Word: mubarak
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...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...
...sure what terrorism is, but it isn’t suicide bombing. The Fatah are terrorists to Sharon, and so is the Palestinian Authority. The fact is, we have given both Sharon and Arafat, as well as our major aid recipients in the Middle East (notably, Mubarak) enough rope to hang themselves with. They have, most obligingly, begun...
...Saudi Arabia and Egypt. To weather the storm of Islamic militancy, Arab leaders must walk a fine line, which means appeasing their American benefactors when they can and spouting Arab solidarity when they must. For Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdullah or Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to support an invasion of Iraq now would be an invitation for civil...
...London to Amman to Cairo, Cheney was drummed with the same angry refrain: the U.S. must intervene in the conflict now, demand that Ariel Sharon pull all his troops out of Palestinian-held land and forcibly drag the two sides into something resembling a cease-fire. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who receives $2.8 billion in U.S. aid a year, presented Cheney with a litany of alleged Israeli abuses against Palestinian civilians. "This is topping our agenda because it is the core of all the turmoil," says an Egyptian official. And until it's resolved, Cheney's Arab hosts informed...
...Mubarak also stressed that he believed Iraq would defuse the crisis by readmitting U.N. weapons inspectors, and pressed the point in a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Izzat Ibrahim al Douri the day after seeing Cheney...