Jehan Sadat, wife of former Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat..
Jehan Sadat, the wife of former Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, addresses the media on March 8, 1988 in San Francisco just prior to dinner at which she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the United Nations Association of San Francisco. (UPI Photo/Martin Jeong/Files)
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War, maybe in the form of a low-intensity conflict, has descended upon Egypt.
The “Big Cairo Fire” destroyed 30 banks and major companies, 13 hotels, 310 stores, 92 bars, 40 movie theaters, eight automobile showrooms. Not last week but 61 years ago. And the arsonist was the same -- the Muslim Brotherhood.
The military-led interim government, grappling with widening protests over the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and a swelling al-Qaida-linked insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, says it's reviving the hated secret police in a bid to restore order.
Strife-torn Egypt faces severe food shortages in the months ahead and its military rulers are pinning their hopes on a bumper wheat crop to see the country through.
Wars, revolutions, assassinations, betrayals covered by Arnaud de Borchgrave in the Middle East since 1952
The specter of Algeria's ferocious 10-year civil war in the 1990s between its military and Islamists robbed of a landmark electoral victory hangs over Egypt in turbulent aftermath of the July 3 ouster of democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi by the army.
If any joy exists in hell, Osama bin Laden is a happy camper.
A former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad claimed Osama bin Laden took his own life and wasn't killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in 2011, Gulf News reported.
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