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...flurry of violent attacks and reprisals escalates in the Middle East, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak comes to Washington, D.C. today to discuss the latest efforts to revive a near-dead peace process...
...their own. They indicated Monday that they would not raise the proposal in Beirut unless Arafat was present - a direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader's confinement to Ramallah. More diplomatic discomfort for the Israeli leader emerged Monday, when Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called for a Sharon-Arafat summit meeting in Egypt. Sitting down with Arafat would require a 180-degree turnabout by Sharon right now. But Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed interest in the idea. Of course, that's not the same as President Bush endorsing it, but the Israelis will...
...measures in the region, and he called for international peacekeepers to separate the warring sides. On a visit to Washington last week, Abdullah's foreign policy adviser, Adel al-Jubeir, assured Administration officials that the Saudi proposal was serious. U.S. sources say it will be discussed with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his visit to Washington next week and will undoubtedly come up during Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the region...
...Islamic world, the tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...
...rich Saudi family, was helping finance Arab volunteers in the Afghan war. Al-Zawahiri was working in field hospitals treating Afghan and Arab fighters. He was also, however, already the effective head of Al Jihad, the secretive Egyptian terrorist group bent on overthrowing the government of Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak. And al-Zawahiri was becoming further convinced that establishing Islamic rule throughout the Arab world required not just struggle against illegitimate rulers but also a worldwide jihad against infidels who support them. That meant targeting the U.S. and its interests around the world. Bin Laden had the dollars...