Word: mubarak
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...world than politicians, pundits and editorial cartoonists in the U.S. and Europe, including Germany -- and particularly in Israel -- were identifying Saddam with Adolf Hitler, and Kuwait in 1990 with Czechoslovakia in 1938. One purveyor of this parallel even found historical prototypes for King Hussein (Benito Mussolini) and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (Neville Chamberlain...
...expected that the two defense forces will cooperate and perhaps even coordinate their efforts. The eleventh- hour response to Saddam's challenge spoke directly to Arabs' deep-seated fears about Western intervention in the region, reflecting their historic distrust of foreign influences. As Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak cautioned during the summit, "The choice before us is clear: an Arab act that will preserve higher Arab interests or a foreign intervention in which we will have no say or control...
Xenophobic passions aside, there was a more practical consideration in the push to establish an Arab peacekeeping force. Moderate Arab leaders, like Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, know well that if the showdown in Saudi Arabia begins to look like a conflict that pits the "imperialist" U.S. against a beleaguered Iraq, Arab sympathy will tilt toward Saddam. An Arab proverb instructs that if a Muslim nation invites a foreigner onto its soil to fight, then all other Islamic nations should turn against the renegade nation. Warns a Syrian official: "The Americans should realize that if they hurt Iraq...
EGYPT. As the recipient of $2.3 billion annually in U.S. military and economic aid, Egypt was in a difficult position to resist Bush's appeals for support. But that very connection exposes Mubarak to charges that he is an American puppet. He must also juggle domestic considerations. Most Egyptians responded angrily to Saddam's bald annexation of Kuwait. But 1 million of them work in Iraq, 300,000 more in Kuwait, and if Mubarak mishandles the situation, he could put those lives in danger...
...after Saddam moved into Kuwait, Egypt joined the Arab League's belated condemnation of the invasion. But Mubarak, who had just cause for outrage since Saddam had assured him only a week earlier that Iraq had no such intention, did not respond forcefully until after the U.S. pressed Egypt to join a multinational force. "I'm not going to help foreign troops," he declared, "but I will help Arab troops." Even as he called for the emergency Arab summit, however, he authorized U.S. aircraft to fly over Egypt and cleared the way for the U.S.S. Eisenhower to pass through...