Counter-terror activist Meir Indor has expressed concern over United States plans to provide military assistance to the new Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The New York Times reported that the Obama administration intends to provide military aid in hopes of helping the Egyptian army fight terrorists in the Sinai region.
Indor cited several past incidents in which arming and training Islamist groups did not end well for America, including training Osama Bin Laden and his troops against the Soviet Army, assisting the Iranian army, and the training and arming of the Palestinian Authority forces in Gaza, which later became the Hamas forces in Gaza.
“The trend to strengthen the Egyptian army in the era of a Muslim Brotherhood regime must be reconsidered,” Indor urged.