Word: mubarak
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...Mubarak will be re-elected to a third six-year term by Parliament in October, even though his National Democratic Party is generally dismissed as incompetent and corrupt. But the party enjoys an overwhelming majority in Parliament, and Mubarak is the sole candidate. Every opposition group in the country, including the Muslim Brotherhood, refuses to endorse him. As election time approaches, Mubarak is talking vaguely about reform. In a recent speech he called for more cooperation "between all political forces" in order to "surround the abyss of terrorism and foil its plots." His supporters say he intends to resign...
Only three days before the bombers struck, a military court began trying 53 members of Islamic Jihad and its offshoots on charges ranging from attempted murder to conspiracy against the government. It was only the first of several trials 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...
...Mubarak, the dead terrorist's Afghanistan connection is an important one. The President has insisted that the campaign of extremist violence in Egypt was sparked by the return of Afghan war volunteers, many of them inspired by the fiery preaching of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now in jail in the U.S. who is linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says...
...nation's difficulties are multiplied by its unchecked population growth. Since Mubarak came to power 12 years ago, the number of Egyptians has grown from 43 million to 58 million. "Young, educated Arabs who have no job prospects, even as taxi drivers," says a senior British diplomat, "have been willing recruits to fundamentalism." These people are coming not only from the slums but also from the middle class...
...militants. Al-Alfi's car was rocked by a bomb not far from Cairo's busy Tahrir Square. Islamic Jihad, the group that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, took responsibility. Muslim fundamentalists have waged a violent two-year campaign to replace the Western-leaning government of President Hosni Mubarak with an Islamic regime...