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...More than anywhere else in the Middle East, Iraq is a country emptied of democrats and democratic institutions, thanks to Saddam's quarter century of total repression. Gamal Abdel Gawad Soltan, of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, sees the Iraqi army as Iraq's only credible unifying organization. "It is not in the heritage of Iraqi people to live together without having a strong central government," he explains. So is Saddam II on the way, courtesy of Uncle Sam? Few Iraqis will be thrilled...
...keep the terror network alive. He had moved to Rawalpindi from a base in Quetta that was raided by local police and FBI agents on Feb. 13. Mohammed and another man escaped by leaping from roof to roof. A third man was detained; he turned out to be Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric currently in a U.S. federal prison for plotting to blow up New York landmarks in 1995. After the son's arrest, the two missing men were traced to the house in Rawalpindi where Mohammed was eventually arrested...
Long before Saddam Hussein's face-off against the U.S., another controversial Arab leader provoked U.S. concern in the Middle East, Egypt's President GAMAL ABDEL NASSER...
...been a week of dangerous, teetering triumph for Gamal Abdel Nasser, the new Alexander of the Eastern Mediterranean, a conqueror who has never marched beyond his balcony, a soldier whose victories are made from military defeats, a victor who has never won a war or even a battle. By marshaling the emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah...
...Abdel Reid ’06 was among the first-years turned away by the volunteer checkers from the dining hall last night...