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...Egyptian investigators are looking into possible links between Monday night's mayhem and two other major terrorist attacks on the Sinai Peninsula's Red Sea coast in the past 18 months. Fifteen Egyptians are currently on trial for the October 2004 attack on a hotel in Taba that killed 34 and a blitz last July in Sharm El Sheikh, the Sinai's premier resort, that left at least 64 dead. Egyptian officials believe that the accused operated an Islamic extremist cell in the Sinai, calling itself Tawheed and Jihad and relying on sympathetic local Bedouin for logistical support...
...Nile. "The question is what way we go." For centuries, suspicion and mistrust have flowed as freely as water in the Nile. So dependent is Egypt on the river that rulers since the Pharaohs have regularly cajoled and threatened upstream nations to ensure that their tampering did not leave Egyptians dry and hungry. In 1270, the Orthodox Church in Cairo exercised its control over Ethiopia and the Blue Nile by refusing to send a bishop to anoint an Ethiopian King. In the 20th century, Egypt signed a treaty with Britain that essentially gave Cairo full control over the Nile...
...onetime refuge, also implored other Arab leaders to vouch for his lack of involvement in 9/11 and hold an Arab summit. The idea, apparently, was to try to show solidarity with the U.S. and other U.S.-friendly Arab regimes. "The Sudanese and Libyans sounded very afraid to their Egyptian and other interlocutors," the cable says. The Sudanese ambassador "had a quivering voice" in a call to the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs, the cable says, and Sudanese president Bashir's message to Mubarak "was more an urgent plea for help than a reasoned discussion.... The Sudanese still seemed to believe...
...Qadhafi may be even more afraid," the cable says, "despite the more solicitous Egyptian response," which included a Sept. 17, 2001, trip to Tripoli in which Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher quietly met with the Libyan leader...
...Democracy activist Kassem is vice chairman of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm