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...calm that is currently prevailing in our territories signals the start of a new era, the start of a hopeful peace." MAHMOUD ABBAS, Palestinian President, on the cease-fire agreement reached between his government and Israel at a summit in Egypt last week...
...DISCUSSING THE POSSIbility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with friendly or at least neutral forces from Arab countries? Egypt and Jordan should assist in the peacekeeping. Muslim countries should help Iraqi Muslims until an Iraqi army is in place...
...Pakistani military cargo planes. Pakistani officials say Khan has testified that the North Koreans were so appreciative that in 1999 they took him on a private tour of their nuclear facilities during his visit to Pyongyang. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and to such African countries as Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger. The purpose of those trips remains unclear, but intelligence officials have hunches: Saudi Arabia and Egypt are believed to be in the market for nuclear technology, and many African countries are rich in raw uranium...
...when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. But as usual, internal Palestinian politics played a key role in getting him there. Abbas agreed to go to Sharm el-Sheikh because he wants to show that he has Egypt's support in his effort to rein in the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Shaken by Hamas' overwhelming victory in last month's municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, Abbas' Fatah Party sees Egypt as a powerful ally in the political battle against the group...
Some Fatah officials are wondering why Egypt is suddenly taking such an interest in Palestinian affairs. The reason, many speculate, may have less to do with optimism over Abbas' recent election than with growing pressure for Cairo to make sweeping changes in its authoritarian rule. In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush expressed hope that Egypt, having shown "the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East." That repeated, almost word for word, a line Bush used in a 2003 speech. As Bush's speechwriters...