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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arno who wrote (3230)	10/26/2001 4:41:05 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 14610

Anti-American statements are a common component of the Egyptian media, including in the weeks and days prior* to September 11, 2001. Following are excerpts of such statements:* In another article, Murad stated, "The Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, must be destroyed because of following the idiotic American policy that goes from disgrace to disgrace in the swamp of bias and blind fanaticism." He further announced that "the age of the American collapse has begun." "The time has come for us, officially and on the popular level, to take a clear position about the Americans," he explained. "Bush Jr. will realize that he is squandering many American interests with his overt bias towards the Israeli aggressors… If the US thinks that with its policy, it is actualizing American interests within and without the US, it will very quickly discover that the price of this bias is extremely high… The US, including the American people and the Israeli people, has rightly become ======================================= Columnist Galal 'Aref, of the Egyptian weekly, Akhbar Al-Youm, joined in, stating that "…The US – in its great idiocy – hopes that the American interests in the region will continue to exist securely… but it ignores the historical facts: cruelty always comes back on its perpetrators; thus, though [Arab] idleness may continue for a long time, it has its limit."[6] Following Durban, he wrote, "The US does not understand that it alone will pay the high price for its fall [at Durban]."[7] ====================================