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Precedent, though, is not encouraging. Last year the Greek Justice Minister overruled a court decision favoring an Italian extradition request for Palestinian Abdel Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing...
Sweden's Andersson and Egypt's Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid told Shultz they still had a shot at persuading Arafat to take the required extra steps. In Geneva, Abdel-Meguid carried his plea personally to Arafat when the two dined together on Tuesday night. In Geneva, U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters was asked by Momammad Said, a Palestinian-American adviser to Arafat, what Arafat must do to satisfy the U.S. "Just tell him to say in public what he said in private," replied Walters. Said passed this along. Andersson resumed his delicate persuasion, meeting twice with Arafat. The Arab moderates...
Mahfouz's untranslated trilogy Al-Thulathiyya (1957) is a 1,500-page family saga that spans 27 years and both World Wars and is read as a microcosm of Cairene society. He supported Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat but gradually grew disillusioned with the colonel's policies. "It is true that the revolution liberated the Egyptian people and pushed them into modern life," says Mahfouz, "but it led to many wars that tired us out." Mahfouz found himself at the center of controversy in 1979 when he publicly backed Anwar Sadat's peace treaty with Israel...
...itself Egypt's Revolution conducted a campaign of assassinations against Israeli and American diplomats in Cairo. Last week authorities announced the indictment of 20 alleged members of the leftist group, which opposes the 1979 Egyptian peace treaty with Israel. One of the alleged leaders was none other than Khaled Abdel Nasser, 38, son of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The name of Khaled's group was an obvious reference to the 1952 revolution led by the elder Nasser...
Prosecutors demanded the death sentence for Khaled for a string of attacks that left two Israelis dead and six Israeli and two American diplomats wounded. Both Khaled and his cousin Gamal Shawki Abdel Nasser fled Egypt a few months ago and have reportedly taken refuge in Europe...