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DATE=9/30/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-239491
TITLE=MUBARAK / TERRORISM (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=SCOTT BOBB
DATELINE=CAIRO
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  EGYPT'S PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK HAS CRITICIZED SOME 
GOVERNMENTS IN THE REGION FOR ALLOWING TERRORISTS TO TAKE REFUGE 
WITHIN THEIR BORDERS.  AND HE PRAISED OTHERS FOR ENDING THEIR 
SUPPORT OF TERRORISM.  BUT V-O-A CORRESPONDENT SCOTT BOBB IN 
CAIRO REPORTS MR. MUBARAK WARNS THAT TERRORISM HAS BECOME A 
GLOBAL THREAT.
TEXT:  EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK HAS STRONGLY CRITICIZED 
THE GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN FOR SHELTERING TERRORISTS.  AND HE 
INDICATES HIS GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THERE WAS A REASON FOR THE U-S 
AIR STRIKE LAST MONTH AGAINST A PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY IN 
KHARTOUM.
IN A LENGTHY INTERVIEW PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY IN THE AL-AHRAM 
NEWSPAPER, PRESIDENT MUBARAK SAID HIS GOVERNMENT KNEW THE SHIFA 
FACTORY MADE MEDICINE AND COULD MAKE CHEMICALS FOR WEAPONS OF 
MASS DESTRUCTION.  AND HE ADDED IT KNEW OF WHAT HE CALLED A 
CHEMICAL FACTORY NEAR THE SHIFA COMPLEX IN KHARTOUM.
THE AIR STRIKE ONE MONTH AGO DESTROYED A MODERN COMPLEX THAT 
SUPPLIED ONE-HALF OF SUDAN'S MEDICINE.  THE STRIKE WAS CONDEMNED 
BY MOST GOVERNMENTS IN THE REGION AND BY THE ARAB LEAGUE IN A 
RESOLUTION SUPPORTED BY EGYPT.
PRESIDENT MUBARAK SAID THAT ALTHOUGH RELATIONS WITH THE SUDANESE 
GOVERNMENT ARE POOR, HE SYMPATHIZES WITH THE SUFFERING OF THE 
SUDANESE PEOPLE, WHOSE STANDARD OF LIVING HAS FALLEN DRASTICALLY 
IN RECENT YEARS.
THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ALSO SAID HE SYMPATHIZES WITH LIBYA, WHICH
HAS BEEN SUFFERING UNDER ECONOMIC SANCTIONS FOR THE PAST SEVEN 
YEARS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO HAND OVER TWO SUSPECTS IN THE 
LOCKERBIE PLANE BOMBING.  HE SAID HE BELIEVES LIBYA HAS STOPPED 
FINANCING TERRORISM AND HAS EXPELLED ALL EXTREMISTS.  AS A 
RESULT, HE SAID HE SUPPORTS LIBYA'S CALL FOR MEASURES TO END WHAT
HE CALLED LIBYA'S DISPUTE WITH THE WEST.
                       ///  REST OPT  ///
THE INTERVIEW WITH THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT IS BEING PUBLISHED AS 
EGYPT PREPARES TO CELEBRATE NEXT WEEK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WAR OF OCTOBER 1973 IN WHICH EGYPTIAN FORCES WRESTED CONTROL FROM
ISRAEL OF PORTIONS OF THE SINAI PENINSULA.
TO MARK THE OCCASION, THE GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING SPEECHES, A 
SYMPOSIUM, AND A MASS WEDDING NEAR THE PYRAMIDS.  THE GOVERNMENT 
IS ALSO PLANNING A MILITARY PARADE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 17 
YEARS.  THE PARADES WERE SUSPENDED FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT, WHO WAS KILLED BY EXTREMISTS WHILE 
PRESIDING OVER CEREMONIES MARKING THE OCTOBER WAR.  (SIGNED)
NEB/SB/JWH/PLM
30-Sep-98 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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