3
Shared Docs
1
Same-Page
5 / 3
Mentions
aves through the resorts in the Sinai peninsula (one of the few relatively active tourist spots in Egypt during the last three years of unrest). The al-Qaida—inspired Ansar Beit al- Maqdis took responsibility for the attack in a statement that described it as part of their "economic war against [the] regi
nessing the beginning of its presidential election process. Only one candidate has officially announced his candidacy: longtime Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, who came third in the 2012 elections that brought Mohammed Morsi to power. While there is much speculation about Defense Minister Field Marshal Abd
owed. Yemen's protests were galvanised by the drama in Cairo's Tahrir Square but they also involved tribalism, elite rivalry and a small but alarming al-Qaida presence against a background of resource depletion and fear of state HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018086 --- PAGE BREAK --- 3 failure. Sectarian tensions wer
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018086 →avert wars, conflicts and attendant tribulations? Surely it is no coincidence that a leading Nasserist Arab nationalist and presidential candidate, Hamdeen Sabahi, has stated several times that he has no intention of opening hostilities against Israel and every intention instead of waging war on poverty and fig
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018091 →taboo in Islam against the taking of one’s own life. He also introduced the propaganda ploy of the martyrdom video, which would become a signature of Al Qaeda. Bin Laden needed Zawahiri, not least because of his physical ailments. Although bin Laden did not have kidney disease, as was widely thought, he was
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018094 →The New Yorker Zawahiri at the Helm Lawrence Wright June 16, 2011 -- Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon, has come into his inheritance—A1] Qaeda—at a time when the organization is at its nadir. Osama bin Laden, its charismatic founder, is dead, and after some internal debate his No. 2 man, Zaw
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018094 →billion and suffering several hundred allied deaths annually — 500 Americans dead last year, thousands more injured. All this to deal with 100 or so Al Qaeda fighters now in Afghanistan; and prevent the Afghan Taliban from controlling the Pashtun Afghan homeland- which was not the reason we went there afte
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030038 →d admired for his uncompromising opposition to Mubarak, Nour nonetheless enjoys less of a national reputation than Moussa and ElBaradei. And there is Hamdeen Sabahi, the founder of the Karama Party, a breakaway from the Nasserist Party that has long sought official HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030048 --- PAGE BREAK --- 20 l
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030049 →Entities connected to both al-Qaeda and Hamdeen Sabahi

Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Bahrain
LOCATION
Muslim Brotherhood
ORGANIZATION
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Morocco
LOCATION
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON