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In Egypt's weekly magazine Sabah El-Kheir. "Hello, Hello. I see somebody in the Middle East who looks like he's practising a form of anti-Semitism." By Mohsen Gaber; Habib Haddad, in Al-Hayat, describes how Iraq's national guards are fighting back

"Egypt has invited the various parties to attend Iyad Allawi's conference on Iraq to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh. This is where its role ends."
-- Sanaa Al-Said, Al-Osbou

"Once again, the Central Auditing Agency has failed to perform as it should on the question of steel monopoly."
-- Manal Lashin, Sawt Al-Umma

"I would run for president if the law allowed more than one person to run,"
-- Saadeddin Ibrahim in Al-Qabas

"The [NDP] conference ended. Things went back exactly the way they were. The images and pictures that were all over the papers and TV channels also came to an end... and all hopes for change receded."
-- Abdel-Latif El-Manawi, Asharq Al-Awsat

"The easiest way to confront such reports is to accuse their authors of political bias, naïveté, or an ignorance of the facts."
-- Ofer Shelah, Yediot Aharonot