'Nobody in Iraq came out to defend the old regime. But it wasn't Iraqis who toppled the statue of Saddam in Baghdad. An American plane brought 250 men from a Gulf capital to do that... as much as people may have disliked the former regime they did not want it replaced by an occupation force.'

'The American empire has grown into a shark that doesn't want to eat just fish, it wants to gobble up the entire ocean. For the first time in history we face something that possesses the means, the power, the psychology and the requisite experience to allow it to do just that.'
photo: AFP

"From the days of Bandung the Arabs had a voice": Nasser, Arafat and King Faisal in the last Arab summit before Nasser's death September 1970
(photo: Hassan Diab)

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