1.   The news has been greeted angrily within Egyptian government circles.

2.   Israel protested to the Egyptian government over the incident.

3.   American officials said that several FBI agents have flown to Cairo with the approval of the Egyptian government to work with authorities there.

4.   Among those whom the Egyptian government said were killed in the shooting were two policemen and two Egyptian civilians.

5.   An Egyptian government spokesman said separately that Netanyahu would have little option but to push the quest for Middle East peace.

6.   Arafat did not treat himself immediately to an enthusiastic homecoming in Gaza, but instead flew to Alexandria, the summer retreat of the Egyptian government.

7.   At that time, the Egyptian government had already nationalized the antiquities trade, which he said did nothing to suppress the lucrative market in ancient objects.

8.   Authorities say tourists were the intended targets of Islamic militants, who saw an attack on the booming tourism industry as a way to cripple the secular Egyptian government.

9.   A coup attempt within his organization eventually drew attention to his presence in Egypt, posing a new problem for the Egyptian government, the Middle Eastern officials said.

10.   Abdel-Rahman is considered a dangerous political influence by the Egyptian government, someone who is capable of inciting a revolution by fundamentalist Islamic militants.