Word: mubarak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cairo last week the government of President Mubarak was questioned about certain aspects of the affair. The semiofficial newspaper al Ahram accused the country's state-controlled television of "presenting untruths" about the "success" of the rescue mission. Opposition critics charged that Mubarak had played into the hands of the U.S. and Israel by claiming that Libya had been behind the hijacking. Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid sharply denied , Libya's claim that Egypt was considering a strike against its troublesome neighbor. He added, however, that if Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi were to "start a military or aggressive action against...
...Egypt, matters were already at full boil. On the same day that the strange drama with Abbas played out in Rome, Mubarak was pronouncing himself "deeply wounded" by the EgyptAir interception. Said Mubarak at a Cairo press conference: "We had not expected this attack from a friend." Four hours before Mubarak spoke, the first of several anti-U.S. demonstrations broke out at Cairo University. Among the slogans chanted by several hundred outraged students: "The Americans are our enemy!" The next day at a press conference in Khartoum, the capital of neighboring Sudan, Chairman Arafat added his own sneers. Said...
...Ambassador also passed on to Mubarak a letter from President Reagan. In it, Reagan said that the U.S. had done what it believed it had to do in intercepting the Egyptian airliner. The President also pointed out that the U.S. and Egypt shared an interest in fighting terrorism. Finally, Reagan asserted that there were too many important ties between the U.S. and Egypt to allow them to be damaged by a single incident. U.S. officials described the missive as "very conciliatory, without being apologetic...
...Mubarak, however, declared that he was still too upset to read the letter. As protests continued in the streets of Cairo, always under close supervision by riot police armed with tear gas and nightsticks, the Egyptian President demanded an apology from the U.S. for "all Egyptians." That prompted President Reagan's "Never" response, raising the public dimension of the crisis another notch. But already U.S. diplomats in Cairo were suspecting that Mubarak's outrage, while honest enough, was also part of a calculated effort to let the volatile Egyptian populace blow off steam over the EgyptAir incident. In the days...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his interview with TIME last Saturday, revealed that he knew of the Klinghoffer murder when he dispatched the hijackers to Tunisia. But he heatedly denied that he had lied when he said, a day before they left for Tunis, that they were no longer in Egypt. They had been sent somewhere else first, he claimed, though he would not reveal where, in order to be prosecuted by the P.L.O. But when he discovered that the P.L.O. had no responsible authority to receive them, he recalled the four men to Egypt and eventually sent them...