News agencies report that Ahmed Meslemani, media advisor to the putsch-appointed president, has sent a suspicious and absurd invitation to what they call a Muslim Brotherhood splinter group for a special meeting.

Perhaps not quite surprisingly, this comes at a time when Mrs. Catherine Ashton, Commissioner for External Relations of the European Union, is visiting Egypt. Media report that this meeting is meant to discuss an initiative regarding the future of the Muslim Brotherhood from which the so-called ‘splinter group’ is supposed to have defected.