Word: egyptianizing
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...acting on it. Defense officials announced in early August that they were canceling their longstanding biennial, multilateral "Bright Star" exercise in Egypt because of a lack of available troops. The September game was to feature more than 70,000 troops from about a dozen countries practicing war in the Egyptian desert. In Iraq, the Army's 101st Airborne Division, exhausted and only halfway through its yearlong tour, already has the Pentagon fretting over a replacement. The Department of Defense is pondering what some officials think is a radical step: dispatching U.S. Marines--the nation's pre-eminent quick-and-dirty...
...have the ability to monitor that," says the senior intelligence official. "We don't have regular numbers." But foreigners certainly have been among those killed in military raids. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, testifying before Congress last week, referred to a recent raid in western Iraq in which Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian passports were found on the bodies of dead fighters...
Born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, al-Aulaqi studied engineering at Colorado State University. Friends describe him as warm and adamantly nonviolent. But while living in San Diego he met with an ally of an Egyptian cleric imprisoned for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. The FBI investigated, closing the probe in March 2000. Two months earlier, two hijackers moved to the area. Al-Aulaqi, according to the joint inquiry, held "closed-door meetings" with them. When he moved to Virginia in early 2001, two hijackers followed. After 9/11, al-Aulaqi told the A.P. he didn...
...Ariel Sharon and Israel. His lecture, save for a few jabs at the Israelis, could well have passed for a speech by Colin Powell or President Bush. I knew Egypt was at peace with Israel, but I was surprised by the amount of sincerity and energy the Egyptian government devoted to the peace process. The politician genuinely felt it was vital that there be a general peace between Israel and the Arab world, for the sake of both Arabs and Israelis, which was pleasantly surprising to hear straight from an Arab politician’s mouth, in an Arab country...
...others for the problems of their region and the world. It is this frankness and honesty that really stands apart in my mind, and I think it is grounded in people’s firm understanding of who they are and where they stand in the world. Most Egyptians I have talked to make no illusions about it: they are living in a Pax Americana, in a region beset with strife and economic hardship, and they want two things: jobs and peace. Getting there won’t take an “Operation Egyptian Freedom?...