It’s been pretty tough for me to find a juicy US government doc on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Seems like the USG has done a pretty fair job of obscuring its relationship with one of the longest-standing and most repressive autocrats in the Middle East (who is also the current guarantor of Egypt’s “iron-clad” peace agreement with Israel). But one interesting event keeps popping up. It’s the intriguing story –a story including Omar al-Bashir, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Osama bin Laden– of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad’s 26 June 1995 assassination attempt of President Mubarak in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (more…)
