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international tribunal to investigate Arafat's death, similar to the one created to probe the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Poisoning Arafat was probably not a difficult task. Those who knew him are full of stories about how lax his security was; how he used to eat off
ortedly kidnapped in the area Friday. The Sinai peninsula was contested territory for much of the past century, largely because it is a gateway to the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea and Red Seas. Israeli forces occupied the Sinai in 1956 and 1967 and fought a war against Egyptian troops in
international tribunal to investigate Arafat's death, similar to the one created to probe the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Poisoning Arafat was probably not a difficult task. Those who knew him are full of stories about how lax his security was; how he used to eat off
portedly kidnapped in the area Friday. The Sinai peninsula was contested territory for much of the past century, largely because it is a gateway to the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea and Red Seas. Israeli forces occupied the Sinai in 1956 and 1967 and fought a war against Egyptian troops in
rs. "He has moved up people from within the organizations and people who seem well qualified for the position," said Michele Dunne, director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. "It was pretty well thought out." But there was another reason the military chiefs who served in powerful posts under
om his handpicked minister of war, General Muhammad Sadiq, due to differences over war planning. But after sacking Sadiq and successfully crossing the Suez Canal in 1973, Sadat became his EFTA_R1_00298265 EFTA01883846 own man. From then on, he was able to initiate fundamental changes to Cairo's foreign po
Entities connected to both Rafik Hariri and the Suez Canal

Hosni Mubarak
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Lebanon
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Bashar al-Assad
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George W. Bush
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Damascus
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United States
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Cairo
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Barack Obama
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Saddam Hussein
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Tunisia
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Bill Clinton
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Middle East
LOCATIONSinai
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Fatah
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Tehran
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Beirut
LOCATIONCourtney Wild
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