Word: mubarak
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...Egypt Mubarak calls the so-called Afghani veterans the main terrorist threat to the stability of his government. One of the two assailants killed in the attempt last month on the life of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi was a veteran of the Afghan war, as were others implicated in previous attacks on government officials. Montasser al-Zayat, a Cairo lawyer who represents many of the militants arrested in the past two years, claims that 20,000 Egyptians fought alongside the mujahedin. The government's experts put the figure closer to 2,500 and say that as many as half...
...plotters allegedly intended to kidnap and/or murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge and the heavily Jewish New York...
...where could he be sent? Egypt has put in only a quarter-hearted request for extradition; Mubarak would vastly prefer to have Abdel Rahman in a U.S. prison than on trial in Egypt, fluttering terrorists' hearts. The sheik's lawyers have talked about having him go voluntarily to Afghanistan, but no one wants to see him free in that hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. Mohammad Mehdi, head of an Arab-American organization, predicts that "the sheik is going to be our guest in America for many years." Fine by Washington, as long as his guesthouse has bars on the windows...
Islamic fundamentalists use any means to overthrow Mubarak...
...Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Cuba was ostensibly the culmination of a review that began under the Bush Administration. But U.S. officials may have also timed the announcement to send a signal of support to Egypt, whose secular government is under assault by fundamentalists. For months President Hosni Mubarak has been publicly accusing neighboring Sudan of backing his enemies. "The Sudanese deny it," says Mubarak, "but the camps are there. They are farms. They take people not only from Egypt but also from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and even from Uganda. They act as if they are workers...