Middle East and Iran under incoming secreatry of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton is quietly building a new State Department team with seasoned diplomats as she prepares for her confirmation hearings next week, according to Democratic sources and officials familiar with the transition.

The incoming secretary of state also plans to name former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke to be special adviser for Pakistan and Afghanistan, they said.
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Clinton has settled on choices for a number of top positions, including high-profile special envoys who played prominent roles in her husband's administration for South Asia, and pointmen for East Asia and Europe, they said. She will also keep at least two career foreign service officers in critical posts, they said.

Ross was the lead U.S. negotiator in Mideast peace efforts for both Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton. He played a major part in an interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians in 1995 and worked on the failed effort to arrange peace between Israel and Syria and the ultimately unsuccessful 2000 Camp David talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Clinton will retain respected career diplomat William Burns in his current position as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the department's third-highest ranking job, and keep on Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, who oversees the department's far-flung worldwide operations, the sources said.

In addition, they said, Clinton will select Kurt Campbell, a former Clinton administration Pentagon official, to be assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and Philip Gordon, a former director for European affairs at the National Security Council, to be assistant secretary of state for European affairs.

She also intends to name Princeton University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter to be the State Department's next director of policy planning, they said.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the appointments, some of which require Senate confirmation, have not been formally announced. Clinton herself will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday for what many expect will be a relatively painless confirmation hearing.

Her choices for top positions - including earlier selections of James Steinberg and Jacob Lew, both former Clinton administration officials, to be deputy secretaries of state - appear to reflect a desire to bring back or retain current expertise in many of what will become President-elect Barack Obama's most serious foreign policy challenges.

Holbrooke and Ross have long histories of involvement in some of the most intense diplomatic negotiations in U.S. history.

Holbrooke brokered the peace deal that ended the 1992-1995 Balkans war. He was also U.S. ambassador to Germany and envoy to the United Nations during President Bill Clinton's administration and gave foreign policy advice to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries last year.

Burns, who has previously served in President George W. Bush's administration as U.S. ambassador to Russia and assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, was widely anticipated to be kept in his current job, in which he has been a key player in international efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.