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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.
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