U-S stands with Egypt. Egypt looks a little wary.

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President Bush visits Egyptian embassy, says U-S stands with Egypt

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3636711

WASHINGTON President Bush says the people behind the weekend's deadly attacks in Egypt have "no heart" and "no ideology."

He also said that the bombers " . . . don't have an ideology of hope. They have an ideology of hate." Great. Deuling ideologies.

Bush also said the U-S stands "shoulder to shoulder" with the people of Egypt, and their efforts in the war on terror.

This guy (Egypt's Ambassador Nabil Fahmy) isn't getting closer than an arms length to Bush as he says this in front of the cameras.









http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=bush+egypt&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&c=news_photos

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1. Associating With Bush Is Analogous To Coming In Contact With....

someone who has the plague. Our fearless leader just doesn't understand that he is part of the problem and NOT the solution.

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2. Had a thought about Zawahri in that Egyptian cell following Sadat's murder

In the days following Sadat's murder, the regime arrested hundreds of Islamists. During one of their court hearings, they tried to show foreign journalists evidence of their torture. But at this particular session, something else happened. A once quiet surgeon stepped into the international spotlight for his first appearance.

"We are free. The real Islamic front against Zionism, communism and imperialism," Ayman al-Zawahri yelled at the court from his cell.

Ayman al-Zawahri emerged as a leader. He'd already spent 14 months in an Egyptian prison by this point and the effect on him was obvious. But Ayman al-Zawahri spoke English. He was well educated and he knew how to get attention.

"They hanged us over the edge of the doors with our hands tied at the back. There they arrested the wives, the mothers, the fathers, the sisters and the sons in a trial to put the psychological pressure over these innocent prisoners," al-Zawahri told a reporter.

Al Zayat says al-Zawahri had only a small role in the assassination of Anwar Sadat. "His role was a minor one. He only supplied the group with weapons. His importance was clear when security discovered his relationship with a group within the army."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/osamabinladen/alzawahri.html


They probably aren't too anxious to inflame some new or existing resistance movement within the country with the same swaggering bluster that Bush bandies around.