Some leaders from Aznar's conservative party have expressed fears openly -- and many others have done so privately -- that the prime minister's support for the war could hurt the party in Spanish municipal elections on May 25.
Morsi, an American-educated engineer, "represents the older, more conservative wing of the Brotherhood and openly endorses a strict Islamic vision, " said Isobel Coleman of the Council on Foreign Relations -- a view Morsi seemed to try to rebut in his speech Sunday.