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Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
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al Qaeda Linked With Mumbai Attacks
Neil Richard Leslie | December 05, 2008Israel's ambassador to India has suggested that the Pakistani group behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks may be linked to al Qaeda. The Independent:
Mark Sofer said Lashkar-e-Toiba, which has been linked [sic] the attacks, "has never taken a position on Middle East affairs". "Is this small organisation part of a much wider global jihadi group, such as al-Qa'ida? I fear the answer to that is yes," he said.
An ultra-orthodox Jewish community centre was one of the targets during last week's attacks in Mumbai. Six people died at Nariman House, including the rabbi and his wife who ran it. If the attackers were part of a global network, the response should be "unified international action against fundamentalist terrorism," said Mr Sofer.
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Mr Sofer said that anti-Semitic attacks were unknown in India and suggested it was no coincidence that the attackers targeted the ultra-orthodox Jewish centre, which served as a hostel for Jewish backpackers and businessmen.
The Mumbai attacks do possess a certain al Qaeda flavor: Islamic purpertrators chanting "Allah Akbar" as they murdered in cold blood; the targeting of Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists and other so-called infidels; the use of modern technology (BlackBerrys) to coordinate pre-planned attacks; and finally, the complete lack of any tangible temporal objective other than to kill, main or injure as many completely innocent people as possible.
