Word: ghazala
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...work of suicide bombers. The first explosion came shortly after 1 a.m. local time in the old market, an open square surrounded by shops that are often filled with both tourists and locals on weekends. The second attacker struck nearby, driving a car into the lobby of the Ghazala Garden Hotel. The roof collapsed, and police Saturday looked amid the rubble for survivors and the dead. Soon after the first two attacks, a bomb left inside a bag in a parking lot went off, killing six tourists. It's unclear who carried out the assult, though an extremist Islamic group...
...prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...
...When Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala signaled me to go away, I told him to get out of the way. I don't want you,' I said. 'I want this dog, this tyrant Sadat...
Amid the screams and shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah...
...parade, Khaled had ordered other troopers off their truck and substituted the assassins. According to Defense Minister Abdel Halim Abu Gha-zala, the four had purchased on the black market the grenades and guns they used in the attack. "It was very primitive, but successful," said Abu Ghazala. "At this point we do not believe they are part of a larger group...