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Youssef Nada’s Interview With Ikhwanweb
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| Wednesday, September 5,2007 07:03 |
| By S.Abadi |
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* The war against terrorism serves only US policy Youssef Nada’s name has been linked to US campaign against terror in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. Although he was cleared of all alleged charges fabricated by intelligence agencies, Nada returned to the spotlight again after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak referred him along with 39 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders to military tribunal on charges of funding the Moslem brotherhood which is banned by the Egyptian regime. The falsification of the charges contradicts with the facts that Youssef Nada left Egypt 1959 and he is under house arrest in Campione d’’Italia (an Italian enclave in the Swiss territory ) also all his assets are frozen all over the world since November 2001 by orders of the UN security council.on charges of financing Al-Qaeda network and terrorism. He is known as the Muslim Brotherhood’s international political foreign emissary. Ikhwanweb had the following interview with Mr. Nada. Ikhwanweb: First of all, what is the latest news about the case of Al-Taqwa bank? Are there any compensation? Will it maintain its business activities? •Yourself Nada: The liquidator of BankAl-Taqwa was forced to liquidate it with total loss five years ago. The compensations case was rejected because Switzerland claimed that the US administration have blacklisted me and ordered the UN Security Council to do so. Consequently, all UN members were obliged to adhere to this. Ikhwanweb: Do you think that the plans for freezing your assets had been prepared in advance or that 9/11 led to it? •Youssef Nada: We found in the FBI files and those of theSwiss Federal prosecutor some indications that they have been watching me since 1981, twenty years before the raids on our offices and houses on Nov.7th, 2001. This bolsters the claim that my activities have been monitored twenty years before 9/11 events. Ikhwanweb: As you are a victim of the so-called war against terrorism; how can you evaluate the course of this war throughout the past six years? Ikhwanweb: What is the right mechanism to confront the spread of the thought of Al-Qaeda movement and jihads groups? •Yourself Nada: I see that Al-Qaeda and the so-called jihads groups behavior can’t be called an ideology. They constitute a phenomenon like other phenomena that appeared at the end of the twentieth century in many places all over the world like the Ku Klux Klan in America and Badmeinerhof in Germany, the Red Brigades in Italy and the Pasc in Spain and the Republican Army in Ireland, the Red Army in Japan and the rest. The only difference is that these are Muslims who convinced themselves and those whom they managed to recruit that their fight is divine orders. What raises eyebrows is that they were convinced that they can change the countries and defeat their armies through the use of knives, pistols , and Kalashnikov. Therefore, they are trained on using them. Ikhwanweb: How do you evaluate Hamas movement’s attitude in the Palestinian territories. Do you support its decision of seizing Gaza? •Youssef Nada: I do not think that Hamas seized power in Gaza. It actually stopped and eliminated killers and thieves from maintaining their crimes of killing and robbing the Palestinian people and they never said that they seized power. Hamas is extending its hands for reaching an agreement for the sake of the country and its people. As the Palestinian Liberation Organization is no longer representing all Palestinians, so it must be restructured to include all factions. Ikhwanweb: What is the effect of this step on the future of the Palestinian cause? •Youssef Nada: The future is still unfolded. However, we believe that Allah supports those supports his cause and Allah does not support work of corrupters. Ikhwanweb: After your great history with the Muslim Brotherhood group, how far can MB activists maintain political and Da’wa (Islamic missionary) activities. Are they still able to continue despite international and regional governments challenges? •Youssef Nada: I still adopt like others the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, a thought which is mainly emerging from the pure sources of Islam which was sent by Allah. We adopted and still adopt this ideology, vowing to live, struggle and die for the sake of this movement. This was and is still our option. We were not persuaded into this line through money or state power positions . During the fortieth of last century the majority of The Moslem Brothers were Students . Ikhwanweb: What is your opinion about the decision of referring you to a military court, however you are outside Egypt? Have you faced any problems inside Switzerland after this decision was issued against you? How do you expect the rulings would be? Will they have any impact on you? •Youssef Nada: The US administration ordered the whole world to co-operate with it in the investigations held with me throughout six years. For example, America, Switzerland and Italy, Bahamas, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Austria, England, Spain, Turkey, Libya, Malta, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt and others co-operated in this field. However, none of them could ever prove that I had ever violated any law any where in the world.. In fact, there are many groundless claims mentioned in Egyptian, Jordanian and Tunisian security reports but still they were notorious ,have no credibility, and no one believe them. Ikhwanweb: Do you think that the US silence towards referring MB leaders to the military court is on purpose? How do you explain the change in the US attitude towards democratization in the Middle East? •Youssef Nada: America has inherited all colonialist behaviors. As the British, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese imperialists acted according to their interests in their colonies, America as a heir to all colonists acts according to the same imperial method. Ikhwanweb: How can you view the current Egyptian regime? Is there any escape to get out of the Egyptian political crisis? •Youssef Nada: Your question about the regime in Egypt is confusing. We can’t see a regime, we don’t know who is its ruler. We don’t care who is ruling but we care how he is ruling. We hope that it won’t reach the point of a civil disobedience and explosion. The national wealth can’t bear any loss. Revolution of the starving people will destroy and burn and then won’t find a living for months or even years. The demolishing and destruction that they may flare up in the country will send the country back to the monolithic age. (look at Iraq and anticipate) . |
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