Dr. Mohammed Jamal Hishmat, a leader of the legal Muslim Brotherhood bloc in the Egyptian Parliament, was invited last Tuesday to participate in a famous "political duel" against the Kuwaiti writer Sami Annisf, on the popular "Opposite Direction" debate program on Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Arabic Satellite Channel. This program is watched by millions of Arabs around the world, because it is a rare occasion to see real political battles live.

During the program, Dr. Hishmat continued: "Another one, LaRouche[with emphasis] -- this man was a presidential candidate in the U.S. -- he says: 'The financial system is the potential reason behind this crisis.'" The moderator then interrupted him, trying to pull him back to the old argument about the "Islamist taking revenge against American." Dr. Hishmat insisted: "No, No. What I am saying is that this is a probability. What I am saying is that we have to discuss the reasons, so that this will not be repeated. Otherwise, we will enter into a cycle of revenge and retaliation which will never end. This will not only threaten the U.S., but the whole [world]. Even LaRouche [emphasizing once again], who is an American presidential candidate, when he was asked about the identity of those who conducted this operation, he said: `In a certain sense, these people must have come from inside our country, people with a high level of military training on special operations. Otherwise this would have been impossible.'"

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