Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imbaba neighborhood, Islamic fundamentalists have taken charge, running protection rackets and intimidating the police. Gun battles have disrupted the southern city of Asyut as heavily armed police raid the havens of militants. Terrorists have set off bombs in the cities along the Nile, where tourists, foreign residents and Egyptian Christians are usually the targets. The violence ignited by extremists and police retaliation has killed 116 people in the past year, 29 in the past month. In a brutal campaign to put down the militants, the government has rounded up thousands of suspects and ordered almost 100 held for military trial...
Could Egypt be going the way of Iran? That question will be on the mind of both Bill Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when the two men meet in Washington this week. Though fundamentalists are at odds with all the secular Arab governments of North Africa, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, Mubarak is a special target. His country has not only made a separate peace with the archenemy, Israel, but has also joined the Western alliance in the Gulf War and continues to work closely with...
...possibly is related to an ancient Egyptian idea that as the heavens rise during the day it is equivalent to birth, middle age, old age and death," he says...
...EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT KNEW IT WAS GOING TO face charges that it is in Uncle Sam's pocket. So it tried to pretend that Mahmud Abohalima asked voluntarily to go back to the U.S. In fact he was arrested by Egyptian security forces in a town near Alexandria and flown back last Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area...
...they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though it is still not certain if he was referring to Al-Salam Mosque in Jersey City, where Salameh worshipped on occasion and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Egyptian cleric, often preaches...