Early that day, while driving from the Addis Ababa airport to the city,
President Mubarak of Egypt was the target of an assassination attempt. The
perpetrators came from Sudan. Mubarak was on his way to participate in the
annual conference of the Organization of African Unity. Later that day
Prime Minister Rabin phoned President Mubarak to express Israel's delight
that he was not harmed. Mr. Rabin reminded Mubarak, as he reminded his
Knesset faction, that one of the major threats to Middle Eastern stability
was Islamic fundamentalism, or in his words - Khomeinism. Text:
Prime Minister Rabin today, Monday, 26.6.95, spoke by telephone with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak following the attempt on the President's
life. The Prime Minister told him that everyone in Israel was happy that
he escaped the attempted assassination without injury. It is time, Rabin
said, that the terror which threatens the stability and tranquillity of
our region was cut down.
President Mubarak thanked the Prime Minister warmly and told him that six
bullets had hit his protected car, which he brought with him to Ethiopia
from Egypt and that his bodyguards assaulted the terrorists, killing three
of them.
Prime Minister Rabin sent President Mubarak his best wishes.
At a Knesset Labor Party Faction meeting, the Prime Minister said that
extremist Islamic elements are those who are threatening the stability and
quiet of the entire world and specifically the region. These are the
elements who want to destroy the peace process and to impose Khomeinism on
the world, Rabin emphasized.
There are those among us who live as in the past and not in the present
and future and do not understand who threatens our peace and the peace of
the Free World, Rabin explained. The problem is that these groups are run
by Iran and not by Arafat or Assad, he added and only yesterday, we
witnessed another suicide terrorist attack in Gush Katif.
The Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Palestinian
Authority had arrested Islamic Fundamentalist activists in the Gaza Strip
yesterday.