Word: hosni
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Since the war began, foreign reporters in Cairo have been hurriedly summoned to the presidential palace on two occasions for what turned out to be trivial photo opportunities starring Hosni Mubarak. Why the fuss? Mubarak wanted to scotch rumors, spread by Iraqi radio and given wide play in Jordan, that he had been assassinated in a coup...
...notwithstanding the presence of radical and fundamentalist sentiment, his appeal there is limited. One reason is the bitter experience of thousands of Egyptian laborers maltreated in Iraq at the hands of their employers; hundreds are believed to have been killed. Another reason may be the strong leadership of Hosni Mubarak. By supporting the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Saddam, Mubarak won considerable financial benefits. Both nations have forgiven billions in Egyptian debts, for example...
...Middle East is anti-Americanism," says Asad Abdul Rahman, a political scientist at Jordan University. "Regimes that are seen as nothing but stooges of the Americans could be toppled. That could be coupled with all kinds of violence, anti-American acts, the establishment of radical regimes." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is considered particularly exposed because he has allied himself so closely with the U.S. Says Amos Perlmutter, a political scientist at American University in Washington: "Mubarak will be in the cross hairs of every terrorist...
...blow against Israel, he may be able to recast the gulf conflict into an Arab-Israeli war, forcing some of Washington's Arab allies to abandon the coalition and perhaps even compelling Syria to switch sides. That gamble must have seemed all the more tempting last Wednesday, when President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as warning that Egypt would reassess its position if Israel became involved -- though he conceded later that "Israel has a right to defend itself...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, supposedly one of the U.S.'s staunchest allies, has stated categorically that Egyptian troops would not invade Iraq...