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...Arafat so far is not taken with the retired general. "He treats me like a soldier who's supposed to obey orders," Arafat told aides after their first meeting. Another mediator who failed to bond with Arafat last week was Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. Usually, Arafat counts on Egypt to support his positions, but this time the Palestinians didn't like what Maher had to say. In a three-hour meeting with Arafat on Thursday, Maher told him his Fatah faction was linked too closely in international eyes with the terrorists of Hamas. "You have to dissociate yourself from...
...Islamic world, the tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...
...Enticed by U.S. promises of aid and a rethinking of Sudan's appearance on the terrorist list, and pushed hard by Egypt, Sudan began rescinding its support for terrorism a year ago. Its cooperation against the Islamists jumped noticeably after the Twin Towers fell, as terrorist suspects were detained or expelled. A few weeks ago, Sudan began handing Washington rich files from the years it spent monitoring al-Qaeda and extremist affiliates passing through...
...Laden tape, but rather Israel's decision to declare Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" and cut all ties with him that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon...
...Egypt's concerns are echoed in Jordan, the only other Arab nation to have signed a peace treaty with Israel. A commentary in the Jordan Times warns of catastrophic dangers if Sharon succeeds in toppling Arafat. And like the Egyptians, they're alarmed at the U.S. position. "Where is the moral authority of the world's only superpower? Where are its ethics and principles when international pressure is needed on the Israeli side? By destroying the PNA and Arafat, Sharon intends to erase the peace process altogether... One does not need to be a world statesman to predict the fallout...