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...bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote-rigging in last November's parliamentary elections - an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform. Mubarak...
...Presidential advisers say Snow will get more latitude than his predecessors, since Bush needs a better-armed advocate in tough times. "He understands, like I understand, that the press is vital to our democracy," Bush said in the briefing room. Snow plans to start briefing in mid-May dodging rocks instead of throwing them...
...bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote rigging in last November's parliamentary elections--an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform...
...that I can think of. 24? Though when The West Wing was in mid-stream they didn't have a National Security Advisor or a Secretary of State - all of the decisions were being made by a chief of staff, which wasn't exactly right...
...hours after we arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again, with several more hours of fighting before quiet finally returned. By week's end, the scene was tense but trouble free. Cars are back on the street...