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...more pliable leadership. For a week since announcing his candidacy in the January 9 election for President of the Palestinian Authority, Barghouti has dominated international headlines. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Barghouti's "problematic," while Spanish foreign minister Miguel Moratinos dubbed it "a mistake." Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak lashed out at the prisoner's decision to run against Abbas, the chosen candidate of Barghouti's own Fatah organization, warning that "these things divide the Palestinians." There's no doubt that Barghouti's candidacy is inconvenient to those who had hoped that the elections could provide the sort of symbolic...
...likely suspect was al-Qaeda, with help from the banned but tolerated group Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Brotherhood spokesman Essam Eryan vigorously denied the charge, saying the group has "huge" differences with al-Qaeda and has publicly condemned the Sinai attacks. Taha Abdel Alim, a spokesman for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government, told TIME the government believes the brotherhood was "not involved." Egyptian officials detained several dozen Bedouin on suspicion of providing explosives for the attacks but declined to speculate any further about the culprits...
...front of a casual security gate staffed by two maroon-clad Qatari soldiers. Past the gate, a 100-yard walk in 120-degree heat took me through the parking lot to the driveway of a small, low-set building with portable housing units scattered about. When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited this place—the headquarters of the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera—he surveyed the small compound and exclaimed: “All this noise comes from this matchbox...
...Mubarak has faced down such challenges before, and there's no immediate threat to his regime. But the autocrat is 76 years old, and rumors of ill health have swirled through the Arab media in recent years. And there's no obvious successor yet in place or even a clear process for selecting one in a political system that has, since the early 1950s, been dominated by the security establishment, and in which the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood remains, by most estimates, the most popular opposition group. The bombers have certainly turned up the heat on Egypt at a moment when...
...Reopening the "home" front may be a timely strategic decision by Zawahiri and his followers, in the way that the Qaeda movement has done in Saudi Arabia. The long-term political weakness of Mubarak's autocracy, buffeted by the mounting demographic pressure of a stagnant economy unable to produce jobs for growing numbers of its youth, has been exacerbated by the Palestinian Intifada and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Even if they don't necessarily accept the Islamist charge that Mubarak is carrying water for Israel, many Egyptians perceive their government as unable to stand up to Israel...