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...shuffles along the marble floor of his Cairo apartment, leaning on a walking stick to ease the pressure on his broken right foot, Saad Eddin Ibrahim doesn't look like a menace to society. Yet according to Egyptian authorities, the 64-year-old sociology professor and civic activist is one of the most dangerous men in the country. This week he is due in court to face sedition charges for a third time - two previous convictions were overturned on appeal, and Ibrahim was released in December after a five-month prison stay (his third in two years). If convicted again...
...Parlindungan is wanted for questioning by authorities in Madrid, who allege he was the right-hand man of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarbas, the leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain. But Parlindungan, who had returned to Indonesia in December 2000 from Spain, mysteriously disappeared last November, after Spanish police arrested Imad and seven other suspected terrorists. "The Indonesians had him in their hands," says a Western intelligence source in Jakarta, "he was under 24-hr. surveillance and then when the request came in for his arrest, he suddenly couldn't be found." This time, though, it's a sure...
...eight are now in custody while Spanish investigators try to flesh out what is still a largely circumstantial case for that connection. The probe centers on the cell?s alleged leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah. He lived with his Spanish wife, a Muslim convert, and their four children in a leafy middle-class neighborhood on the southern fringe of Madrid...
SENTENCED. SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, 62, sociology professor at the American University in Cairo and Egypt's best-known democracy advocate; to seven years in prison for defaming that country; in Cairo. The government claimed that Ibrahim, also a U.S. citizen, smeared the country by alleging election fraud and discrimination against Christians. The harsh verdict appalled democracy supporters, and the U.S. State Department said it was "deeply troubled...
...idea might have seemed funny at the time. Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim wrote a magazine article on what he sarcastically called "the Arab world's contribution to political science." He dubbed it gomlokiya, squeezing together the Arabic words for republic and monarchy. His point was how the new President of Syria had assumed office automatically after his father died, even though the country hadn't been a hereditary kingdom for centuries. Readers also chuckled at the pun: it rhymes with molokhiya, a word for a vegetable soup that Egyptians use with comic effect to describe a mess...