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FOILED JUNE 26, 1995 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA An assassination attempt on the motorcade of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was unsuccessful...
...surprisingly buff chest (his aides won't confirm that he pumps iron, just that he plays a lot of tennis). He delivers the box to a secretary and joshes easily with a communications technician. Already this day he has been in Oman and Egypt, where he met with President Hosni Mubarak, given two press conferences in which his thoughts flowed in fluent paragraphs, and scrawled his instructions on all the memos in that red box. His armed forces are fighting the Taliban, the only ones to join the U.S. so far. Since Sept. 11, he has zoomed to Europe, Pakistan...
...proud of its record as a refuge for those fleeing tyranny, and over the past two decades has provided a haven for many political dissidents from the Middle East. But critics say that extremists have used this openness to plan attacks, raise funds and otherwise foment terrorism. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has complained that Britain harbors "terrorists under the slogan of human rights." Others suggest that the absence of identity cards gives would-be terrorists an enviable freedom of movement. The "lack of controls inside Britain . . . means people plotting terror will continue to regard the U.K. as a haven," Jacquard...
...that day was bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon and the longstanding head of Egypt's al-Jihad, a radical Islamic group founded in 1974 that is blamed for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the failed 1995 attempt on President Hosni Mubarak. The leading ideologue of al-Qaeda, with an extreme dedication to violence, al-Zawahiri, 50, is "the brain behind bin Laden," says Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian lawyer who has represented extremist groups and spent time in prison with al-Zawahiri. "When Osama went to Afghanistan, he was just...
...Egypt's Foreign Minister, he sharply criticized U.S. support for Israel and Israel's treatment of Palestinians in interviews, speeches and finger-wagging lectures to visiting envoys. (His rows with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright are legendary.) Such was the public's adulation that when President Hosni Mubarak replaced him last May, Cairo's rumor mill had it that Mubarak blamed the "I love Amr Moussa" lyrics for stealing his spotlight. Moussa's candidacy to run the Arab League, a body notorious for its internal squabbling, was endorsed by the unanimous vote of all member states, including both...