Today: Mubarak. Tomorrow: Tantawi
After his fall from power, the 83-year-old Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak, though critically ill with cancer, a bad heart and
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Tantawi
In Cairo, Clinton Finds Generals without an Army and Little Taste for Democracy
The day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed in Cairo, Tuesday 15.3, she visited Tahrir Square. During her
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West offers Libyan ceasefire to save Benghazi
Following Muammar Qaddafi's military successes Tuesday, Western-backed parties Wednesday, March 9 discreetly solicited him on the Libyan rebels' behalf for
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Washington Weighs Egyptian Military Action in Cyrenaica
In Washington this week, the Obama administration faced an awkward moment of comparison between the heavy guns it fired to
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Will an unknown officer be Egypt’s next ruler? Military beefs up Sinai force
While the High Army Council will need time to fix dates for presidential and parliamentary elections and the transition to
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Israel’s military unready for Sinai front. Tantawi is no friend
Friday night, Feb. 11, as Cairo's Tahrir Square rejoiced over Hosni Mubarak exit, Israel counted the cost of losing its
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Mubarak’s defense minister bids for US backing in Washington
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sent his defense minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi to Washington with an urgent request
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