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...notwithstanding the presence of radical and fundamentalist sentiment, his appeal there is limited. One reason is the bitter experience of thousands of Egyptian laborers maltreated in Iraq at the hands of their employers; hundreds are believed to have been killed. Another reason may be the strong leadership of Hosni Mubarak. By supporting the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Saddam, Mubarak won considerable financial benefits. Both nations have forgiven billions in Egyptian debts, for example...
...against Israel, he may be able to recast the gulf conflict into an Arab-Israeli war, forcing some of Washington's Arab allies to abandon the coalition and perhaps even compelling Syria to switch sides. That gamble must have seemed all the more tempting last Wednesday, when President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as warning that Egypt would reassess its position if Israel became involved -- though he conceded later that "Israel has a right to defend itself...
Iraq says it will pour 250,000 more troops into Kuwait. U.S. Army and Marine Corps announce call-ups of 26,625 reserves. Bush, in Mideast, meets Egypt's President Mubarak and Syria's President Assad on the crisis. Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on Bush's gulf policy U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 to give Iraq until Jan. 15 to pull its troops out of Kuwait, after which United States and its allies are free to use military force. Bush says he is willing to send Baker to Baghdad in effort to end gulf crisis...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, supposedly one of the U.S.'s staunchest allies, has stated categorically that Egyptian troops would not invade Iraq...
...might bomb Iraq and by shutting off one of Iraq's most important oil pipelines, at great economic cost to itself. Egypt -- which is sending two mechanized divisions totaling 30,000 personnel to Saudi Arabia and which, in facing up to Saddam, has absorbed economic losses that President Hosni Mubarak estimates at $9 billion -- gets a grade of A+ from Congressman Aspin...