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...Egypt is leading the developing world in efforts to save the lives of its children. That's according to the U.S.-based charity Save the Children, whose latest State of the World's Mothers report puts Egypt at the top of a list of 60 countries that have curbed the death rate among children - since 1990, Egypt has cut its child mortality rate by an impressive...
...Egypt's success has been based on implementing such basic measures as vaccination drives and promoting oral rehydration therapies, which Save the Children CEO Charles MacCormack believes can save millions of lives lost every year in the developing world. Egyptian government health policies have focused, since 1990, on ensuring that children receive their basic immunizations during their first five years of life. The Ministry of Health and Population reports that 97% of infants today are vaccinated against tuberculosis, pertussis, polio, measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Polio, once considered endemic in Egypt, is now largely absent. And campaigns against diarrhea-related diseases...
...Local health activists are pleased by the findings of Save the Children Report, although they acknowledge that there is still work to be done, especially in the south of the country. "Child mortality rate remains high in rural Upper Egypt," says UNICEF's El Sanadi. Egypt's goal now is to move from the list of developing countries and measure itself with the South European nations along the opposite shore of the Mediterranean...
...Chicago gang member who pulled an armed robbery and got sent to juvenile detention. Later, he went to adult prison for brandishing a gun in Florida, and he stayed there until 1992, when he turned 22. After his release, Padilla embraced Islam, and in 1998 he moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July 24, 2000, he allegedly filled out a five-page "Mujahadeen Data Form," or membership application...
...December 2001, a CIA agent received the Mujahadeen Data Form from an Afghani, who claimed to have found it in a safe house. When Padilla traveled to Egypt in May 2002, U.S. officials were hot on his tracks. They followed him on a flight to Zurich, and then to Chicago. On May 8, as he left the plane at O'Hare International Airport, customs agents pulled him aside and passed him to the FBI for questioning. He was allegedly carrying $10,000 in cash, a cell phone and a book containing numbers of al-Qaeda contacts...