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- <text id=91TT0788>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: World Notes:Egypt
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 31
- World Notes
- EGYPT
- Nasser's Son Beats the Rap
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The charges against the 20 defendants included murder,
- attempted murder and undermining Egypt's relations with the U.S.
- and Israel. The crime: a series of bloody attacks against
- American and Israeli diplomats between 1984 and 1987. The toll:
- two Israelis dead, six Israelis and two Americans injured. But
- the case against the terrorist group known as Egypt's Revolution
- was exceptional for yet another reason: among the 11 defendants
- facing the death penalty was Khaled Abdel Nasser, 41, eldest son
- of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Khaled, an
- engineer, was accused of financing the group and supplying it
- with weapons.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the Egyptian Supreme State Security Court
- acquitted Khaled and four others. Six received suspended
- sentences. Nine, including the group's alleged leader, Mahmoud
- Noureddin Soleiman, drew sentences ranging from three years to
- life. President Hosni Mubarak, who will review the verdict, is
- expected to uphold it. Analysts say it was fair, since the
- government's case against Khaled was based on hearsay and the
- confessions of other defendants.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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