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Abdul Rahman asserted, however, that many complaints against SSIS come from "illegal entities" linked to leftist circles opposing USG-GOE links. Abdul Rahman said that many of these activists receive EU funding, but gave no specific examples. Warming to this theme, Abdul Rahman said "leftist NGOs" play a leading role in stirring up the Egyptian street against the GOE.

Abdul Rahman opined that the MB electoral success was not a reflection of real MB influence in Egypt. The Egyptian people, he said, are "culturally and politically immature," and were led astray by MB independent candidates campaigning on the theme that Islam is under attack around the world. Abdul Rahman said U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Israeli operations against the Palestinians, had angered "the poor and the young" in Egypt, and made them susceptible to the MB slogan "Islam is the solution." The MB success in the 2005 parliamentary elections, said Abdul Rahman, "was not a real success nor was it a reflection of their real influence." Abdul Rahman asserted the GOE does not use the Emergency Laws against the MB. The ordinary penal and criminal code is sufficient, he said. The GOE only resorts to the EL in the case of violent extremists.

General Ibrahim Hammad of the Egyptian State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) took the opportunity of Egypt's briefing on regional and international terrorist activities to attack the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the political-social organization founded and centered in Egypt with branches and elements across the Middle East. In preface, Hammad observed that the core challenge in fighting terror in the region is ideological. Some groups maintain ideologies irreconcilable with modernity and the international order, Hammad asserted. Dialogue with extremist groups constitutes a reversal and a set back, he continued.

Moving on from the MB, Hammad said the GOE was gravely concerned by the challenges presented by the proliferation of extremist websites on the Internet. He acknowledged that Egypt was facing difficulty in adapting and responding to these new challenges that were consequences of rapid technological innovations. Terrorists are using the Internet to research plan and execute operations, he asserted. Hammad regretted the lack of international coordination and cooperation to quickly remove from the Internet extremist websites. "If we could shut these sites down we could reduce terrorist operations by 50 percent," he asserted.