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...That's still the official line about the Jan. 11 deportation of Pakistani Havis Muhhamad Saad Iqbal; but Egyptian diplomats have never heard of him. "We have no knowledge of this matter," says Minister Plenipotentiary Reda El-Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive...
...ardent supporter of Israel and a tireless advocate of music education and government funding of the arts; in New York City. Stern, who spearheaded a 1960 effort that saved Carnegie Hall from demolition, is one of the most recorded classical musicians in history (see Eulogy). DIED. SAAD MOURTADA, 78, diplomat who became Egypt's first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member...
SENTENCED. SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, 62, sociology professor at the American University in Cairo and Egypt's best-known democracy advocate; to seven years in prison for defaming that country; in Cairo. The government claimed that Ibrahim, also a U.S. citizen, smeared the country by alleging election fraud and discrimination against Christians. The harsh verdict appalled democracy supporters, and the U.S. State Department said it was "deeply troubled...
...idea might have seemed funny at the time. Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim wrote a magazine article on what he sarcastically called "the Arab world's contribution to political science." He dubbed it gomlokiya, squeezing together the Arabic words for republic and monarchy. His point was how the new President of Syria had assumed office automatically after his father died, even though the country hadn't been a hereditary kingdom for centuries. Readers also chuckled at the pun: it rhymes with molokhiya, a word for a vegetable soup that Egyptians use with comic effect to describe a mess...
...overly ambitious menu racked up losses of $224 million on sales of $379 million last year. The stock has been plucked, falling from nearly $40 to $3. Buffeted by high promotional costs and declining per-store sales, the company announced that its three top officers, including co-founders Saad Nadhir and Scott Beck, had resigned. Boston Market quickly installed J. Michael Jenkins, a veteran restaurant executive credited with turning around the ailing Dallas-based El Chico chain...