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Article: Egypt hasn't blunted fundamentalist threat Latest crackdown increasingly harsh
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 14, 1993
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CAIRO -- In the makeshift military courtroom on the edge of
town, they press their bearded faces to the bars of their cages,
hands gripping a Koran, each frocked in white Muslim piety, all
shouting in unison: "Jews, Mohammed's army is coming back! Prison
and death will not deter us from Islam!"
The 43 defendants may be caged and may well be sentenced to die by
the handsome, soft-spoken general presiding over the closely watched
trial that began last week. But as their bravado suggests -- and as
worried officials and experts contend -- their threat to Egypt will
not be blunted so easily.
All through the rural south of this country, known as Upper Egypt,
and in the ill-serviced and crumbling ...