Word: egyptians
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Much of Egypt's vast population of 55 million survives barely above the level of subsistence and would seem an ideal constituency for Saddam. Yet notwithstanding the presence of radical and fundamentalist sentiment, his appeal there is limited. One reason is the bitter experience of thousands of Egyptian laborers maltreated in Iraq at the hands of their employers; hundreds are believed to have been killed. Another reason may be the strong leadership of Hosni Mubarak. By supporting the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Saddam, Mubarak won considerable financial benefits. Both nations have forgiven billions in Egyptian debts, for example...
...Arab world might actually rise. After all, he would be expected to lose a fight with a superpower, but he might well gain respect for standing up to the U.S. hard and long. In both the U.S. State Department and the Middle East, experts note apprehensively that Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956 and Anwar Sadat in 1973 suffered severe military beatings yet gained heavily in prestige -- Nasser so much so that he became the predominant leader of the Arab world. True, the analogies are very far from perfect. The U.N. and U.S. in effect reversed Nasser...
Bush claims that an international force has united against Iraq. Yet this force would not exist were it not for U.S. pressure. U.S. bribes and threats are all that hold this "coalition" together. The U.S. had to forgive Egyptian and Turkish debts to gain support. On the other hand, anticipating a "no" vote by Yemen on a recent U.N. Security Council resolution, the American ambassador was instructed to tell the Yemeni envoy that it would be "the costliest `no' vote you will ever make...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, supposedly one of the U.S.'s staunchest allies, has stated categorically that Egyptian troops would not invade Iraq...
...there was a banging on the door. I crept up and looked through the pinhole. Two heavyset men in dirty Arab dress stood there. One of the faces seemed to stare right at me. They were studying the nameplate on the door. I had posted the name of an Egyptian friend, Amr-Al-Arabi. They muttered something to each other and left. I was elated...