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...flurry of violent attacks and reprisals escalates in the Middle East, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak comes to Washington, D.C. today to discuss the latest efforts to revive a near-dead peace process...
...their own. They indicated Monday that they would not raise the proposal in Beirut unless Arafat was present - a direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader's confinement to Ramallah. More diplomatic discomfort for the Israeli leader emerged Monday, when Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called for a Sharon-Arafat summit meeting in Egypt. Sitting down with Arafat would require a 180-degree turnabout by Sharon right now. But Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed interest in the idea. Of course, that's not the same as President Bush endorsing it, but the Israelis will...
...region, and he called for international peacekeepers to separate the warring sides. On a visit to Washington last week, Abdullah's foreign policy adviser, Adel al-Jubeir, assured Administration officials that the Saudi proposal was serious. U.S. sources say it will be discussed with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his visit to Washington next week and will undoubtedly come up during Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the region...
...week before President Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release with snapshots of the captive journalist attached. One of the men, Fawad Naseem, told police Saeed...
...PAKISTAN Prime Suspect Authorities identified British-born militant Sheik Omar Saeed as the main suspect in the Jan. 23 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. Saeed allegedly set a trap for Pearl by posing as a representative of Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical religious leader the reporter wanted to interview. Saeed has a history of abduction; in 1994, India jailed him for kidnapping tourists in Kashmir. He was released five years later in exchange for passengers on a hijacked airliner...