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...logic of the cigarette boycott may be questionable - like many other "American" goods on the boycott list, the Marlboros on sale in Egypt are actually produced here - but it does provide an emotional outlet for anger against America, whose unconditional support for Israel, people believe, enables what they see as the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Palestinian society. The guilty Marlboro-smoker must typically have prepared some defense, as my friend Amr did last week: "I just came back from Ramallah, and I'll have you know, it makes no difference on the ground what you smoke...
...private, Saudi officials have trashed the speech. Last month, after Prince Saud and the foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt met with Bush at the White House, the prince tried to put the best face on things, saying he was "much impressed" by Bush's commitment to a three-year timetable for a Palestinian state and an eventual end to the Israeli occupation. Still, says a U.S. official, "our reputation is at a low ebb, and so it's harder for the Saudis to do things in public view with...
...private, Saudi officials have trashed the speech. Last month, after Prince Saud and the foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt met with Bush at the White House, the prince tried to put the best face on things, saying he was "much impressed" by Bush's commitment to a three-year timetable for a Palestinian state and an eventual end to the Israeli occupation. Still, says a U.S. official, "our reputation is at a low ebb, and so it's harder for the Saudis to do things in public view with...
...earned him the sneering nickname at home of "Bush-arraf." While publicly supportive of the President, the U.S. doesn't want to appear to be banking on just Musharraf. "There are other people who have high skills and political savvy," says a State Department official, who compares Pakistan with Egypt after Anwar Sadat was assassinated and replaced by Hosni Mubarak. "It doesn't all rest on this individual...
...officials speculate that he may have been depressed about personal problems. They want to know more about why police were once called to his apartment complex in Irvine, Calif., 44 miles south of the airport, to handle a domestic dispute involving him and his wife, who recently returned to Egypt with their two sons. After the airport attack, she was questioned by Egyptian authorities. The Fourth of July was also a significant day for Hadayet--his birthday, according to the date of birth on his driver's license...