Ali highlights Sudan's role in attempt on Mubarak's life
CAIRO – Director of the Center for Middle East
Studies Abdel Rahim Ali warned Thursday against the weakening of central states
and the destruction of state institutions.
This weakening and this destruction, he said, turn
these states into fertile soils for terrorist organizations to take root and
grow.
He added at a seminar on the financing of terrorist
organizations in French capital Paris that extremist groups take advantage of
chaos, use religion to spread their ideology and use arms to implement their
agendas.
An attempt on the life of former Egyptian president
Hosni Mubarak, Ali said, took place in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 1995
through coordination between Islamist groups, the Ethiopian intelligence and
the Sudanese government.
"This was when Egypt started to feel the danger
coming from East Africa," Ali said. "The presence of terrorist groups
in Somalia will put the security of Arab countries in peril."
He said Egypt used development as a weapon against
terrorism and the terrorists.
The seminar is organized by the Center for Middle
East Studies. It is held simultaneously with an international conference in the
French capital on the financing of terrorism.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends the
international conference, along with a large number of terrorism experts and
government representatives.
