An Egyptian editor criticized Yasser Arafat for last week’s attack in Jerusalem on Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. Newspaper editor Ibrahim Sa’ada wrote that he didn’t appreciate the Palestinian Authority president’s attempt to blame the Dec. 21 attack on Maher at Jerusalem’s Al-Aksa Mosque on a fringe group of extremists.
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