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ARRESTED. Marco Mancini and Gustavo Pignero, officials with SISMI, Italy's military-intelligence agency; for involvement in the 2003 kidnapping in Milan of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a radical Egyptian cleric suspected of ties to terrorism; in Milan. Italian prosecutors are also seeking the arrest of 26 Americans--most of them believed to be CIA operatives--in connection with the abduction of Nasr, who was spirited to Egypt, imprisoned and, he says, tortured under interrogation by U.S. agents about his terrorist ties...
...loose-fitting clothes that cover all but a woman's face, hands and feet. In Egypt, the largest Arab country, with a population of 72 million, the hijab has become decidedly mainstream. Designers, stylists, boutiques and fashion magazines make up a booming new industry serving the growing percentage of Egyptian women who choose to dress the Islamic way. Foreign brands have begun to cash in on the trend, as well; among the unlikely co-sponsors of the runway show were Guess Jeans and the local distributor for the French luxury house Chopard...
...Some Egyptian women have gone so far as to adopt the niqab, the face-covering, head-to-toe formless black gown worn in Saudi Arabia, where religious police enforce the ultra-conservative Wahhabi brand of Islam. Anthropologist Huda Lutfi, who is unveiled, says that in the Egyptian context, the trend is not as regressive as it might seem to Westerners. "Women feel that as long as they are wearing the hijab, they are respected on the street in the eyes of men," she explains. "The hijab is not a movement for women to go back home, but to be comfortable...
...Road to Paradise" gala, with its splashes of colors and feminine contours here and there, illustrates how Egyptian women are typically applying a loose interpretation to the Islamic injunction for women to safeguard their chastity and avoid the attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show...
...There is still a chance a deal could be worked out, though the efficacy of Egyptian mediation efforts are, at this point, questionable. Some reports assert that Shalit's captors have significantly scaled back earlier demands for the release of more than 1,000 prisoners. And Shalit's father, Noam, has publicly called for the Israeli government to release prisoners, as it has done in the past, in order to bring his son home...