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- <text id=93TT1262>
- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Death in the Mosque
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- WORLD
- Death in the Mosque
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>23 are killed as Egyptian police stage raids against Muslim
- militants
- </p>
- <p> The tourist city of Aswan was already tense following the
- murder of two policemen. Then, acting on a tip that
- antigovernment militants were secretly assembling, security
- forces surrounded the city's al-Rahman Mosque. Gunfire suddenly
- pierced the night and continued for hours. When it was over, 14
- had been killed, including a policeman. Eight coordinated raids
- in the Cairo area and one north of the capital produced more
- shoot-outs and more casualties: a total of 23 dead and 46
- injured, the highest toll since the assassination of Anwar Sadat
- in 1981.
- </p>
- <p> Coincidentally, 49 Muslim militants who have been charged
- with attacks on foreign tourists--prime targets of late--went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik
- Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the
- U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of
- the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped
- provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last
- week's bloody crackdown.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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