The U.S. government has been quietly funding anti-Muslim Brotherhood political activists in Egypt for the past few years, Al Jazeera reports in a story being touted as an exclusive.
The report comes just days after Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohammed Morsi was ousted from office by the Egyptian army. Due to Al Jazeera's perceived bias towards the Muslim Brotherhood, however, some are already being critical of the story.
According to the Qatar-based news organization, the funding of Morsi's political opponents was part of a "wider Obama administration effort to try to stop the retreat of pro-Washington secularists, and to win back influence in Arab Spring countries that saw the rise of Islamists, who largely oppose US interests in the Middle East."
