Antiterrorist struggle in Egypt: fifty years of futile confrontation?

... President H.Mubarak managed to work out the most effective in the Arab world model of fighting radicals through an all-out war waged in all directions. But the only thing he could do was “to mothball” the threat of Islamism. After all, terrorism in Egypt has become a spent force, at least in the short run. Mubarak’s War on Terrorism Having come to power, H.Mubarak inherited a state with an extremely high level of social tension caused by the defeat in the Arab-Israeli wars, separate peace with Israel and Anwar Sadat’s Intifah economic policy . Eventually,...