Word: mubarak
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...order of the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the great Egyptian leader and pan-Arabist--but melancholy. Coming soon after the death of Jordan's King Hussein, Assad's passing marked a changing of the guard--and, perhaps, new volatility--in the region as leaders like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak (71), Yasser Arafat (71) and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd (79) grow...
...Hezbollah would prefer a unilateral withdrawal that would allow them to proclaim themselves the first army ever to have liberated Arab territory from Israeli control," says MacLeod. "But despite a potential conflict with Syria, Hezbollah's enjoying a surge of support throughout the Arab world - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdallah recently rushed to Beirut to meet with the movement's leaders, suggesting there's strong grassroots support for the guerrillas throughout the Middle East...
Although the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak ceded responsibility for the case to the U.S., it could refuse to give the FBI free rein to investigate in Egypt. As Administration diplomats worked overtime to calm tempers and encourage cooperation, NTSB officials retreated. By Friday, chairman James Hall was blaming unauthorized news leaks for "flat wrong" speculation that "caused pain" to victims' families and had "done a disservice" to a long-standing international friendship. But despite the diplomatic delicacy, Hall, the Justice Department and FBI officials remain determined to pursue, on their own if need be, the hypothesis that someone deliberately...
...Palestinian terrorists hijacked one of its planes to Malta, resulting in 60 deaths, and just three weeks ago, a hijacker forced another plane to fly to Germany. To enhance security, two armed guards usually fly aboard EgyptAir flights. There were no such guards on Flight 990. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hastened to dismiss sabotage, but the Egyptian government's war against Islamic militants cannot be discounted...
...Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging the U.S. to investigate "something in the atmosphere, something in the weather." For many, that explanation was better than none...