Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says, "want to destabilize Egypt, the one Arab country that made peace with Israel, so it will be easy for them to destabilize all the countries in this area...
...true that almost every secular Arab state from North Africa to the Persian Gulf confronts a fundamentalist threat. But they would face it even without subversion from abroad. "The problems in Egypt," says a U.S. expert, "stem from problems in Egypt. I don't think Iranian or Sudanese support is the cause for what's going on." Egypt is plagued by a pervasive discontent with the country's poverty, unemployment and corruption and a widespread conviction that things are not getting better. The slogan "Islam is the solution" is embraced by millions of impoverished Egyptians who have been completely disillusioned...
...militias that fight along with the Sudanese armed forces. But the presence of Iranians associated with Tehran's fearsome Revolutionary Guard has convinced Western intelligence agents that far more insidious activities are going on. This is the first time that Persian Shi'ite Iran has allied itself with an Arab Sunni Muslim government, but both regimes share a passionate disdain for neighboring secular states. Now that Libya and Syria are attempting to curry favor in the West by cutting their support for terrorist groups, says Philip Robins, Middle East expert at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, "Sudan...
...reputation throughout the Islamic world for hospitality. Any Muslim is allowed to enter the country without a visa, no questions asked. Israeli intelligence sources say large numbers of fundamentalist Muslims who fought alongside the Afghans in their war against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul ended up in Sudan. Arab countries who had happily shipped off their extremists to Afghanistan were leery of taking them back. Egypt passed a law allowing the execution of any Egyptian who had undergone military training abroad...
...counterattacking them with great precision, targeting guerrilla bases and homes, offices and training centers. In fact, Israel was pounding the country with a blunt and heavy instrument, reducing much of southern Lebanon to rubble. The onslaught was so fierce and went on so long that the U.S. and key Arab states wondered uneasily if the resumption of Middle East peace talks might yet be in peril...