Bottom Lines

"Perhaps conflicts on different fronts will erupt with the departure of the occupying troops... but these concerns must not interfere with or impede the liberation of Iraq and the transfer of power to the Iraqi people." -- Ibrahim Nafie, Al-Ahram

"The most vital part of the roadmap is the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005. This is what everyone except Israel had been hoping for. The crux of the matter, the pivotal question is: Can the US raise the dead?" -- Al-Akhbar

"US forces committed a heinous crime, one which even professional criminals usually abstain from. They arrested the wife and daughter of [deputy chairman of the former Iraqi Revolutionary Council] Ezzat Ibrahim." -- Yasser Rizq, Al-Akhbar

"I thought there was supposed to be a roadmap that was endorsed by the US, the EU, Russia and the UN. What are these accords supposed to offer? And whatever happened to the roadmap?" -- Abdel-Barri Atwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"It is the US that should come under an accountability act to be adopted by Arab countries at the summit level," -- Jihad Al-Khazin, Al-Hayat

"Julius Caesar said: I came, I saw and I conquered. Today, Bush [head of the American Empire] says: I came, I did not see but I will still conquer," -- Samir Qusseir, An-Nahar