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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
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<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.
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</article>
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