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...TIME interview, Mubarak blames the trouble on Iran...
...targets of late -- went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
...time when Egypt's employment is shrinking, prices are rising, housing is dwindling and the population of 58 million is increasing by 1 million every nine months, the sheik's vision of an Islamic future appeals to many. His exhortations against the Mubarak regime, which he attacks for "spreading vice and immorality" and "trying to eradicate Islamic values," play particularly well to younger audiences. At Cairo University's Dar al Ulum college of education, the vast majority of students embrace Islam, but few seem to endorse the violent methods employed by Al Jama'a. Nonetheless, a student notes, "there should...
...moment, the government does not recognize any political parties based on religion. Mubarak has hardened his suspicions about such self-styled moderate Islamic groups as the Muslim Brotherhood. And both sides have learned lessons from the military coup that followed the 1992 legislative election victory of fundamentalists in Algeria. Islamists have concluded that attempts to achieve political reform through democratic processes are meaningless; the government fears that political recognition of religious-based parties will further polarize the situation...
...government has answered with a massive security crackdown on fundamentalists in Cairo and other cities. In December Mubarak ordered 14,000 police and 100 armored personnel carriers to sweep Imbaba, a Cairo neighborhood known to be a sanctuary for extremists. Hundreds of fundamentalists were arrested. Still, the antigovernment attacks continue. Authorities now worry about the proliferation of small terrorist groups; diplomats fret about ham-fisted tactics. "The danger," warns an envoy, "is that fundamentalists may attain a level of faith that invites martyrdom...