US, UAE Plan Joint Anti-Terror Project, But Differ Over What Constitutes a Terrorist Group

President Obama’s plan to establish a counterterror communications hub as a joint project with the United Arab Emirates is ironic, given the differences between the two governments over the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in fostering extremism leading to terror, a U.S. counterterror analyst says.
That difference has been most evident in the UAE’s decision last November to include a handful of groups associated with – or suspected of associations with – the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on a new list of more than 80 terrorist organizations.

 

At last week’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) summit, Obama announced that the U.S. and UAE would together “create a new digital communications hub to work with religious and civil society and community leaders to counter terrorist propaganda.”

 

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