http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0872473.htmCAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most influential Islamist groups in the Middle East, called on all Iraqis on Thursday to rally round resistance to U.S. forces until they defeat the occupation.
"We hail Iraqi leaders who have rejected the occupation and call on the whole Iraqi people... to form a single front against the occupation, embrace the heroic resistance and strengthen the fabric of national unity until the occupation is defeated," the organisation said in a written statement.
It said Arab and Muslim governments and peoples should provide the Iraqi insurgents with material, moral, political and economic support. "This is the least of the duties of Islam," the statement said.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is illegal in Egypt but tolerated within limits, said it was reminding the Iraqi insurgents to observe Islamic rules and not allow anyone to mutilate corpses or display them in public.
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