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Power cuts in Gaza. By Habib Haddad in Al-Hayat

"The United States wants Egypt to help it in its war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan." -- Salaheddin Hafez, Al-Ahram

"I would like to inform the prime minister that I have a five-member family, have been working in journalism for more than 20 years, and suffered a lot to get a flat and I'm currently suffering just to buy a car." -- Magdi Helmi, Al-Wafd

"An officer is taught martial arts in the Police Academy, then is trained on how to apply torture skills at police stations." -- Magdi Mehanna, Al-Masry Al-Yom

"Turkey has feted Al-Maliki with great pomp and publicly abandoned its threat of military intervention against Turkish-Kurdish terrorists based in northern Iraq." -- Amir Taheri, Asharq Al-Awsat

"The few upright and honest officials in Iraq's ranks are undermined by the heavy presence of militias and their representatives as well as rampant corruption and absence of personal security." -- Az-Zaman

"What would Syria lose if it simply announced that Al-Sharaa's assault was no more than a slip of the tongue?" -- Jamil Theyabi, Al-Hayat