Who is Muslim Brotherhood's Badie, once one of Egypt's most powerful men?


DUBAI (Reuters) - Mohamed Badie, the top leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organisation, was once seen as the Khamenei of Egypt and one of the masterminds responsible for the ascend of the organisation to power following the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Badie was elected in 2010 as the eighth "general guide" of the organisation, which once was the largest and most influential Islamist movement in the Middle East, just one year before the Arab Spring uprisings.

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