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...first group drove a scant mile to Rue Khaled Ben al Walid. Two apartment buildings halfway along the short street housed the Palestinian leaders marked for assassination: Al-Fatah Deputy Leader Abu Yusuf, Intelligence Expert Kamal Adwan and Palestinian Spokesman Kamal Nasser. All three had attended a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the evening...
...floor above, meanwhile, another squad of Israelis burst into Nasser's apartment while he was scribbling notes for a magazine article. He had just written: "If we don't proceed to Palestine, danger will approach us." The Israelis smashed his door off its hinges and riddled him with bullets. The floor where he fell was still wet with gore six hours later. On a nearby coffee table sat an empty glass, a half-full pack of Marlboros and an ashtray of cigarette butts...
...like Libya. He must look to the neighboring land of Egypt. "Egypt is a country without a leader," he says. "I am a leader without a country." Accordingly, he has bought and bullied his way into the Arabs' first solid military and political alliances since the breakup of Nasser's United Arab Republic in 1961. Eighteen months ago, he got Egypt and Syria to join in a "Federation of Arab Republics" with Libya. Later this year he is set to join Libya with Egypt in a full-scale political merger. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, whom Gaddafi detests...
...disillusionment now widespread in the Arab world is traced by some scholars to the false hopes raised by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the late 1950s and early 1960s. All Arabists agree that the Six-Day War of 1967 was a pivotal event in the history of the region. Says Shimon Shamir, Arab specialist at the Shiloah Institute in Tel Aviv: "The conflict with-and defeat by -Israel was a microcosm of the whole Arab experience with the West." He means that ever since the Renaissance, the whole power of Arab ideology, or political Islam, has been in conflict with...
...Muammar Gaddafi, the only hope lies in Arab unity, and he has gained an influential ally in Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, Nasser's old friend and policymaker and the editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Heikal, who is somewhat estranged from Sadat but sees Gaddafi as a new force in Arab politics, takes considerable hope in the forthcoming Egyptian-Libyan federation. He believes that the new alliance will be strong enough to exert pressure, via the conservative Arab states and the U.S., to make Israel withdraw from the occupied territories...