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Cairo Press Review
Wednesday, 26 September, 2001.


HEADLINES


President Mubarak:
We support America in pursuing bin Laden in Afghanistan.
No country wants to assist terrorists.
President to CBS, German, Italian media:
Sending Egyptian forces abroad requires parliament's approval, public
mobilization.
US called upon to help insure prompt settlement of Palestinian
question, after operations against terrorists is over.
US is certain bin Laden was behind events.
German Chancellor:
Resumption of ME peace process a must if anti-terror efforts are to
succeed.
Italian President:
Terrorists should not be entitled to citizenship anywhere within
international community.
Italian PM:
Rome seeks Euro-American coordination on peace in ME.
Bush orders US forces deployed, on ready to strike at bin Laden's
bases.
Riyadh severs links with Taliban.
Iranian FM in Cairo soon for talks.
Palestinian President Arafat's visit to Damascus postponed at last
minute.
                                                            "Al Ahram"

 President holds fruitful talks in Germany, Italy at close of Euro
tour.
Egyptian, German, Italian leaders agree on need for international
coalition to combat terrorism.
Resumption of ME peace process a key way to fighting terrorism.
President Mubarak warns of new generations of terrorists if Middle
East conflict is not resolved.
German Chancellor Schroeder:
No one to gain by turning confrontation with terrorism into a clash
between Islam, other civilizations.
Mubarak sends message to US President Bush; calls upon US to deal
firmly but rationally with events.
FM Maher to hold talks in Washington with Secretary of State Powell;
National Security Adviser Rice.
UN Secy. Gen. Kofi Annan:
UN most appropriate platform to build anti-terrorism coalition.
Bin Laden's followers flee own bases to Pakistan
                                                           "Al Akhbar"

 President Mubarak holds important talks in Berlin, Rome.
Mubarak following talks with German Chancellor Schroeder:
Palestinian question main cause promoting international terrorism.
Events taking place in occupied territories lead to more violence.
After US deals with own problems, a solution must be reached in
cooperation with Europe.
Mubarak set to receive Britain's Foreign Secretary; EU troika team.
Schroeder:
No clashing between civilizations.
Cairo of major importance to international coalition.
Berlin, Cairo agree on need to protect peace in ME, as means of
combating terrorism.
Mubarak to America's CBS:
We support America in pursuing bin Laden.
Washington will not attempt anything unless sure bin Laden is culprit.

Islamic Jihad movement no longer present in Egypt.
Bush surrenders war plan to Congress; requests Security Council's
authorization to use force.
                                                       "Al Gomhoureya"

 Egypt not to take part in US military operations.
Mubarak:
Parliament's approval required; Egyptians need to be prepared before
sending troops abroad.
Lining up a coalition against terrorism a very sensitive issue.
Members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization all outside Egypt now.
Failure to solve Middle East crisis likely to give birth to new
generations of terrorists.
Targets of US military operations announced.
Base, Egyptian Jihad, Algerian Jama'at Islamiya organizations, Kashmir
fighters top list.
Arafat's visit to Syria postponed; meeting with Peres reported due
today.
US backs out on revealing proof of bin Laden's involvement in Black
Tuesday's crimes.
                                                             "Al Wafd"

 Egypt reiterates commitment to anti-terror efforts.
Mubarak:
Dealing with war is easier than dealing with terrorism.
FM Maher reaffirms Egypt's decision to stay away from US military
operation.
British FM Straw visits Egypt to compare notes with Mubarak.
Pakistan warns US not to meddle with Kabul's internal politics.
Arafat's Syria trip delayed at last minute.
Arab League Secy. Gen. Amr Moussa slams new Israeli military zone.
Interpol issues warrant for key bin Laden aide.
Austrian FM in Cairo for cooperation talks.
Bush for Nobel Peace Prize if he avoids war.
French paper praises Mubarak's firm stances.
                                                "The Egyptian Gazette"


 EDITORIALS


President Mubarak's visit, which ended in Rome yesterday and which
also took him to Paris and Berlin earlier, has underlined Europe's
support of Egypt's way of dealing with terrorism, a way based on
analyzing and on radically addressing the roots of the problem. Cairo
calls for a long-term strategy by which to eliminate the pockets of
tension which constitute the breeding grounds for terrorists across
the world. Most prominent of all, Egypt underscores the need to
resolve the Middle East crisis taking into account the right of the
Palestinian people to an independent state, with Jerusalem as their
capital. For this to materialize, however, American policy should be
reviewed; indeed made more rational, objective and effective.
                                                            "Al Ahram"

 A few days ago, Arabs marked the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila
massacres masterminded by Israel's then Minister of Defense and
current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. A few months ago a case was
brought against him before a Belgian court by victims of the massacres
who accuse him of committing crimes against humanity. The court has
found the claim valid and is seeking to bring him to stand trial
before the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Now if the US is really
interested in drying up the sources of terrorism worldwide, it should
take stock of the conditions of Palestinian refugees living in the
camps in Lebanon. There, poverty, misery and homelessness have
prevailed for 53 years ever since the year of the Nakba in 1948
                                                           "Al Akhbar"

 Though disappointing, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
last-minute cancellation of a long-planned meeting between his Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat came as
no surprise. Since the idea of the meeting was first floated following
European mediation, Sharon has stopped at nothing to derail it.
His veto of the Arafat-Peres talks on Sunday was the fifth in the
space of a month. Sharon's latest pretext for blocking the meeting was
that alleged anti-Israeli violence has not stopped despite a
cease-fire declared last week. "Yasser Arafat did not pass the test of
fighting terrorism," claimed Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin.
But what was meant by the Israeli Premier as a reasonable excuse is
proving to be a sick joke. For almost a year now, Israel has turned
the Palestinians into the target of a brutal military and economic
clampdown. Sharon, with a personal history soaked in blood, has
stepped up his ruthless crackdown on the Palestinians in a desperate
bid to crush their Intifada against the Israeli occupation.
Almost no-one has pinned much hope on the delayed meeting breaking
through the peace impasse (that has lasted more than a year now) and
halting the vicious cycle of violence. By obstructing the meeting,
Sharon wants to give the Impression that allowing his minister to sit
down with Arafat is a major concession for which the Palestinians
should be grateful. The 11 September terror attacks on New York and
Washington and their aftermath have provided Sharon with more than he
hoped for. While the attacks have caught the attention of an appalled
world, the Israeli Premier has stepped up his anti-Palestinian terror
campaign, in the belief that no-one would notice his atrocities, let
alone condemn them.
By repeatedly throwing a spanner in the works of the truce talks,
Sharon is also taking aim at his close ally: the US. Washington Is
frantically trying to build an international anti" terror coalition.
US officials have made no bones about their keenness to rally Arab and
Muslim countries so that the sought-after alliance would not appear to
be against Muslims. To facilitate the mission, the US is prodding
Israel to tone down its brutality against the Palestinians and work
seriously to revive the peace negotiations. Sharon is defiantly
hampering these efforts, much to the chagrin of the US.
                                                "The Egyptian Gazette"


 ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES


Rational voices have risen in the US who realize the grave
consequences of driving headlong towards a reportedly new type of war,
likely to affect several region across the globe. Being a war against
evil, against terrorism and against the enemies of civilization, they
believe, unless clear objectives are set along with a clear vision, it
could well lead to more terrorism.
In its editorial, penned by William Faff, the International Herald
Tribune warns against a hasty American reaction against others; indeed
against any reaction likely to feed anti-American sentiments. What
Washington most needs at present is to review the circumstances
leading to the current predicament. Faff describes bin Laden as the
product of anti-American revolutionary forces in the Islamic world,
forces which remained hidden under the surface until they saw fit to
explode. Bin laden belongs to an educated generation of the middle
classes; a generation who stand opposed to the alliance between the
Islamic regimes and the US, who are critical of the heavy American
presence in the region following Gulf War II.
The events of 11 September will most probably rouse many a slumberer
against isolationist trends; thus steering the US towards a greater a
sense of realism in its relations with friends and with other
countries throughout the globe. Americans should realize that to fight
and to win the battle against terrorism, they need assistance from
their friends. The shock of the Black Tuesday explosions will force
the US to regard itself as an ordinary country, not a super power
capable of unilaterally determining the future of the world.
Along those very same lines comes Robert Fisk's article in the British
Independent, in which he stresses the fact that attempts will be made
to cover up on the historical crimes and on the injustices committed
against the Arabs which prompted the stormy attack against the US.
However, unless we know the reasons which made America an object so
hated in the land of the three religions, we will never fathom the
roots of the phenomenon.
By: Salama A. Salama
                                                            "Al Ahram"

 That the EU should send a delegation to a number of Arab and Islamic
countries to explain the European views concerning the fight against
terrorism and to disperse the clouds gathering to shroud relations
between the Muslims and the West amounts to a recognition that the
West separates between Islam and terrorism. Another setback to the
proponents of the clash between the Western and Islamic civilizations!

By: Ibrahim Nafei
                                                            "Al Ahram"

 There are reasonable voices yet in the US. Not all Americans seek
wild revenge or want the circle of suspicion so expanded that other
countries would be punished as well. They do not want to go searching
for a needle in a stack of hay. Two former National Security Council
Advisers have gone public with calls not to widen the scope of the
operation against Afghanistan and not to exert too much pressure on
Pakistan that it may turn anti-American. Both officials have agreed
that it is American policies which generate hatred of the US abroad.
In their statements, the two former US officials have agreed with
Egypt's attitude. Egypt stands heart and soul with the US in pursuing
terrorists across the globe and in bringing to justice? However,
terrorists must first be determined. The US has mobilized for war
without knowing who the enemy is. it is most feared that the American
pressure on friendly countries to cooperate would so increase that
implosions would take place turning into foes.
By: Magdi Mehanna
                                                             "Al Wafd"

 Despite the many lessons (in Vietnam, Iran, Somalia, Lebanon and the
Balkans) which America's recent history offers for him who seeks
advice, Bush seems not to listen but is intent on creating an
international coalition for a military operation; something which he
appear far from achieving. At the end, he will have to go into battle
alone aided by his closest ally Britain. Meanwhile, the other European
countries will only give him moral support. None of them is ready to
join arms with a country which knows what it wants, or who the enemy
is. In short, bin Laden has turned an epic hero, the like of Che
Guevara and Joan of Arc
By: Mohammad Abul-Magd
                                                            "Al Ahrar"

 Will striking at bin Laden and his Base organization eliminate
terrorism or will it give birth to new generations of terrorists who
would pursue the evil destruction of mankind? Does the killing and the
displacing of innocent people provide a solution to satisfy the
arrogance of power? Or does it mark the beginning of the end; a road
to violence, rage and hatred reeking with the smell of death?
By: Raouf Tawfik
                                             "Sabah Al Kheir magazine"

 Since the end of the World War Two, Germany has had strong
connections with the US, especially after the demise of the Soviet
Union and the reunification of the two Germanys under one national
flag. However, some elements of extremism and terrorism have abused
their presence in Germany, directly or otherwise, to launch acts of
violence beyond the German borders It is, nevertheless, more probable
that their treacherous, deadly arrows would be shot at the hearts of
the sons of their host nation.
And in the wake of bombings in New York and Washington, the German
press launched a smear campaign against Arabs and Islam The German
government immediately intervened to contain the situation before the
ignition of a violent reaction; there are 3.6 million Muslims living
in Germany.
Like all NATO member states, Germany is committed to supporting the US
in its new anti-terrorism war. Germans have openly declared their
solidarity with the American people and government. Arguing that the
global campaign against terrorism requires military, political and
economic measures, the Germans nevertheless, had initial reservations
about their participation in military operations.
In the light of all these facts I assume that the recent visit of
President Hosni Mubarak to Germany is well timed and its significance
is reinforced by the German appreciation of President Mubarak's calls
for international co operation in the fight against terrorism. Bearing
in mind their former president's opinion, Germans are also conscious
of President Mubarak's warnings that terrorists should not be given a
safe haven or any kind of assistance. It is clear that Germans have
reconsidered their previous reservations about military participation.
Following the meeting of the EU Council in Brussels, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder did not rule out his country's participation in the
US-led military war on terrorism.
During their talks with President Mubarak yesterday, both German
President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schroeder were enthusiastic
about listening to Egypt's wise and profound assessment of the
situation, especially when the Egyptian leader warned that terrorism
has mushroomed and it is time to uproot it everywhere. They also
agreed to President Mubarak's ideas and suggestions Throughout the
talks, it was stressed that it is in the collective interest of
nations to support the US in its war against terrorism in view of the
substantial evidence on the perpetrators of the attacks two weeks ago.
It was also agreed that a general framework for comprehensive
confrontation should be outlined in the future.
Naturally, the Egyptian leader's talks in Germany included the
Palestinian problem, which negatively and positively influences
current affairs in the world community. Clearly, there should be a
just and permanent solution to help Palestinians restore their land in
exchange for a comprehensive and just peace. Palestinians should also
be rescued from feelings of agony, despair and frustration; this means
that the US should resume its role as the prime peace sponsor and that
the European role should be greater and more effective.
By: Samir Ragab
                                                "The Egyptian Gazette"


 NEWS IN BRIEF


nThe year-on-year inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in July, unchanged
from June and down from 2.8 per cent in July 2000, the state Central
Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said yesterday.

It was the second month in a row that inflation data was unchanged
from the previous month. Year-on-year inflation has been steady at 2.2
per cent since May, when it was down from 2.3 per cent in April.

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