Letter: Watching brief on Egypt situation
Some 40 groups aim to turn Egypt into an Iranian-style fundamentalist state, including Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Gamma al-Islamiyya, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Like al-Qaeda, they use Egyptian theocratic hero Sayyid Qutb's "Signposts" as the basis of their training manual in Islamic fundamentalism and international terrorism.
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If an extremist regime does take over the "heart of the Arab world" and bins the crucial peace treaty with Israel, the last lights will start to flicker out in the whole region.
Dr John Cameron, St Andrews