when passports handed out to foreign Islamists; in move seen as bid to placate Egypt replaced August 1995 after assassination attempt on President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa; Agriculture Minister 1996; strong but his security role against him...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
The Presidents of Algeria Egypt and Tunisia Abdelaziz Bouteflika Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali got an unexpected boost from the atrocities of 11 September...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
It may sideline some prominent people (as it did after 1995's attack on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and in 1999 with Hassan el Turabi and his faction) so as to create apparent distance from Usama bin Laden and his comrades (AC Vol 42 No 24) many of whom it continues to host...
Vol 42 No 24 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
Ethiopian-Sudanese relations plummeted in 1995 after the attempted assassination of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa...
Let's blame Bill Some British and US papers have claimed that the NIF has since 1995-6 (after it was implicated in the attempt to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak) offered the USA masses of intelligence information and even Usama bin Laden himself but Washington had turned them down...
President Hosni Mubarak was on a much publicised visit to the opera when President George W...
President Hosni Mubarak under growing domestic pressure to get US action on Israel will use the anti-terror campaign to stamp harder still on Islamists...
The NIF - some of whose people were indicted for involvement in the first WTC bombing in 1993 the assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995 and the August 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (when over 220 Africans died) - protested that it had no control over Muslims who came to Sudan...
In fact the move had more to do with the Taliban taking power in Kabul in November - and the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarak in July at the Organisation of African Unity summit in Ethiopia which brought United Nations' sanctions down on Sudan...
Egypt has no such qualms believing it can keep the NIF in hand despite the attempt to murder President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 which Mubarak openly blamed on NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
It is inconceivable that the seven-year gaol sentence passed by a High State Security Court on 21 May against Saadeddin Ibrahim a sociologist at the American University in Cairo plus gaol sentences against six colleagues was not blessed by President Hosni Mubarak himself...
