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...Cairo insists, however that American investigators have been too hasty in pointing a finger at the crew. "People here simply don?t buy it," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "That phrase is widely used in a variety of different contexts, and you?d have to know a lot about the individual and his own religious habits before concluding that he was deliberately taking down the plane. It?s widely believed here that the plane was sabotaged, but not by the crew ? and that shifting the blame onto the relief pilot is part of a cover-up." Egypt has sent...
...been disowned by his wealthy family and stripped of Saudi citizenship, but his message evidently resonates with more than only impoverished and disenfranchised elements. "In the U.S. it is assumed that if Arabs are well-off and educated that they automatically love America," says TIME Middle East reporter Amany Radwan. "But there are clearly many very wealthy people who share Bin Laden?s hostility to the lifestyle and pro-Western policies of the Saudi royal family, and are prepared to give him money despite everything that he?s been accused of." And the chilling prospect for the U.S. is that...
...Which is, of course, hogwash. According to eyewitness accounts, the killers started slashing and shooting as soon as they arrived at the temple. And TIME Cairo correspondent Armany Radwan faults the cops for the exact opposite reason: "It took a long time for reinforcements to arrive at the scene, which made for the very high death toll." If they were trying to take hostages, the Islamic Group had a strange way of going about...
President Hosni Mubarak has asked his Interior Minister to resign, despite the latter?s good record in the fight against Islamic extremists. But the massacre highlights an intractable problem for the authorities. ?The government have made it very clear that they will not negotiate with the militants,? says Radwan. ?They?ve been using harsh measures up to now, but it hasn?t stopped such attacks ? which are easy for even only a handful of people to carry out.? Radwan believes the most important factor undermining popular support for the militants has been Egypt?s tourism-driven economic recovery. Which...
CAIRO: Lax security may have contributed to the high death toll in Monday?s massacre of 60 tourists at Luxor, according to TIME Cairo correspondent Armany Radwan...