Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that the Muslim Brotherhood, which the authorities classify as a “terrorist” organization, threatened the army to target the country’s security three times, including one murder threat by the organization’s first deputy guide, Khairat al-Shater.
During a celebration of Eid al-Fitr with the families and sons of the martyrs on Monday, Sisi revealed details of these threats. He said that they first started with the late former defense minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who warned Sisi that in the event that the results of the elections “do not come in the interest of President Mohammed Morsi (the late president affiliated with the Brotherhood), we will burn the country.”
