Egypt is pulling out of celebrations of the Camp David peace accords in protest over the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. “What peace? The world’s on fire,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday after Israeli helicopters killed Yassin, Hamas’ founder, in Gaza.
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