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... Election Day, and plainclothes men attacked some protestors and dispersed the crowd. Mubarak agreed to hold elections this year after the United States and some Egyptian politicians urged him to reform the single candidate referendum system that had brought him to office four times since 1981. But opposition groups charge ...
Egyptian police are searching for six Pakistani men in an investigation of Saturday's bombing at the Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh. Experts analyze the impact of the bombings and who could be behind them.
... and Egyptian workers marched through the city on Sunday, chanting against terrorism in English, Arabic, Italian and German. The protests followed an exodus of shaken Egyptian and Arab tourists who fled the area late Saturday, as rescue workers continued to comb through the rubble. The attack, Egypt's deadliest terrorist ...
... said al-Sherif gave his captors under interrogation "information making clear the infidel nature of the (Egyptian) regime and his confessions have been recorded." "The Egyptian regime is one of the first to launch war on Islam and Muslims, since several decades," the statement said, pointing to Egypt's crackdown ...
... Egyptians, "well, you do this or you do that." It is the people of Egypt. Why is it so? Because it is the government of Egypt, it is in the interest of Egypt, it is the future of the Middle East depending on that great society, the Egyptian society.And ...
... deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim believes the bombings appeared to be the "work of international terror groups like al-Qaida or branches of it." Although Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said it was too early to tell, Reuters reported that an Egyptian security source said the bombings were ...
... Israeli security officials told army radio they were convinced a car bomb caused the blast. The Israeli government warned citizens a month ago to avoid Egypt, citing a "concrete" terror threat to tourists. But Egyptian officials said they had no evidence of terrorism, the Associated Press reported. Egyptian security officials ...
... carrying several boxes of potential evidence. Hadayet's neighbors described the family as quiet but friendly, telling investigators the family was spending the summer in Egypt. Egyptian police interviewed Hadayet's father in his apartment in Cairo early Friday, the building's security guards told the Associated Press. According to ...
... Mainly intelligence information. We did a lot, but sometimes you have to do it quietly." The CIA has a long history of working with the Egyptian intelligence organization on counter-terrorism efforts in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. According to Mubarak, it was Egypt that warned the United States ...
... stop glorifying suicide bombers as martyrs and to condemn an act against groups like al Aqsa, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Are these things the Egyptian government could do? NABIL FAHMY: We have, first of all, been at the forefront of those calling for an end to the cycle of ...
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