Word: mubarak
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...fact that the Israelis have to keep doing it suggests that wiping out the leaders does not actually solve the problem, a principle that at least one "coalition" member is already highlighting. "My advice," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told the BBC last week, "is not to attack Afghanistan or kill bin Laden. This will result in the rise of a new generation of terrorists." But for the Bush Administration, committed to capturing bin Laden "dead or alive," no strike at all is the one option it doesn't seem to have any longer...
...Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon and the longstanding head of Egypt's al-Jihad, a radical Islamic group founded in 1974 that is blamed for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the failed 1995 attempt on President Hosni Mubarak. The leading ideologue of al-Qaeda, with an extreme dedication to violence, al-Zawahiri, 50, is "the brain behind bin Laden," says Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian lawyer who has represented extremist groups and spent time in prison with al-Zawahiri. "When Osama went to Afghanistan, he was just a young man supporting...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak understands the dangers of inflaming Muslim extremists. It will be 20 years ago next week that Egyptian militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat. The leader of the group responsible is an ally of Osama bin Laden. Mubarak has no desire to play so open a role in the upcoming war as to anger extremists, but he can probably contain any problem. Egyptian security forces have kept a reasonably good choke hold on domestic terrorists. And U.S. aid, flowing since the days of the Camp David accords, ensures continued ties with Washington. Cairo will probably support anything that...
...about talks. Arafat is feeling the heat both from Europe and from the Egyptians to act more forcefully to implement a cease-fire. Egypt's failure during this week's U.N. Security Council debate to support the Palestinian demand for international observers was a strong signal of President Hosni Mubarak's impatience with Arafat. And it was German foreign minister Joschka Fischer who in June twisted Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire or risk losing European diplomatic and financial support following the Tel Aviv disco bombing...
...There's nothing especially new in the latest round of diplomatic efforts - aside from a greater role being played by European diplomats, they're not dissimilar from the intervention tried by Presidents Clinton and Mubarak last November at Sharm El Sheikh, which produced a cease-fire agreement that, like the more recent Mitchell and Tenet efforts, meant little in practice. But as the months grind on and the body count rises, there may be elements on all sides who sense that what is occurring is far more profound than a temporary breakdown of the peace process. The clock is ticking...