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During the past decade, the Abu Nidal Organization, splintered by internal feuds, grew quiet. Abu Nidal was said to be seriously ill. In 1998, after proving too onerous a political burden to his host, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, he resurfaced in Egypt. The next year, he moved to Iraq, relying on his fragile alliance with Saddam Hussein...
...connected to [the hijackers], but we obviously have to be prudent and make sure we notify everyone." Days later al-Rasheed surrendered to Saudi officials in Riyadh. His father Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed told the Associated Press he had urged the young man, who he said was in Egypt when the bulletin was first issued last Tuesday, to turn himself in to authorities. The elder al-Rasheed called his son a peaceful person who "has nothing to do with terror networks." --By Rebecca Winters
...prospect of a new Pax Americana in the Middle East generates little enthusiasm among Arab leaders across the political spectrum, however, and concern over their ability to manage the domestic political backlash against a U.S. attack on Iraq has prompted them to declare their opposition. Both Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and the Saudis have emphasized the need for progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front before any action on Iraq could even be considered. If Powell and the Old Guard prevail over the hawks in the battle for President Bush's ear, he is unlikely...
...Cairo, Egypt 10.6 million...
...seen as more threatening to the stability of the region than Saddam Hussein," says Michael Emerson, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "The continuing violence puts more and more pressure on moderate pro-Western governments such as those in Jordan and Egypt. An attack on Iraq without solving the Israeli-Palestinian situation could lead to a takeover by Islamic fundamentalist factions in those countries...