Word: mubarak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that leafy street was another link in a chain of bloody attacks that has swept over Egypt for the past 19 months. A shadowy coalition of Islamic fundamentalist groups has proved its willingness to use any means, no matter how lethal, to overthrow the secular government of President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of the U.S. In response, the Cairo government and its security forces have shown they will raid, arrest and hang as many militants as they think it will take to stamp out the insurrection...
...been killed in the Muslim fundamentalists' campaign against the government. The targets for their bullets and bombs have shifted from Muslim opinion leaders who frown on fundamentalism to Christian Copts, foreign tourists and police officers. No matter whom they shoot at, their long-term aim remains constant: to topple Mubarak and install a purely Islamic anti-Western government, complete with such harsh traditional punishments as beheading and limb amputation...
Only three days before the bombers struck, a military court began trying 53 members of Islamic Jihad and its offshoots on charges ranging from attempted murder to conspiracy against the government. It was only the first of several trials that will haul 756 accused members before the military tribunals Mubarak set up when he felt civilian court procedures were dragging on too long and inconclusively. As a case in point, a regular court in Cairo earlier this month acquitted 24 defendants charged with assassinating parliamentary Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub almost three years ago. The court's chief judge criticized...
...Mubarak, the dead terrorist's Afghanistan connection is an important one. The President has insisted that the campaign of extremist violence in Egypt was sparked by the return of Afghan war volunteers, many of them inspired by the fiery preaching of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now in jail in the U.S. who is linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says...
Many Egyptians may still doubt U.S. denials about Abdel Rahman's ties to the CIA, but their immediate concern is focused on the consequences of Mubarak's intensified antiterrorist campaign. Within hours after the seven were hanged last week, the militant Islamic Group that claims its inspiration from Sheik Abdel Rahman distributed leaflets in Cairo mosques charging Mubarak with "digging his dark grave with his own hands. He gives reasons to kill and destroy him every day of his black rule." Cairo's hard-line approach may succeed in frightening the fundamentalists into submission. But it may just as well...