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...thousands and executing 15. Last week's carefully planned assault looked like the radicals' reply to the suppression. Their brazen defiance was evident in the timing -- just before noon on a business day -- and the location -- the middle of the capital, a block from the Interior Ministry and from Tahrir Square, known to millions of tourists as the site of the Egyptian Museum...
Mubarak, accompanied by French Premier Jacques Chirac, will descend polished red granite steps at Tahrir Square for the inaugural ride. Inside the station, walls of cream-colored marble form the backdrop to ceramic designs depicting ancient Egyptian scenes. Replicas of pharaonic statues are displayed in glass cases, adding local luster to what French Engineer Alain Chenebier proudly calls "one of the most beautiful subway systems ever...
Gauger followed the marchers to nearby Tahrir Square, the vast downtown center of Cairo near the Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last...
...turned the country into something of a frightening enigma, even to other Arab nations. In the early years of Baath rule, spies and "enemies of the regime," including members of Iraq's persecuted and dwindling Jewish population, were executed and their bodies hung in Baghdad's Tahrir Square. Revolts within the party were put down in the same uncompromising style...
...confrontation, the regime would likely prevail. In the four years since it seized absolute power, the Baath Party has ruthlessly consolidated its rule. One method was the execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power...