NYT Report: Obama Seeks To “Forge Closer Ties” With Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Stunning Reversal Of Longtime U.S. Policies…

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Voters in Minya, Egypt, took part in the final phase of parliamentary elections on Tuesday. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party holds the lead.

Overtures to Egypt’s Islamists Reverse Longtime U.S. Policy

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEVEN LEE MYERS

Published: January 3, 2012

CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests.