Word: mubarak
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Although the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak ceded responsibility for the case to the U.S., it could refuse to give the FBI free rein to investigate in Egypt. As Administration diplomats worked overtime to calm tempers and encourage cooperation, NTSB officials retreated. By Friday, chairman James Hall was blaming unauthorized news leaks for "flat wrong" speculation that "caused pain" to victims' families and had "done a disservice" to a long-standing international friendship. But despite the diplomatic delicacy, Hall, the Justice Department and FBI officials remain determined to pursue, on their own if need be, the hypothesis that someone deliberately...
...Palestinian terrorists hijacked one of its planes to Malta, resulting in 60 deaths, and just three weeks ago, a hijacker forced another plane to fly to Germany. To enhance security, two armed guards usually fly aboard EgyptAir flights. There were no such guards on Flight 990. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hastened to dismiss sabotage, but the Egyptian government's war against Islamic militants cannot be discounted...
...Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging the U.S. to investigate "something in the atmosphere, something in the weather." For many, that explanation was better than none...
Arafat moved Tuesday to shore up his support by meeting with Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak and by extending an olive branch to George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of radical Damascus-based Palestinian guerrilla factions opposed to the peace process. Syria has ordered Habash and Hawatmeh to end their armed struggle as it prepares to negotiate its own peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They...
...Reported by Mubarak Dahir/St. Louis, Deborah Fowler/Houston, Laird Harrison/Northern California and Rebecca Winters/New York