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...income. If the Palestinians hadn't been so obsessed with warring against Israel during the past 58 years, they would have made enormous social and economic progress. Palestinians deserve leaders who are committed to creating peace and jobs and raising their standard of living, not destroying it. Joseph Abdel Wahed Moraga, California, U.S. Liberty vs. Security Everyone should read managing editor Richard Stengel's "To Our Readers" column about the crossfire between the U.S. government and the press over the stories on the classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk...
...JOSEPH ABDEL WAHED...
...reputation for being more moderate than Zarqawi, "not a hardliner." And, his relationship with the Arab (non-Iraqi) mujahedeen is very good, says Abu Bara. (The name Abdul Rahman is similar to that of the man the U.S. military describes as Zarqawi's spiritual advisor, Sheikh Abdel-Rahman, who is believed to have been killed along with Zarqawi on June 7. According to Abu Bara, however, Sheikh Abdel-Rahman is a different figure from Abu Abdul Rahman al Iraqi...
...Abdel Fatah is one of more than 300 opposition activists - at least six of them bloggers - who have been detained and beaten over the last few weeks during an ongoing government crackdown on peaceful protests. Like many of his fellow prisoners, Abdel Fatah is being held under Egypt's repressive, 25-year-old Emergency Laws, which allow initial detentions of 15 days that can be renewed indefinitely. The blogger and other activists stand accused of blocking traffic, assembling illegally in public, and insulting President Hosni Mubarak, 78, who was reelected in September on a platform of political and economic reform...
...beaten. But while some of the other detainees seemed demoralized, El Droubi said the battered Al Sharqawi "was smiling and ready to go out and protest tomorrow, if he could. He can?t wait." And as long as computer-savvy activists like Al Sharqawi, El Droubi and Abdel Fatah refuse to be intimidated, it will be hard for the Mubarak regime to pull the plug on the political opposition in Egypt...