Word: mahgoub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that will haul 756 accused members before the military tribunals Mubarak set up when he felt civilian court procedures were dragging on too long and inconclusively. As a case in point, a regular court in Cairo earlier this month acquitted 24 defendants charged with assassinating parliamentary Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub almost three years ago. The court's chief judge criticized the paramilitary national police's methods and charged that "none of the defendants have escaped torture...
...belligerency was a matter of politics as well as principle. That these governments are now in a military alliance with the U.S., Israel's principal supporter, is a source of embarrassment -- and potentially of instability -- at home. The assassination last week of Egypt's speaker of parliament Rifaat el-Mahgoub was a blunt reminder of just how vulnerable these governments have become. While no one claimed responsibility for killing el- Mahgoub, who was shot in his car by four gunmen who escaped on motorcycles, authorities said the murder probably was carried out either by a foreign hit squad, most likely...