Al-Ahram Weekly Online   5 - 11 January 2006
Issue No. 776
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Take their opinion
What MPs think of Mubarak's campaign reforms will be studied by the People's Assembly. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Helping hand
During his talks in Paris yesterday with French President Jacques Chirac and during talks he held on Tuesday in Jeddah with Saudi King Abdullah, President Hosni Mubarak sought a way out for the Syrian regime...
The three musketeers
They're only three but they may be carrying the burden of the entire government, writes Niveen Wahish
Changing the 'mine' set
Landmines are an explosive problem, especially when Egypt wants to develop an area filled with them. Hala Sakr reports on a landmark conference
The noose tightens
Sudanese asylum-seekers scattered in churches and hospitals around Cairo tell Gamal Nkrumah about the horrors of the New Year's Eve police raid on their camp
Murder most foul
Investigators believe they found the allegedly deranged serial killer behind the gruesome murders in the Upper Egyptian village of Shamseddin, reports Pierre Loza from Al-Minya
Complicated tales
In an exclusive interview, Major-General Ahmed Omar, the assistant to the interior minister, speaks to Jailan Halawi about extraditing Islamists, the emergency law, police behaviour during elections and the relationship between the security apparatus and the Muslim Brotherhood

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