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...right - or wrong. The next FIFA presidential election, for which Blatter put himself forward last month, will be held in Korea in May. The man who is taking Blatter on: Issa Hayatou, the president of African football, who last weekend announced his candidacy at an African soccer conference in Cairo. Hayatou enjoys the support of the leadership of UEFA, the body that governs European football and is one of FIFA's biggest constituencies. As ever with football, there are agendas within agendas: UEFA is headed by Lennart Johansson, whom Blatter defeated for the FIFA leadership in 1998. But even with...
...Relations between the FBI and the US Embassy have improved since Bodine was replaced by Edmund Hull, formerly of the State counter-terrorism bureau and the US Embassy in Cairo. Hull and FBI officials have enjoyed a good relationship in the past, and that solidarity is crucial because while Saleh has pledged to cooperate with the international anti-terrorism effort, FBI officials fear he may falter to out of concern for domestic political repercussions. FBI officials know they don't have the clout to convince Saleh to stay the course - so they hope the State Department and the White House...
...restating an old formula for Middle East peace at a critical moment, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud not only grabbed this week's headlines, he shifted the terms of debate on the troubled region and caused something approaching a diplomatic earthquake felt in Jerusalem, Cairo, Europe and Washington...
...knows the concerns of his audience and pounds away relentlessly at the points where those are most at odds with American behavior. That leaves Charlotte Beers very little to work with. As observers who watched her recently trying to sell U.S. foreign policy to a skeptical audience in Cairo noted, the pitch was great, but the audience was never going to love the product...
EGYPT Holiday Express to the Inferno A train crammed full of passengers returning home for the Eid al Adha holiday caught fire en route from Cairo to Luxor. The driver kept going for 7 km, the wind fanning flames. Bars on some windows prevented escape, but many people jumped and some survived with injuries. Relatives went to identify the remains of the more than 360 dead in Cairo's central morgue, but many were burned beyond recognition. The Minister of Transport and the head of the state railway system resigned...