Word: imbaba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grimy streets of Cairo's Imbaba neighborhood, Islamic fundamentalists have taken charge, running protection rackets and intimidating the police. Gun battles have disrupted the southern city of Asyut as heavily armed police raid the havens of militants. Terrorists have set off bombs in the cities along the Nile, where tourists, foreign residents and Egyptian Christians are usually the targets. The violence ignited by extremists and police retaliation has killed 116 people in the past year, 29 in the past month. In a brutal campaign to put down the militants, the government has rounded up thousands of suspects and ordered almost...
...government has answered with a massive security crackdown on fundamentalists in Cairo and other cities. In December Mubarak ordered 14,000 police and 100 armored personnel carriers to sweep Imbaba, a Cairo neighborhood known to be a sanctuary for extremists. Hundreds of fundamentalists were arrested. Still, the antigovernment attacks continue. Authorities now worry about the proliferation of small terrorist groups; diplomats fret about ham-fisted tactics. "The danger," warns an envoy, "is that fundamentalists may attain a level of faith that invites martyrdom...
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