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| Egyptian Lawyers: Prosecute Cheney As War Criminal |
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| jaihoon |
| 03/14/02 at 16:37:39 |
| Egyptian Lawyers: Prosecute Cheney As War Criminal SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, March 14 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A large number of Egyptian lawyers filed a suit against visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, demanding he be tried as a war criminal. On Wednesday, March 13, Hussien Abdul-Ghani, Cairo correspondent of Qatari satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, said that the Egyptian lawyers presented Attorney General Maher Abdul-Wahed with a petition to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney as war criminals and to hold them responsible for the crimes committed against civilians in Afghanistan. Cheney arrived in Egypt Wednesday in the first leg of a Middle East tour that includes 11 counties, designed to drum up support for the expected U.S. strike on Iraq. Cheney met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Tens of thousands of students in the Egyptian universities of Cairo, Alexandria, Menofeya and Tanta demonstrated against Cheney’s visit to Egypt and the U.S. policy towards Arabs and Muslims. “We want Cheney to leave Egypt. He has only come here to discuss a strike on Iraq,” Ahmed Mohamed, a protesting student in Alexandria University, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “The students chanted slogans like ‘Out of Egypt, Cheney’, ‘Zionists are the enemies of Allah’, ‘No peace with the Jews’ and ‘Jihad is the solution’,” added Mohamed. Students burnt the American and Israeli flags and an effigy of far-right Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Demonstrations are not allowed in Egypt according to the emergency law in effect since 1981. For his part, Mubarak pushed for non-military action against Iraq if it did not allow U.N. inspectors in. “It is of vital importance to maintain the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq; this is a must for preserving regional stability,” Mubarak said in a press conference Wednesday. Mubarak reiterated that all possible efforts should be exerted to implement U.N. resolutions without inflicting more suffering on the Iraqi people. “We’ll try hard with Saddam Hussein to accept U.N. inspectors go there,” Mubarak said. “I think from my knowledge that he’s going to accept the inspectors.” “We’ll try in this direction as far as we can,” Mubarak added, “then after that if nothing happens, we’ll find out what could be done in that direction.” Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney told American troops in Egypt to prepare for the second phase of the so-called "war against terror". U.S. President George W. Bush announced the "second phase" of his war against terrorism on Monday, March 11 - the six-month anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and Cheney carried the message to Egypt. "Our next objective is to prevent terrorists and regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction," BBC quoted Cheney as telling the U.S. troops gathered at Sharm el-Sheikh. Iraq is firmly in U.S. sights after Bush – in a highly controversial State of the Union address in January – described Iraq as part of an "axis of evil" that also includes Iran and North Korea. source: islamonline.net |
| 03/14/02 at 16:38:41 |
| jaihoon |
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