The Egyptian Government and The Cairo Conference
Although the Egyptian government was formally against the Iraq war, relations between it and the conference are strained by the fact that Hosni Mubarak's regime receives funding from the United States and that the regime fears popular movements which may grow to challenge its dictatorship.
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