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...fact that the Israelis have to keep doing it suggests that wiping out the leaders does not actually solve the problem, a principle that at least one "coalition" member is already highlighting. "My advice," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told the BBC last week, "is not to attack Afghanistan or kill bin Laden. This will result in the rise of a new generation of terrorists." But for the Bush Administration, committed to capturing bin Laden "dead or alive," no strike at all is the one option it doesn't seem to have any longer...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak understands the dangers of inflaming Muslim extremists. It will be 20 years ago next week that Egyptian militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat. The leader of the group responsible is an ally of Osama bin Laden. Mubarak has no desire to play so open a role in the upcoming war as to anger extremists, but he can probably contain any problem. Egyptian security forces have kept a reasonably good choke hold on domestic terrorists. And U.S. aid, flowing since the days of the Camp David accords, ensures continued ties with Washington. Cairo will probably support anything that...
...talking about talks. Arafat is feeling the heat both from Europe and from the Egyptians to act more forcefully to implement a cease-fire. Egypt's failure during this week's U.N. Security Council debate to support the Palestinian demand for international observers was a strong signal of President Hosni Mubarak's impatience with Arafat. And it was German foreign minister Joschka Fischer who in June twisted Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire or risk losing European diplomatic and financial support following the Tel Aviv disco bombing...
...Clinton. The administration had been insisting that there are strict limits on what it can do as long as the parties themselves fail to bring about a cease-fire, but it received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved themselves incapable of moving by themselves towards peace," and that their continued conflict threatened to unleash extremist forces that posed an imminent threat to U.S. allies and interests throughout the region. El Baz's warning found...
What happened next is no laughing matter. Ibrahim may have made a mistake in suggesting that President Hosni Mubarak, marking his 20th year in power, might also fancy having a son as his successor. Soon after the article appeared last June, police paid Ibrahim a midnight visit and hauled him away for 42 days in detention without charge. Hinting he'd be booked for spying, the authorities accused him of illegally receiving and misusing funds, planning to bribe officials and tarnishing the reputation of Egypt. This week Ibrahim, 62, wraps up his defense in a six-month trial...