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Brotherhood a terrorist group

Declares Egypt; Islamists defiant; former Morsi-era PM arrested

Agencies
Egypt's military-backed interim government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalising all its activities, its financing and even membership to the group from which the country's ousted president hails.
The announcement is a dramatic escalation of the fight between the government and the Brotherhood, which has waged near-daily protests since the 3 July popularly backed military coup that toppled Mohamed Morsi. An Egyptian court had banned the group in September.
Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education, read out the cabinet statement after a long meeting yesterday, saying: "The cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation."
He said the decision was in response to Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing targeting a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city which
killed 16 people and wounded more than 100. The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the Mansoura attack, for which an al-Qaeda inspired group has claimed responsibility.
" Egypt was horrified from north to south by the hideous crime committed by the Muslim Brotherhood group," Eissa said. "This was in context of dangerous escalation to violence against Egypt and Egyptians [and) a clear declaration by the Muslim Brotherhood group that it still knows nothing but violence. “ “It's not possible for Egypt the state nor Egypt the people to submit to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism," he added.
“Members who continue to belong to this group or organisation following the release of this statement will be punished according to the law, “ the statement said.
Eissa offered no evidence in his speech linking the Brotherhood to Tuesday's attack.
The declaration gives the armed forces and the police the right to enter universities and prevent protests, as "protection to the students”, it added.
However, a member of Muslim Brotherhood's executive council, Ibrahim Munir, vowed that the movement would keep up protests after Egypt’s military-installed government.
Meanwhile, Egyptian police arrested ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's former prime minister Hisham Qandil Tuesday. He is facing jail after being convicted of failing to
respect a court ruling while in office.
The cabinet had come under increased pressure to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist group followingTuesday's bombing.
"Egypt enveloped in sadness... and the government waffles," read the front page banner of the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper yesterday.
Morsi and the Brotherhood's leadership face trial on charges of colluding with militant groups, including the Palestinian