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...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
...MOHAMED IBRAHIM KAMEL, 74, the former Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign in a period of a year, disagreeing with President Anwar Sadat's policies. DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, founder of the cosmetics company Mary Kay Inc. and one of the most influential women in American business; in Dallas. Ash created an award system in which she gave deserving saleswomen pink Cadillacs. DIED. MARY WHITEHOUSE, 91, schoolteacher turned feisty antipornography lobbyist...
...forte then was organization, not ideology. The most secretive of Al Jihad's leaders, he became a master of underground work, recruiting militants, many of them from the Egyptian armed forces, and organizing them into clandestine cells. He left few traces of his own involvements. After Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981, al-Zawahiri was tried as one of hundreds of defendants, but prosecutors were unable to charge him with any direct connection to the plot. Court testimony alleged that he met with top conspirators on the night of Sadat's killing, then again a week later, after mass uprisings...
...honored guests that day was bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon and the longstanding head of Egypt's al-Jihad, a radical Islamic group founded in 1974 that is blamed for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the failed 1995 attempt on President Hosni Mubarak. The leading ideologue of al-Qaeda, with an extreme dedication to violence, al-Zawahiri, 50, is "the brain behind bin Laden," says Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian lawyer who has represented extremist groups and spent time in prison with al-Zawahiri. "When Osama went to Afghanistan...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak understands the dangers of inflaming Muslim extremists. It will be 20 years ago next week that Egyptian militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat. The leader of the group responsible is an ally of Osama bin Laden. Mubarak has no desire to play so open a role in the upcoming war as to anger extremists, but he can probably contain any problem. Egyptian security forces have kept a reasonably good choke hold on domestic terrorists. And U.S. aid, flowing since the days of the Camp David accords, ensures continued ties with Washington. Cairo will probably support anything that...