Word: hosni
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YOUR COVERAGE OF THE ASSASSINATION attempt on President Hosni Mubarak [Egypt, July 10] failed to provide an objective insight into the violence gripping Egypt. Your conclusion prescribed a Band-Aid solution for Mubarak: choose a successor and name that person vice president. The political turmoil in Egypt and Algeria, being intertwined, is symptomatic of a single underlying cause: the ruthless suppression of democratic rights by an authoritarian regime clinging to power...
...streets of Khartoum, saying they were ready to defend their border from attack by Egypt. Earlier, Sudan threatened to withhold water from the Nile, Egypt's life line, if Cairo sends troops to the disputed Halaib region claimed by both countries. Tensions have been escalating since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Sudan's leader Hassan Turabi of planning last week's assasination attempt in Ethiopia. In response to Sudan's threats, an angry Mubarak warned that Egypt would confront "those who play with fire in Khartoum...
...Suddenly I found a blue van blocking the road, and somebody jumped on the ground and a machine-gun started, and I realized there were bullets coming at our car."Egyptian President Hosni Mubarakdescribed the moment when seven gunmen opened fire on his motorcade this morning as he arrived in Ethiopa for a summit of African heads of state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. At a news conference hours later, the President said he suspected the fundamentalist Islamic regime in neighboring Sudan, which had been accused of supporting Egyptian radicals who want...
...Suddenly I found a blue van blocking the road, and somebody jumped on the ground and a machine-gun started, and I realized there were bullets coming at our car." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak described the moment when gunmen opened fire on his motorcade this morning as he arrived in Ethiopa for a summit of African heads of state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. The murder attempt in Addis Ababa had been carefully choreographed: two vehicles pulled into the motorcade; seven gunmen (five inside the vehicles and two atop a nearby building) fired...
...established a July 1 deadline for reaching agreement on extending Palestinian self-rule, now limited to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. There were strong hints that Israel and Syria would resume talks in Washington. And with Christopher at his side, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak slightly softened Cairo's refusal to vote for an extension of the 25-year-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty unless Israel joins...