Osama Death Middle East

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative organisation with links around the Islamic world, has condemned the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces as an "assassination."The Brotherhood, which seeks the establishment of a state run according to Islamic principles through peaceful means, is Egypt's most powerful and organised po...

The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some. But after his death, a man who once vowed to liberate the Arab world was reduced to a footnote in the revolutions and uprisings remaking a region that he and his followers had struggled to understand. In the Middle East, reactions...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative organisation with links around the Islamic world, has condemned the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces as an "assassination."The Brotherhood, which seeks the establishment of a state run according to Islamic principles through peaceful means, is Egypt's most powerful and organised po...

The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some. But after his death, a man who once vowed to liberate the Arab world was reduced to a footnote in the revolutions and uprisings remaking a region that he and his followers had struggled to understand. In the Middle East, reactions...