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To: Ilaine who wrote (7423)	10/20/2001 9:12:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

An interesting interview with Mubarak appeared in today's Jerusalem Post: Mubarak: Bin Laden never talked of Palestinians before WTC By Jerusalem Post Staff and Ap JERUSALEM (October 21) - "Osama bin Laden made his explosions and then started talking about the Palestinians. He never talked about them before," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says in an interview with Newsweek magazine in the issue to be published tomorrow. In the interview, Mubarak also tells Newsweek's Lally Weymouth that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat "has some terrible people around him, like [Tanzim leader Marwan] Barghouti." "Let us be realistic," says Mubarak, "I don't care about Arafat. I care about stability. I care about the fact that terrorism, though it can't be stopped, could be lessened if peace moved forward. Time will prove that I am right." Mubarak also criticizes Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Egypt is a country that sacrified for peace," the Egyptian leader says. "I have been criticized for making contact with Israelis. I've had three promises from Sharon, but not one was implemented. "After he took office he sent a special envoy to me who said Sharon wants to end his career by making peace. He was going to make a peace plan within two weeks and meet with me. Then I received another message telling me he was ready to negotiate if the violence went down. The violence went down, but nothing happened." Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has warned of a danger of continuing Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, calling in a letter delivered to Mubarak yesterday for a halt in hostilities and the resumption of peace talks. Saudi King Fahd, in the letter carried by his foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, warned of the "dangerous situation in Palestine, the continuity of the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people and the necessity of working to stop such practices so that peace talks could resume," according to Ahmed Maher, the Egyptian foreign minister. Maher said Mubarak and al-Faisal also discussed the importance of international cooperation in battling terrorism, adding that Mubarak sent his message to the Saudi king and the crown prince. He did not reveal its content. Also yesterday, Mubarak met with Austrian President Thomas Klestil, who is touring the region to add his voice to calls for an end to the violence. Austrian Ambassador Ferdinand Trauttmansdorf said that his country believes that finding a solution to the Middle East conflict is crucial for the fight against terrorism to succeed. He said Austria wants to play a more active role in the fight against terrorism and to cooperate with its Arab friends to avoid any confrontation between Arabs and the West. The Egyptian and Austrian presidents did not make statements. Klestil has already visited Saudi Arabia and Syria and was headed for Jordan today.