Egypt received an “understanding” from the Bush administration that the United States would not attack Iraq or any other Arab country accused of harboring terrorists, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 28).  Egypt strongly supports the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition, Maher said.

“If we want to keep this consensus … we should not resort, after Afghanistan, to military means,”  Maher said.  Any extension of the war beyond Afghanistan would “cause serious internal problems” for U.S. allies in the Middle East (Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29).

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