Word: mubarak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cairo airport, Palestine Liberation Organization negotiator Mahmoud Abbas had briefed P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat on the details. Arafat had then flown to Tunis to convene a meeting of the organization's executive committee. That night Arafat flew back to Cairo for a crucial meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak celebrated his never-in-doubt re-election as President at an elaborate salute, with precision drill teams and flash-card shows, in Cairo Stadium. Mubarak's total in the yes-no referendum was 94.9%. He promised to spend his third term working "to improve the level of income of the simple citizen...
...some countries the ideological conflict has developed into a bloody struggle for political dominance. Violence inspired by radicals determined to topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least 1,200. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage...
...government. The catalog of charges, according to New York University law scholar Stephen Gillers, amounts to "the gravest allegations to come out of any American court in this century." Among the accusations: bombing the Trade Center, murdering the militant Zionist Rabbi Meir Kahane, plotting to kill Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, and scheming to blow up two major highway tunnels and other New York City landmarks...
Abouhalima never hid his opinions. He condemned the governments of Sadat and later Mubarak, along with their supporters like the U.S. Abouhalima had little regard for Germans, complaining that they drank too much, had cold personalities and spent money too lavishly. Despite his bitterness toward Egypt, he longed for his homeland and spoke about it often. He read Arabic newspapers, and since his parents did not own a telephone, he made it a point to call one of his uncles in Egypt every Sunday...