Date of source: Monday, June 21, 1999
President Mubarak starts a "critical" visit to the United States next Saturday. The mutual relations between the two countries have priority in the agenda of the president. There are a number of reasons that have helped in raising the degree of tension in the Egyptian-American relations. On the top...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
The Egyptian American Council has already prepared to welcome President Mubarak heartily. They publish a newspaper called ’The truth’ that has taken a mild stand in presenting Copts’ problems. The editor-in-chief said that they declared that they only represented themselves and they really try hard...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
Some extremist Coptic groups are attempting to provoke tensions during President Mubarak’s visit to the United States. The Egyptian Ambassador to the USA in an interview discusses some of the attacks and Egypt’s position.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999
A cheap and senseless intervention in Egyptian internal affairs is currently being launched through a number of platforms: big American newspapers, false advertisements campaigning against Egypt through allegations of persecution of Copts, circulation in the US Congress of reports and statements...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 1999
Exiled Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden and his followers, blamed by the United States for the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, may be close to conducting a "terrorist attack," a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday [June 17, 1999]. "We regard him a serious threat, and we have taken a number of...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden, one of the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" men, called on Muslims to target all Americans and condemned them as "immoral," in a television interview broadcast June 10. "They are an immoral people without values," he told Qatar’s satellite television station Al-Jazira in an...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Ahmed Sobhi Mansour clarifying his relationship with a certain Rashaad Khalifa, a Muslim in the US who claims to be a prophet. He insists that he resisted him when he claimed to be a prophet and was able to return home from the US (he had been there at Rashaad’s invitation) only with the help of a...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of the law, which aims to keep a check on...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
The Egyptian authorities reacted promptly to refute US criticism of the law on non-governmental organizations, which the State Department spokesman described as a violation of human right. Whether the law in question is a step forward or backward is a controversy of concern to Egyptians alone. It...