Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
... There were a good number of people with interests - inside and outside - messing with many things, and dealing with what happened in Al-Kosheh as spoils to be taken, even if they had to start more fires in it!
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
And we do not say "Try Again? Y/N" because we do no t want you to. We realize that you are going to try, however. Of course, we mean those who incited what happened in Al-Kosheh between Muslims and Copts, and turned it to a subject of statements which they fired simultaneously from different...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
We have sadly followed the bloody incidents of Al-Kosheh. I oppose the opinions referring the incidents to external factors. In my opinion, the main reason for this and other incidents is divided into many factors...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
We must not swallow the bait, and make a funeral of every terrorist activity happening in Egypt, weeping and fearing a terrorism that has come back, and become like diabetes where a patient can only live with the disease, not be cured from it! There is a great difference between the terrorism that...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
After deciding to change the name of the village of Al-Kosheh in Sohag to the village of Al-Salaam [meaning, Peace] in accordance with the wishes of the local administration... the local administration units in a number of cities and villages in Upper Egypt are conducting a comprehensive research...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Among his suggestions for actions to resolve the Al-Kosheh crisis the author writes: Enough the "Everything-is-all-right" committees! A government body for managing such crises must be founded. It must have the right of immediate intervention [in any such crisis]. Its opinion must be binding upon...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The peacemaking committee has not completed its work in Al-Kosheh. They have a few major problems.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The minister of local development, Mr. Mustafa Abdel-Qader, declared that the peacemaking committee in Al-Kosheh is working towards four principal targets:
1. Delivering any criminals, be they Christian or Muslim, to the prosecution services.
2. Confronting any false rumors.
3. Aiming to educate...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
Al-Kosheh is an Egyptian village that was unknown until August 1998. After the recent events in Al-Kosheh, the editor-in-chief of Al-Wafd, Mr. Saad Abdel-Khaleq, asked the government to change the village’s name from Al-Kosheh [which means enmity] to Al-Mahaba [meaning Love]. He also asked...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Extremist terrorists must realize that their road is blocked, and that the incidents at Al-Kosheh will not be repeated.