Word: hosni
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...kind of popular expression of will that the Bush Administration has declared to be a central part of its Middle East agenda. Hundreds of marchers wound through the capital's traffic-gnarled streets pumping their fists and chanting, "O freedom, where are you, where are you? See, [President] Hosni Mubarak stands between me and you!" as car horns honked in cheerful camaraderie...
...people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves. The Dahab attacks - the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months - came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long...
...Dahab attacks--the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months--came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting...
...Dahab bombings took place on the occasion of a major national military holiday, this time Sinai Liberation Day on Tuesday, marking the Israeli withdrawal from the territory it captured in the Six Day War. Many analysts agreed that the terrorists were targeting the pro-Western government of President Hosni Mubarak as well as the 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel signed by his predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat...
...meeting with Suleiman and those that follow with President Hosni Mubarak, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Rice is expected to urge the Egyptians to follow up by denying aid to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas meets the conditions laid down by the international community. The Palestinians have been receiving about $1.9 billion a year in foreign aid, much of it from the Arab states. "I would hope that any state that is considering funding a Hamas-led government would think about the implications of that for the Middle East and for the Middle East peace...