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"I have all kinds of chicken -- roasted, spicy, breaded." "First get me a thermometer, then some aspirin and Vitamin C." The Egyptian weekly Sabah Al-Kheir on the bird flu scare; The Mehlis report, in the Saudi-funded, London-based daily Al-Hayat. By Habib Haddad

"Because the government does not want to manage a national dialogue, it considers harsh security measures sufficient and hence it is natural that crises continue to erupt. [This state of affairs] results in so-called sectarian strife that the government uses to implement more security restrictions." -- Mohamed Ali , Sawt Al-Umma

"Laws that give the Copts their rights must be passed as soon as possible to block the road in front of those who want to play roles not made for them." -- Ali Ashmawi , Rose El-Youssef

"These sectarian riots are not in the name of God. They are in the name of the devil of authoritarianism, poverty, disease and ignorance." -- Akram El-Qassas , Al-Arabi

"Such a decision [to accept the report] would mean that the Syrian regime must condemn this crime and give up those who were involved, thus escaping a cycle of disaster that would be felt for many years." -- Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashed , Asharq Al-Awsat

"They realised that they are not facing an investigator who can be threatened or bought and are not facing a judge who can be intimidated by harming his family or by blackmailing him with a document or a video tape." -- Abdel-Wahab Badrakhan , Al-Hayat