Word: mubarak
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...opposition force in Egyptian society. The impact of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on Egyptian public opinion has also seen a growing alignment in the views of the Brotherhood and more traditionally liberal democratic opposition groups, around the questions of democracy and sovereignty. Today, the overarching criticism of the Mubarak regime is that it is more responsive to Washington than to its own citizenry, and the internal demand for democratic reform is linked with opposition to, rather than support for U.S. policies...
...trial transcripts, met with Pearl?s contacts and retraced the former reporter?s footsteps in Karachi. He writes that the hotel Akbar in Rawalpindi, where Pearl was abducted, was ?controlled, almost managed? by the ISI; he says that the man Pearl was headed to see, a cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, is a ?spiritual guru? to alleged British shoebomber Richard Reid...
...simply an in-principle one that would not be implemented right now. For Arafat, however, the latest Israeli threat proved to be an unlikely boost, provoking massive street demonstrations in his support in Ramallah and Gaza, and forcing the region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed without the help of Arafat.? Even Sharon?s former foreign minister, Shimon Peres, warned that expulsion would be an ?historic mistake? that would only...
Senior Palestinian leaders say Arafat is simply signaling that he is still in charge. What Arafat will not advertise, though, is his diplomatic isolation. No Arab leader, save Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, calls him anymore, and the Gulf states have better relations with Abbas. Jordanian diplomats, for their part, call Arafat "irrelevant." But as Powell is soon likely to learn, Arafat is a long way from agreeing. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Over in Egypt, however, President Hosni Mubarak seems less certain of how to pursue reform. Nothing illustrates this more than the fact that his 39-year-old son, Gamal, is being groomed as his possible successor, despite the fact that Egypt is a republic rather than a monarchy. Still, Gamal's swift rise up the ranks of the ruling National Democratic Party is heralding change. Educated at the American University in Cairo, he is a businessman rather than a military man. During a town meeting at his alma mater this week, he frankly acknowledged that "much still needs...