Word: mubarak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
...flawless, it can all still go wrong. In the summer of 1990, for example, CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning predicted flatly that Iraq was about to invade Kuwait. George Bush refused to believe it, preferring to accept the personal assurances he had received from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact on policy" -- probably because they offered only unwelcome news. Intelligence can be an important tool...
...they planned to blow up the United Nations, two highway tunnels under the Hudson River and a federal building in Manhattan in which the FBI has offices. The group also planned to assassinate New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...their organizations have taken place overseas. Terrorist attacks inside the U.S. have been extremely rare. There are many reasons, though, to think that may change. As the only remaining superpower, the U.S. already is the Great Satan to Islamic fundamentalists -- the protector of Israel, supporter of the perceived infidel Mubarak, prime enemy of theocratic Iran. But there could well be many other groups with grievances: Bosnian Muslims who think the U.S. has abandoned them to slaughter; Kurds who think Washington has left them to the cruelties of Saddam Hussein, the Turkish government or both. Indeed, the U.S. could...
...Israeli Defense Force plans to enter Lebanon for a week-long siege on Hizballah bases. Egyptian officials believed that if the Israelis went through with such a plan, it would strengthen Arab opposition to the peace talks and derail negotiations. Late Wednesday night Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's troubleshooter and confidant, arrived in Israel with a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that the consequences of such an attack would be dire. By the end of the week, the threat seemed to have been headed...