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...evidence that torture can produce bad intelligence. The Administration's claim before the Iraq war of a link between Saddam and al-Qaeda, according to a report in the New York Times, was based primarily on the statements of an al-Qaeda prisoner the U.S. had handed over to Egypt in January 2002--who later said he had fabricated the claim to avoid torture. With more unwelcome attention to the CIA's interrogation record, covering his spies' tracks isn't Porter Goss's only p.r. problem...
...room. Essam el-Erian, chief political strategist for the banned but officially tolerated fundamentalist group, performs evening prayers with a dozen other officials and then starts working the phones like James Carville, checking on the results of the final round of the parliamentary elections held last week in Egypt. The early returns are promising. Later that evening, he heads to the Brotherhood's operations center, where banks of computers and election charts, rather than Islamic symbols, line the walls. By then, with the Brotherhood victorious in one race and ahead in others, el-Erian is beaming. "Mabrouk!" he shouts...
...network and coordinate international operations. His network has forged links with jihadist groups in Europe that may be planning attacks similar to the London bombings last July. According to Arab counterterrorism authorities, since his arrival in Iraq, al-Zarqawi has been involved in attacks in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco and, most recently, the Nov. 9 triple-suicide bombing in Jordan. And American counterterrorism officials are worried that al-Zarqawi may also be reaching out to extremists hidden in the U.S. "He's certainly trying to assume the mantle of bin Laden," says an American intelligence analyst...
...Bush Administration's Arab democracy campaign is helping bring change to Egypt, if not quite the sort Washington is after. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which strongly opposes U.S. intervention in Iraq and support for Israel, won 76 seats in the first two rounds of parliamentary elections and could gain a total of 100 once the final vote is completed this week. Says Abdel Monem Said of Cairo's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies: "Everyone is surprised, perhaps even the Brotherhood...
...categories—funding to explore countries for future student programs, and grants that establish trips students can take part in immediately.William Granara, professor of the practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, will use his fund to investigate the American University of Cairo and Cairo University in Egypt, to consider them as potential sites for summer study, or academic years abroad, for interested students. One grant for more immediate use went to Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett professor of physics, who proposed sponsorship allowing students to work in his laboratory at the world-renowned CERN in Switzerland...