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While delivering a nationally televised speech in parliament last week, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke out in a sweat, coughed, staggered and slumped over as his security detail rushed forward to help him. Senior Egyptian sources confirmed to TIME that Mubarak's collapse, as the government maintains, came during a bout...
Delivering a televised speech in Parliament, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke into a sweat, coughed, staggered and slumped over. Senior Egyptian sources confirmed to TIME that his collapse, as the government maintains, was due to the flu. But as has happened after two attempts on Mubarak's life, in 1995 and 1999, the incident raised concerns about Egypt's political stability in the event of his death. Mubarak, 75, evidently wary of creating a rival to power, has never named a vice president. And since flaunting presidential aspirations can be hazardous to one's political health...
...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...