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Senior Palestinian leaders say Arafat is simply signaling that he is still in charge. What Arafat will not advertise, though, is his diplomatic isolation. No Arab leader, save Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, calls him anymore, and the Gulf states have better relations with Abbas. Jordanian diplomats, for their part, call Arafat "irrelevant." But as Powell is soon likely to learn, Arafat is a long way from agreeing. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Over in Egypt, however, President Hosni Mubarak seems less certain of how to pursue reform. Nothing illustrates this more than the fact that his 39-year-old son, Gamal, is being groomed as his possible successor, despite the fact that Egypt is a republic rather than a monarchy. Still, Gamal's swift rise up the ranks of the ruling National Democratic Party is heralding change. Educated at the American University in Cairo, he is a businessman rather than a military man. During a town meeting at his alma mater this week, he frankly acknowledged that "much still needs...
...orphan, the disinherited." Pearl, Lévy says, was a firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell...
...mass defections, by the constant quibbling over whether the images of Saddam were real or not, and by the very use of the term coalition to describe a force that was plainly Anglo-American. I suspect that we will long be haunted by the prediction of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak last week: that this war may produce "a hundred [Osama] bin Ladens...
...following Operation Enduring Freedom, which has been unable thus far to bring Osama bin Laden to book for September 11, Arabs are treated to prime-time coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As they see it, there are too many operations and not enough freedom. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak predicted this week that the war could produce not simply another Bin Laden...