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...Last Friday the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington rejected the sheik's bid for asylum and upheld a March ruling that he could be deported. He can appeal in federal court -- but that process could be short-circuited by an extradition request filed in early July by Egypt. Cairo has requested his return to stand trial for inciting a 1989 riot outside a mosque in Faiyum, southwest of the capital. But Abdel Rahman is almost certain to fight extradition on grounds that he is charged with a political crime. If in the < end he is deported rather than extradited...
...foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "There is clearly an effort in Cairo to cut the legs off the Islamic movement...
...officials in Washington and Cairo are concerned, jail -- anywhere -- is a far safer place for the sheik to be. Since he first rose to global prominence last February, the state-influenced Egyptian press has been warning darkly of a "crisis" in U.S.-Egyptian relations. Rattled by reports in the U.S. media that depicted Abdel Rahman as "a new Khomeini" and Egypt as a state on the edge of a fundamentalist revolution, Egyptians sniped back that the Americans were bungling the entire affair and turning an otherwise inconsequential cleric into a hero for Egypt's disaffected youth. Mubarak was quoted...
...display: the minuet between expert interrogator and expert evader; the battles in London between men of principle and Old Etonian Iagos; the appearance of a beautiful woman who offers a way out of the spy's maze of mirrors. Without raising a sweat, Le Carre propels us from Cairo penthouses to Cornwall pubs, from Quebecois mining towns to secret islands in the Bahamas, from Miami to London to Panama, all of them evoked with an insider's authority...
London: William Mader Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...