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...denounced the allied bombing that caused the deaths and called for an immediate cease-fire. Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali declared a "day of mourning in memory of the innocent civilian victims," while Sudan's Foreign Ministry called the episode a "hideous, bloody massacre." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, however, sounded a different note. "It is inconceivable for a ruler to make propaganda from the corpses of his citizens," he said. "I am very sorry to see civilians dying, but unfortunately, these things happen sometimes...
...Bush alone in such forthright optimism. Senators Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Ted Stevens of Alaska returned from the gulf in December and said they had been told by military officials that a war with Iraq could be completed in five days. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saddam's expectation of victory showed he was "living in another world," and predicted his troops would yield within three or four weeks. While few others were daring (or imprudent) enough to offer a precise timetable, many military and civilian officials described the potential conflict as lopsided and brief. British Defense Minister...
Since the war began, foreign reporters in Cairo have been hurriedly summoned to the presidential palace on two occasions for what turned out to be trivial photo opportunities starring Hosni Mubarak. Why the fuss? Mubarak wanted to scotch rumors, spread by Iraqi radio and given wide play in Jordan, that he had been assassinated in a coup...
...Egypt the wildest rumors have credence partly because few trust the state-run media. President Hosni Mubarak found it necessary to show himself in public to prove he had not been assassinated by pro-Iraqi zealots. A Turkish official said the government was withholding information about military plans in order to ensure its citizens' "peace of mind...
...Middle East is anti-Americanism," says Asad Abdul Rahman, a political scientist at Jordan University. "Regimes that are seen as nothing but stooges of the Americans could be toppled. That could be coupled with all kinds of violence, anti-American acts, the establishment of radical regimes." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is considered particularly exposed because he has allied himself so closely with the U.S. Says Amos Perlmutter, a political scientist at American University in Washington: "Mubarak will be in the cross hairs of every terrorist...