Word: mubarak
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...tried to lay claim to the Paktia town. Residents supported local Pashtun leader Haji Saifullah. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Karzai he could not expand his commitment beyond the U.K.?s promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. A little-known group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty demanded $2 million and the release of Pakistan?s former Taliban ambassador in exchange for Pearl...
...Islamic world, the tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...
...Afghanistan collapsed into factional fighting following the Soviet defeat in 1989, al-Zawahiri ushered back to Egypt many of the Arab veterans of the war. There they became Al Jihad operatives, dedicated to Mubarak's overthrow. Meanwhile, al-Zawahiri and bin Laden relocated to Sudan. Most of the missions that al-Zawahiri launched into Egypt, including separate attempts to assassinate the Prime Minister and a former Interior Minister, ended in failure. The successful bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan was the demented high point of the campaign. Mubarak's security forces responded with a ferocious crackdown in which hundreds...
...knew casually from the mosque, Ali Mohamed and Khalid Abu-al-Dahab. Both have since confessed to Egyptian authorities that they were terrorist operatives. In 1999 Abu-al-Dahab was tried in Egypt as one of a group of men accused of involvement in the terrorist campaign against the Mubarak government. In a written confession presented to the court, Abu-al-Dahab said that on the U.S. trip, al-Zawahiri netted only about $2,500, which was considered a poor showing. All the same, Abu-al-Dahab also claimed to have learned from Al Jihad leaders that the money...
...same trial, al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia. Some intelligence experts believe the failure of his terrorism campaign against the Egyptian government led him to refocus his war onto the U.S., which he hated for supporting Mubarak, the Saudi royal family and Israel. In 1996 U.S. pressure led Sudan to expel bin Laden's operation. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri returned to Afghanistan, where the ferociously ascetic brand of Islam embraced by the emergent Taliban government was perfectly congenial to them...