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Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and...
In Egypt Mubarak calls the so-called Afghani veterans the main terrorist threat to the stability of his government. One of the two assailants killed in the attempt last month on the life of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi was a veteran of the Afghan war, as were others implicated...
Army Lieut. al-Islambouli, a member of Jihad, was executed along with four others for the assassination. Abdel Rahman was indicted, accused of issuing a fatwa, or religious decree, ordering Sadat's murder, but was acquitted. The assassination of the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel settled nothing...
This is the dark side of Islam, which shows its face in violence and terrorism intended to overthrow modernizing, more secular regimes and harm the Western nations that support them. Its influence far outweighs its numbers. The Islamic revival that has swept the Middle East is primarily a peaceful movement...
In some countries the ideological conflict has developed into a bloody struggle for political dominance. Violence inspired by radicals determined to topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least...