Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Egypt was winning its domestic fight against terrorism, but said the success of a wider international war on terror hinged on the creation of a Palestinian state. "For many years the police have fought a harsh battle against terrorism to smash their organizations, arrest most of their leaders, dry up most of their sources of finance, and uncover their communication lines to groups abroad," he said. "They are leading a successful battle against evil," Mubarak said in a televised speech honoring Egypt's police force. Egyptian radical Islamic groups launched an open war against Mubarak's government from 1992 to 1997 in which around 1,200 people were killed and tourism revenues, a key foreign currency earner for the Arab country, dropped sharply. Many of the Egyptian radicals moved to Afghanistan where they joined forces with al Qaeda.
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