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...asserts that even the best Arab divisions were only about half as good as his own troops, who evidently rated a 10. The Soviet-trained Egyptian army, for example, was unable to adapt rapidly to fast-paced ground warfare. On one occasion Schwarzkopf had to request Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order his troops into battle. Schwarzkopf also calls the Kuwaiti and Saudi ground forces the worst in the coalition, and he saves special criticism for inept Saudi army commanders, many of whom are members of the royal family. The allied chief preferred to deal almost exclusively with the Saudi...
Last week the Egyptian Supreme State Security Court acquitted Khaled and four others. Six received suspended sentences. Nine, including the group's alleged leader, Mahmoud Noureddin Soleiman, drew sentences ranging from three years to life. President Hosni Mubarak, who will review the verdict, is expected to uphold it. Analysts say it was fair, since the government's case against Khaled was based on hearsay and the confessions of other defendants...
...soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front of the other kids." Some of Mike's friends had to cut down seven young Kuwaiti girls who had been hanged in a schoolyard after having been raped. There are several hundred women awaiting abortions, says a doctor at Mubarak al-Kabir Hospital. All were victims of gang rape...
Teicher, a member of the National Security Council staff under Reagan, remembers an April 1982 meeting between Walter Stoessel, then Deputy Secretary of State, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. At the time, Iranian troops had recaptured much of the territory Iraq had seized in the first weeks of the war. At the end of the meeting, Teicher recalls, "Mubarak held my hand and wouldn't let go. He talked to me about the desperate situation Saddam Hussein was in, and the absolute necessity for America to find ways to help him. He wanted me to take his message back...
...well. If he failed to dwell on Egyptian and Syrian exploits, the omission was probably political. Damascus had all along assiduously downplayed its coalition role because of simmering pro-Iraq sentiments among the Syrian public. Cairo marked Saddam's defeat with red- letter newspaper headlines, but President Hosni Mubarak remained notably mum. Egypt's domestic opposition to the war was milder than Syria's, but explosions of anti-U.S. protest broke out at several Egyptian universities last week. Mubarak also faces a relatively long engagement in the gulf: while all the Arab armies had forsworn in advance any invasion...